This year I was tutored by Pip Lincolne in how to wrap a present. And then Lauca made me these sublime Christmas tags and together the results were a whole lot better than last year’s wrapping efforts where we tried to find nice but cheap Christmas paper in the shops.
By the way I absolutely love Christmas (see here, here, here, here, here and here for instance) and it’s quite obnoxious for anyone who hates the season, and I know there are a few of you like that. You should skip me in December.
Ingredients:
brown wrapping paper – $2
stationery tags – $0.25 per tag
book from op shop for cutting up – $1
Christmas cocktail recipe cards from ‘reject shop’ – $2
string – $2
pipe cleaners from ‘reject shop’ – $1
spending money for my 2 children plus one guest-child to keep them all occupied during the shopping trip – $4 per child
(best $12 I ever spent, kept the kids so quiet and co-operative and happy with all their bargain shopping)
And heaps of left-overs for events to come.
blue milk 
I am currently singing brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favourite things!
I love the simplicity, and Lauca’s tags are just fantastic.
I love it.
I went one step slacker but in keeping with the brown paper theme for teacher presents: I wrapped each block of chocolate in a brown paper bag, rolled it up, tied with string and added gift tag made by me in the olden days when I had five minutes to scratch together in the lead up to Christmas. This method, you’ll note, does not require folding tricksy corners or finding the sticky tape. I have only tested it with Green & Blacks chocolate blocks, cannot recommend other gifts, etc.
I love how Lauca’s amazing craft talents have paired so well with your Christmas enthusiasm.
I love, love, love, LOVE Christmas! La la love it! I was the only person in the entire West End of London today singing my way round unfeasibly crammed shops (Mariah Carey’s currently the fave). Come December, I am forgiving, magnanimous, cheery and generally quite startlingly pleasant. This is entirely contrary to my curmudgeonly demeanour for the rest of the year.
You’re better than me, though; I’m drawn to tacky wrapping paper like a moth to a particularly appealing flame…kudos for being so bloody tasteful!
One of my favourite things about your blog (there are many): watching Lauca’s progress as an artist. Looking forward to watching her style develop over the years, if that isn’t a bit too weird 🙂
Early New Year’s resolution: finish setting up own blog, make a post about what December looks like here. Circumstances conspire against me, but I’m actually a Christmas tragic at heart, just aching to throw tinsel over every stationary surface and craft away …
Brown paper. Done! I love how thrifty and simple these packages are.
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