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Fast & Easy Wine Bottle Wrap

May 17, 2013
Wine bottle Wrap ideas for Hostess gift giving

Happy weekend!  Do you have any fun plans? I am headed to the Hometalk Meetup in Leesburg, Va tomorrow.  Donna of Funky Junk is going to be there, Karen, The Graphics Fairy, and Marian a.k.a. Miss Mustard Seed as well as many other bloggers and readers.  Donna is one of my faves; I wrote a [...]

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Mother’s Day Gift and Wrapping Ideas

April 16, 2013
Mother's Day gift giving ideas

Mother’s Day is about 3 weeks away.  Do you know what you are going to give your mom this year? My mom always wanted simple Mother’s Day gifts – things that we made as children or that would hold a special meaning to her.  Handcrafted was much better than anything store bought in her mind.  [...]

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Hidden Chic: Add Pattern & Color Where You Least Expect It

April 3, 2013
Decorating  and organizing cabinets and shelves with colorful patterned gift wrap

Spring color may not be blooming outside my house yet, but I am making sure it is coming to life inside.  Spring cleaning is one of the best rituals we can do to renew and refresh, not only our home – but our well-being even more.  I am enjoying the process of going from room [...]

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Printable Monograms For Decorating and Giving

March 7, 2013
Furniture Makeovers with Monograms

I have a serious case of Spring fever. Spring and warm weather cannot arrive fast enough as far as I am concerned. Do you feel the same way?    To help coax its arrival, I have been adding pops of fresh cheery color all over my house. I have been working on many projects – the [...]

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Wrapping It Up In Elegant Ease

December 21, 2012
Inexpensive and elegant gift wrapping ideas

I am almost at the finish line to Christmas – having completed wrapping all the gifts I bought to give this year, I feel I can now sit back and enjoy the holidays. I enjoy wrapping gifts and have pinned a lot of creative gift wrap ideas on Pinterest, but when it comes down to [...]

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One Yard Décor: Fabric Covered Boxes

October 11, 2012
How to cover a box with fabric

After the great response I got from the One Yard Window Treatment – 3 Ways post I wrote,  I thought I would create a series called One Yard Décor, showing what you can decoratively do in your home with with one yard or under of fabric. Fabric can get pricey and I usually save every [...]

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Recycle a Ribbon Spool Into a Gift Box

April 25, 2012
Gift wrap ideas

Mother’s Day is on May 13th. That is less than 3 weeks away. Earth Day was three day ago. To celebrate each I made a gift box in honor of my mom using recycled materials– empty ribbon spools that I normally would have thrown in the trash. My mom is no longer here on on [...]

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How To Organize Gift Wrap

March 30, 2012
How to Organize Gift wrap

I finished Part 1 of 3 sections on the “Creative Wall” in my Studioffice that I have been working on.  It is a place to organize giftwrap.  Before making this organizer I had all my giftwrap stuffed into a planter style urn.  Not a good system – as it ruined the paper. Now all my [...]

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How to Make a Tissue Paper Flower Valentine Gift Box

February 6, 2012
How to wrap a gift in a unique way

I was going to entitle this post –  How to make a G-Rated Victoria’s Secret gift, but that would be a little misleading since it isn’t an actual gift from Victoria’s Secret -  just a re-use of their pretty boxes.   I am also going to show you how to make a super easy tissue paper [...]

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Re-Invent the Gift Bag

April 22, 2011
Gift giving and wrapping ideas

It is almost May and everyone knows that means Spring, the start of being outdoors more, and flower bed design.  It also is the start of the gift giving season – Easter, Mother’s and Father’s day, graduations, and weddings. To make giving a gift a bit easier, but still in eye-catching style I have come [...]

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