Gift Wrapping

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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Guest Post: Christine@Great Oak Circle

April 13, 2011

Hey ya’ll! Hope this finds you happy and healthy and enjoying a wonderful sunny day! I just love reading Diane’s blog every week, and I am so excited to be enjoying it today with you! I love to give gifts, I blog about it often:), and I think presentation is everything! Don’t you agree? I [...]

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How To Make a Petite Gift Box for Your Valentine

January 21, 2011
How to make a tiny gift box

You have heard of the old adage that good things come in small packages, right?  Do you like to give little surprises to your family and friends?  Then you might like to make a few of these… Friends and family share movies, lunches and life’s big events. Friends and family are there when you need a [...]

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Last Minute Wrapping? Do it in Style – Simply!

December 22, 2010
Gift wraping ideas using gift bags

2 days and it is Christmas!  Have you got everything wrapped? Do you dread having to wrap present after present that you left until the last minute?  If it has become a stressful chore, it is now time to make wrapping a lot of gifts at one time – easy, fun, and stylish.  I like to [...]

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Winner of the Kosta Boda Snowball

December 22, 2010

It’s all wrapped and ready to go – The winner of the Kosta Boda Snowball – drumroll please…. is  AmyK  “ Love the snowball candle holders… have never seen anything like those. I love that you can keep them out all winter long, too.” Congratulations Amy.  I will be emailing you. Thanks to everyone who entered. I loved [...]

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My Go-To Autumn Hostess Gift

October 3, 2010
Fall Hostess Gift Idea

It has been a glorious autumn weekend here and I have been out enjoying every minute of it.  I went back to work last Monday after being on a 6 week medical leave.  It was hard!!!  Even though I wasn’t feeling great when I was home, I was still home – enjoying puttering around, nesting, [...]

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How to Make a Barbie Shoe Bracelet + Clutch Purse Giftbag

July 29, 2010
How to Make a charm bracelet using Barbie Shoes and How to make a gift bag that looks like a clutch

I celebrated my birthday not too long ago,  but I was not the only one celebrating that day.  Someone very close to me was also turning a year older, although she is officially in the record books - 5 minutes older than me!  She is my twin sister, Carol.  She is the one on the right, I am [...]

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Trash into Gift Giving Treasure Boxes

July 19, 2010
How to make film canistesr into gift containers

I am collector of throw-away” stuff”.  Not junk, but honest to goodness – discards.  My friends and family know to give me  their throw-aways, which are different than cast-offs. Cast-offs are unwanted items like furniture and lamps.  Throw-aways are bits and pieces of packaging, parts of items – stuff that seems useless once it’s original purpose is complete.  Throw-aways [...]

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Easy Embellished Envelopes

May 21, 2010
Thumbnail image for Easy Embellished Envelopes

It is the time of year when many of us will be giving the gift of money to graduates and newlyweds.    Good manners require you to follow protocol – you put a check into a card, seal the envelope, and hand it to the recipient.  Creative manners allows you to follow your spirit.  When you express [...]

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How-To Transform and Decorate a Flower Pot

March 20, 2010
Cover a plastic planter pot with Decoupage

 Today, March 20  is officially the first day of Spring 2010.  Here in suburban Philadelphia it is 74 degrees.  Almost summer-like.  I want to be outside, cleaning up the yard and getting the beds ready for flowers.  It is still too early here, we are in Zone 6 to plant, usually around Mother’s Day weekend we are safe from frost.  I drove [...]

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