gifting

Sometimes things come together exactly as you would hope and this time it was with our gift wrap.  Last year I found bunches of fabric in my stash that were various 'holiday' prints (a very loose term in my mind, really anything that is colorful, bonus points if it's red, white or green). 

I took some time to sew up bags and was able to wrap most of our presents with that and some scrap yarn.  This year, I was able to pull out those bags to use again (the beauty of reuse!) and only had to make about 10 replacements/additions to complete our gift wrapping.  I found a stash of gift tags (thanks to some good clean up of my 'teaching cupboard' this fall), got a to/from stamp on sale at Joanne's, found tons of 50 cent real ribbon at Michael's and my wrapping was complete. 

I am so very in love with the way all the gifts come together under the tree and the ease with which all of us, even Jed :), can wrap a present with ease. 

And even better?  Folding up the bags, rolling up the ribbon and using them again next year!  I'm currently in the market for some fun ideas for the gift tags.  I have an idea of a wreath, with the tags circling around, flower side out...we'll see!