How are you guys at gift wrapping? I suck at it: Paper and tape, and if it doesn't quite fit, swear a little bit, and tape in a patch. If I'm feeling really crafty, I'll slap a stick-on-bow on the top and call it good.
I have a secret weapon, though, for those gifts that I want to make Extra Special: Diane. My friend of 20+ years, who is afflicted with a sickness: She LOVES to wrap gifts. I know! Weird, isn't it?
Di is stocked up; a tape dispenser is a necessity, of course, and then she forklifts out a set of stackable boxes filled with ribbon, and something called toule, and raffia, and shiny stuff and stringy stuff, and wire and blow torches and anvils.
A Diane-wrapped gift is a Creation; when all is said and done, it looks like spun sugar under your tree. It is bee-YOO-ti-ful, and has only one setback: it's so anticlimactic to open a "Diane" and find a pair of black socks inside.
It will never do to have the wrapping look better than the gift, I tell her, so I let her wrap only the best gifts of the season.
Here's one of this year's highlights that now sits under my tree.
I love wrapping presents. With my sticky tape cut at the appropriate length lines around the dining table...I'm all set to go. 9 out of 10 times...I misjudge the length of sticky tape. I said I LOVED wrapping. I never said anything about being GOOD at it
ReplyDeleteWhat's in that beautiful box? (you can tell us after Christmas!) Have a wonderful holiday.
ReplyDeleteI admit, I like wrapping, too.
I'm horrible at wrapping. Especially as the night goes on and I get tired and feel like I don't care anymore.
ReplyDeleteWe wrapped last night and I cut some paper wrong and...I made it fit somehow.
This gift looks maaaavelous though!!! Diane did a great job!
It definitely puts my environmentally friendly "wrapped in a newspaper" approach to gifts to shame.
ReplyDeleteDi is a real wizard with that stuff! For the rest of us, God made gift bags. RS
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