I need to decide on my wrapping paper colours

[MilkNoSugarPlease]

I have different ones every year :o

Last year was the PITA to find but lovely, turquoise paper and silver ribbon

year before that was Red and gold

Year before that was brown paper

year before that was silver and blue

but what for this year?!

Living etc is specialized in wrapping paper porn, usually in the November issues.

I am overtly scornful but secretly loving this thread

The black and cream with a hint of fushia could be good.

milk I love you.

That's all I can say to this thread.

i do the exact same as you milk

its important to have co-ordinating wrapping paper!!

i did chocolate brown and copper ribbon last year but i have redecorated the living room so that wont match this year so im doing teal and chocolate brown or teal and silver (i have found what i like already in debenhams)

:o SEEEEEEE! Not everyone thinks I'm crazy :o

Black cream and fuchsia could be very nice indeed!

I love you too thighs :o

oooh, black and cream with a hint of fuschia... nice!

I'm thinking of having this fairtrade Indian one for the DC this year. With orange ribbon for boys and purple for girls.

I'm getting these christmas cards though

May I say, I love MN, for the reason that there is a thread with 35 messages in under an hour....about wrapping paper :o

You are all mad.

Hully
I laughed at your joke, even if no one else noticed it.

ooh Checkmate, I do love that!!

If I had shedloads of cash I'd buy this

Instead I have bought some surprisingly stylish stuff from Ikea - here

Last year for ds I did Disney store wrapping paper with cars on and snow he loved it and silver and snowflakes for the family, Dont know what to do this year yet though?

Turqoise can be quite seasonal - I did pale blue/turqoise a few years ago, with a white faux fur trim instead of ribbon, and they looked gorgeous - remember they are sitting around in the middle of your living room for ages so I enjoy nice wrapping - I don't have kids though, so a bit more time on my hands than other posters perhaps...AND sometimes you come out thinking you spent more time and money on the wrapping than the gift inside

I have also done black Victorian style wrappings - using eg flock paper, dark sequin ribbon and feathers to decorate...but that was so they matched my christmas tree!

Oh, this thread is real!

You are all bonkers, in the nicest possible way.

I'd love something like this for my DD's pressies. If anyone has seen it anywhere please let me know...the one I've linked to is for dolls houses!

Am thinking of brown paper & ribbon for grown ups, but will probably end up with something from M&S in a last minute panic

Newspaper (pref financial times as it's pink) and good string. Very retro.

Try e bay. Just last week I bought 60 sheets of hot pink tissue paper and 10 metres of orange satin ribbon for under a fiver. Will do half pressies in this colour and other half in lime green with orange ribbon.

Next job, is to make the tags! ( luggage labels with little jingle bell glued on.) I am a freak, tis true, but I love a well wrapped gift.

Waitrose were doing three for two on wrapping paper, so I have metallic gold, red and purple this year. Sadly the beautiful coordinating metallicness will be buried beneath the cheesy santa/reindeer/snowman seventy sheets for a penny stuff that DH will buy from the garage on his way home on December 23rd and ask me to wrap all his presents in .

For DH's benefit, I am going to buy an assortment of gift bags for him to put my presents in! Then we can re-use them until they get too tatty. Seems the kindest thing to do really, as he hates wrapping stuff.

There will be minimal paper this year at our house.

I'm thinking newspaper/magazines with posh ribbon.

If nothing else, it will really help to wind up MIL who thinks I'm an eco freak

Brown paper (from the PO on a roll) and satin/velvet red ribbon. I buy the off-cuts from our local habadashery place for about 30p for 2-3 metres so it's very cost effective and fabulous . I hide patterned or that overly foil-y paper at the back of the tree. I hate the metallics anyway as you can't recycle it easily (if at all?). Luggage labels or nice cards from last year cut with pinking shears (we've always done this, it's become a kind of tradition!). DD also makes labels from sponge printed card.

Father Christmas doesn't wrap anyway and very small children get tissue-paper wrapping for quicker opening.