presents how do you wrap yours ????!!

[ducklady]

With xmas getting close, how do you wrap your presents ?
Bows , ribbons, newspaper ?
Lets share our idea's here.

[PoppyAmex]

Ohh Vata x-post!

Is it hard to work with the fabric?

[TessTackle]

Whilst we're talking wrapping, can anyone give me an idea how to disguise/wrap DD's massive wooden kitchen which will be assembled before Christmas morning?

[TessTackle]

Happy my local primark had sheeny light blue paper, £1 a roll

[PoppyAmex]

Tess when it's a huge, identifiable present I usually wrap just one small element of it (box/ part of the toy) or if DC is old enough a treasure map to lead them to the present.

[TessTackle]

Poppy that's a lovely idea but we're in a ground floor flat so she knows where the presents will be no hiding places you see.

I was wondering if you can get a Christmas sheet? Like a big open Christmas sack? I don't know.

[CrazyOldCatLady]

Tess, my two are getting a kitchen this year and I'm going to put wrapping paper over the door of the sitting room so they have to break through it. They're too little for a map but tearing stuff they're fine with : )

I'm a disaster at wrapping. I love the thought of sitting down in front of the fire with a nice christmas film and some hot chocolate but actually it depresses me because I'm always on my own doing it, the results never look neat enough, and I get sick of it very quickly.

[GinGuzzler]

I am a bit of a neat freak when it comes to wrapping. People know I am their secret santa at work soley by my wrapping of present.

I spend a whole evening doing my presents. With wine and I love it. I add candy canes aswell with little bits of ribbon wrapped around.

Wooden or plush xmas decorationson big presents. Then they all get pit under the tree. I even wrap the dogs presents. I am really excited this year as I am day off DS is 4 and isnreally getting into xmas, he is starting to get into the whole xmas spirit as he gets older.

[TessTackle]

Oh my god yes! I'm going to paper the door, that will be epic! Thanks so much, she'll love that

[BringOn2014]

Tess When we got the DC bikes last year we got cheapy christmas tablecloths out of Tesco I think, would probably work for the kitchen too! :)

[TessTackle]

bring that's a great idea too, you guys are stars

[ducklady]

Paperpompom I have broad shoulders, let them lynch away!

[TessTackle]

ducklady I'm with you! It is bloody near, I've got a Christmas countdown on my phone. I'd feel so unorganised if I didn't start halfway through the year.

[JuanPotatoTwo]

I love wrapping too. Haven't decided on this year's colour scheme, but I never use patterned paper, but do use a variety of ribbons (variety in colour, size, textureetc). Love making huge pompom bows, or rosettes. Always use double sided tape too, that way no tape on show! For big awkward shapes, either fit them in a box, or as previously mentioned, wrap one element. For the kitchen, you could tie a massive ribbon round it and leave it at that. Or wrap a wooden spoon or toy frying pan and when they're opened say something like "where are we going to put these?" and lead over to the kitchen.

[BearsBeetsBattlestarGalactica]

Shockingly.
I wish I was neat and an expert at wrapping but, alas I am not.

Am semi okay with box shaped stuff but with anything irregular I just hope for the best.

Meh, it gets torn off anyway.

Loving the fabric idea though

[LazyFaire]

I buy mid-range paper, naff/ cheesy patterns for kids and usually a red & gold pattern for adults (they are my Christmas colours I don't do the whole 'this years cool colours are lilac and beige', hardly Christmassy is it?!)

I do sometimes curl ribbons etc. but I'm usually on a tight budget by the time I've bought all the presents! They must at very least have straight folds and turned in edges (so you cant see that I just fold and rip rather that scissor ) I do get quite anal about it!

If they are getting a card too I tape the card to the present, otherwise I get the matching labels or I have Christmassy stickers for the kids/things getting posted. We used to have to guess what presents were for whom sometimes (or open each others!), when an auntie or uncle used rubbish sellotape and all the labels fell off in the box during postage!

[ducklady]

And to be fair, its a lot closer than next Xmas.

[ducklady]

Im hopeless at wrapping, I get everyone else to do it.

[LazyFaire]

And I have candy canes on my tree for visitors which all the grumpy Christmas-hating sods I know think is funny and bah humbug me

[TessTackle]

Lazy I'm getting candy canes this year, real and decorative

[Vatta]

Oh my word I just googled the furoshiki thing, that looks very complicated! I don't do anything that fancy, pretty much use the fabric like paper but secured with a few stitches in a thick contrasting thread.

It's especially good for irregular shaped items as you can sort of drape the fabric around like a bag and the shape doesn't show through as clearly as it would with paper.

[HappyAsEyeAm]

Thanks Tess - and it would be nice not to spend as much on the paper as I have so far on the ribbon!

[PoppyAmex]

Vatta well I'm still very impressed and I can see it working for awkward shapes.

Might enrol myself on an online Furoshiki course!

[TessTackle]

I think it's alright to get slightly cheaper paper if you don't plan to keep and reuse it, defo doing primark for my DD they have disney princess paper

[sashh]

I love wrapping presents. And I love the odd shapes.

I once wrapped a small box of earnings in crumpled up tissue paper, with more paper round it tied with ribbon - think those spinach filo parcels but about 12" from bottom to top.

I've used plain brown paper with string. I've used pretty scarves, so there are two presents.

I've done an origami box within a box, within a box to drive someone insane before they got to their present.

I curl ribbons, or do bows.

I try to make everything look like something it isn't.

It's a shame I don't celebrate Xmas in some ways. If anyone wants to let me wrap their presents give me a shout.

[TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy]

I stopped wrapping a few years back, neither DH or I like it very much. We bought reusable gift bags - including massive bags like these - which has the whole thing a lot more enjoyable for all of us.