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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Dec 21 2010 : 1:54:03 PM
Next year we are wrapping all gifts in newspaper, with out scotch tape, and using straw bale twine to tie around them. We are going as "pioneer" as possible. It's such a good feeling to not be wasteful with our money and reuse. The paper and twine can be recycled again, after Christmas.
Farmgirl #800
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| Dreamer42 |
Posted - Jun 18 2016 : 10:33:30 PM
We have this darling little gift shop in town, called the back porch... my favorite little shop here. She carries a mixture of new gift items, antiques and hand made items, she wraps your purchases in plain brown gift bags and uses the tissue patterns sheets as the tissue for the gift wrap! I just love this! Gives a unique touch to any gifts you purchase and give!
Dreamer42
Farmgirl Sister #7038 |
| Dreamer42 |
Posted - May 28 2016 : 9:00:20 PM
I also love good old fashion twine, always looks so pretty double wrapped around the gift and tied in a simple bow.
Dreamer42 |
| Dreamer42 |
Posted - May 28 2016 : 8:57:09 PM
CJ, I love love love using raffia! Such a beautiful and natural look! I even use it to wrap banana breads in that I make for our elder neighbors, looks pretty wrapped around the parchment, especially love the natural raffia in the fall! The ideas and uses are endless!
Dreamer42 |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - May 05 2016 : 1:27:29 PM
P.S. I also use raffia (in different colors) and ribbon to tie gifts up as well. I can usually find almost anything I need and very rarely spend money on wrapping paper!
CJ
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - May 05 2016 : 1:25:35 PM
I love to use pieces of fabric, hankies and sewing pattern pieces to wrap gifts in!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
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| windypines |
Posted - Apr 22 2016 : 1:17:50 PM
I enjoy reading about the creative ideas you girls come up with. thanks for sharing.
Farming in WI
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Apr 19 2016 : 10:06:20 PM
Farmgirls are so clever...be proud of yourselves for those great ideas!
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| shawneefarmgirl |
Posted - Apr 19 2016 : 2:20:21 PM
April, I do that exact same thing with my old Christmas cards....always made me smile to know I was repurposing something .
I'll tell you the truth, if a man keeps my word, he will never see death." John 8:51 |
| Dreamer42 |
Posted - Apr 19 2016 : 10:05:28 AM
I recycle my Christmas cards and use them the following year by cutting out the beautiful pictures, using a paper punch to snap a hole at the top or even tape it on. I allow the sizes and shapes to vary. I write who it's to and from on the back and often include a personal message. Often times when tied with a bow, the larger tags are a beautiful touch!
XO,
Dreamer42
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| AuntJamelle |
Posted - Sep 08 2015 : 1:52:18 PM
With the holidays approaching, this older thread caught my eye! Thanks to Nini for the idea on getting plain kraft paper from an office supply store! Just checked the price for a large roll of Kraft brown and I think it has my name on it! Someday...
I have a large back supply of wrapping paper to get through for now - always purchased it after Christmas for at least 50% off. I haven't bought paper in years, actually. Or bows - I've got a great stock of wired ribbon that I carefully save and roll around empty paper towel tubes for the next year. Or the "bow" parts just get flattened out and stacked in a basket until time to be tied on and re "fluffed" again.
I hand craft gift tags using paper, scrapbooking type supplies, cereal boxes, glitter, etc. I save those too from year to year - at least for gifts between immediate family.
I love a beautifully packaged gift, but I also love not spending more on the packaging that the gift! For example, I recently wrapped a present for a wedding shower using the last bit of white/silver paper from a discounted Christmas roll - just white with silver scrollwork - defnitely appropriate to a wedding.
Then I used silvery wired ribbon with a really cute dot design that I got a ton of for $0.50 at a garage sale this spring. I used different odds and ends of other ribbons to really spruce up the bow part and finished with some small sprays of artificial white flowers that I'd taken off a wreath also purchased at a garage sale (was using the wreath form for a another project). It looked really good when I was done, but I spent zip. Other than time. Re-worked that bow FOUR times before I was happy. lol
I also love doing gift baskets - I pick up the baskets at garage sales, never paying more than $0.50, usually $0.25 each. I shred paper shopping bags for filler - or I pick up Easter grass in the right color just after the Easter holiday - but paper is better for my green conscience :) Which kind of makes it sound like I'm talking about Jimminy Cricket, but oh well!
I also pick up metal cookie tins at garage sales, with a good wash/sanitize they are ready for use again!
Newspaper is a great idea, so are paper shopping bags from grocery store turned inside out. I've re-used many a gift bag - making sure the tags are removed!
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| CindyLous |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 11:22:34 AM
I agree. Yarn scraps twisted together, fabric scraps to wrap or tie, burlap, twine, maybe with pinecones, the ideas and supplies seem almost endless. |
| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 06:46:54 AM
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Originally posted by jpbluesky
I have used the newspaper before, and especially like the way the colored Sunday comics look when wrappped as a gift!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13
My dad used comics to wrap gifts with years ago. I think we will also use our newspapers in our garden, placing them between rows, and then simply tilling them in at the end of the season. I hope I have some left - LOL!
Farmgirl #800
http://momzonetakingtimeformom.blogspot.com/
http://scrapreusedandrecycledartprojects.blogspot.com/
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 05:07:22 AM
I have used the newspaper before, and especially like the way the colored Sunday comics look when wrappped as a gift!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 04:50:18 AM
I think for us, our purpose and goal is to be extremely smart with our spending, and use what we do have, vs. buying into commercialization of the holidays. Once the present is unwrapped, is the paper even that important to the recipient? Sure wrapping paper can be recycled and reused, but if we have newspaper, why not use it? I can save the twine from my straw bales and tie them, eliminating having to buy scotch tape, another item commercialized in today's world. This year my goal is to live simple, and not get caught up in today's stereotypes and expectations and assumptions.
Farmgirl #800
http://momzonetakingtimeformom.blogspot.com/
http://scrapreusedandrecycledartprojects.blogspot.com/
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jan 18 2011 : 04:37:28 AM
I find whole rolls of really pretty wallpaper at the thrift and use that. This is also good for scrapbooking and other crafts.
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| CindyLous |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 9:29:59 PM
I just wanted to get this one going again. I shop the holiday clearance for gift wrap, ribbon and stuff that can be used for birthdays, babys and such. There are some great ideas here, thanks. |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Jan 07 2011 : 06:40:13 AM
This is the best time to be buying Christmas material. I picked up yards of it for just over $1/yard.
Best Growing |
| HookAngel |
Posted - Jan 06 2011 : 5:24:28 PM
Love these ideas.... especially the lil cans Moonshines... thanks for the info and ideas! |
| msdoolittle |
Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 3:33:12 PM
Great ideas! I am thinking about sewing up some bags specifically for presents out of leftover or yard sale cloth. :0)
Of course, around here, we save our giftbags and tissue paper, too, so I think I still have the same 20 bags for about 10 years now, lol.
FarmGirl #1390
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
| Moonshines |
Posted - Jan 04 2011 : 8:21:45 PM
I use tin cans (vegggie can and number 10 tins like the gallon size) I spray paint them sometimes I mod podge my old christmas cards on them make wire handles and use them as our gift bags this works on lots of the smaller present or baked goods
Moonshines #1649
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| vintagejenta |
Posted - Jan 03 2011 : 7:31:04 PM
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Originally posted by Montrose Girl
I made lots of bags from Christmas material and attached a "reusable gift bag" tag to them. Hopefully I'll get some back in the years to come too.
Best Growing
We do this in our house, too! My mom buys christmas or red & white fabric on sale and makes little square and rectangular bags of all sizes. Some are drawstring, but most just have a ribbon tacked to one seam an inch or two down to tie off the top. It is SO EASY to wrap presents at mom's house! Just find a bag that fits, pop in the present, and tie it off! Of course, then it's easier to figure out what things are than in boxes. But still. We reuse them every year, too. And they're washable.
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| njaw09 |
Posted - Dec 29 2010 : 1:00:28 PM
For my nieces or anyone under 10 years old. I used the cartoon newspaper section. The parents love the idea.
This year I used kraft or brown paper bags and bakery twine or grosgrain polka or stripe ribbon & custom wood tags.
Once in awhile I used exclusively black/white printed papers...its all depending on the occasion. |
| mickib |
Posted - Dec 23 2010 : 2:27:00 PM
For anything that can fit in a box, I reuse plain white or colored boxes and reuse old ribbons. Some of my ribbon and yarn I've had since I was a little kid (and I'm headed towards 50!). |
| 2quilter |
Posted - Dec 22 2010 : 8:35:15 PM
I reused some department store gift bags with some Christmas cards...punched 1 hole in each corner of the Christmas card (I used the front only) and then punched corresponding holes in the gift bag...then threaded a piece of Christmasee type fabric through the 2 holes (4 pieces in total) and tied a pretty little bow. My friend LOVED it, and in fact was going to repurpose the bag again with some other customizing that she was planning on doing.... sweet!
When life hands you scraps, make quilts! |
| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Dec 22 2010 : 8:08:33 PM
I made lots of bags from Christmas material and attached a "reusable gift bag" tag to them. Hopefully I'll get some back in the years to come too.
Best Growing |
