Table for Xmas

Not the Same Old Bag and Dance

 I know some of us get tired of the same old bag and dance. Here are some different ways to wrap gifts for next year or even birthdays.Most of these items came from the dollar store with an exception of few. This is a great way to impress and make your gifts look great.

 Place the gift inside another beautiful gift. like a mirrored box or jewelry box.

 Wrap in shirt boxes and make your own gift tags using  a computer add glitter to intensify.

For several boxes wrap in paper then tie together with ribbon so they are easy to hand out on Christmas day.

 Stock it, in s stocking.If you have several small things place them together in the stocking,

For baked goods reuse Pringels cans wrapped in Christmas paper to give gifts like chocolate covered pretzels and cookies.

 Boxed up! Place the gift in a decorative Xmas box to use for storing Christmas decorations.

When its to large and awkward to wrap purchase cellophane bags and use ribbon to tie closed attach an ornament to seal the deal,

Gifty Giving!

Gift Basket Ideas

When I give a gift I like to include things that help the receiver use the gift. For example if I buy someone a pasta bowl I want them to be able to have pasta, spices and sauces so they can enjoy the bowl I bought them. I don't want my gift to inconvenience them by having to go to the store and purchase more things in order to use it, I find this concept especially fun at bridal and baby showers. Here are some ideas for baskets to put with pieces you might purchase this season.

I make most of my baskets form things that come from HomeGoods stores, TJMaxx, Marshalls, World Market, and other places!
Great Griller's/Press: grilling sauces, bread, recipe book, spatula, spices,apron, and olive oil.

Tea-novists: Tea pot, several different flavors of tea, mug, towels, lemon, honey, and tea bag rests.
Cheese Chiefs: Cheese board, cheese spreaders/knives, cheese, wine, and crackers.

Wine Lovers: Wine red and white, glasses, stoppers, openers, and glass markers.
Crock Pot Connoisseurs: BBQ, cook book, apron, spices, laddie, and soups.

Pasta Prima-donas: Pasta bowel, pasta types, olive oils, sauces, spices, ladle, dipping oil, and garlic press

Coffee Captions: Mugs, flavored syrups, coffee, stirs, biscottii, iced coffee cup shortbread, and Cinnamon.

Baker Babes: Oven mitts, rolling pin, cookie cutters, cookie/muffin mix, mixing bowels, frosting, spatula, whisk, and apron.

Popcorn Pros: Flavorings for popcorn, varied pop corn types, two tubs for popcorn, DVDs (classics)

Lunch Liaisons: Collapsible containers for storage, chop sticks, hot and cold drink containers, soup container, lunch bag, and silverware.

Pancake Perfectionists: Pancake mixes, spatulas, syrups, bowel, whisk, mixing bowel, and pancake shapes.

Holiday Center Pieces

Reuse that gift basket you got last year to put flowers in , by a Styrofoam piece to put inside and attach to the bottom of basket, The purchase stems from your favorite store and try to space evenly.

Use your favorite vase or glass holding piece to group cheap ornaments form the dollar store, for depth add lights or strings of beads for texture.

Place trees at various levels on a plate add candles or ornaments here and there in the plate. Add a large wreath to place around it.

Santa's Belt Insperation

Stuffed left over tinsel in an ornament painted black stripe on the ornament and then drew a gold glitter box like a buckle on it with a glitter gel pin

Made gift tags from word document on cumputer glued then glittered. Fun an easy lots of colors and shapes.

Tissue Paper Trees

Need:
3 Styrofoam cones
Hot glue and hot glue gun
Several pieces of desired color tissue paper
Pencil
Scissors

1. Cut tissue into squares about one inch by one inch.
2. Wrap tissue paper around the eraser end of a pen(place in the middle of square when wrapping) and using glue gun put a dot of glue on the paper.
3. Then touch it to the the cone going up and down.
4. Place it closely together.
5. Then cut on an angle from the top of the cone down with the scissors to trim the tree shape. (DO this part of the garbage can) save you from some headache clean up.

First look at Christmas decorating

Grouping I like to try and keep it at three for tall objects and varied color pallets for everyday decorating I stay with in the same color family but for Christmas I venture out!

This reindeer votive helps keep the varied heights fluent through out this piece.