It's my friend Diane's birthday today... the kind of friend who brings homemade pasta to my kids when I go away, leaves a dinner on my doorstep when we've had to rush to the hospital with someone, or just drops by with warm cookies, or to spend an hour with my lonely cat. She's a sweetie. So I bought her some sugar cookies sprinkled in pink sugar and some little English soaps.
Using my roll of brown paper, I stamped her name, a few stars and a little cupcake. A hot pink ribbon and I'm all set. Interestingly, although I find brown paper packages to be desirable, I'm not sure in the glitzy world of glossy gift wrapping if others do. My gift I showed you HERE was the VERY last one to be selected from the pile of 50 gifts by the pregnant mama at the baby shower be last Saturday. Ce'st la Vie.!
I love the brown paper for wrapping! It shows how much more attention and time you took to make the gift that much more special!
ReplyDeleteI love brown paper packages. I think if it were me, I'd have opened it first! (But as I've said before, I am very very old-fashioned.)
ReplyDeleteI love it - it is so pretty and it would be one of those gifts that I would take my time opening, just to enjoy the wrapping!
ReplyDeleteI would have opened it first too! Really love it...and think presents wrapped with such care are always the best! It's interesting isn't it? What people are drawn to. My son and his gf are expecting a baby girl in August (I'm very excited). I buy lots of thrifted stuff for our house and the other kids we have and I was instructed that since they "can afford" (?!) to buy all new they don't want anything thrifted for the new baby. lol... So funny to me...by passing all the wonderful old stuff for shiny new stuff...but guess everyone has there own feelings about things previously loved!
ReplyDeleteBoth presents are gorgeous! My brother always used to wrap gifts with the comics section of the paper - and I loved it. :)
ReplyDeleteI love your packages. My few (three) Christmas packages were in Trader Joe brown wine bags.
ReplyDeleteDon't lose the brown . . . let it be a signature . . . and others will soon be doing the same. I enjoy it too . . .
ReplyDeleteI would have jumped in head first for the gift in elegant and simple brown paper, particularly with your lovely style of embellishments.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to your friend Diane. And I say she saved the best for last, it was a lovely present with it's bunny embellished brown paper!
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I can't believe it. Maybe younger gals don't have good taste?
ReplyDeleteOh Chania Love if it had been me I would have picked your gift FIRST....I would have known from the moment I laid eyes on it that it was a gift chosen & prepared with consideration & LOVE....!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI know Diane will enjoy your parcel & it will provide her with more FOND memories of her DEAR Friend....!!!!!
I hope you've been well....Pics will make their way to you over the weekend....**wink**....!!
Cheers,
Tamarah xx
....hahahaha....I just read Kat's reply & AGREE entirely....She's such a wise one that Kat.... :o). !!!!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the brown paper - I used to do that B.C. (before children LOL). There are so many things I could go back to doing - canning, crocheting, embroidery.... Hey, at least we have the garden!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever played with natural dyes for Easter eggs?? THAT's fun!
DeeDee
www.KidNeedsAKidney.blogspot.com
I pretty much wrap everything in brown paper, too. Love your gift wrapping, Chania! The ribbon, and stamping is perfect.
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