Done

Getting ready to shove gifts into bags 😎

No gifts, no wrapping.

Uh, Ive only bought one present and its a membership card to a garden.

Love your choices. I definitely dont see red.

Nope. Waiting till 7 yr old DGD is here to help me paint the paper. We did it 2 years ago, painted kraft and packing paper and she loved it. Then I wrap when she is busy with something else. I have paint (some with glitter because 7) and rafia plain and dyed for tying and bows.

I’m pretty close to being finished. I’ve wrapped about 30 so far, and have 3 more to go. This year I used white paper with wired solid red ribbon and red and white glittery wired ribbon and a red and white paper with white satin wired ribbon. Mtn will have to avert her eyes if I post pictures!

With giving the gift of travel for the family, I don’t wrap gifts. However, DD decided to throw a monkey wrench into my plans. She thinks we should make an online scavenger hunt booklet for the kids to learn facts about Iceland before we go. Save me! I’m not clever or crafty. So far, I’ve made one booklet…with nothing in it. 😬

ooh how fun!

DO you know how to use PPT or Google Slides? then have staples print it on card stock

I just started this evening ... and have a long way to go.

I dont have one color or design scheme. I use a different paper for each person-- somewhat tailored to their gifts and personality. Some gifts go into bags but they too are selected for each person.

I only have photos of a few of them ...

Also pretty pleased with the packaging i put together for the Cooking with Grandma gifts from all the kids, grandkids and great grandkids. I could have done something a little more interesting but given the time constraints and the number of gift bags/note cards required, I am pretty pleased.

I pretty much only use an ipad. I have a teeny tiny laptop that I never pull out of its drawer. DSIL might be able to help me. Plus he has a printer that rivals any print shop (I’m not kidding).

Funky, love the ”Cooking with Grandma.” You hit it out of the park!

Let's see - I buy bags from the Dollar Store and stick-um tags from a local drugstore so no theme. Just a riotous selection of colourful bags and a potpourri of tags.

All done wrapping. No bows or ribbons; they’re lucky to get tags identifying who’s whose. About 75% of the gifts are in flannel bags I have bought at Company Store. They are so handy and also ”green”!

I promised myself a few years ago that i wouldnt use cheap bags anymore-- i need to travel with a large number of gifts and with cheap bags i can always count on one letting go -- more if it is raining or slushy!

I usually use the caspari bags because they can be reused for many years -- but this year, I needed to change it up. a few of my favorites will make a reappearance though (it usually takes about 3 yr for the bags i bought to make it back to me lol)

Mine are wrapped and under my out-of-state family's tree.

Funky, uber cute! I love the stickers, and the book tree!

I feel like I'm phoning it in this year. Half-hearted bows, sort of coordinating papers but not quite, etc. And the closer it gets to Christmas, the more I rely on gift bags. It will be fine.

mtn - love your theme this year.

Funky - very impressed with your Cooking w/Grandma bags and cards!

@bbstx

Be sure to include The Yule Lads ⬅️ (the Icelandic version of Santa) in your project.

The only gifts we give are gift cards to the in-laws (my dislike of gift giving is well documented here, I’ve whined about it multiple times in the past). I try to wrap creatively to at least make it a little interesting to me. Although the effort is lost on them, they take the gift out of whatever container I use and hand it back to me while asking ”do you want this back?” No, I have never wanted it back in 30+ years, particularly when the container was part of the gift. Me doing this 🙄 is probably on every xmas video my SIL has.

This year the gym membership gift certificate for my SIL is in a 12x7 envelope, so large and not very flexible. I would just slap a bow on it but I don’t own a bow, or ribbon. I hope I have a large gift bag…and if I do I’ll get it back 😆.

All but one is done. I can't relate to a cooridinated decorating tree look. Home spun, use what ya got here. This year I happen to have a few different Peanuts character rolls. The one gift I have left I am STEAMING over. It came damaged. A cute little clip on side tray for my DIL. I am waiting to hear from the company on it. They only deal in emails with these things. It was CLEARLY damaged before shipping. A divot in the edge--her sleeves will snag on it. We could sand it smooth but then the finish will be ruined and sorry NOT ACCEPTABLE for a gift!!

@hhireno, thanks for the reminder. The Yule Lads are on the list as of now!

Funky and Mtn, Love the wrapping paper. I have a bit of a wrapping paper and ribbon obsession, enjoy seeing the different papers.

We are potpourri on the wrapping paper this year, I actually like the look. Usually I do our living room tree with coordinating paper, all in the same in color theme and the family room tree is a variety, but no living room tree this year as my husband's office has taken over the room while my MIL is living with us.

Just starting to wrap. Thankfully, DH is a fabulous wrapper, so I will have a lot of help.

Ruby, Mtn, and Funky, so beautiful!

I ordered various Folk Art type patterns on kraft paper — it’ll all be here Saturday. I’m going to use silky brown ribbon on some, plaid on a few, and jute twine on others. DH will likely do the wrapping — he’s much better at it than me. We’ll reuse a few gift bags, too.

Last year, I used very elegant vintage style Victorian papers in gorgeous colors, so am switching it up this year.

As you can tell, I love ribbon and paper. No excuses.

However, I have come down with wrapper's shoulder. It's like swimmers' shoulder only you don't need to do any exercise. I booked a massage at our local spa for Friday night. Yay me.

I got some cute white cableknit sweater paper, and I HAVE to get to Michaels, and hope they have the mossy green velvet that I envisioned.

I have had a lousy cold for the past week, so I have only done the minimum amount of work in the house for the past week...ugh.

This was taken about a week ago. There are more now. Only two more to go,! They're just checks for my boys and will likely be done on Christmas Eve. Closer to Christmas I’ll move everything to the main family room tree.

I used to have a big wrapping day and didn't like it so I started wrapping the gifts as I bought them even if it is a long time until Christmas.

Gorgeous, porkandham!

@porkandham, your packages are gorgeous - and your tree!

I'm pretty much done. There is one more present for my DD coming. My big gift to her is a couple of days away with some pampering (facial/massage/whatever), shopping and eating. I can't actually book it without her input on dates, so going to print some sort of gift card/explanation and wrap it in a box with a pair of PJs that are on the way.

I usually do coordinating paper. I would love to add pretty ribbon but 99% of the gifts are for the grandkids and they don't care and will just rip the paper off as fast as they can so I don't bother.

We celebrate Chanukah so no tree to put them under. This years gifts are already in tote bags to bring to my DD for our family celebration. This pic is from last year or maybe 2022 before I packed them up for travel.

jsk, love your style, beautiful room (and packages)!

What is your wall color?

Umm yes, jsk, I think we need to see more house pics one of these days!

Thanks Jilly and sueb20!

The family room in the pic above (and my primary bedroom) are BM Manchester Tan. I know it can lean very gray in some lights but thankfully in my home, it's the perfect soft tan/beige. I love it.

Thank you! Such a warm color, I love it. :)

Love all the photos of packages AND homes!

I too used to go with color schemes-- different patterns but same color ranges. Your photos make me want to return to that approach ... but it does help me as there are sooo many people and sooo many presents (i share gifts to all the grandkids and great grandkids with my mom so that she doesnt have to shop, wrap etc) it gets a little out of control quickly (especially because I cant easily read tags when distributing gifts)

LOL I make it sound chaotic-- it is a *little* only because of the numbers-- otherwise organized and fun!

I love the mix of patterns. Occurs to me it is just like designing a room, JSK! Next time I will choose a stripe, a solid, and a floral!

This year I went all silver. It's pretty but looking at my past picture I'm missing the variety. Oh well.

Yes, like designing a room! Or our outfits.

This is why I love you guys. You appreciate these things. The grandkids/grand niece don't care at all. My sister in law probably doesn't even notice and wraps all her presents in honestly really ugly paper. In fact, she probably thinks my wrapping is boring because it's not a cacophony of colors and silly kids characters. She's the sweetest most generous person without one ounce of design sense. Don't get me started on their home! My brother would say, there was coordinated wrapping paper? He doesn't notice anything design related. My DD does notice and usually comments, but she's the only one.

Yes but you notice, too right? And appreciate/enjoy it? I figure if I have to wrap, I am not spending hours looking at ugly paper. And it needn't be more expensive; I still maintaint that HG is the best for paper.

Happy Hannukah JSK; I cannot recall it falling on Christmas before!

Oh yes I enjoy it very much. I usually have them in my family room all wrapped for a week or so before we get together with family to celebrate and I love looking at it.

Thank you! It varies every year. It sometimes crosses over Christmas but I don't remember the first night being on Christmas Day. I much prefer when it's all done and over by Christmas. That allows us to have our family celebration, and my DD to then do Christmas with her dad and family without any conflicts. We didn't schedule it earlier before Christmas this year because my niece is (was) pregnant and due date was 12/15. Baby born on 12/16. So now we'll do it early January. It's fine :-)

I am almost done. Still waiting for a couple of gifts to arrive that I ordered late.

I start off trying to stick with certain colors but then the random gift bags in whatever color and pattern end up being used and there it goes.

I got word the company is resending my order. Here's hoping it comes with no knicks this time!!

We had severe thunderstorms this morning; they woke me up early. I went to get coffee started and snapped a quick pic before I got a fire going. My snowflake tree is standing in for our main tree this year.

We have more presents to wrap for our family get-together Sunday. These are for my Dad, my daughter, and son-in-law tomorrow. I went rustic this year, as I mentioned above. I ended up using the dark brown silk ribbon, jute twine, and jute wide ribbon.

My leg lamp is in the reflection. :D

beautiful compositions, Jilly. Hope you have a heartwarming holiday.

Thank you, Mtn! I wish the same for you. ❤️

Very pretty, Jilly!

Thank you, porkandham … love yours, the ribbons look so beautiful!

(Also swooning over that cabinet to the right!)