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Sometimes ordering from Etsy is like sending yourself a present. I’m knitting scarves for my husband and me to wear this fall on a trip to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, and this is how my yarn arrived. Isn’t it great?! It’s simple, but so well presented and coordinated that twine, tissue paper, tags and a tiny skein of beautiful, gifted yarn look so festive! If you’d like to order some of your own, this is from Marigold Jen.

Here’s how our scarves look so far:

(Mine still needs a little work.)

The yarn for my husband’s scarf is from Black Sheep Dyeworks and was so wonderful to work with that I already ordered another skein — for a project I may tell you about in October. (<~~Foreshadowing!)

If you’re a knitter, I recommend these great shops!

Wine Bottle Cozy

07 May

I just whipped up this wine bottle cozy as a last minute hostess gift. If you’d like to try it yourself, here’s the tutorial from Design*Sponge. You just need a few minutes and a couple pieces of scrap fabric, fleecy interfacing, twine and a pair of buttons. I might need to make a few more to have ready for gifting.

Or maybe I’ll dress up my own wine bottles. Dang, that’s cute!

Thank you, Design*Sponge!

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Posted by Sarah Cooper on May 7, 2010 in Gift Packaging

Tags: Hostess Gift, Sewing, Wine Bottle Cozy

Gift Wrapping for a Not-So-Little One

29 Jan

Tomorrow my Little One will be twelve years old. She’s getting older and I thought her gift wrap should reflect that. No cartoons or baby animals this year!

All her gift wrap is leftover scraps from here and there. The flowers were punched from copy paper and the pink “ribbon” is just folded strips of tissue paper to tie everything together. She hasn’t seen her presents yet, I hope she’ll be pleased.

I’m happy that even though she’s growing up, my girl is still just as qwirky as ever. That pink present in the back? That’s the jar of dirt she asked for.

I’m crazy about that kid. :)

Little Penguin Gift Bags

01 Dec

I visited my Mom over Thanksgiving and she took me to her local fabric store. I bought the flower fabric for a project she helped me with (you’ll see it later) but the bulls in boxer shorts and penguins in toboggans were purchased just because they were too cute to pass up.

I decided to make a gift bag from a small canvas bag that was the perfect size to hold one Snowball Soap, maybe as a gift for an adorable little neighbor. I made a simple snow scene out of felt and stitched it to the bag.

Then I cut a penguin from the flannel and stitched him on, too.

Perfect! Now to figure out what to do with those bulls in boxer shorts …

And a late addition, because I thought I had this post set to publish tomorrow:

There. I just hated to think she’d feel left out.

I’m really going now.

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Posted by Sarah Cooper on December 1, 2009 in Gift Packaging

Tags: Canvas Tote Bags, Embroidery

Gift Tags for the Crafty Gift Giver

05 Nov

If you’re crafty, chances are that you also give a lot of handmade gifts. These Bend the Rules gift labels by Amy Karol will set the proper tone for your artfully wrapped packages. (Amy Karol also happens to write one of my favorite craft blogs, Angry Chicken.)

“I made this, just so you know. So don’t say anything mean about it,” and “This seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I’m not so sure” are tied for my favorite tags. And just look at those delicious colors!

(The box is almost always from something else.)

And you know you’ve needed this tag in the past:

I’m thinking a box of these tags would make a pretty awesome gift on their own! (You know, if I could part with the entire box at one time.)

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Category Archives: Gift Packaging

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