A Charming Gift Wrap Station

 We have all seen the fancy craft rooms that some lucky people have,

and in those rooms the wrapping papers hang from rolls and there are

loads of ribbons to choose from.  If you are like me, and don't have a 

craft room, you can create a dedicated spot for your gift wrapping, as

well as your card writing.  This small vintage desk that I recently 

bought is turning out to be a very handy piece of furniture!

 It is in a corner of our dining room, and it has become the place for mail

to land.  But along came the holidays and overnight it seemed to turn into

a gift wrap station!   Wrapping paper and ribbon look so pretty, and to have

them displayed openly in a room feels very festive!  The small drawers hold

tape and notecards and stamps for Christmas cards I have yet to send.

Maybe a console table or sidetable could be repurposed into a gift wrap station

at your home.  Use pretty containers to hold pens and pencils and notecards.

An old waste basket holds rolls of gift wrapping on the floor next

to the desk.  Its so convenient!  I have been wrapping as I go, so it won't

pile up on my at the eleventh hour.  When I was about 12 years old, my dad

set up a folding card table in my bedroom and anointed me as his personal gift wrapper.

He said I did such a nice job, as I loved wrapping gifts using matching 

colored ribbons and making tags.  So I guess Dad was ahead of his time, creating 

a gift wrap station.  Anyway, I love having this spot.  I don't have to pull 

everything out of closets and drawers to find what I need, then put it all back.

 Its been quite a joy actually.  

I love that something so simple can be so useful and joyful.

 I still rely on my old methods of making tags by clipping 

a square of wrapping paper and then just writing "to and from" inside

 and taping it to the package.

  Sometimes I buy the fancy tags, but mostly I do it the way I did as a kid.  

 And where do my wrapped gifts go?  Well since everyone knows 

Santa is coming, I no longer have to hide them.  

So now I use them to decorate spaces in the house.

 Loaded up and layered on top of this old green bench,

I put a few of the gifts in green and red papers.

 They are very cheery in the kitchen!

 The pastel pretty packages are under our living room tree.  

Speaking of which, Colby has been so good about ignoring 

the wrapped gifts under the tree.

But last night I wondered why he wasn't hanging out 

with me and hubs in the tv room.  

Well he was busy "opening" his first gift. 

 Hahhah!  It was a small package that had an ornament inside. 

 I have no idea why he found that particular package interesting.  

Except other than  the wrapping I had used was recycled paper 

from a gift I received from Matthew Mead.  

Maybe Colby smelled little Oscar all over the wrapping?