Christmas Present Wrapping
Maybe it's a bit late now for a present wrapping guide, it should have been posted at the beginning of the present buying season. None the less for those of you who are still frantically trying to pick up the perfect gift, a novelty bottle holder perhaps - or a Hemingway esque notebook. Here is a very quick guide to present wrapping.
First tip, if you're buying presents this late keep it simple, simple means a box of some form a 3D rectangle with 90 degree angles at the end of all vertices. Those are the easiest to wrap. If the gift isn't suplied in one, find a box. Retail outlets can help, as can your local Pizza Hut, go in buy a Pizza and ask for the box the dough packs came in. No of course it's not freshly baked.
However, I've seen some pretty ghastly wrapped boxes. So here is the quick and dirty guide to boxes...
Select your paper.
Then to stop the seams appearing on the top of the gift, wrap the box upside down. Attempt to place the largest face on the principal portion of the pattern. That is if the word Santa appears on the paper try to ensure "Santa" is seen on the top.
This is harder on the smaller boxes, in which the best presents come.
Leaving the narrow end of the present hooded with enough paper top and bottom to cover half of the present each.
Then when folding these ends in they should meet with a slight overlap allowing a small piece of tape to hold firm.
That's just child's play though, boxes are pretty mundane objects to wrap, it is very similar to books in that sense. Paper backs are easiest as all the sides match. Hard backs have that slight lip, I would suggest ignoring the dip and simply papering over it.
Moving on I have a slight trick for CDs, simple enough to wrap you can save much time buying CD sleeves and popping the CD inside them. So as not to look like a complete incompetent though, I would suggest adding your own deft touches.
Here you can see several of the tricks I have in my arsenal an added baubles, ribbon - curled and a bow.
Other tricks I've employed this year, given that my finances have been a bit strapped have included making the wrapping entertaining. I wrapped a collection of toiletries but then contained these in a bottle box but added to each one a post-it.
Another gift I wrapped but forgot to photograph on the way through was a bowel with some bags of potpourri in for my brother and his girlfriend, the bowl and smelly was for her and in the bowl was a shower gel, not some average Walmart shower gel, some designer stuff he'd had trouble getting hold of.
On the respective gifts I printed out some post-its with "his" and "her's" on them. The bowl provided quite difficult to wrap, again starting upside down, the extra gifts inside secured with some tissue paper and ribbon.
Bring over one seam and tape.
Quick Way
Gather all the paper ensuring none of the white reverse is visible taping as you go.
Hard Way
Cut into the remaining paper so that the remaining hood folds down on the dome.
If you have really awkward presents then the quickest way to cover it is by using a small gift bag, again adorned with extras.
The tools of the trade for this last minute hooray...
Yes it is indeed an extremely large carving knife... you don't cut the paper with scissors, you crease in a straight line then you slice the paper...
Almost forgot to mention, a DVD with current bestest TV program on is a must... I got through an entire series of family guy when wrapping my gifts this year.
First tip, if you're buying presents this late keep it simple, simple means a box of some form a 3D rectangle with 90 degree angles at the end of all vertices. Those are the easiest to wrap. If the gift isn't suplied in one, find a box. Retail outlets can help, as can your local Pizza Hut, go in buy a Pizza and ask for the box the dough packs came in. No of course it's not freshly baked.
However, I've seen some pretty ghastly wrapped boxes. So here is the quick and dirty guide to boxes...
Select your paper.
Then to stop the seams appearing on the top of the gift, wrap the box upside down. Attempt to place the largest face on the principal portion of the pattern. That is if the word Santa appears on the paper try to ensure "Santa" is seen on the top.
This is harder on the smaller boxes, in which the best presents come.
Leaving the narrow end of the present hooded with enough paper top and bottom to cover half of the present each.
Then when folding these ends in they should meet with a slight overlap allowing a small piece of tape to hold firm.
That's just child's play though, boxes are pretty mundane objects to wrap, it is very similar to books in that sense. Paper backs are easiest as all the sides match. Hard backs have that slight lip, I would suggest ignoring the dip and simply papering over it.
Moving on I have a slight trick for CDs, simple enough to wrap you can save much time buying CD sleeves and popping the CD inside them. So as not to look like a complete incompetent though, I would suggest adding your own deft touches.
Here you can see several of the tricks I have in my arsenal an added baubles, ribbon - curled and a bow.
Other tricks I've employed this year, given that my finances have been a bit strapped have included making the wrapping entertaining. I wrapped a collection of toiletries but then contained these in a bottle box but added to each one a post-it.
Another gift I wrapped but forgot to photograph on the way through was a bowel with some bags of potpourri in for my brother and his girlfriend, the bowl and smelly was for her and in the bowl was a shower gel, not some average Walmart shower gel, some designer stuff he'd had trouble getting hold of.
On the respective gifts I printed out some post-its with "his" and "her's" on them. The bowl provided quite difficult to wrap, again starting upside down, the extra gifts inside secured with some tissue paper and ribbon.
Bring over one seam and tape.
Quick Way
Gather all the paper ensuring none of the white reverse is visible taping as you go.
Hard Way
Cut into the remaining paper so that the remaining hood folds down on the dome.
If you have really awkward presents then the quickest way to cover it is by using a small gift bag, again adorned with extras.
The tools of the trade for this last minute hooray...
Yes it is indeed an extremely large carving knife... you don't cut the paper with scissors, you crease in a straight line then you slice the paper...
Almost forgot to mention, a DVD with current bestest TV program on is a must... I got through an entire series of family guy when wrapping my gifts this year.
posted by M at 9:50 PM
2 Comments:
Oh, M
M, M, M
You have not yet learned the way of the simultaneous side squash. Your wrapping is but the careless furtling of a child.
You must seek out a wrapping Yoad figure to teach you this secret knowledge and then you will be truely a wrapping Jedi.
A Simultaneous side squash doesn't exactly sound professional. In fact my own wrapping was complemented by no less that two family members this year. Many believe one gift had been wrapped by my father, who's wrapping Fu far superior to anyone I know.
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