Just a Few Wrapped Up....

A simple 'folkloric' feel ... red, white, silver & brown paper! Some 'creative' wrapping using both sides of a patterned paper, and brown craft paper as 'ribbon bands' around the gifts - helps to create colour variation, surface design & shape definition with out too much fuss.

Brown paper packages tied up in string - these are a few of my favourite things!

What can I say I just love presents, wrapping & giving and receiving & opening!

images by Sarah Verity - Verandah Home & Garden Living Solutions

Creative Gift Wrapping...

I love wrapping up presents [I still have a heap to do!] but especially when you can be a little creative about it... it doesn't take much truly. I particularly love these images showing that wrapping doesn't have to be boring, even using some broadsheet newspaper can be made festive with a touch of red & white, some letter stamping, a few cut outs with ribbon & cord! Voila! Enjoy,

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images via homelife.com.au

[Underground] Bon-Bons for Friday!

Happy Friday!! I am so happy that's nearly the weekend - I can get to the rest of my Christmas decorations & final present wrapping, and we have a (an early) family Christmas event on Sunday !!

Today's image is courtesy of one of [my] Palatial Living's biggest fans, my sister - Felic, who is currently living & working [as a lawyer] in the UK. And between Felic & her fiance, Alex, they have a huge fascination with maps [of London] that also double something else such as wrapping paper! Here [image above] Felic sent me this image of the London Tube - Underground - map, being used as Bon-Bon wrapping, so clever & 'location-ally' stylish!! Maybe you have a city map that you could thematically use as part of your decorations or table setting for your international or out-of-town guests at Christmas?

Hope your weekend is wonderful one - relaxing, eating, drinking , carolling, or seeing friends and family in the lead up to Christmas, and very importantly if you still need to shop that you're able to find that elusive car spot at the shops this weekend!! Enjoy & Thank You for stopping by at Palatial Living this week - I hope you have found some inspiration! S xx



Image from Travel Sky

Getting Festive - Christmas Wrapping...

I love nothing better than wrapping up and giving presents - especially themed style & colour en-mass! And there's no better time than Christmas to make a great 'wrapping' statement!!

Handmade wrapping - above - Australian Home Beautiful Dec 09 issue

Cheerful Gift Boxes - To give a cardboard box a cheery makeover, place the lid on top of a card. Using a ruler, draw an outline that's about 1/4 inch outside the lid. Cut just inside the line with a pair of pinking shears. Use a glue stick to attach the cutout to the lid; the card will extend over the box's edges (be sure it's centered over the lid before pressing down). Repeat to cover the bottom of the box. From Martha Stewart.com



Handmade Vintage Inspired wrapping - above - Australian Home Beautiful Dec 09 issue


I'm getting into the festive season & have just 'designed' & ordered our 2009 Family Christmas cards which are an explosion of Cherry Red & White, that should arrive in a couple of weeks - enough time to write, lick, stamp & post out! Whilst getting into my Christmas cards it got me thinking of what will me gift wrap colour theme be this year?
I love mixing non-traditional colours & ideas with Christmas - although this year I am leaning towards a slightly more 'handmade' look but am thinking about colour combinations such as Craft Brown Paper, Cherry Red, White & Pale Blue - as in the Real Living Dec 09 issue, and Home Beautiful Dec 09 issue - for the boys. And for the Girls - very similar so there's a strong theme - Craft Brown Paper, Cherry Red, White & Fuchsia Pink - as shown in some the pages of the Inside Out Christmas 09 issue!
So what colour, theme & style will you go for this year? Whichever way you go - have fun with it!!


BTW - Good news - This week the new issue for [Australian] Home Beautiful Dec 2009 is out in newsagents & supermarkets.





Images from [Australian] Home Beautiful Dec 2009 & Martha Stewart

10 Days til Christmas.... time for wrapping gifts

Above: Modern Monochromatic Romantic Glamour wrapping in an array of patterns.I love this!

Above: Multi Candy Stripe Paper - plain paper wrapped with white & different colour lengths of

paper & ribbon to create the stripe. How fresh!

Above: Favourite fabric pieces / swatches photocopied to make wrapping paper.
How individual!

Above - Yule Log Wrapping / painted with white to effect of the wood grain - brown mailing tubes. How Original!

With only 10 days til Christmas arrives I have yet to wrap all my gifts, I have a red, white & silver theme this year and found some true inspiration from the lady that started it all - Martha Stewart....

I love these gift wrapping ideas, I hope you do too!

Images courtesy of Martha Stewart.com