Gifts and Gift Packaging

I’ve long loved gifts and gift packaging.

It rather goes along with decor and homemaking in a way, I suppose. In both cases, I am putting together things I like or love and fixing them in a way that makes me smile.

I’ve wished before that I could run a little gift packaging business. Not that I don’t just love fixing gifts packages for friends and family. I do. It is truly fun to put together a variety of items that I think will make someone happy or I know I would enjoy receiving. Having the job of a flower delivery person seems like it would be a fun one too! Most of the time it is a delight to receive a fresh bouquet of flowers.

I could never be the flower arranger. I don’t excel at that. I’ll have to leave florist to someone else. It could be fun, I think and probably with some training, I could do better than I do now.

Back to gifts and gift packages. I do have times where I feel stuck. I’m not sure what to get for someone or I’m not feeling inspired. Or I know what I’d love to get them, but the price tag doesn’t quite fall within range! 😉

I like to pick up favorite items or items that catch my eye or neat, sale items and have on hand to put together a quick gift if the occasion for one arises. I come and go on this. Sometimes I have a stock of things I like around and sometimes I don’t have much. Sometimes I have some things, but nothing seems to quite fit for the person I want to fix the gift for.

I also love pretty gift bags and pretty packaging. I reuse gift bags that have been gifted to me and I also like to pick up pretty bags here and there that catch my eye.

I like to have a variety of sizes of giftbags around. Seems like it still never fails that the size I really need is the size I don’t have or am low on! 🙂 Target often has giftbags I like and a Bulk Food Store and Bible book store about an hour from my home has some really neat ones. I think a lot of them at the Bible bookstore are Dayspring.

I also think it is fun to arrange gift items together and tie them up with ribbon or that stuff~I can’t think of the name~hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, it will come to me…..

{Go search google, so I can think of name.}

TULLE!! Tulle, that’s what I’m trying to say.

Tie gift items up with tulle.

Hobby Lobby has lots of tulle to choose from! LOVE!!!

And, of course, brown paper packages tied up in string…….or brightly wrapped packages with pretty paper and pert bow proudly on top! It is hard to beat a package wrapped in beautiful paper that looks like someone has taken time and care to put it together.

Even so, a gift wrapped by a child {or not a child} with the ends of the paper too long and taped and patted in place, speaks of love. Or maybe it’s a package patched together, because the paper was cut too small! It truly is the gesture of kindness behind the packaging itself!

There are photos in this post and this post of some very fun gift ideas that were gifted to me.

Do you have a favorite type of gift packaging? Tell me!

 

Or do you really not even care all that much? 🙂

 

My son like gifts that are wrapped versus a gift in a gift bag. Oh, he’ll take either one, but he really loves opening a paper wrapped package over a gift bag.

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