I’m finally about to do some apartment decorating, and I love the idea of making fabric covered boxes to use as storage for papers and various odds and ends. Mixing and matching patterns to coordinate with your decor is a great way to make the boxes a decorative element, as well as a utilitarian one. [...]

There’s a new shop called Knot & Bow on the virtual block, and I’m delighting over all of the gift packaging bits and bobs to be found there. Erin Ozer, owner of Knot & Bow, loves gift wrapping and pretty packaging, especially brown paper packages (a woman after my own heart), and these loves serve [...]

Wow, would I ever feel special if I received this gift from Patricia Paskovich, aka papermore. I seem to be on a red, white, and blue kick lately (have you checked out my red, white, and blue collection at the Felt & Wire shop — see, this is obviously turning into an obsession), and the [...]

This screenprinted, handmade banana paper at Kate’s Paperie would make beautiful gift wrap, though I think that I’d have trouble bringing myself to use it because it’s just so pretty. It’s rather spendy, so I’d reserve the paper for very special gifts, and I think that the only embellishment it would need, if anything, is [...]

I’m all about the owls, and I love pretty much every single packaging / gift wrap project that Denise Sharp creates. Needless to say, when you combine the two it puts me in gift wrap idea heaven. If you have a paper bag and a few other paper craft bits and bobs, then you can [...]