Taggie Blanket

I made this cute taggie blanket for my son the other night.

I found this cute car print fabric at our local antique store for $0.25. I LOVE it! I have a bunch more too, any ideas as to what I should use it for?

I also added some minky fabric to the back and tried to do a bunch of different ribbons and textures for my little guy to play with. I've made these before but this time I made the bigger and I really like how the turned out. I have a few more that are a work in progress.

Yarn Wreath

I'm sure you've all seen those yarn wreaths before. When I saw them I just knew I had to make one. So, I went to good old D.I. and picked up a straw wreath for $0.50.

I decided to use gray yarn that I already had on hand.

Then I made some white felt flowers.

I decided to hang it by our family pictures and I just LOVE how it looks.

I'm thinking it needs some more roses though. What do you think?

I also wanted to be able to switch out the flowers for different seasons. So instead of gluing them to the wreath I just attached them with pins. I attached the ribbon the same way and just used a push pin to hang it on the wall. This was really easy and lots of fun to make. Now I want to make a whole bunch of wreaths in tons of different colors. If you'd like to make one too here's a great tutorial. You could also do a search on Etsy to get some ideas.

Gift Wrapping Ideas

Today I thought I would share some creative ways to wrap Christmas gifts. All of these ideas come from Martha Stewart website.

Shopping Bag Gift Wrap

Just use paper bags from the grocery store and add any kind of stamps you'd like.

Tissue Paper

Another great idea is to just use different colors of tissue paper. If you'd like to learn more about adding stripes click here.

Wintry Scene Wrapping

Or you can download this template and attach it to the wrapping paper.

Embellish with Yarn

I LOVE this idea and used some yarn to embellish gifts. There are so many different ways you could do this. Plus if you have tons of yarn that you don't know what to do with it this is a great use for it.

Kid's Artwork gift wrap

If you have little ones have them decorate some paper and then use their artwork to wrap the gift in. You can also use pipe cleaners or ribbon to embellish.

I hope this gives you some fun and creative ways to decorate those gifts. How do you like to wrap your gifts?

Make sure you check back tomorrow. I'm going to share some fun gift tag ideas.