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Summary: Learn how to embellish a gift bag and wrapping a gift bag for recycled gift wrapping in this free how-to video on gift wrapping using recycled and household items.
Karina Fraley is a safety expert and the official mom for mommywood.com. In addition to her work for Expert Village, she is also working on a documentary about food allergies, as well...read more
"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley from Expert Village, and today I'm just giving you some quick ideas on how to gift wrap you package or gifts using recycled items from around the house. Now, obviously the old favorite, that everybody does it, is saving your gift bags that you've received and reusing them. And that's perfectly socially acceptable, as far as I'm concerned anyway. So, here I have one, somebody gave me a gift in this bag, its very pretty, it in pristine condition, its just not a Christmas bag. But it is green and it does look very festive. So what I decided to do was just go poking around my Christmas ornament box, and find one that I could part with. And I found this little brown candy cane. It's country style, and I think it matches really nicely with the bag. So I'm just going to go ahead and put it through the handle. And then I'm going to have a very cute embellished little bag. And then not only will the gift recipient get the gift that's in the bag, but they'll have a nice Christmas ornament that they can put on their tree. So its kind a keep sake as well. This is a really great way to reuse a bag. Even if its not particularly a Christmas theme. And just a quick tip for you. "
eHow Article: Embellishing Gift Bag Wrapping with Recycled Items
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tahlula said
on 9/11/2008 that "candy cane" looks like a big turd