Advent calendar blog- DAY 20

Well its only 5 days till Christmas, so I think its time to start considering wrapping (yes wrapping gifts is VERY important, well to me it is). I might start looking about to see what I have to use. Trust me, our family get very creative when it comes to wrapping gifts, me and my brother have been known to get old fabric scraps and stitch it around the gift, held at the top by a button. Its fun.
We fixed my ancient laptop yesterday, with cardboard, haha. Mum suggested we throw it out, but I couldn't bear it, so my brother took a look at it and finally worked out that a connection was loose and some cardboard would push it in place, so now it works, though its still dodgy and im not terribly sure what to use it for other than to play around with.
Enough rambling.. heres todays item:

Butterfly Wings Soy Teacup Candle, $14 by Something Beautiful
I keep seeing these gorgeous tea cup candles, so I had to share one :)

Handmade wrapping/packaging ideas from Japan

These are amazing examples of handmade packaging great for both product packaging and gift wrapping. I think doilies are becoming quite popular at the moment.
These are very inexpensive but fun ideas!!
I found them on a Japanese site called aurinko

Christmas is coming- Part one

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Well its about 6 weeks till Christmas now, and all the shops are full of decorations, and when I went to the post office today they were playing Christmas music.
So I'm starting a little christmas is coming segment, where I share my latest chrissy finds.

I can't stop finding exciting wrapping ideas! Gone are the days of grabbing some wrapping at the last min. Wrapping is an art form! So embrace it, make the gifts you give extra exciting and tantalizing with beautiful wrapping.

Oh and I'm deliberately avoiding 'traditional' red and green Santa type stuff.

Print out this gorgeous wrapping paper, available here

Every Jot and Tittle has some fun original gift tagsPaperchase also have some cute tags
For COUTURE GIFT WRAP try ERIN RUTH

Or perhaps fancy hounds tooth envelopes byKnottyByNature
And for a truly fancy gift tag, you must see my mums shop Mulberry Muse

Some lovely packaging ideas at http://www.marthastewart.com
including using old papers, threads and fabric.

Peg your gift tags on, from SusyJack

And this is seriously cool- You write on the card then construct it into a figure- u have to see!!

Next on Christmas is coming- decorations!!