Last Step Decorating Thanksgiving Ideas

After done with all of the Thanksgiving pilgrim decorating steps, now you can finish by attaching the other end of the felt over the top of the poster board. The poster board insures the hat will stand up straight. Use the glue gun to join the ends of the rectangle to make a circle that is about 1 -2 inches smaller in diameter than the circle of felt you attached to the pumpkin.

Take the glue gun and carefully attach the circle you have made to the round piece of felt on top of the pumpkin. After the glue has dried, cut a circle out to fit on top of the hat and attach with the glue gun. This circle needs to be the same size in diameter as the body of the hat you created with the rectangle.

When the hot glue has dried the final step in your creation of a pilgrim is to draw a buckle with the metallic gold paint on the front lower portion of the hat just above the brim. Read the rest of this entry »

Creative Wrapping Christmas Presents Ideas

You’ve been making presents and buying presents and now the last step is to disguise and dress up the gifts. But the question is how should you wrap the Christmas present?

Actually by digging out your ideas more to create a wrap, it can make your Christmas gifts become an unforgettable gift because of unique and personalize. To help you find out the ideas, here below are some ways to wrap your Christmas present:
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Great Collages Paper

Most persons are enjoyed on creating wrapping paper with old magazine pictures. I use pictures harvested from gardening magazines and catalogues for women. For manly gifts, that’s good ideas to hunt through such periodicals as field and stream or cull some masculine pictures from family magazines. Sometimes you can also use plain colors in strips or swirls and add words both wise and witty.

The pictures can be connected to each other or you can put on a large piece of plain paper. This can be done on the box or made up and then put on the box or other container. You can find that packaging tape is the best way to connect the pictures if the present is going to travel. If the Christmas gift is for a family member here in the area and is going to be hand carried ones sometimes use a glue stick to fasten the pictures or words together.

Sweet Sturdy Tins

Although tins is traditional to pack cookies and candies but this stuff still works well for wrapping Christmas gifts. I have packed them with a paper doily or with waxed paper as a liner. As a matter of fact I like to keep a number of them on hand for gifts not only at Christmas but throughout the year. Many tins are very pretty. Other items besides cookies and candy can be packed in a tin. In fact anything that can fin in a tin can go in one. Then all you have to do is add a tag or a bow and you are done.

Double Function Cloth

If you are giving a Christmas gift to a new parent by receiving blanket to wrap the gift in and save the trouble of purchasing wrapping paper is a good idea. You can use a large towel to wrap a gift. Or a piece of cloth can be a good stuff to wrapping a gift and also can become a part of the gift too. A piece of cloth edged nicely can be a table cover. A piece of clothes seamed and edged can be a bag to slip a gift into. I’ve even seen curtains used to wrap a gift.