6 Days Until Christmas!

This morning Ben and I ran some last minute errands with the girls, and we decided to let them each pick a little gift for their sister (ok, Annie actually had a lot of help choosing that hula hoop). Evie chose a little ball for Annie and could not wait to go home and wrap it! Wrapping is one of my FAVORITE things to do too, almost obsessively (so much so, that I've insisted Ben let me wrap my own gifts before)! Once Annie went down for her nap, I drug everything out into the den and introduced Evie to the art of gift wrapping. I think she did great, and she even learned the art of finding a good hiding spot today, let's just hope Anabelle doesn't go exploring under the bed!

I thought this might be a good opportunity to share some of the great supplies I found this year, as well as a chance to talk about my "theme" (as if anyone really cares). I am a big fan of simple tags, I'm no good at cards, so this works for me! I ordered these from Max and Bella and I love them! I've also ordered tags to use for wedding gifts and birthday stickers before, her prices are so reasonable too! The colors on the these tags are lime and tangerine, I seriously lost a little sleep over the tangerine part because I wanted to go either pink or red, but in the end I did a little of both.For all of the adults in our family, I used green and some brown paper. This great green hounds tooth paper is from Hobby Lobby, I'm in love with it! Good thing because I now have a ton, so I plan to use it for birthdays and such too. At TJ Maxx (one of my very fave places) I found this great vintage-y pink poodle paper to use for Evie and Anabelle! Poodles with wreaths and garland - so kitschy - I love it! I found it after I decided to do the whole green thing, and again I lost sleep, but it seems to work.A big (BIG) step for me this year was switching to the curling ribbon. In the past I have been strictly gorgeous gross grain girl, but after 6 years of being the crazy chick who digs through the trash to rescue my discarded ribbon, I'm giving it up (just for now). Some worn out moms turn to flannel and sweat pants, I chose the curling ribbon (heavy sigh). It's working for me though, I could get into it - maybe. Evie did have to witness a major OCD moment this afternoon when I stripped a package of it's ribbon, not once, but 4 times for a re-do because I didn't like the way it curled - poor frightened kid. She finally said, "maybe Pappy's present doesn't need any ribbon" LOL!
Last, I got these great gift card holders at Hobby Lobby (seriously a new favorite place!) They don't exactly work with my colors, not the pink anyway, but they're cuteness is persuading me to deal ;) Just a few more days and it will time to rip into all of this hard work!!!

P.S. That glittery "E" tag is from Pottery Barn, I used those with the poodle paper instead of the tangerine and lime.