This is my favorite of the 'steamer trunk' wrapped gifts I made this year. It was the last one I did and I think I finally had the hang of it (even though I ran out of brads.) Yay!

I'm not sure if this one is vintage, but it was mixed in with the vintage lot.

Thought it was about time I had started !

Ruben helps with some post Christmas recycling.

I can't resist if its got a deer or two...

my santa beard got in the way of photography a bit here, but i love the joy in that girls face. that's happy! i hope everyone had a great holiday. have a fantastic new year!

. . . . this one was helping me set up house (and I did get a cheese knife as well)

Because the We're Here group has a gift wrap fetish today. HBM!

close up of Star Wars characters drawn in traditional, comic format

I'm wrapping Christmas presents and catching up on Tivo tonight. That's my brother's present there.

I couldn't find any cheap Christmas wrapping paper in the Boxing Day sales but I found this stuff. It should keep me going for a few years.

Today's theme in We're Here! is about wrapping paper.

I thought to myself, "Self, how can you do this creatively?"

And then this happened.

Blogged here:

www.celestefrittata.it/blog/2011/11/wrapping-paper/

tutorial on blog :)

taro the shiba chews up a wrapping paper tube.

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happy st patrick's day :)

one of my early early pictures-- before i even had my beloved canon 870

plaid grosgrain with wired edges. totally justifiable, since all of my other materials are free and/or recycled. i showed joe this present: "look how well the wrapping turned out!" beat. "it's for a cat."

Vintage Wrapping Paper

Paper for Rock Scissors Paper Shades of Inspiration group

Eleanor's stack of birthday presents

Vata tea infusion alongwith green tea. Cooled with ice cubes - that milted by the time I got a good shot. Note to self : get acrylic ice cubes.

Wrapping paper found at estate sale in Los Angeles, CA.

MALABAR chewing-gum / Einwickelpapier

Vignettes Les monstres de l'espace (1986)

Zeichner: Michel Motti

Ephemera-Sammlung MTP

www.mr-malabar.fr/dessinateurs_monstres_espace_vignette_5...

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar_(chewing-gum)

Blogged @ www.myowlbarn.com

Blogged: lishdorset.com/2012/07/09/custom-gift-wrappingpaper-craft...

This is my first christmas with my wife in our new house so I elected to create a pattern of ornaments made out of brick and cedar shingles. Press Press Merch a Roanoke based screen printing company is printing a short run of wrapping paper with this design for the holiday.

This took the longest and it had to be wrapped inch by inch to move with the letters.

All these animal rights and animal welfare organizations send me free wrapping paper and such trying to get me to be a member, but it's all Xmas-oriented. I reappropriated this for Jesse. (Note the girl cat with her wig, as well as the boy dog! Also the Star of David on the cat's collar, on the tag. God is in the details.) I think this was a couple of burned mix CDs.

Great calico horse-- another that makes me think, "Greenbeanbaby could do that!"

Jan 14 was the 1-year anniversary of my Picture365 project (full suite of photos at www.picture365.net). It has led to such personal innovations as:

Sliced Fruit

Self Portraits

Lighting

Backgrounds

Backdrops

Macro

Micro

Time Lapse

Judgement Lapse

Punny Titles

and all sorts of attempts to "get that picture today." It's been so much fun, really (and it was inspired by all the great photos I see on Flickr), that I am extending it another year- Picture365 Take 2 (though the website will remain the same).

The photographic journey has been one of baby steps- not epiphanies, though I still hope for one. I suppose if there was an epiphany, it was that becoming a better photographer is, in fact, achieved by taking Baby Steps.

Each day, I had to take a photo of something, and not my hand or something stupid. So I had to experiment, crack open the camera's manual, whatever, to try to get something different. Some things worked, some things didn't. I ended up with some good tools to use, and some ideas on composition.

Here's to another year and the hope that at the very least, I learn as much more in 2008 as I did in 2007.

Check out my Picture365 set for the better shots of what worked best.

we asked for no toys this christmas from relatives. betsy bought matching jammies, blankies, and bubble bath. cute.

These papers were created on brown kraft papers . I applied a plain layer of background color then,

I painted random flowers and leaves freehand.