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I know this looks crazy, but there is some organization to this madness!!

Isabella excited by her presents - though she didn't quite get the idea of unwrapping them, she just enjoyed the noise the paper made when she grabbed it.

Ruben helps with some post Christmas recycling.

With grid lines so you cut it straight. Is this a new thing or have I just been missing out on it until now?

Photographed on February 12, 2010

On my way to Taiwan! Next post will be from there. :)

For 7DOS. A birthday gift for a friend.

This is a sample of a kaleidoscope tessellation requested by, and created for, a friend (Gina) I met here on Flickr. She makes candy wrappers, gift wrap, bookmarks, etc., but her site is no longer online, so I'm not sure where to get her products any longer.

Only sample tiles are available for viewing since I used her original picture instead of one of my own or one from Flickr with a CC license.

this is the finished illustration, I think I like the original better . opinions.........

Wrap that special gift with beautiful damask wrapping paper from designdesign.us

Annoyed by paparazzi at her birthday party.

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."

Festive card illustration - based on the idea of having the card 'wrapped' as opposed to a present

Flex Desk from Crate and Barrel

made with hand-carved lino-cut stamps.

Because Rainbow Mermaid requested it: my WW2 wrapping paper from Archie McPhee. This shot would make a pretty good computer desktop, if I do say so myself!

Unfortunately I don't know any Generals who have a birthday coming up, so for now the paper is collecting dust in my studio.

December 21, 2009-- Today I got a huge chunk of Christmas shopping done. Only 2 more gifts to buy! Yay! But today as I was wrapping presents, I realized that it was the first time since I was like 11 that I didn't blast my tradtional "Present Wrapping Music". What is this music? "El Tango De Roxanne" from Moulin Rouge, as sung by Ewan McGregor, Jacek Koman, and Jose Feliciano. It's about a far from Christmas music as you can get, and I don't know why I listen to it while I wrap presents.

Speaking of Moulin Rouge, this is my favorite movie of all time. If you want a SPECTACULAR and BEAUTIFUL romance movie, guys, your lady is destined to love this one.

Blogged here:

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

Gromit has always loved to unwrap presents. Strictly speaking what he really loves is to shred bits of paper, so come Christmas time he's in his element.

It's more than a year since our little lad was diagnosed with a tumour. At the time he was given only 3 to 6 months. He's done really well this year but he's been on bonus time since the summer. We didn't think he'd be around to help us open our presents this year. Having him with us for one more Christmas was the best present we had.

I didnt have any wrapping paper so I used paper bags and Im quite happy with the result!

Got this for my birthday and made a start over the weekend. Mysterious gingham koala-thing courtesy of birthday present wrapping paper!

a quite mother's day morning.

Stamp Carving Week over at Ishtar Olivera's blog.

Blogged

~possible TACWD entry~

Milo has fun unwrapping.

Her mouth has been watering for wrapping paper all day long!

This is not a..

but what IS it?

Origami Flower Gaillardia (Meenakshi Mukerji)

one sheet (22 cm square)

Video tutorial by Sara Adams:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JOe1c3Dx8

Published in Wondrous One Sheet Origami

The model is supposed to be made from a square, but I cheated and cut off those corners to make the folding easier. So technically, this particular flower is folded from an octagon. I folded a star from those leftovers, so nothing got wasted :D

Paper for Rock Scissors Paper Shades of Inspiration group

Eleanor's stack of birthday presents

yay! opened Marina At Makina finally :) check the profile for link

all those gifts and the box is still the most fun (even at 4 1/2 years old)

Selling all kinds of stationery made from paper - photo albums, photo frames, note books, pen holders, diaries, and wrapping paper. It's paper heaven for me!!