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It was about 3 Boxing days ago, when I saw the news report on the obscenely huge piles of rubbish left over from the previous day's christmas gift wraps. It was such a waste. All new, crisps gift wrappers used once and discarded the following day. Think of the amount of waste, the trees that were chopped down for that one sole purpose. From than on, I've been wrapping all my gifts on recycled materials. Well, with Jazz it Up, I've plenty of off cut fabrics that I can used for this purpose. I don't use any tapes too. Only tie it up with ribbons (also collected from presents given to me) or even strips of materials. All recycled. To "jazz it up", I've also resorted to use old xmas's decorations, dry flowers etc.... anything i can get my hand on. This is wrapped with a piece of raw silk. Tie up with gold ribbon and spice up with a old xmas flower that would otherwise be kept in a box and never see daylight again. This is also with pink silk. Hey,...
The joy of dressing up a gift. Isn't this lovely? And all these, except for my gold mesh, are recycled materials. Two Christmases ago, after seeing the amount of wrapping papers discarded after the holidays, I've decided to stay away from wrapping papers. Well most of you who knows me probably heard about that. And since then I've been using left over fabrics from my workshop for such purposes. Here, I wrap first with a piece of burgundy satin (an offcuts from some curtain materials), then wrapped over again with gold mesh that I bought from Arab Street. No scotch tape is required too. Just bundle up with some matching color paper bindings that I've kept from some gifts that I received. For the finishing touch, a small bouquets of nylon flowers,. And even this could be reuse.