Nowadays there are so many ways to pack gifts. The old, traditional gift wrapping paper which today you can buy in a hundred-and-one varieties, ribbons and bows of all colours and shapes, small embellishments like glue-ons, artificial pieces of holly, pine cones, glitter – the list goes on. The “fast&easy” way of packing gifts in ready-made boxes or bags – as much as I do not support “ready-made” solutions, in this case I have to admit that a stack of such boxes sure does look impressive. Still, the idea that I have to buy presents for a given person having in mind that they need to be of different sizes (growing proportionally?!) and suitable shapes to fit into the neat stack of boxes, from the biggest to the smallest, seems ridiculous to me…
Of course you can also experiment with “crafted” ways to pack gifts – like the reindeer bag shown in the top-left corner which has been a love at the first sight for me (you can read the instructions how to make one here ), but that would probably turn Christmas-preparations into a full-time job.... Anyway, you’ll find some inspiration-inducers in the gallery below.