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Burlap and linen and lace…OH MY!

Amanda — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:21:33 +0000

Wrapping Christmas presents has always been one of my favorite things. When I was a little girl I would help my mom wrap all the Christmas presents…even the ones that were for me! Yup, you read that right. I would wrap my own Christmas presents. After I was done wrapping everyone else’s gifts I was still hungry for more, so my mom would put my gifts in non-descript boxes so the wrapping party didn’t have to end. I swear I never peaked..I love being surprised too much! To this day I love wrapping Christmas presents. Here’s a look at last years gifts. This year I got a lot of inspiration from Summer of Grey Likes Weddings who was featured over at Style Me Pretty and photographed by my friend Jenny Liu.

I was *this close* to buying a really cute sweater knit wine bottle holder from Etsy for $25. Summer also showed a great tutorial for making your own out of an old sweater! I saved $25 and I recycled! So let’s start with showing how cute that turned out. Oh and the dramatic lighting on this first shot is due to lack of available natural light before I had to wrap this beauty up!

I’m not sure if I’ve ever shown a full length picture of my cement “product” table that my dad made…you can see it below on the left. I love it so much!

So, as I was wrapping the adult, sophisticated gifts, Mike helped me out by wrapping the little kids gifts. He thought he did a pretty good job and suggested that we let you guys decide who did a better job. What do you think?

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I have some more pictures from Christmas day that I want to post tomorrow.

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Clif Bars and Album Deliveries

Amanda — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:53:15 +0000

Today, I was at home and I was expecting a bride/friend to come by to pick up her engagement album. I heard the doorbell ring and I ran down 37 flights of stairs to find no one there. Then I realized there was a box. And I thought it was my birthday present from Mike which I’ve anxiously been awaiting. When I picked it up, I knew it couldn’t possibly be that because it was far too light, but that was the only thing I was expecting so my curiosity instantly grew. I opened the mysterious package to find a box of Clif Bars! If you know me, you know that I eat one Chocolate Mint Clif bar every single day. And my closest friends know that if I don’t eat one, I get REALLY cranky. So considering that I eat 365 Clif Bars every year and tell pretty much everyone (and the Internet) about it, I’ve been trying to get their attention so they’ll sponsor me or something. So when I opened the package to find a box of Clif Bars I thought I finally got their attention!! But then I found the packaging slip and it turns out it was from one of my bride/friend’s as an early birthday present! I seriously was laughing so hard. In my house. Alone. So sweet!!!

iPhone picture as proof:

I think I’ve shown enough albums to you guys but I haven’t shown the album packaged up all cute! I really like packaging. And I really like packaging things up cute. A lot of times when I go to Anthropologie I will tell them that what I’m purchasing is a gift so I can get whatever super cute gift packaging they have! Here’s the package that Ali came to pick up today:

And the tidbits necessary to create:

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