{"id":669,"date":"2014-11-22T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T05:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:15:30","slug":"brown-paper-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/brown-paper-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Paper Packages &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>12 Days of Christmas 2014 &#8211; Day 6<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gift-Wrap-1-1024x953.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Wrap 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0This song has been\u00a0playing over\u00a0and over in my\u00a0head all day, while\u00a0putting this article together.\u00a0 There is\u00a0truth in these lyrics &#8211; brown paper packages do happen to be one of my favourite things.\u00a0 It is also true that there is nothing new about wrapping gifts in brown paper, but in recent years it has again regained popularity.<\/p>\n<p>There are a\u00a0few reasons I like using brown paper to wrap my gifts.\u00a0 Firstly, it is stronger that your regular wrapping paper, so it is less likely to rip.\u00a0 Secondly, because of its neutrality it works well\u00a0for any occasion. Thirdly, it creates a blank canvas on which\u00a0a variety of creative trimmings can be unleashed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-672 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gift-Wrap-2-1024x326.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Wrap 2\" width=\"770\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have tried three different ideas on these gifts.\u00a0 The first is a combination of twine and a narrow ribbon (5mm wide)\u00a0woven together.\u00a0 It is probably the most time consuming of the ideas, but isn&#8217;t overly complicated.\u00a0\u00a0For the\u00a0second idea we wrapped\u00a0the gift with a printed hessian ribbon and tied it in place with twine.\u00a0 Simple, yet effective.\u00a0 For the last idea we used two paper doilies and some more of the narrow ribbon.\u00a0 We positioned the doilies and fastened them in place with a couple of pieces of double sided tape.\u00a0 We then tied two separate pieces of ribbon around the gift to create the criss-cross look.\u00a0 Perhaps a little more involved than the second idea, but it is still reasonably easy and very elegant looking.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this inspires you to be creative this year when\u00a0wrapping your own Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sign-off.png\" alt=\"Sign off\" width=\"289\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Days of Christmas 2014 &#8211; Day 6 &#8216;Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0This song has been\u00a0playing over\u00a0and over in my\u00a0head all day, while\u00a0putting this article together.\u00a0 There is\u00a0truth in these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-crafts-and-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}