For years I took all my everyday stuff like pictures, books etc off the shelf to make room for Christmas decorations. I love to decorate but could never figure out where to put all the things that I had sitting out throughout the year, just to make room for the Christmas stuff.
Leaving it wasn’t really an option, I hate clutter and that would clutter the house even more, so I would have to come up with a solution; and… that I did.
A few years ago, I realized that I could use my existing books and pictures in my Christmas décor; al I would have to do is wrap it in a pretty paper and it all will look like presents.. Voila… the idea was born and ever since I go out the days after Christmas and pick up pretty Christmas wrapping for pennies and those bows that come like 50 to a bag for usually under a buck as well;to decorate my house the following year. I always look for the fancy, sparkly paper that usually would be very expensive to buy and start thinking how I want to decorate the following year;
I never wrap the entire picture frame, just enough to cover the front, I’m not a neat wrapper, so this works perfect and I don’t need as much paper as if I would wrap the entire thing; then I sit it back in it’s spot and my frames will turn into instant Christmas decorations….
Simple as that… and a lot less money spend on expensive decorations, just wrap what you have already in the house, the best part…. if you have some odd Gifts that you can’t really hide anywhere, wrap them and make them part of the décor, my kids know I wrap fake gifts, so they never even think that the big box in the living room could actually be a present…lol.. Works ALL the time!!
Merry Christmas…
would love to hear some of your Decorating tips…
Grace Hodgin says
Very clever! I’ll have to try this. Wonderful idea.
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Barb W. says
What a great idea!! So very clever to wrap real presents and hide them in the decor, too. Love it and am certainly going to borrow this idea, thank you for sharing!
Terri says
That is quite clever! I love the look you created in your foyer! Thanks for sharing the tip 🙂
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Crystal C says
That is it!! I have a room just for our tree this year and kept thinking how can I make the room more festive? It was the odd art work hanging on the wall that was throwing the room off for me. I’m going to wrap them today!! Thanks so much for the ideas
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Melanie Roberts says
Glad I could help and trust me.. Once you “wrap” it.. you will never go back to unwraped Pictures ever….:-)
Terra Heck says
That is a really neat idea. I like that it’s so inexpensive and so easy to do. It also looks very pretty for the holidays.
christina moore says
What a great idea! I am always looking for different ways to decorate
Kari Mackay says
Cute ideas! Gearing up for Christmas already.
Robin Wilson says
These are great tips! What a fun way to be able to decorate more rooms in the house. Perhaps to let kids be able to decorate their own rooms too!