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Tips for How to Throw a Gift Wrapping Party

December 19, 2014 By LovingOurHome.com Leave a Comment

If you are looking to start a fun and yearly tradition with your friends, a gift wrapping party is a great idea. Here are some tips to get you started.

Call, email or e-vite a group of friends and invite them to your house for a gift wrapping party. Have each person bring a bottle of wine and an appetizer. More importantly, they should bring the gifts that they want to be wrapped.

Each person should also bring 2-3 rolls of gift paper, ribbons, tape, gift boxes and scissors.

Have everyone put the rolls of paper in an umbrella holder. You may want to have a gift amount cut off. For example, no more than 5 large and 5 small gifts to be wrapped.

Now make space on the living room floor, if you don’t have a large enough dining room table.

Begin wrapping, while laughing and having grown up conversations. Make sure to play awesome holiday music, keep the wine glasses filled and the food flowing. Best of all is that you, the host, will be be spending quality time drinking with your friends and accomplishing the tedious chore of wrapping gifts for the holidays.

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How to Make an Ugly Christmas Sweater

December 19, 2014 By LovingOurHome.com Leave a Comment

Whether you are attending an ugly Christmas sweater party or entering a contest, here are a few tips on how to make your own sweater to fit the event.

I suggest that you first, give your local thrift store a visit. If you can’t find a Christmas themed sweater there, then look for a solid red or green sweater.

In addition to the sweater, you’ll need a glue gun, green or red felt, appliqués, shiny garland, needle and thread, iron, scissors and stick pins.

Instructions:

Lay out all of your supplies including sweater on the kitchen table or on the floor. If you have appliqués, follow the directions and iron them to the front of sweater. If you don’t have appliqués, you can cut the felt into Christmas shapes. For example Christmas trees, snowflakes or stars. Next pin them onto the sweater in various places. Then simply, sew each piece securely to the sweater using a needle and thread. Perfection is hardly important–after all this is an ugly Christmas sweater!

Next, cut pieces of garland and using the glue gun, glue it to the hem of your sweater. Now take smaller pieces of garland and attach them to various spots between your appliqués.

You can make the design as obnoxious and gaudy as you like. For example, maybe some garland around the collar, on the sleeves or even on the seems of the sweater. Just be creative as you like and have fun. You’re sure to get a laugh when wearing your ugly Christmas sweater.

Happy Holidays!!

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