WRAPPING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 6

WRAPPING

GIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS A FESTIVE APPEARANCE.

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W r a p p i n g-u p Christinas gifts gives the touch of finality to the preparations. Hie simplest present, wh e n daintily wrapped, is as artistic as the most elaborate one . and it appears far more costly if the latter is poorly done up. The first sight of a Christmas package is a matter of importance ; «,o don’t neglect to make what you give appear to the best advantage. The matter of expense can he negligible, for you can buy enough combination tinsel and fancy string for a few pence to tie up a great many

parcels; or you need use only the gay coloured string. Most persons have a collection of sheets of tissue

paper saved from parcels from shop and these can be ironed as new as fresh sheets. Then from old magazines coloured pages can be cut, and cut again into strips, circles, and other shapes that will readily suggest tliemsehes. I'se a sixpence tor small circles, and a shilling or florin for larger ones, bum the backs of the papers, and you wilt then have a fine assortment of decorative bands and Christmas stickers with which to secure wrappings, these can he used also in conjunction with the striim or paper ribbon, if you P re *ei the latter. Apply the paste to strips or stickers as you use them. If you do not have to economise in fancy wrappings the scope of ways into'winch you can give parcels a festive air is almost without limit. Little pine cones in their natural hue or given brilliance with gold or silver metallic paint; sprigs of imitation holly filled with rod berries; great hows of satin ribbons —all these and many other novelties can be used