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12 Days of Gift Wrapping: Earrings and Brooches

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Juliet Tiu

Raid your jewelry box for a little bling on your presents! I have a few orphaned earrings that would make fun embellishments for the fashionistas in my life.

Dig through a stash of jewelry for single earrings or old brooches.

An old brooches can dress up a gift.

You don’t have to throw away single earrings or old holiday pins. Put it on a gift!

12 Days of Gift Wrapping: Scrap Fabric

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Juliet Tiu

Here’s how you could use some scrap fabric in gift wrapping!

Selvedges make a cool ribbon substitute.

Instead of ribbon, maybe you have some left over selvedges (the edges of a bolt, or cut, of fabric). Or you can take scraps and sew them directly onto paper tags in the shape of a tree, star, stack of presents… anything seasonal.