As you can tell we went full force with the bright & neon-y colors here at H&H for the Holidays... just check out the Gifts Page and Catalog! We started working on the H&H Holiday concept & colorways back in August and it has totally inspired me in my own Christmas decorating & gift wrapping....festive! Happy Neon Holiday _2011!
Gift Wrap & Accouterments:
I have three small boys who are more interested in ripping wrapping paper than fancy bows and such. So this year I had more fun with bold color and skipped the extras. I bought a few rolls of wrap at Ikea -- a very Nordic black & white patterned paper as well as the subtly striped kraft paper. In addition I used neon yellow & black tissue paper to wrap with.
For adornments I used colored feathers found at the craft store, washi tape (hot pink!) neon yellow strips of poster board/paper for gift tags...(cheap! the huge sheet cost $.50) as well as a bit of grosgrain ribbon in black, grey, neon yellow & hot pink.
The Numbering System:
As I mentioned in my Give & Tell interview in November... this year I decided to follow in my Mom's footsteps and number the gifts as she did years ago -- number all the gifts instead of assigning names, brilliant & simple! As each gift is wrapped, simply write a number on the gift tag. Then write that number along with the recipient's name (and even what the gift is) on the "master list". On Christmas morning it's great fun to shake a gift, call out "Number 12! Who is number 12 for?!" .. whoever has the "master list" will call out the name. This makes gift opening take forever (the madness of everyone opening gifts all at once makes me cringe!) and adds an element of suspense pre-Christmas morning. No peaking!!
(I did add 1 exception: we will be having Grandparents with us Christmas morning & did not number their gifts which explains the "gMA" in the image above!)
& that's a wrap!
Happy Holidays _2011!!
