All wrapped up
Filed Under Going Green, Stuff, Tips & Tricks | December 19, 2007
We’ve been sussing out more environmentally friendly ways of wrapping our gifties and goodies this year:
We’re converts to Keri from Craft Caravan’s idea for making your own wrapping paper. Have fun, get crafty with your kids, and use up odds and ends of ribbons, stickers, old Christmas cards, old maps, colour comics, whatever strikes your fancy and looks festive.
Jenny Wren Paperie’s Furochic reusable wrapping cloth come with ribbon, a gift tag and handy illustrations for intricate wrapping techniques. Inspired by Furoshiki, the traditional Japanese wrapping cloths, these lovely silk screened fabric wraps are both ecologically friendly and chic. Not two words you necessarily expect to hear together. 
Here’s where you can find them locally. And if you’re more crafty then we are you can google “Furoshiki” and try making your own.
A search for gift bags on Etsy also came up with lots of reusable options. We narrowed it down a little by searching on “gift bags + Canada” and found these lovely offerings from inkyspider in the Kootenays. We were tempted by their range of tees as well.
Again, craftier folk than us can make their own reusable gift bags by simply folding a piece of fabric in half, sewing up the bottom and one side, popping in a present and tying it shut with a ribbon.
One irony of the Christmas season that we try and remember when we’re getting caught up in worrying about finding the perfect gift is that the wrapping, ribbons, bows and boxes are almost as intriguing to our little ones as the presents inside.
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[...] Furochic reusable wrapping paper is fun if you’re good at origami, but if decorative tying is a challenge for you, as it is for us, then you may prefer Lyziwraps.The innovation of an eighth grader, these colourful nylon wraps are super easy to use. In the style of Christmas crackers you stuff your gift inside, cinch the ends with the built in contrasting ribbon and hey presto, your present is wrapped. There’s even a little pocket for a card. And they come in four sizes that fit everything from jewellery boxes to DVDs, wine bottles, books and even shoe boxes or games. [...]