Baby Shower Gift Wrap

My friend Julia and I have been buddies since 1st grade.  I love that we still keep in touch with each other.  She is truly one of my oldest friends (not by age...she is 27, but you know what I mean).  Julia is nearing the end of her fourth pregnancy.  Yes, she has been busy in her 20's!  I'm very excited to be attending her baby shower tomorrow.
One thing I hate about buying gifts is that you end up spending so much on gift wrap and cards that you can't afford as much gift as you would like.  I decided to forgo traditional baby shower gift wrap and come up with stuff around the house so I could spend a little more on the gifts.

 For Christmas we used brown craft paper and dressed it up in different ways.  I still had a roll of craft paper left so I decided to use that and a brown paper bag I had laying around.  I fancied it up with pom poms that I made.  I just happened to have yarn colors that would match the crochet booties I commissioned Melissa to make for the baby boy.  For the tag I used a cute little card that Becca had given me.  She gave me a whole stack of them around Christmas.  I have so many crafty friends!

It was a fun, quick project.  I knew how pom poms were made, but I had never made them myself.  It was really easy and I just love them.  I want to make them and put them on everything now.

I'm really excited to give these gifts!  In the past I would have just bought a giant baby shower themed gift bag.  I had a lot more fun with this and I know Julia will really love it.
-Kira

My Husband's Valentine's Gift

Jeremy has class on Friday nights.  If I don't have plans, a Friday night usually ends up being very productive or very boring for me.  Tonight was of the productive variety.  I watched a Blazers win, went to Target, and got Jeremy's Valentine's Day gift ready to go. 

We don't generally make a big deal of Valentine's Day.  His gift is actually new underwear.  That is what he wanted.  We are practical like that.  I just thought it would be fun to wrap it up this year, mostly for my own amusement than his own.  He wouldn't mind if it was still in the Target bag.  I love him.
-Kira

Christmas gift wrap

 I like pretty, simple things.  I also like funny things.  Those two combined make our gift wrap for the season.  Two years ago I made our gift tags by taking an image of Will Ferrell in "Elf" and replacing his face with Jeremy's.  See Jeremy as Buddy the Elf here.  This year I decided to go with a similar concept, but I picked an image of Ralphie in "A Christmas Story".  I personally think it's hilarious.  If you don't get our humor then that's just too dang bad!

Jeremy drew an elephant on his white elephant gift.  I thought it was a pretty cute elephant.

 Oh, and before I forget...Merry Christmas!  We did pretty much all of our family celebrations yesterday.

-Kira