Here I am, the tinsel festooned curvy and volutuous Christmas Fairy (photo available on request!) who has all her wrapping done and is now in a position to share with you some of my handy hints and tips – I am to the disorganised Holiday season blogger what Trinny and Suzannah are to erm, board games!
Tip # 1
If you have more than one offspring – or even just the one then buy cheapo wrapping paper in a different design for each child. Saves the need for gift tags on their pressies and makes it easy for even the pre-reader to identify their pressies on the scrum that is Christmas morning!
Tip # 2
Been making snowflakes where you cut out circles, fold them and then snip bits out before opening them up to either be amazed at the beauty of a simple white paper creation or pissed off at how they collapse when you trim too close to the edge and they simply resemble a circle of paper with bits cut out and look nothing like snowflakes??? Whatever, you will now have small bits of white paper triangle snips covering your floor which are a bugger to pick up – too big for the hoover to collect, too small to pick up easily with your fingers. You have two choices – leave them there with the glitter and consider it ‘carpet decoration for Christmas’ or make a sellotape knuckleduster sticky side out and give that carpet a bounding with your fists. Surprisingly effective at both collecting the white bits and getting out any snowflakes didn’t work type frustration you may be harbouring!
Requesting the photo, please 😉
Comment by Sarah — 02 December 2004 @ 1:37 pm
Aaaaargh, how can you have it all wrapped already??!! I have barely done the shopping yet! Mind you I do have as twice as many children 🙂
Comment by Jenny — 02 December 2004 @ 1:46 pm
volutuous??????
We need a photo to understand what that means!!!
Comment by Chris — 02 December 2004 @ 3:31 pm
curses! I ALWAYS mistype that word – I did it last time too! I can only think it’s a freudian slip to do with taking the ‘p’!
Photo of voluptuous tinsel fairy to follow when I get Ady to take one suitable 🙂
Comment by Nic — 02 December 2004 @ 4:10 pm
Can I order one.
Comment by Tim — 02 December 2004 @ 4:30 pm
LOL!
Here at home we have lino/floorboards anywhere they might make that sort of mess, but today at group (with our lovely carpeted hall) we did lots of biscuit and cake decorating (cue hundreds and thousands everywhere), card-making, and yes, snowflake-making …. took me *ages* to do the hoovering!
Comment by Alison — 02 December 2004 @ 10:38 pm
I like the sellotape knuckleduster idea. I think it would make C more likely to tidy up too
Comment by jan — 03 December 2004 @ 11:47 am