Wrapping Done . . . well almost

Today was wrapping day.  The guest bed was getting out of control with the unwrapped gifts.  At the end of the year last year, the wrapping supplies were purchased half off and a new storage bin to keep it unwrinkled and dust free had been added just before the holidays.  I tend to use a lot of the cute reuseable boxes and no paper, just line them with tissue and tape or tie with curling ribbon.  The store boxes or gifts that come in their own box are wrapped with seasonal paper, taped, tagged and sorted by family.  Youngest son’s family gifts were mailed last week, so they had been done first, boxed in a large recycled box and UPS’d to them.

Eldest son and grandson will be here Christmas morning, so their gifts are stacked on the bed.  Daughter’s family gifts are bagged and awaiting delivery.

I’m still awaiting one gift in the mail that will have to be wrapped and hubby is notorious for waiting until a day or two before Christmas and coming home with items that need to be wrapped at the last minute for grandkids.  At least most of it is done.

One gift this year is special.  About 8 years ago, I knit a heavy wool sweater for eldest son.  That sweater was one of my first, it never fit him very well and was altered to try to make it fit better, but then it got felted by a couple of machine washings.  The sweater has been sitting in a basket at my house for over a year awaiting a new life.  It was given a new life this Christmas as my daughter by love’s new art tote as she is a student at the Corcoran School of Art.  I hope it serves her well.

Now to get a tree, finish knitting a pair of socks and knit a pair of toddler socks and I will be done, I hope.