Now that the blogs are joined, I'm going to try and do a few more posts about crafty things from the gap on my other blog (the too guilty to post phase).
As well as the card, I also got the gift of extra stash goodies, as he ordered the cardboard from the internet and therefore couldn't tell how much he was ordering and we now have tonnes!
I also had some fun wrapping escapades at Ian's parents. They were up to their eyeballs in tiling, carpeting and plumbing so the wrapping of the presents had fallen by the wayside. I'm no good at any of those things, so I took on the wrapping. Ian's mum didn't make it easy for me though, with a snow shovel for Ian's sister. I'm pretty proud of it though and it was a good challenge!
Whilst writing this post I've realised there was a lot of Christmas food related things that I've yet to post about too, so look out for Christmas Revisited part two!
6 comments:
Ian's "Loch Ness Monster" stamp is brilliant! Obviously the card is superb, too, but I love that stamp!!
I'm with you on the hand-stamped wrapping paper. I did exactly the same the year before last and wished I hadn't bothered. Although I must say the finished parcels look enormously classy!
Skipping over the giving of a shovel as a gift (?), oddly shaped presents are the reason you should keep any and all boxes that enter your house throughout the year. That way you can always have something with flat sides and corners to wrap!! That said, you did a great job - looks almost too good to unwrap!
That's actually my stamp idea he's nicked, I've been putting it on cards since I was little - I refer to it as happy worm post :D
People always look carefully at the cost of the stamp to work out how important they are, you'll see Ian's put an infinity sign on mine, because he's not stupid!
The shovel gift was definitely an interesting one, apparently last year Ian's sister had to shovel snow, and her work colleague made her one out of cardboard or something, so his parents wanted her to be prepared this year. I always remember a board game we had as kids, a Postman Pat one, and I liked that all the parcels resembled what was inside even though they were wrapped up - but you're right, square things are so much easier to wrap and we do keep a lot of boxes for that very reason.
I thought we kept boxes so you can build little walls, to make getting into rooms more exciting!
Ooh, an internet "domestic" - brilliant!
Carrie, how sweet that your husband not only reads your blog, but leaves a comment too!
Ian, you could always have a "retro" day, stack all the empty boxes in the road and knock them over by skidding your car into them, 1970s police drama style!!!
I've not even started about how she booby-traps the wall with giant bubble-wrap on either side...
It is sweet that he comments, but he's been informed that they have to be nice comments from now on, and not moaning ones.
With regards to the cardboard box wall, I did it one time, and it would have been easy enough to move but Ian just decided to use his super long legs to climb over it instead.
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