I wrote a bit about Mini Mister’s fourth birthday celebration yesterday. So today I thought I’d aspire to inspire you to make your next gift giving experience to be a bit greener. (That was a bit to mouth…oh, but you read it. Did you follow all that? *wink*)

This year I decided to wrap our gifts in a more sustainable wrapper. A cloth wrapper actually. It is like creating a gigantic napkin out of the pretty printed fabric of your choice. Roll up the edges, and press. Edge stitch. (If you need a napkin sewing refresher, I posted a tutorial here.) Fold the corners around your gift and secure them with a bit of ribbon, or seam binding tape. (I knotted the ends so they wouldn’t unravel.) Presto, quick and easy, and sustainable way to wrap gifts.

When the gifts have been revealed, fold up the fabric (I know you try and save the paper too, so this is the same thing, just less expensive) into a bundle and put it in a small sack for the next time you need to wrap that little surprise.  There is nothing to throw away, and just think of all the beautiful printed fabric choices out there! Infinite I tell you. *Here is to a greener kind of gift giving.*

P/S I don’t think I got one good photo of the gifts all wrapped in their pretty fabric prints. But you get the idea. Ripping off the wrapping, the anticipation, the wonderment, and supreme excitement…*oh wow*! Next time my shutter finger will have to be a bit quicker.