Party Hats & Gifts

Yesterday morning was my six-month appointment with the eye specialist, and the eye drops they use mess with my eyesight for the rest of the day, so I couldn't really do anything. In late afternoon, once I could start to see again a little bit, I thought I'd make a few more party hats and some new presents, so I'd have more variety to choose from for an upcoming party.

The party hats are made from a cone of either gift wrap or scrap-booking papers, with strips of fringe cut from coloured tissue paper. I even have some for my really tiny dolls...

For gifts, I either use existing tiny boxes, or make little boxes from cardboard. Then they get wrapped with small print scrap-booking paper, tied with a ribbon, and get a miniature bow hot-glued on top. These are the six new ones I made yesterday....

As to the ribbons....whenever I get a gift with 'curly' ribbon, I take it, split it down the middle to make it narrower, and then curl it with the edge of my scissors. I store all the curled ribbons in a zip-lock bag so it's handy for whenever I need some - like to tie onto balloons for parties. I keep the really long curly ribbons - for suspending clusters of balloons from the dining room chandelier - in a separate bag, so I don't have to search for them every time, but can just pull out the appropriate colours in keeping with a party's colour scheme. I buy the tiny gift bows when I see them (usually at Michaels) and keep them in a separate baggie inside the ribbon bag. 

Before cleaning it all up, everything looked so colourful and festive that I had to take a picture...

Let the party begin!!