I got a pack of 20 paper doilies for a mere $2 in the baking aisle at Hobby Lobby last week. I hear you can also snag them at the grocery store, but Nick does the food shopping in our family and I know from experience that it’s a recipe for disaster to ask him to hunt down something exotic and outside of his usual grocery repertoire. I’ll get a bunch of panicked and stressed phone calls telling me he can’t find it and I’ll wish I’d just gone and gotten it myself (in secret, of course, because he tries to keep me out of the grocery store at all costs. He says I make too many impulse buys, pshh). That man is just something, I tell ya. I should put a doily on one of his gifts to teach him a lesson. Ironically, the box below is for my dad. Not very masculine-looking in retrospect. Sorry, Dad.
Exhibit A: a plain ol’ box wrapped in brown paper
Exhibit B: the same box, made infinitely more delightful by the addition of a paper doily and a bit of string.
Is that not the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? A brown paper package tied up with string…and a doily! Makes me wanna sing about my favorite things. I affixed the doily with just a dab or two of hot glue in the center and then the string holds down the edges.
I also slapped a doily on this plain brown lunch bag. I already showed it off the other day for its burlap bow, but it’s so awesome it’s making a repeat appearance. Notice how I trimmed the top edge with scalloped scissors, too? So easy and fun.
I stuck this one on there with spray adhesive and folded the edges back around the sides of the bag. You know what I think would be the cutest, though? To cut the recipient’s first initial out of scrapbook paper or colored cardstock and stick it in the center of the doily. I’ve got a few more gifts left to wrap and I’m hoping to put that particular stroke of genius to use on one of them.
So pretty! I saw something on pinterest where you paint doilies and put them on a painted canvas! Do something fun with your extras :)
Oooooh I like that idea!