This year, Chris and I have decided to make our Christmas gifts.
I love gift giving. It’s a way of investing time, thought and energy into others – which I believe is special for both the giver and receiver. It’s one of my favourite parts of Christmas. At the same time, I find the idea that you have to buy gifts, stress over what to give, spend a lot of money, obligation / expectation aspects of Christmas really difficult.
So we’re keeping it simple. Little gifts to remind others that they mean something to us.
The question was…. how to package them?!
Funnily enough – my friend came up with the same idea as us… Noodle boxes!
I LOVE noodle boxes. I think they are so cute! For some reason, whenever I see them I think of Gilmore Girls. And they give me warm fuzzies.
So Tess collected a stack of 50 mini boxes from Moore Wilson’s cheap as chips- and dropped half off to us.
They were perfect…. although, not very Christmassy….
So I’ve done them up a tad.
After some hunting online, I found some gorgeous wee free printables. You can find them here and here
I cut them out…
So cute!
I just LOVE my craft cutter
and used a gluestick to stick them on two sides of the noodle boxes…
and Voila! Cute packaging for little Christmas gifts 🙂
I love them
So how bout you guys? Any cute packaging ideas to share?!
Gorgeous job! They look sensational!
I love the bold graphics. Very cute 🙂
They look absolutely gorgeous !
I didn’t know you could get small noodle boxes I want to get some…They would be great for gift giving any time of the year…great for birthdays also…filled with lots of home made goodies…my date & orange truffles…for the health conscious people… great job !
I always love seeing what others make and get inspired…
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They look lovely! What a great way to package. I love home made gifts there is also a certain vulnerability with them. You truly give part of yourself. I hope you have a really beautiful Christmas. Love your blog snowflakes too- clever!
Thanks Ladies!!
I’m pretty in love with these little boxes – Almost want to keep one because I think they’re so cute! They’re sitting displayed by my desk ready to be filled with little goodies – which I’ll share when they’re done!
PS – Anyone on wordpress can do the snowflakes 🙂 – just under Appearance – Extras on your dashboard… they last til Jan 4
Thank you for sharing our printables!!! It’s lovely to see them put to such gorgeous use!! Will definately have to share this on our blog!! Tanya x
Thanks Tanya!
I couldn’t help but share them… They’re gorgeous! I loved your printables the moment I saw them 🙂
These are the cutest!!
I saw noodle boxes at the $2 and more shop and wondered what I could do with them.
If only I knew people who would appreciate home made gifts.
I suppose I could make them for myself… 🙂
By the way did you print the xmas decorations on card or normal paper?
I’m so glad you like them!!! I was worried they didn’t look as cute in the photo as they do in real life!
You could make them for yourself! 😉 but filling them with chocolates or truffles are a safe bet.. most people love little indulgences. Even filling them with little sweet smelling soaps etc could be a winner.
I printed them out on normal paper – because they glue on so easily and don’t need to be strong. But if I were using them as decorations or making christmas chains etc, I’d probably use card. (paper is cheaper though!)
Let me know if you end up doing anything with them! I’d love to hear how it turns out!!!