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I LOVE it! An excellent use of excess balloons! My family never

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Date: Fri, 15-Dec-2023 5:14:20 PM PST
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In topic: Thursday/Friday/Weekend post!!!!! posted by Bunky
In reply to: My older granddaughter gets mad when she looks at old photos of me posted by Sparky
trick wrapped; I first saw it in practice at a high school friend's house. They'd wrap gifts in extra big boxes and/or add something to the box to make noise when it was shaken.

I think I've mentioned this here before but...when I was at the bindery, we used to get tons and tons and TONS of packing paper. It was thin and kind of a gray-white in color. One year, Sis asked for copies of some family photos for her gift. I got pictures of our maternal grandparents (who were almost never photographed together, plus Grandma died before I was born, when Sis was just 8), my parents on their wedding day and my siblings and I on my graduation day (because of the age gap and Sis leaving the house as soon as she turned 18, there's very, very few photos of the three siblings together). I put them in nice frames, then just for fun, I used the work copier to blow up photos of Sis and Bro sitting on Santa's lap when they were tots, cut the photos out, pasted them to some spare packing paper, colored them with colored pencils and used that to wrap the photos I'd framed for Sis.

She never even noticed it was her face on the wrapping paper 🤦‍♀️

Her family opens gifts on Christmas Eve. Later, when she called us to thank us, she raved about the photos I'd sent. I asked her how she liked the wrapping paper. She had no idea what I was talking about until I told her, then she had one of her kids RUN to the garbage can where she'd deposited the wrapping paper. That was funnier to me than almost any trick wrapping I could do.


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