Only three more weeks until Christmas!
I say Christmas because that is the holiday I celebrate, and the holiday I`m excited for.
Anyway, I did all my Christmas shopping two weeks ago. On a Sunday, in about 2 hours.
It was actually 2 days after I had a fever, so what possessed me to go shopping in that zombie like condition is beyond me. I guess it was on my mind and I wanted to get it over with. December was nearing at the time, and I tend to like avoiding the malls after December 1st because they get crazy!
That's not to say that the malls weren't crazy when I actually ventured out for that Christmas shopping in Mid-November.
Anyway, that's beside the point. The point is that when I went Christmas shopping, I stopped in at Walmart to pick up a picture I had ordered online to get developed. I also decided to pick up wrapping paper and other Christmassy things. Problem was, I couldn't find any gift tags anywhere! They were no where to be found in the Christmas section at the entrance of the store.
They might've been in a different section, but like I said, I was just coming off a fever, and the place was already turning crazy busy, so I didn't want to walk around looking for Christmas tags.
So when I wrapped my gifts, I made sure to label them with post it notes. I was going to keep the post it notes on the gifts, but tonight I decided to actually MAKE personalized gift tags.
I opened up a word document on my computer, and made a table. I then counted how many gifts I had that needed tags, searched for some clipart, and then printed them out. I could've just stuck them on the gifts like that, but no, I decided to be creative, and give each of them a cardboard backing, with little squares of wrapping paper (to hide the ugliness of the cardboard).
I thought this whole ordeal would only take a few minutes, but it actually turned out to take almost 2 hours.
The people I give my Christmas gifts to better keep the gift tags lol I put a lot of work into them. I could possibly even use them for next year lol
Have you ever had to get creative to do something? What was it? How did it turn out?
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