Yo Yo Yo... It's Christmas Wrap

Gather around, kiddies, and hear the story of the origins of wrapping paper, as told by some show on TLC or Discovery Channel...

Long ago, Christmas gifts were placed beneath the tree in open view. Only wealthy European people used actual printed paper to wrap gifts. Eventually, the masses began wrapping gifts with plain white tissue paper, stuck together with straight pins. Yikes! Hallmark sold the tissue, but ran out one Christmas in the 1920's and bought some printed paper from France, which was a huge hit in their stores. So they ran with it and became the original US source for modern-day printed "wrapping paper" for regular folks.

I now have wrapping paper and bows and tags. Still not done with shopping, but there you go.

Note to my Austin friends- the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center has free admission during the entire month of January! Of course, there probably aren't a lot of flowers... but I'm sure there are many other interesting things going on!