Every year I like to post this little
-ahem- tutorial on wrapping
SOCKS or MITTENS.
Prepare to spend a lot of time
IN THE BATHROOM
after you read this!
Is there anything more
mundane to wrap than SOCKS????
You KNOW that
you just don't want to
stick them in box
with a bow on it.
Right?
Look! Here's an answer to
your wrapping dilemma.
Well, peeps,
Here we go~
First you must get a sock..
well, make it a pair because
one sock won't work for
MOST people.
How about something like
these-? Cute, huh?
Then you must find some of
those short peppermint sticks.
You can buy them or
someone might send them to you.
Then you must let the
peppermint stick
SNEAK UP ON
the SOCK!
Before you can say
Alla-ka-zam-whoheebobster-helloworld
that peppermint stick
has jumped into the sock
and worked its way down
into the toe.
Can you see it there?
I've pinched it to make it stay
and now I am gonna roll
that little sucker up
into what I like to call
THE SOCK ROLL.
Well, GREAT, we got ourselves
A SOCK ROLL
NOW- what the heck are do we do with that?
Welllllll....
There's another kinda roll
lying around my house
cuz I've been saving them.
Used toilet paper rolls.
No..No..Not used toilet paper..
Used up empty rolls.
They look like this when they are naked.
Don't worry about that little bit of
white tissue left-you won't see it soon.
Find some foil based wrapping paper.
Foil works best because you can
bend the edges down and you
don't have to glue/tape it
lest you want to.
Wrap that foil paper around
that roll leaving about 1/3"
extending over each end.
Simply bend the paper down
so that it overlaps the edge of the roll.
You will not see this when it is
done but you can glue/tape if if you like.
Then..
Sneak up on those socks and
stuff them in the roll.
A roll in a roll.
I'm just keeping myself rolling here!;>)
Remember you won't see this at the end.
Then, take some sweet tissue paper
and cut an 18" x 18" piece~
or thereabouts.
Center the roll in the middle and
starting at one end,
roll that baby up and then
twist the ends so that it
looks like a big old fat
piece of taffy.
Toilet Taffy
Laffy Taffy!
Now is that cute, or what?
I only need to tie a bit of ribbon
around the twist and I'm done.
And, when it's unwrapped
they will see the shiny foil roll
and NOT this..
Cuz the only place we
REALLY want to see THAT
is in the bathroom.
And we don't even really want
to see it there because that
would mean that someone
like MyHero..
not pointing fingers here but it
has happened
has used the last piece on
the roll
and neglected to replace
it and there is none to be found
making me want to scream
bad words...naughty words...
Okay-that's it-
Now get rolling and wrapping
cuz there's not much time left!
And I'll just say a little prayer for you
to have to go to the bathroom
a whole lotta times
(if you need empty rolls
to wrap your socks)
cuz I am just nice like that!;>)
You can always TRY this if you need
empty rolls in a hurry!
I am just FULL of .......what
good advice!
