with pops of color and non traditional materials from Hello Sandwich,

a ‘surprise ball’ and with neon paper tape from Minimega,

an ordinary brown lunch bag with fabric piece and clothes-pin from The New Domestic,

with a sweet and simple star from Cecilies Lykke,

and make a kid happy with this owl and sailboat from d.Sharp,

using recycled paper from Design Sponge,

with your own homemade painted wrapping paper from Sweet Paul,

and with a DIY coffee filter pompom gift topper from Creature Comforts.

crafted from cardboard and  brown lunch bag.

you can make to embellish your Christmas presents and some more gift wrapping inspiration. We’re having a long weekend break, tomorrow is Malaysia Day here and a public holiday. Make something this weekend, enjoy!

for Christmas wrapping. It’s not too early to start thinking of Christmas, is it?

The Holiday 2010 issue of Sweet Paul Magazine is filled to the rim with good recipes, crafts, gift & deco ideas, beautiful photography and food styling. So go and browse the magazine to get some fresh, lovely ideas on how to wrap your Christmas gifts for this week’s craft inspiration.

Kids, cookies and fun! The holidays are always a perfect time to bake with your kids – Make snowman cookies or popcorn wreath or sugar cookies with them. Recipes here.

Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating and a ‘remembering thanks’ weekend to all.

A simple but lovely gift topper you can make yourself. The variations are quite endless if you try with different paper texture, pattern, color and shape so there’s no reason to say you cant. Step-by-step tutorial here by Evie.

I revisited this DIY apple shape book tutorial by Sheila and though it may not be quite suitable as a gift topper, I thought it makes a charming & practical gift by recycling unused diary, planner or notepad. Maybe a good gift idea for this coming Christmas. Have a relaxing weekend everyone!

Now that you’re inspired to make your gift-wrapping a little different, why not try this sweet and charming ‘out-of-the-box’ color tissue paper project (via Giddy Giddy),

or simply embelish your gifts with do-it-yourself bows made with magazine paper (or book pages or felt) [via How About Orange].

It’s seven days to Christmas and a Happy pre-Christmas weekend to you!