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Wrapping Paper for Decoupage

I really enjoy wrapping paper. When I was poorer, younger and had more time, I used to love wrapping gifts in brown butcher paper and painting on them with all sorts of paints and use thick wired or fabric ribbon to wrap the gifts. Who cares what was inside!  They just looked pretty and old fashioned like they should be sitting under a natural pine tree that was dragged in from the woods just behind the cottage in my imagination.  This cottage, of course, would be nestled comfortably amidst a sparse forest of trees whose leaves make that lovely swishing sound when the wind blows. Then outside the window you would see the sloping green grass that went down to meet the embankment of a creek or babbling brook. SIGH! But I digress. My favorite kind of wrapping paper was the kind they would sell through fundraising catalogs with the neat samples in the middle. This was the real thick wrapping paper that was like $7.00 a roll, about 20 years ago! I haven't...