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Gift Tag - Fifth & Hazel

Our Top 3 Printable Holiday Gift Tags

If you ever buy another gift tag, you will be wasting money. Here are a few of our favourites among the hundreds of printable ones you can find on the internet.

Gift Tag - Fifth & Hazel

FREE & EASY | While most of us put thought, time and money into the paper and ribbon we use to wrap Christmas presents, gift tags are apt to receive only brief and unsympathetic treatment. My brother, for example, doesn’t bother with tags at all, preferring instead to use a Sharpie to scrawl the recipient’s name across the top of his offerings. I’ll cut him the tiniest amount of slack given he’s an overworked business exec with a partner who’s not into Christmas, but the rest of us have no excuse for going such a lacklustre route with so many gorgeous, printable gift tags available for free on the internet. Here are three of our favourites, plus tips on using printable tags effectively. Read more

Holt Renfrew has teamed up Pal Smith to make some very classy mittens for a very good cause.

Paul Smith’s Charity Mitts For Movember

Holt Renfrew has teamed up with Paul Smith to make some pretty classy mittens for a very good cause.

Holt Renfrew has teamed up Pal Smith to make some very classy mittens for a very good cause.

 

GET TO GIVE | Do real men wear mittens? I don’t know, but real women do. I could totally see myself mittening manfully (thanks Dylan Thomas) on all sorts of doors wearing these stripped hand warmers designed by—that’s right, you guessed it—Britain’s coolest menswear designer Paul Smith. Smith’s mittens, produced exclusively for Holt Renfrew as a Movember fundraiser to help support men’s health causes, come in three colour-ways and two sizes, the smaller one being most likely to fit my dainty lady hands. Read more

Bakers Twine from Cox And Cox

Where To Find Baker’s Twine In Metro Van

Wired and curly have been the most popular ribbons for adding pizzazz to presents; now bakers twine is giving them a run for their money—here’s where to buy it locally.

Scandi Home - Maria Laitinen

 

HOLIDAY 2012 | Blame it on Kinfolk—the magazine that celebrates all things beautiful, simple and uncontrived—or on the makers and lovers of plain-made and plainly presented goods in places like Portland or Brooklyn, or even Etsy, but bakers twine, the string commonly used by pastry shops worldwide to tie up their boxes of baked goods in a way that makes them easy to carry, is the ribbon du jour for stylish Christmas presents. Read more

Plain Kraft Wrap With A Wire Bow

5 Top Kraft Paper Xmas Gift Wrapping Ideas

 

Plain Kraft Wrap With A Wire BowTHE CREATIVE SOLUTION | Inexpensive white or brown kraft paper, the kind that comes in big rolls from art supply stores, is the perfect blank canvas to use for wrapping holiday gifts. Here are 5 ways to make it look special. Read more

By Nature Design

Studio Sessions At The Eastside Culture Crawl

Doing the Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver’s longest-standing open studio event, calls for getting strategic.

By Nature Design

 

SHOPPING AROUND | With 427 artists showing their artworks and wares at 82 different locations, it’s hard to know how to attack Vancouver’s 15th annual Eastside Culture Crawl, which starts November 16 at 5 p.m. and continues through Sunday.

If you’re like me, there’s no way you have more than an afternoon to spare gallivanting around these studios so you’ll need to get strategic. Read more