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Christmas is coming – soon it will be time to wrap holiday gifts! Do you want to do something different with your gift wrap this year? Here are twenty five festive holiday gift wrap ideas guaranteed to make your gifts look just as special as your holiday season!

Many of these gift wrap ideas suggest adding ornaments to decorate your gifts. This can look pretty and be an added gift for the holidays. You can find inexpensive ornaments at Miles Kimball www.mileskimball.com and also Lillian Vernon www.lillianvernon.com. Consider also visiting your local church holiday fairs and even your community’s “dollar stores” for some pretty ornaments at very reasonable prices.

These gift wrap ideas are ideas to inspire you. You may decide to use a different color ribbon or paper – and that’s great. Or these ideas may inspire you to create your own g
ift wrap design with objects that you know the gift recipient will love.

Enjoy the Christmas season with your loved ones!

Stars Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in paper with stars. Tie a gold or silver ribbon (depending on color of stars on paper). Add a star ornament to the top of this gift.

Snowflake Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in Silver gift wrap paper and tie a thick white ribbon around the gift. Add a snowflake ornament to the top of this gift.

Nutcracker Gift Wrap

The Nutcracker ballet is always popular at holiday time! Wrap gift in paper covered with images of candy and tie with a thick red ribbon. Add a small nutcracker or Nutcracker ornament to the top of this gift.

Ballerina Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in silver paper. Tie gift with a pink ribbon. Add a ballerina ornament, or toe shoes ornament to complete this gift.

Angel Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in paper covered with ang
els. Tie gift with a gold ribbon. Add an angel ornament to complete this gift wrap.

Santa Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in red gift wrap paper. Tie gift with a white ribbon. Complete gift wrap with a santa ornament, or card with santa on it.

Fresh Pine Gift Wrap/Fresh Mistletoe/Fresh Holly

Wrap gift in dark green paper. Tie gift with burgundy ribbon. Complete gift with small piece of fresh pine/mistletoe/holly tucked under the ribbon. Pine smells wonderful and perfect for the season! Mistletoe is a very romantic addition to a gift. Holly is such a pretty addition to any gift. Caution: mistletoe and holly should not be consumed by pets.(the Humane Society of the United States has a list of plants that are poisonous to pets – consider visiting this before giving someone a holiday plant. Visit their website to read article: http://www.hsus.org/ace/11777).

Jingle Bells Gift
Wrap

Wrap gift in Green paper and tie gift with a red ribbon. Use a piece of ribbon and place a jingle bell on it and then tie a knot to secure it. Do the same for the other side. Loop this piece of ribbon under the bow of the gift.

Winter White Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in white paper, preferably a paper with some texture to it. Wrap gift with a thick white ribbon. Complete gift with white silk flowers, preferably white poinsettia flowers.

Red and Green Stripes Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in red and green striped paper. Use a red ribbon and a green ribbon and tie two ribbons around the gift. The bow of this gift should have the two ribbons in it.

Red Velvet Ribbon Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in red gift wrap paper and tie gift with a thick red velvet ribbon. This is a very elegant gift wrap. Looks great with the jingle bell wrap too.

Christmas Stocking Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in gift wrap paper
that has presents on it. Tie gift with red ribbon. Add a small Christmas stocking to the top of this gift. Personalize stocking with the person’s name using a fabric pen or a glitter pen.

Tin Soldier Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in gold gift wrap paper and tie with a silver ribbon. Add a small tin soldier ornament to the top of this gift.

Warm Woolen Mittens Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in dark green and tie with a gold ribbon. Add mittens for the top of this gift, in a bright contrasting color such as pink, purple or even aqua.

Poinsettia Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in red or silver paper. Tie gift with red or silver paper, use silver if gift in red paper and red if in silver paper. Top with a silk poinsettia in red, pale pink or even white. Silk poinsettias are also available in metallic colors, great for a metallic gift wrap.

Picture Frame Ornament Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in antique gold paper. Tie gift with d
ark green or burgundy ribbon. Add a small picture frame ornament to this wrap.

Baby’s First Christmas Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in paper with Christmas trees on it. Tie gift with gold ribbon. Add a baby’s first Christmas ornament in gold or silver.

Candy Cane Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in red and white striped paper. Tie gift with red ribbon. Tuck a big candy cane under the bow of this gift.

Cocoa Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in holiday paper. Tie gift with dark green ribbon. Tuck two servings of cocoa under the bow of the gift.

Carols Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in paper with musical instruments or notes on it. Or paper with carolers on it. Tie gift with red or green ribbon. Print two or three favorite carols out on holiday paper and put in an envelope. Tuck envelope under the bow of the gift. Could add a CD or tape of carol music to this gift.

Reindeer Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in paper with san
ta’s reindeer on it. Tie gift with red ribbon. Add a Rudolph ornament to this gift.

Snowman Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in white paper. Tie gift with dark green ribbon. Add a snowman ornament to this gift.

Cinnamon Stick Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in burgundy paper. Tie gift with dark green ribbon. Add three cinnamon sticks to this gift.

Toy Trains Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in scenic holiday paper. Tie gift with red ribbon. Add a train ornament to this gift.

New Year’s Noisemaker Gift Wrap

Wrap gift in a metallic paper with lots of color. Tie gift with a metallic ribbon, silver, gold or even a metallic colored ribbon. Tuck a New Year’s Noisemaker under the bow. Happy New Year!

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Composer: Alan Silvestri
Label: Walt Disney Records
Suggested Retail Price: $9.49 (MP3 Download)
Grade: A

You could say that every score is Christmas in the thirteen or so films that composer Alan Silvestri and writer-director Robert Zemeckis have collaborated on. Even from their first teaming on 1984’s ROMANCING THE STONE, Silvestri brought his gift for sunny, lush melodies and memorable themes to an otherwise suspenseful, synth-driven score in the Latin mode. But through the likes of three BACK TO THE FUTURE movies, CASTAWAY, CONTACT and the Oscar-nominated FORREST GUMP, Zemeckis has let Silvestri run amuck with the kind of unabashedly emotional, old-school scoring- the likes of which now scare directors who view any kind of music as being too manipulative for cinematic “reality.” Not so Zemeckis, who’s always given his favored court composer license to go over the top in the best ways- particularly when Silvestri needed to give life to the motion capture films that the director looks likely to dwell in for the near future.

While just about everything but the faces convinced in POLAR EXPRESS in BEOWULF, Zemeckis has certainly make strides with the age-spotted, red-nosed Ebenezer Scrooge- about as far an inverse visage that you can get from the cherubic Santa of POLAR EXPRESS. And while that score might have had just a bit of darkness amidst the blissfully sweet egg nog, those who might think themselves a bit too old for fairy tales will no doubt delight in the nightmares that dance amidst CAROL’s holiday jingles. For there’s more than a bit of BEOWFUL in this often terrifying (for kids at least) CGI re-jig of the Charles Dickens classic, as Zemeckis’ masterfully dark visuals have let Silvestri rip into what might likely stand as the ultimate Xmas horror sore.

It’s not like Silvestri’s trademarked gift for magical brightness isn’t a constant caroler here, as holiday chestnuts abound. But here it’s Silvestri’s ability to evilly warp them that stands as one of the big joys of this deliciously dark CHRISTMAS, as they become Scrooge’s march through Victorian England, or take on the terrifying, and mischievous manifestations of the life-changing ghosts who haunt everyone’s favorite skinflint. Sure bells ring with the spirituality of such other holiday classics as IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, with enough choral hosannahs to make you believe in Santa and the true Xmas spirit. But beyond the beautiful inspiration that Silvestri is expected to deliver here, his score works in nifty, nasty tandem with Zemeckis penchant for black humor.

It’s a sound, and visual style that makes A CHRISTMAS CAROL play like a second, merry prankster version to Zemeckis’ great, and somehow neglected horror-comedy DEATH BECOMES HER, especially in the playful dark pizzicatos, solo woe-is-me violins, and the feeling of orchestrally biblical retribution for a lead character who goes against the natural order of things. Except here DEATH’s message to age gracefully is replaced by CAROL’s fateful urge to treat humans with Christmas cheer the year ‘round. And just as Zemeckis’ visuals go to surprisingly scary places, Silvestri’s use of pounding strings, ghostly bells and voice-filled evil become the musical equivalent of getting scared straight.

Silvestri’s always been a master of modular scoring, with the ability to change between melodies on a dime, veering from terror to wonderment and heartbreak, often within the course of a single cue. And that’s a good thing, as Zemeckis is usually, and understandably breaking the mood of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with jokes, as to not make the film too scary for the little ones. For Silvestri, the magic here is not so much using a lot of symphonic notes, but knowing when to dial them back for alternately dramatic, and humorous impact.

There are plenty of moments of bliss for Silvestri fans in A CHRISTMAS CAROL. For a film that never seems to stop zooming over the skyline of Victorian England, Silvestri whips his orchestra over the snowy city tops with the glee of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Ghost of Christmas Future chases Scrooge about with hellzapoppin’ glee, and the gossamer music for the Ghost of Christmas beautifully flows into a variation on Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem.” Devastatingly sorrowful strings flood Scrooge as he realizes Tiny Tim’s fate, a wall of orchestral sound that becomes chorally ominous as Ebenezer realizes his own horrible destiny. If Ebenezer’s sudden finding of a heart might seem just a bit fast, it’s Silvestri’s music that makes you buy the transformation with all of the accompanying God-bless-us-everyone rejoicement. And adding immeasurably to the stirring climax is the Silvestri / Glen Ballard tune “God Bless Us Everyone” which Andrea Bocelli sings with full, operatic bliss. It’s another memorable tune from the duo that wrote “A Hero Comes Home” for BEOWULF. And if that thrumming theme was the equivalent of marching into Valhalla, then “God Bless Us Everyone” shines with the kind of heartwarming, religioso majesty that’s what Christmas is really about- or so films like this tell us.

For those who might have found THE POLAR EXPRESS a bit high on the candy cane intake, Silvestri and Zemeckis’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL is definitely a better, maelifically bumpier ride on the road to yuletide revelation. And if any composer’s music embodied the ability of old school symphonic scoring to play the holiday human condition, then it’s Alan Silvestri. Robert Zemeckis has certainly given his career a wonderful life, a debt that Silvestri pays back in full for perhaps the most eternal Xmas fairy tale of them all. About the only reason to say “Bah Humbug!” is that A CHRISTMAS CAROL’s soundtrack will only exist on the MP3 ether. But it’s a small lump of coal in the glorious, grand scheme of this deliciously dark ode to Dickens.

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