Curious Notions

So there was a purse that was 200 dollars I really really wanted. I told myself to buy it if it ever gets to 150 dollars. Well it’s now at 140… I was talked out by Mary Ellen.. I still haven’t paid for the bedroom set yet and I did want to go to Tiffany’s. I suddenly feel better about it after I realized that for about 160 or so, I got my dad a lot of birthday presents :) Well worth skipping out on ONE purse. I don’t think he’s ever opened this many gifts at once ever. My daddy never buys anything for himself… So I figured I’d do it for him. I got him a lot of mundane gifts (undershirts, socks, work shirts) but I tried to spice them up by the packaging. I also threw in the usual Johnny Walker and some DVDs. I spent all day today finishing up. Going home for the weekend and I have Joy Luck Club tomorrow, so tonight was the night.

I’m about to back track a little. At work, our bosses are so sweet and funny that we often get gifts from clients. They usually come in the form of glorious desserts and fruit bouquets. Which means every time I walk by the break room, I always peek in to see if there would be any goodies on the table. Today there was a tower of stacked boxes. Striped, green, orange, blue, white boxes, stacked by incrementing sizes and inside delicious deserts. I thought, well I have a LOT of small gifts for my dad I should steal them to wrap some of the presents.. I stole three. This is where I got the color scheme and things just sort of fell into place.. at Walmart’s giftwrap aisle. My roomie also had a little bit of yellow wrapping paper and A LOT of yellow ribbon.. That helped. And of course the Victoria Secret’s tissue paper.

Behold!

Isn’t it great? It took me ALL night.