Wine Wraps

A few people emailed me about the adorable wine dress that I received in the mail from my mother-in-law earlier this week. Either y'all just like to play dress up or you are already thinking of fantastic holiday gifts.

(Please tell me you are not already thinking about fantastic holiday gifts. That is too much pressure. Can y'all do some of my shopping while you're out?)

Anyway, I think we can all agree that wine is a fantastic gift, so long as the people you are shopping for actually like wine and are of legal drinking age. You shouldn't buy wine for your 18 year old cousin who just entered college. First, that would be illegal. More obviously, however, college freshman do not like wine. They like beer and things mixed with Malibu Rum.

Anyway, you want to dress up the wine you bought and I'm here to help you do it.

A stylish steel Reindeer outfit, with copper details, will set you back about $98 so you may want to go with some Two-Buck Chuck under that getup. Perhaps a Kimono is more your style. At $8, I'd say it's about $90 closer to my style. Or, for $68 you can dress up two bottles of wine as a Monk & Nun, although I can't say specifically why you'd want to do that.

If you are looking for an outfit with a little more holiday cheer, consider dressing your wine gifts in cozy hats and scarves.

At Napa Style, the toasty wraps are $15 a set; at Uncommon Goods, they are $12 a set. At both places the bitty scarves and hats are handknit and practically Gap quality. You could knit your own, of course, if you can handle the teeny knitting needles I suspect you would need.

If you are thinking that this is all just too much, perhaps a traditional wrap would be more suitable.

The lovely, albeit somewhat boring in comparison, wraps seen above were created using a square tablecloth, dishtowels, and various papers.

If you are thinking that this is not, in fact, too much and are interested in larger quantites of the cheesiness, here ya go: Hawaiian shirts, colorful tuxedos, hula skirts, bow ties, and a little black velvet dress complete with feather boa.

Now, don't ever let me find out that you wrapped a bottle of wine in a lame organza bag. You hear?

Comments

[Jill]

Oh, I love the scarves and hats.

[Kelly Mahoney]

So, so much better than those lame ass organza bags. These are such great ideas, thanks!

[Shesabigstar]

Hey, we drank wine in college...oh but wait, pretty sure it was out of a box, thus leaving no fun decorations for our wine!!!!

[Nicole]

Ahh - love these!

[Hope]

Thanks for the link! We just ordered a few kimonos to give (along with wine) as wedding gifts. I might also make some wine glass charms. Wine is so fun!

[wine gift bags]

I would definitely going to order some.