We hope this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPky_mCaRU&feature=youtu.be will give you a helping hand with some creative ideas to inexpensively wrap your gifts and we have also included some new ways to use some of the endless tack you keep accumulating and turn it into easy to make holiday décor.
Inexpensive
recycled Gift Wrap for the Horse Lover
Your local newspaper has what are called “end rolls”. It is the end of the roll when they finish
printing the day’s paper. They are happy to give them to you for free. This is what you will use to wrap your
gifts. Then I keep all the cool
Christmas cards I get from friends from the year before and cut off the top of
the card and mount to the top of the package with double sided tape. Add some pretty plaid ribbon and some fir
boughs and your are done! (I actually
save pretty ribbons from packages from friends and family and re-use them on
gifts I give the next year…I already admitted to being a hoarder !)
Equestrian
Cheese Serving Tray
A simple solution to display some cheese and crackers. We used an antique mirror and hot glued a bit
on the bottom, adding some cedar boughs and berries for color and we were ready
for our first appetizer. The mirror
creates a reflection and is especially nice if some holiday lights are nearby.
Tack Hoarders…attention: this one is for you (and me…gulp!)
Garland
using Spurs, Stirrup Irons and Bits
Secure your garland up a staircase with wire and then drape
some pretty wired holiday ribbon laced throughout the garland. We actually attached the spur, bit and
stirrup iron with a branch of the garland.
Pick these 3 items and repeat going up the stairs – think of how much
“hoarded tack “you will give a new home to !!!
Stirrup
Iron with leather Wreath
This wreath can easily be made with an old stirrup leather,
stirrup iron, artificial wreath and some holiday ribbon. We all have stirrup leathers that we seem to
have lost the mate to (or is that just me?) anyway, just take an old leather
and cut it down and use one of the existing holes to secure the wreath with a
large headed nail into the wall. Looks
especially cheerful hung on each side of a set of barn doors. Welcome
