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so, I got a birthday card for my wife, but I'm not 100% confident that I like it, or that it will be well-received. I also haven't been able to find

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Dec 9 '09, 16:52

any decent giftwrap for her present. So hard to find birthday wrapping paper in *flat* form this time of year.

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buy a nice silver or blue foil roll and get a non-christmassy coloured ribbon to go with it. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 17:00
whipped. -- nm - Truman Dec 9, 16:58 1
- no, the cake post is below this one, that's where the whip goes. Mmmm, whip. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:59
google tells me you have hallmark stores and a place called the papery in your city. try calling those? -- nm - b. Dec 9, 16:56 3
- Hallmark stores don't have the flat packs of birthday wrap, only tubes. I can't take a tube on the bus. The Papery is a good suggestion, I might try - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:58 2
  - weird - our hallmark stores have both. (and many of the the hallmark sections of other stores). -- nm - b. Dec 9, 16:58 1
    - Our hallmark stores cleared it out to make room for christmas wrap, apparently. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:59
The Vermins are throwing all gifts in bags this year. No more actual 'wrapping'. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 9, 16:53 13
- I thought of this, but the gift bags make the gift look .... I dunno, paltry or insubstantial. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:54 12
  - There's nothing like a gift bag to say "I was too lazy to wrap it" or "I have no hand-eye coordination." - loosilu Dec 9, 16:58 4
    - I do some gift bags--normally for weirdly sized items like, say a teddy bear--and they end up looking gorgeous with tissue, curling ribbon, etc. -- nm - Trish Dec 9, 17:24
    - SheFox puts together a gorgeous gift bag. She's tried to show me how. Mine always look dumb. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 17:00 1
      - some people have the knack. I don't. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 17:00
    - I have used them in the past. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:59
  - The fight against shallow stereotypes like this starts with YOU! - Agent.Vermin Dec 9, 16:57 5
    - when your kid is old enough to open presents, she won't want bags. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 17:00 4
      - Lil' Vermin is going to learn real fast that you don't always get what you want. - Agent.Vermin Dec 9, 17:03 3
        
        you never saw a kid go nuts with the ripping. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 17:03 2
        
        When it's *your* kid, the appeal of the kid 'going nuts' isn't quite as great. - Agent.Vermin Dec 9, 17:07 1
        
        I spend every Xmas with my nieces and nephews. The opening presents is the funnest thing ever. - loosilu Dec 9, 17:09
  - Tissue paper, and lots of it. (nm) - musubi Dec 9, 16:56
I also need to track down a cake that matches her specifications. This could be a challenge ... heh -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:53 10
- What are her, um, specifications for a birthday cake? - kelly Dec 9, 16:54 9
  - lemon or vanilla cake, with a raspberry filling. Like what we had at our wedding. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:54 8
    - Call a bakery now, or first thing in the morning or bake it yourself--it's terribly easy, - Trish Dec 9, 17:07
    - Bakery that does special orders. - the liioulu with ice and dropping temps and snow Dec 9, 16:57 3
      - I live across the street from one. Hopefully I can sort the details out this evening. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:58 2
        
        next year call them earlier. ;P -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 16:59 1
        
        Or us. ;) -- nm - the liioulu with ice and dropping temps and snow Dec 9, 17:02
    - nm but: -- (link) - b. Dec 9, 16:57
    - (and the birthday is tomorrow ... a bit stressed, but hopefully it will turn out.) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 16:57 1
      - You should have said something earlier!!!! - the liioulu with ice and dropping temps and snow Dec 9, 17:01

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