This gift wrapping scene is designed to fit inside the same little glass box with a mirrored back that is also used for the Chicken Hutch.
I found the box at a flower and gift shop. The clerk said he thought it originally showcased small collector-type Barbies. Notice the interesting shape of the base (which is sitting on a round turntable I was using while taking photos).
That's a tiny wooden choo-choo in the open green gift box. It's hard to tell here, but Scotch tape and scissors are on top of the folded red and white striped paper that was just used to wrap the package with the red bow on top. A teddy bear (unseen here) is in the other open red box.
Oh, and those doughnuts and hot chocolate help fortify the gift wrapper!
(I must've been using that oddly shaped but neat glass box for another display when this view was taken.)
That's a partridge in a pear tree on the chair cushion, from a really neat print fabric of the Twelve Days of Christmas. The ruffle was a small strip cut from fabric pleated on one of those rubber pleaters and the trim is pulled gold bunka. I made pillows for our club as Christmas gifts from that fabric. Wish I had bought more.
The gift wrap was cut from both mini designs and regular gift paper. The rolls were made by wrapping and gluing the paper around a bamboo skewer. The plain white bag was trimmed with blue car striping tape and a snowman sticker. The holly tag and other gift tags were cut from Christmas cards.
The plaid basket with brown paper packages to mail has a bottle lid base to which I glued a strip of cotton from the top of an aspirin bottle. A circle of plaid fabric was just pulled up and glued to the inside of the bottle cap. White lace ruffling covered the raw edges, red bunka was glued to the rim and a bow added to one side.
Notice the string that ties the top package? This dates the scene to some years ago before the Post Office began requiring tape only!
The dog waiting patiently for a bite of doughtnut was one of several resin animals I bought at a great price when the Pic'nSave stores first opened in El Paso. Besides dogs and cats, I purchased crabs, beaver, a raccoon (which lives in the Edsel Elf scene) and rabbits. I have repainted many of them. For this scene, however, I only added his plaid collar, bow and little golden bell.
This storage box for gift wrap was a totebag favor at a show.
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