Local artist Lana Effron's hand-painted wrapping papers bring style and smiles to holiday gift-giving. Photo courtesy of Lana's Shop The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado.

One of my favorite ways to decorate for Christmas is matching my holiday gift wrap to my seasonal display. I'm an early shopper, so I like to think of my wrapped gifts as an additional decor element.

For Christmas crackers: Wrapping paper, $9, tape, $6, and board, $7, from College Pen and Stationery, 144 Bleecker St.; 212-460-8700. Ribbon, $8, from Paper Source ...

If you search high and low for a good deal on an even better gift, you don’t want to undo the effort of that bargain shopping with expensive gift wrap. The good news is there are ways to cut down on ...

The holidays are the season of gift-giving, but if you’re wrapping your present, you’re likely also giving trash. Americans throw out 38,000 miles worth of ribbon after the holidays—enough to tie a ...

The first thing you should know about great gift-wrappers is that they’re constitutionally thrifty. As a fussy wrapper myself, I assumed that people whose gift-wrapping I admired spend more money on ...

The first wrapped gifts actually weren't wrapped in paper! I look forward to giving Christmas gifts all year. Part of the thrill is finding the perfect gift for the hard-to-shop-for friend or family ...

Chances are that a lot of us will be wrapping some last-minute gifts this weekend, whether we’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or Festivus. Rather than going for regular store-bought wrapping ...

Fabric is the perfect reuseable material for wrapping presents because it comes in lots of colors and patterns just like wrapping paper. In Japan, fabric wrapping is so prevalent, it’s become an art ...