makin' secret stuff

I am making lots of secret present things, but a bunch of other stuff too. This year's deliberate plan not to wait until the last minute has paid off, because I am having fun! I'm even together enough to do random accessory projects with my kid. Check it—on Sunday Eva and I melted crayon shaving between layers of tissue paper to make our own wrapping paper. Definitely fun in the mindlessly relaxing preschool sense. We read about the project in December's Country Living on a page that features several "pro" wrappers (link to projects). We did Adrienne Wong's project, but not the flowers (yet). After we had ironed all our papers, we held them up to the window to see the afternoon light shine through all the colors. Pretty. Would melted-wax muslin curtains be at all nice? Or would they just be weird and would the cat hair stick to them an extra lot? Maybe I'll try it in my future 2nd bathroom someday.