{"id":1660,"date":"2017-02-01T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellapamella.com\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:21:17","slug":"idea-93-embrace-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/idea-93-embrace-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEA 93: EMBRACE MYSTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s hard to disguise a heart shaped box of chocolates. But chances are, your Valentine has never received quite such a mysterious looking gift as this. And what romance couldn’t use a little extra mystery now and then?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a simple but chic idea to customize that heart-shaped box of chocolates for your very special ones on Valentine’s Day. The beauty is, the quicker, and somewhat sloppier your wrapping, the better. No need for ‘hospital corners<\/a>‘ here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started with heart shaped boxes of chocolates of various sizes, depending on the sizes of each of my Valentines. (My husband got the ginormous one, while the kids got minis).<\/span><\/p>\n

Using plain brown paper from my roll,<\/span><\/p>\n

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I tore off a large sheet, (measure as if you are gift wrapping), surrounded the box, and taped it in back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, instead of neat square corners, I just crunched the paper around the shape. I did clip at the top center of <\/span>the heart, and cut a “v” out at the bottom point. But only so as not to have too big a lump of crunched paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, I took a roll of ribbon (I had a variety of 1\/4 satin to 3\/4 inch grosgrain in hot pink and red) and began winding it haphazardly to try to catch all sides from unraveling. I tied the ribbon in front with a bow. For fun, I added small ribbon rosebuds (you can purchase from the fabric store or Michael’s) and sewed them to different places using a continuous matching thread.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, all you need to do is come up with a clever valentine pun. Like: “Valentine, you’ve got me tied up in knots.” Or “Be Mine. No strings attached!” or maybe just simply:<\/span><\/p>\n

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xo<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s hard to disguise a heart shaped box of chocolates. But chances are, your Valentine has never received quite such a mysterious looking gift as this. And what romance couldn’t use a little extra mystery now and then? Here is a simple but chic idea to customize that heart-shaped box of chocolates for your very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24,27,33,35,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}