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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you are all ready to turn your attention to Christmas. I am at Day Five of my series on decorating your home for the holidays with Chinoiserie Chic style.

If you missed any posts so far or would like to review, here they are -

Holiday Decorating at Chinoiserie Chic
The Easy Peasy Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Tree
Get Your Bar Cart in the Holiday Spirit(s)

I love beautifully wrapped gifts. Every year I search for great gift wrap for all my Christmas gift giving. This year's is really amazing. I am a HUGE fan of Caspari. I think their design store in Charlottesville is my favorite store anywhere. If I had a store, that is what it would be like.

Their new Wild Christmas line this year is too good. So Chinoiserie Chic with its elephants, zebras, and leopards! Wild Christmas comes in gift wrap, tissue, gift bags, wine bags, gift tags, and gift enclosures.

Great tip - for my husband, who is not, shall I say, skilled at wrapping gifts, I buy the matching gift bags and tissue so he can easily wrap his gifts to us.

It is also available in plates, napkins, invitations, guest towels, place cards, even Christmas crackers if you really want to go wild. See it all here.

I am pairing their Wild Christmas gift wrap with black and white ribbon and trim in stripes, polka dots, and Greek key.









The Pink Pagoda is having her third Blue and White Bash Linking Party this Monday, December 2ND. Blue and white posts with a holiday theme are encouraged. I am putting together a special post on a Blue and White Chinoiserie Christmas. Jennifer (The Pink Pagoda) will be sharing how she incorporates blue and white in her own holiday decor in her home. Hope to see you there. Have you seen The Pink Pagoda's new logo? Isn't it stunning?

I have the feeling that we will be the ones stampeding over to Elizabeth McKay today for these incredibly cute patent leather elephant key chains. These are a must for the lover of Chinoiserie Chic, Palm Beach Chic, and Prepster Style. They would make a perfect stocking stuffer, baby shower gift, bridesmaid gift, or stock up now for Christmas gifts for all those tough to shop for people on your list. What color is your favorite? I love the pink, of course. As with all of of their Elephant Products, 20% of the purchase price will be donated to African Parks in hopes of curbing the Ivory trade and preserving wildlife in Africa. A worthy cause.

Two of my favorite Christmas gifts from my daughter -  a Jonathan Adler zebra dish and a zebra bracelet from J.Crew. They were so cute together I had to display them. Hope Santa was good to all of you.

Today I will get my Christmas gifts wrapped using the pink zebra wrapping paper I posted about and Greek key trim and ribbons.

I ordered a zillion rolls of this fantastic zebra gift wrap here and will be using black and white Greek key trim for ribbon to wrap all my Christmas gifts this year. I love this paper. It is even printed with soy inks using 100% wind power. It would be fantastic framed in a nursery or child's room or even used as wallpaper in a powder room. This paper reminds me so much of Scalamandre Zebras without the $$$$. I even did a post a while ago asking Scalamandre to come out with its iconic Zebras in some fun colors like this.

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Check out my new December Houzz Ideabook for ideas on gifts for the Chinoiserie lover in your life. You can always find all 19 of the Ideabooks I have created for Houzz by clicking on the link in my sidebar.