{"id":1484,"date":"2015-10-11T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-10-11T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:49:28","slug":"diy-gift-wrap-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"DIY Gift Wrap Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, our church has a fall festival (also known as harvest festival or Lord&#8217;s Acre) and it includes a live auction. \u00a0I LOVE\u00a0the auctions. \u00a0<!--more-->Even if I don&#8217;t directly participate (either by donation, helping out in some form or actively bidding), this thing is just FUN to watch! \u00a0They bring in an auctioneer, he&#8217;s usually pretty entertaining, and then the crowd gets carried away! \u00a0Items you didn&#8217;t think would do well can sometimes go extravagantly well, which is all good since it goes to the church!<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the live auction usually consists of homemade items or gift baskets donated by some of the church classrooms or some other kind of knick-knack, like holiday decorations or yard art.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been really wanting to complete some woodworking projects, so I opted to build a gift wrap organizer, fill it and donate it to the auction for fall festival. \u00a0This is the result!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1484 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer016a.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer016a-480x280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer026a.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer026a-480x280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer028a.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10DIYGiftWrapOrganizer028a-480x280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I got the original plans from Ana White (you can find the plans <a href=\"http:\/\/ana-white.com\/2010\/12\/build-a-gift-wrap-organizer-toolbox.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0and you can see my &#8220;brag post&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/ana-white.com\/2015\/10\/DIY_furniture\/gift-wrap-organizer\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>). \u00a0Waiting for the paint to dry and sanding took the longest. \u00a0All in all, without paint dry time, it took 8-10 hours. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t too hard&#8230;I did it ALL myself. \u00a0And including all the gift wrap and accessories, it cost about $50 to complete! \u00a0I really hope it does well in the auction!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, our church has a fall festival (also known as harvest festival or Lord&#8217;s Acre) and it includes a live auction. \u00a0I LOVE\u00a0the auctions. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[151,148],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft","category-diy","tag-ana-white","tag-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christinashaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}