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photo: carol mcdonnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carol McDonnell sent us an email about her very cool, very impromptu wrapping paper:<\/p>\n

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Now that the NY Times has beautiful large full color photos, I decided not buy paper, but use it to wrap several books. The giraffe and the donkey head from the Whitney make a charming way to recycle . . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m nuts for both these shots . . . and am going to use them as wallpaper for my laptop and phone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We love it! (and no instructions necessary)…<\/p>\n

…it made us think of Pamela Hovland’s charming Magazine Page Envelopes.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Carol McDonnell sent us an email about her very cool, very impromptu wrapping paper: Now that the NY Times has beautiful large full color photos, I decided not buy paper, but use it to wrap several books. The giraffe and the donkey head from the Whitney make a charming way to recycle . . .…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6554,413,127,67],"tags":[4075,4076,4077],"yoast_head":"\nreader improv: ny times illustrated wrapping paper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Full-color illustrations from the New York Times and other periodicals makes charming "found" wrapping paper.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2012\/03\/08\/reader-improv-ny-times-illustrated-wrapping-paper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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