The Easy Way to Cut a Winter Squash

And there’s a section all about creating nature-inspired Christmas decorations!

I’ve had a few really good old ones leaning against the garage for the last 6 months or so, but I just couldn’t stand tearing them apart.All those rusty, twisted nails?

The Easy Way to Cut a Winter Squash

The best thing about this little “project” (if you can call it that), is that you don’t need to take it apart at all!In fact, if there are a few boards loose from you trying to pull them out, go ahead and get a hammer and pound them back into place.If you have a really old one with a few boards missing, that’ll work just fine too!.

The Easy Way to Cut a Winter Squash

All you’ll need to do is take it into whatever room you store your wrapping paper in, stand it up next to the wall, and you have a perfect little “bin” to hold all your rolls of wrapping paper.And it only takes up about 5″ of space off the wall..

The Easy Way to Cut a Winter Squash

I keep rolls of paper in one side and a big gift bag filled with other gift bags and tissue paper in the other side.

You could even secure it to the wall if you wanted to, but I found it wasn’t necessary at all for me.. I’ve been looking for a good way to store my gift wrap for years and finally I’ve found something that looks good (if you love all that rustic wood, and I do), and is totally functional.I painted the sides in a light brown and then used a glue stick to attach some burlap to the fronts..

I trimmed all the edges in some twine.The only thing that cost me any money were the little metal “handle” things.

I splurged and bought two different packs of ten in two different sizes.So that was about $3.