Thank you to Creative Hunt and editor Frances Arnold for a great article on Paper Tiger in this week’s issue.    Click here to read the full post.

Thank you Sbanghai Talk for the Paper Tiger feature in your Green Gift Guide!

We’re featured in the December issue of Time Out Shanghai’s Style File page.  Woohoo!  Here’s a sneak peek at a cropped version.  Make sure you pick up your December issue for great holiday gift ideas!  Thanks Time Out!

Time Out Shanghai/Dec issue/Style Files

A client contacted me recently to help her wrap up Christmas gifts for her fiance to take home to the US.  I love wrapping gifts whether they’re for my own friends or family or for people I’ve never met before.

Gift giving is usually filled with joy, expectation and surprise and I like being a part of that.  In China, giving gifts varies and can sometimes be loaded, depending on who is giving and receiving and what the occasion is.   Many households give and receive gifts casually in the form of fresh fruits, foods or plants/flowers and almost never wrapped in anything fancy (unless it’s for a patient who is sick and then you see traditional fruit baskets or flowers wrapped in cellophane and ribbon).

Having grown up in the US, my custom of course is anything that’s going to be given as a gift has to be  wrapped up.  Bagging it with a fancy bow  just doesn’t cut it.   Although I respect the practicality of the Chinese way of not going to too much trouble to wrap gifts,  it sure is nice getting a gift shrouded in paper and feeling the joy, expectation and surprise upon opening it—isn’t it?