Simply Wrapped: The Gift on the Outside, is the story of how Laurel Boone Helm developed a way to wrap gifts with fabric. She began the project because was concerned with the amount of paper waste that happens whenever gifts are exchanged, but it quickly developed into a way to develop gift-giving traditions. The first half of the book is the story of how Simply Wrapped was developed. The second half gives the reader a clear, step-by-step how-to guide to wrap gifts in twelve different ways using Simply Wrapped techniques.