Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Entrée | Sunday, December 10, 2006

That's a Wrap by Donna Pocius

Tracie Stier-Johnson, owner of Broadway Paper in the Third Ward, is also merry about this season's patterns and colors. Her store, housed in a historic refurbished warehouse, offers a wide variety of designer sheet wraps.

These upscale papers offer options to the traditional red and green, according to Stier-Johnson. "We are seeing soft magenta, a soft cool color green, a Tiffany blue in a green family that I have never seen," she says. "Now, there are completely different shades of red and green to see together."

Sheet wrap designs on the Broadway Paper Web site (www.broadwaypaper.com) depict cardinals on a turquoise background, birds with deer and doves around trees.

"Birds are huge, huge this year. Huge! We can't keep enough bird items in stock," Stier-Johnson says. "And we want to talk about Hanukkah. A wrap like this doesn't say Christmas," she says, pointing to a pattern with small red birds on a light blue background. "They are vey holiday and not Christmas-specific or Hanukkah-specific."

Maria Cieslik, interior designer and co-owner of Cieslik Celek Interior Design, worked at Broadway Paper for a few years on a part-time basis. There she became familiar with sheet wraps, which she prefers over rolls.

Wrapped presents (below) welcome guests. These papers are from Broadway Paper.

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