Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A 64-year-old Bloomington, Ill., woman is New York-bound with the goal of becoming a $10,000 "wrap-star" with her skills at gift wrapping. Betty Padgett has been honing her wrap, ribbon and bow presentation for 17 years at Bergner's department store, and later this month goes to a wrap-off sponsored by 3M, the manufacturer of Scotch tape, the Bloomington Pantagraph reported Tuesday. Advertisement She will square off against three other professional, and four amateur wrappers for the top $10,000 prize. Padgett told the newspaper her favorite gift to wrap is towels, as she arranges by color and design before wrapping them, and luggage is the most challenging thing to wrap well. Regardless, she said she loves her work. "It's not a job -- it's therapy," she said. If she wins the big cash prize, she said she'll give it to an area home for unwed mothers, the report said.
