The Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts [Hardcover]

Carol Endler Sterbenz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1980

Step-by-step instructions with patterns and diagrams for more than 50 gnome-inspired Christmas decorations and crafts.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: H.N. Abrams; First Edition edition (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810909685
• ISBN-13: 978-0810909687
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,189,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, March 18, 2008

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Linda W. (Kennesaw, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts (Hardcover)

This book is absolutely adorable! I don't think I can make any of the crafts, but I don't care.

Years ago when the first "Gnomes" book came out I fell in love with the drawings. The book was always wow expensive, and I never bought it. Now, who cares? This "Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts" is wonderful. It starts out with carved gnomes. I can't carve, but I might try copying the design in clay. There are full-sized patterns, detailed instructions for sewing, and full color copyable pictures to work with. There are sewing projects (can't do it), painting projects (can't do it), and even ideas for baking and decorating cookies like gnomes (YES I CAN!). Lovely, lovely, lovely. I have to see if I can get our local supermarket to color copy the gnome figures onto edible paper to decorate the cookies.

The little storyline about the author and her family is 'whatever,' but the pictures of the home (theirs?) are nice, and give a real Scandinavian look to all the projects.

This book is definitely for people who like gnomes. (And little red mushrooms with white polka dots.) It's Christmas-y enough with an Advent calendar and stuff, but it's for year-round gnome lovers. And oh, wow, the lady-gnome tea cozy!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than I had expected, April 21, 2010

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Alice V. Sorrell (SKAGWAY, AK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts (Hardcover)

I love this book. It came nicely packaged and quickly. It is one of my favorite books to share and to do projects for my grandchildren. It was inexpensive for what I got.