Handmade Christmas is filled with ingenious ideas for creating a personal and festive holiday. From creating holiday window boxes or a gingerbread mansion to making your own gift wrap, Martha Stewart offers a stylish, inventive guide. 200 4-color photographs.
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Inspiration is the key to a memorable Christmas season, says Stewart at the start of this collection of recipes and projects for assembling the mostly easy gifts and decorations culled from the last four years worth of Martha Stewart Living magazine. Some of the ideas seem drawn from the far edge of inspiration: tiny boxes made from acorns, sanded and stained and stopped with corks; a living wreath fashioned from 20 kinds of succulent plants; starfish and other shells studded with silver dragees; gift wrapping made from brown paper lunch bags sealed with decorative machine-stitching. Some processes, like gift tags and cards printed with potato stamps, go back to techniques taught in grade school, but even these are given new life by Stewart's sophisticated eye and careful execution. Clear instructions and tempting photos accompany every holiday treat, from porch swags to pomander bowls and candles, rolled, dipped or molded. A list of sources for materials is included.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Handmade Christmas is filled with ingenious ideas for creating a personal and festive holiday. From creating holiday window boxes or a gingerbread mansion to making your own gift wrap, Martha Stewart offers a stylish, inventive guide. 200 4-color photographs.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Make your Christmas one "from the heart".,
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This review is from: Handmade Christmas: The Best of Martha Stewart Living (Paperback)
Martha Stewart presents some of the most beautiful and
creative ideas to make Chirstmas special. Her gift and
wrapping ideas allow for the kind of creativity that will
make each gift truly special and "from the heart".The
decorating ideas she presents are truly beautiful and have
given rise to many new holiday traditions in our home
and in the homes of the many friends that have borrowed
this book from me. The fact that she provides the names and
addresses of the mail order houses she gets her supplies
from for all of the wonderful things she shows in the book
is a god-send.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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My first Martha Stewart book,
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I have used many of these projects and loved it. The ribbon trays I have given as gifts were well received, and once I got the glass cut, were just gorgeous. I found baskets on sale one day, and they just all came together, not as expensive as I thought. I think the ribbon cost the most, but still, a really great gift for not a lot of money in my case. Recipes, of course, and things like candlemaking are showcased here. So glad I bought it!
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This review is from: Handmade Christmas: The Best of Martha Stewart Living (Paperback)
This book taught me the best way to wrap gifts.
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Unlike other Christmas items-ornaments, trees, stockings-a wreath is self-contained; it needs nothing but itself and can go virtually anywhere, on doors, walls and tabletops, indoors or out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Unlike other Christmas items-ornaments, trees, stockings-a wreath is self-contained; it needs nothing but itself and can go virtually anywhere, on doors, walls and tabletops, indoors or out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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