Rejoice in the gaudiest gifts of the season with Merry Kitschmas, a glorious inspirational guide for Santa's hapless and hopeless little helpers. Sure to awaken fond memories of a tackier, spanglier time, the dazzling decorating ideas in these pages put the ho ho ho (or the oh, oh, oh) back into the holidays. Send tastebuds tripping on a sentimental journey with the delicious Yes You Can! straight-from-the-can-to-the-table Kitschmas feast. Dee-licious! Save a tree, and set the house aglow with a glittering aluminum White Trash Christmas Tree. And finally bring those nagging carolers that Frigging Figgy Pudding they've been yapping on about for decades. Merry Kitschmas provides a sleighful of holiday inspiration for anyone itching to craft with fruitcake, frolic in a tree skirt, and wow the neighbors with a spectacular lawn lighting fantasia. So, don you now your gay apparel -- it's beginning to look a lot like Kitschmas!
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Michael D. Conway is the founder of Atlas Design, a stationery company best known for their "Martha Seward's White Trash Christmas" cards. He is a writer, designer, and performer. One of his claims to fame is that he played the pretentious kleptomaniac hou
Peter Medilek is a New York based photographer and has contributed to several cookbooks and magazines.
Peter Medilek is a New York based photographer and has contributed to several cookbooks and magazines.
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I love tacky/kitschy Christmas items and thought this would be a fun book to add to my library. Maybe some ideas decorating or using that wonderful stuff from the fifties and sixties? Wrong! It's not Kitsch, it's just plain dumb. Although some of the recipes might be worth trying if you want to re-create a classic fruit cake, why on earth would you add wheat grass to make it "completely inedible".
I'm always open to new ideas and love to have fun things around, but for the life of me I can't find one thing in the entire book that I would try to use for a fun holiday. The white powder donut tree? Nope. The rubber glove tree or the weenie tree -- I think not. Yeah, I can take a joke and the book is meant to be one. But this joke was on me for spending the money on it.
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This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen,
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I thought I'd read everything I needed to know about this book, but when I got it, it was completely different than what I hoped. The cover is an adorable reminder of some the kitschy things that made our Christmas as kids so fun. My Grandma had a few of the same little elves as you see on the front of the book. However, when you look inside, there's no more of that. Just a bunch of pictures of cocktails and fruitcakes. (I'm guessing that this was the kind of Christmas the author grew up with?) There is one page with a great idea for a snow man made of marshmallows. It's impressive and looks yummy. But the rest of this book just made me feel dirty.
I realize that this is probably a joke book, but this is one joke I don't get!
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Who Needs Martha Stewart?,
By Karen B. "klblovesbooks" (San Fransico, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Merry Kitschmas: The Ultimate Holiday Handbook (Paperback)
I hear Martha and her team lost their cell-decorating contest during her first Christmas in jail. She should be out by next year, but if not, "Merry Kitschmas" would be a great source of ideas for an unashamedly tasteless holiday. The book is funny and wonderfully offbeat and a perfect antitode to all the cultural messages about Christmas perfection and yuletide bliss. It's also very well written. I especially love the airstream tree-topper and the spare tire wreath. I hope Michael Conway tackles Valentine's Day next!
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Like many traditions gone haywire, the customary Christmas tree began innocently. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spray glitter, floral wire, tree skirt, glitter glue, tin snips, bamboo skewer New!
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spray glitter, floral wire, tree skirt, glitter glue, tin snips, bamboo skewer New!
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