Customer Reviews

Simply Christmas: 201 Easy Crafts, Food and Decorating Ideas

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Simply Christams is a delightful book filled with absolutely wonderful ideas for christmas. All the crafts are very clever, the pictures are bright and colorful, and the writing is fun and playful. I've made over half of the projects, and almost all of them have recieved praise from my friends. And the best part is, even though the book is named Simply Christmas, it will provide great ideas all year long. Great job!

I love this book because all of the projects and ideas are so easy to make yet they all turn out so pretty. I work and don't have a lot of time, but I like to make my own gifts and decorations. Simply Christmas has given me so many ideas that I can make quickly. I love the pictures in the book, too. It makes me get in the holiday spirit. I especially like the ornaments you can make with dots of glitter.

This book has just what I needed--great photos, clear directions and ideas to use everyday objects in new ways to decorate for Christmas. The recipes I made (orange rolls and fruitcake) tasted as good as they looked in the photographs. I especially liked the ideas using miscellaneous antique dishes and primitives. The projects I tried really were easy, even for a person like myself with limited crafting experience.

While Simply Christmas has great photographs and an easy-to-use format, I found that the book's crafts and decorating ideas aren't very original. Most can be found in any other Christmas crafts/decorating book. Also, I think several of the ideas are tacky. Maybe the book just isn't my style. My advice is that you check it out at your local library before buying it.

I have several of Dahlstrom's books and thought this was the best yet. The recipies are similar to what my mom made when I was young and the whole book made me want to get started on Christmas cooking and projects. I made the fruitcake recipe the first night I got the book and my family loved it.

Provides the type of craft ideas needed for working with Seniors with varying mental and physical challenges.

It is a good book on crafting for Christmas. It has some simple, yet nice projects it in.