Vintage Christmas Crafts (Paperback)

by Sara Toliver (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Go back in time and add charm to the holidays with these four unique decorative crafting styles: Victorian Vintage, Shabby Chic, Country, and Personal Vintage. For each, you'll find directions for projects, ideas for decorating, and enticing pictures to inspire and evoke nostalgia. Craft cardboard villages just like Grandma used to. Make new ornaments look antique and aged, as if they were passed down through the generations. From a gathering of lighted tapes glowing on the floor, to red ribbons tied around the banister, to wreaths, Santa Claus figurines, and food heaped everywhere, each design is glorious.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402727917
• ISBN-13: 978-1402727917
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #531,947 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No craft projects, April 24, 2007

By	Tassu (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

I was so disappointed by this book. There are a lot of pretty pictures but hardly any actual craft projects. It's more of a display of the author's and her mother's private Christmas decoration collection. The book gave me one or two ideas but all in all was not worth the money. I regret buying this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some ideas, January 18, 2007

By	Antique Lover (Middle America) - See all my reviews

I was anticipating this book to be full of vintage Xmas like the title says but instead most of the items are new! Except for the final chapter by Debbie Dusenberry and her store Curious Sofa. This was a chapter worth buying the book for. Great photography, ideas and display from her. She should have had more chapters or maybe a book of her own.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars very few crafts to make, November 4, 2006

By	missouri reader (fulton MO) - See all my reviews

This book has nice pictures, which might inspire you with some new ideas for arranging your Christmas items, or give you some ideas for things to purchase. But the majority of objects shown are uncredited, so you might have difficulty with even that. There are only a handful of actual projects to make, and these are certainly not the most attractive objects pictured. Not worth buying, in my opinion.