Author: Jeanne Stauffer
Paperback: 64 pages
Company: DRG (2009-07-01)
ISBN: 1592172636
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A splendid collection of attrative Christmas projects to decorate the houme during this festive season, from the rustic nostalgia of a Country Cabin Christmas to the tradition of a red-and-white Candy Cane Christmas. Step-by-step instructions show how to create a children's table featuring whimsical toy soldier designs on a tablecloth, centerpiece, curtains and pillows, as well as a winter wonderland with snowmen and cone-shaped trees. The festive projects are beautifully photographed in vintage home settings.

Author: Kasey Rogers, Mark Wood
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Krause Publications (2003-05)
ISBN: 0873495373
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The editor of Penhaligon's hugely successful scented treasuries reveals the simple secrets of creating a truly festive atmosphere for the Christmas season. This accessible guide makes holiday decorating easy and enjoyable by combining many everyday, inexpensive objects in original and beautiful ways.

Author: Sheila Pickles
Hardcover: 120 pages
Company: Harmony (1994-09-27) (1994-09-27)
ISBN: 0517596970
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The paperback edition of the best-selling book in which Martha Stewart invites readers to join in her Christmas celebrations as she decorates her home, wraps special gifts, and prepares luscious meals for her friends and family throughout the holidays. Full-color phontographs.

Author: Martha Stewart, Christopher Baker
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Company: Clarkson Potter (1993-09-28) (1993-09-28)
ISBN: 0517881020
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Everyone knows that the best Christmas is a white Christmas-a traditional celebration with snow capping the eaves, a fire roaring in the fireplace, and a mistletoe ball hanging in the doorway. Tricia Foley, best-selling author of Having Tea, Linens and Lace, and The Natural Home, brings back the magic of the time-honored customs, along with her own white-on-white decorating style, to create the kind of Christmas that will make treasured memories for years to come.
        
With ideas for every room of the house, Foley shows how to borrow from the colors of nature in winter 'pure white and evergreen' to dress up the house for the holidays. She includes simple yet timeless suggestions for draping greens over the bed canopy, hanging all-white stockings of every size and fabric, lighting with votive candles, candelabra, and sconces, and wrapping with handmade papers and raffia ribbons. For entertaining, White Christmas presents the perfect Christmas tea, with snowy linens and homemade scones. Helpful tip boxes cover Christmas lore, favorite tales, and Christmas crafts, and a resource section provides useful lists of addresses, related books, and holiday songs.
        
For anyone who wants to make the most of the holidays, Tricia Foley's White Christmas is the ideal holiday decorating and entertaining companion.

Author: Tricia Foley
Hardcover: 96 pages
Company: Clarkson Potter (1997-10-15) (1997-10-15)
ISBN: 0517704110
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Make every Christmas a cookie craft Christmas! The holidays offer just the right combination of cold weather and family togetherness for cookie crafters to elevate their skills to showstopping new heights. With more than 60 new Christmas cookie designs, along with festive New Year’s cookies and lovely Hanukkah treats, Cookie Craft Christmas delivers colorful inspiration to cookie decorators just when they need it most.

Each spread features a full-page, close-up photograph of one cookie cutter shape with detailed decorating instructions on the facing page. Some pages feature one gloriously decorated cookie, while others might feature two or three interpretations of the same shape — ornaments in complementary colors, Christmas trees decorated in varying styles, or gingerbread men wearing a rainbow of colors and patterns.

Decorating instructions are as simple as tinting cookie dough green before baking Christmas trees or as intricate as piping hair on a gingerbread grandma, creating a frilly pattern for her apron, and decorating her dress using a pretty feathering technique. Techniques are described in full in a Decorating Glossary, and cookie and icing recipes are included.

Fresh inspiration and fabulous decorating ideas fill the pages of this handy little sourcebook. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who has ever picked up a pastry bag.

Publisher's Note: 

The chart on page 17 gives ingredient quantities for making royal icing with meringue powder. Please note that you should use only 4 teaspoons of meringue powder for 2 cups of confectioners' sugar in both the piping and the flooding recipes. (The table incorrectly gives the meringue powder quantity as 4 tablespoons.) This will be corrected in reprints of the book.

Our thanks to an alert reader for finding and pointing out this error and our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Author: Janice Fryer, Valerie Peterson
Hardcover: 169 pages
Company: Workman Publishing Company (2009-10-07)
ISBN: 1603424407
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Author: Coleen Christian Burke
Hardcover: 160 pages Includes recipes and crafts from each First Lady profiled in the book.
Company: Insight Editions (2011-10-25) (2011-11-16)
ISBN: 1608870464
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In her newest volume, Susan Waggoner recaptures the magic of Christmases past with the vintage crafts projects readers have been craving. Inspired by the most sought-after treasures from the 1920s through the 1960s, Waggoner recreates a tempting array of decorations and provides step-by-step instructions that allow anyone to deck their halls with cellophane wreaths, glittered glass ornament balls, beaded bell garlands, and whimsical, tinsel-bedecked treat cups. Those pressed for time will also find quick crafts for every decade, along with style notes and decorating tips to pull it all together. Nostalgic bonus art throughout provides a host of images to use in greeting cards and photo holders. And to keep spirits merry and energy flowing, Waggoner includes a sampler of easy-to-make candy recipes, from Mackinac Island Fudge to old-fashioned soft caramels.

Praise for Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas:

“If you're looking for nostalgia or a retro style, this is the perfect book to help you plan your Christmas decorations. . . . A well-thought-out themed book for any craft collection.” —Library Journal

“Packed with an amazing amount of information and/or tips for having a fab retro holiday of your own.” —The Costco Connection

Author: Susan Waggoner
Hardcover: 144 pages
Company: Stewart, Tabori & Chang (2011-11-01)
ISBN: 1584799234
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40 Christmas cookies recipes is for the whole family to enjoy. From your old time favorite Gingerbread cookies to the new Coconut Katies. Children will love helping to bake these goodies for Santa and of course themselves. So get into the spirit and start baking the tradition that keeps on giving...If you and your kids love this book, you'll also love The Chocolate Chip Shortbread Oatmeal Butter Sugar Cookies And More Book. This book has loads of my favorite easy to bake cookie recipes your children will enjoy!

Sally Stover

CONTENTS:
Almond Cookies /pg. 4
Eggnog Cookies /pg. 6
Chocolate Pecan Malted Cookies /pg. 7
Hazelnut Melting Cookie /pg. 8
Peanut Butter Fingers Cookie /pg. 9
Butterchews Cookies /pg. 11
Almond Raspberry Filled Tarts Cookie /pg. 12
Orange Almond Biscotti Cookie /pg. 13
Ribbon Cookies /pg. 14
Orange Pecan Cookies /pg. 16
Chocolate Glazed Shortbread Cookies /pg. 17
Caramel Apple Cookies /pg. 18
Eggnog Santa Cut-Outs Cookies /pg. 20
Date Nut Spice Cookies /pg. 21
Coconut Cookies /pg. 23
Chocolate Kahlua Truffle Cookies /pg. 24
Buttered Rum Cookies /pg. 25
Coconut Katies /pg. 28
Pistachio Cookies /pg. 29
Christmas Cheesecake Cookies /pg. 30
Candy Bar Cookies /pg. 32
White Chocolate Icicle Cookies /pg. 33
Holiday Wreaths Cookies /pg. 35
Spumoni Slices - Italian Christmas Cookies /pg. 36
Candy Cane Sugar Twist Cookies pg. 37
White Chocolate and Candy Cane Cookies /pg. 39
Cherry Christmas Slices /pg. 39
Fruitcake Cookies /pg. 40
Pecan Caramel Thumbprints /pg. 41
Chocolate Peppermint Cookie /pg. 43
Swedish Angel Crisps Cookies /pg. 44
Walnut Melts Cookies /pg. 45
Snowflakes on a Stick Cookies /pg.47
Chocolate Snowballs Cookies /pg. 48
Double Chocolate Delighites /pg. 49
Super Simple Cranberry Sugar Cookies /pg. 51
Cuccidati (Italian Fig and Date Bar Cookies) /pg. 52
Almond Pistachio Macaroons /pg. 55
Pecan Dollies Cookies /pg. 56
Gingerbread Cookies /pg. 58


Author: Sally Stover
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-11-25) (2011-11-25)
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Do you suffer from a severe case of the "Yuletide Yikes"? Well, help is here! In Untangling Christmas, Karen and LeAnn share simple strategies and doable ideas for untangling the mess that is sometimes Christmas. Even though Norman Rockwell-type scenes may dance through our minds at this time of year, we know that for many of us, Christmas is a stressful, less-than-relaxing, and sometimes even family-feuding time of year. So, let's ditch the perfect images. Get rid of the unrealistic expectations, untangle Christmas and, instead, craft ourselves a memorable, though not perfect, holiday. A holiday where we can focus on what matters most!

This practical go-to guide will empower you to:

- Evaluate your current seasonal strategies (or lack there-of!) and identify re-occurring holiday hassles.

- Set up a simple Christmas Planner designed to enable you to be on top of the holidays, rather than the other way around!

- Acquire fast and frugal decorating tips and creative, but simple, gift-giving ideas.

- Whip up delicious holiday foods - both the "from scratch" sort dear Grandma would have made and other simple, short-cut recipes for when time is tight.

Chapters include:

- Have Yourself a Stress-Free Little Christmas: Whoa, Nellie! Back Up the Sleigh; re-evaluating your current Christmas habits

- To Face Unafraid the Plans that We've Made: Finding your plan of attack; taking a close look at the demands of the season; how to decide, defer and NOT feel guilty.

- Seeking the Savior (and an Occasional Silent Night): Focusing on Jesus in the midst of the flurry; carving out time for quiet and for yourself and your family.

- Santa, Can You Spare and Elf or Two?: Gift shopping, making, wrapping and presentation.

- Deck the Halls, Trim the Tree: Cleaning and de-cluttering, storage solutions, decorating and crafty stuff.

- Simple Shortcuts to Festive Food: Make-ahead menus, company dishes, party planning and hosting, holiday baking ideas and some kid-friendly recipes.

- Beyond Aunt Frieda's Fruitcake: Forging Family traditions, new and old; and ideas for outreach.

- A Christmas Potpourri: Helpful links, resources, printable templates and complete recipes for every dish.

Author: Karen Ehman, LeAnn Rice
Kindle Edition: 135 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-10-07) (2011-10-07)
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