Holidays at Home: Crafts to Celebrate the Season

A shimmering ornament, a welcoming table, a colorful stocking, a hand-wrapped gift--these traditional symbols give Christmas its sparkle. Now you can create your own handmade touches for the holidays... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564775178
• ISBN13: 9781564775177
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

TASTEFUL AND ELEGANT HOLIDAY PROJECTS

It's only Early October but it's still no better time to get going on those Holiday craft ideas. Holidays at Home presents 96 pages of inventive, festive, and elegant craft ideas to spread the Christmas cheer. The book is divided into three sections of decorating ideas: Around the Tree, Around the Table, and Around the House. The projects are all presented with full materials list and with step-by-step instructions along with vibrant full cover photography of each project and patterns where applicable. One simple, yet dazzling idea was the Beaded Icicle Ornaments, made by stringing different colors and sizes of glass beads along a brass wire and hung by a brass hook. They capture the lights from tree and shimmer magnificently. You can go in the opposite direction by capturing a rustic look by cutting out copper ornaments and stamping them with various phrases or perhaps the names of family members. My wife is very big into snowmen so the Painted Ceramic Snowmen Mugs were right up her alley. Made with simple and inexpensive coffee mugs that you can buy from dollar stores you can jazz them up with enamel paints and glaze. Four snowmen patterns and color schemes are included. Candles are very big today and especially around the holidays where scented candles of pine, cinnamon, and other traditional holiday scents are the order of the day. But you can dress up those simple glass candles by wrapping them in a lush beaded wreath made from various sized beads, strung together by a wire of a matching color. It truly gives the candles a stylish appeal. If you're looking for Old-style appeal, why not try the Victorian Favor Cups. These are cones that are made with Bristol board, and then decorated with various scraps of holiday fabrics, ribbons, cords, or other such dressing and then filled with candies or other goodies and hung from the tree. These make extra special treats for kids on Christmas morning or perhaps on Christmas Eve. The projects range in degree of difficulty from very simple to moderately complex and all are only moderately expensive in terms of the materials cost. A very well presented book...just in time for the Christmas Season. Reviewed by Tim Janson