Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #689432 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

decking the halls, Martha style
The beauty of this book is in the colors; celebrating the Christmas spirit with exquisite combinations of creamy winter whites, blues, and golden yellows.
The ideas for ornaments, wreaths, and ingenuous ways to wrap money as a gift, are not slap-dash "quickies", but designs for objects that would be kept and enjoyed for many seasons to come. Standouts include the gorgeous Damask stockings, made from vintage fabrics, the wonderful fruit wreath in warm pastels, and my favorite, the "Ladies dancing and lords a-leaping" strung across the fireplace.

The recipes are sumptuous and shown in elegant settings, and very special is the sheet music that has the look of antique reproductions, of many familiar carols.
In the back of the volume there are templates for the many craft objects in the book, making the construction of them simpler, though you will obviously need a scanner and printer if you want to vary the size of the items, and many look like one would want to enlarge them.
As one would expect from Martha, the photography and layout is excellent, with thick, glossy pages. Even if one does not follow the patterns or recipes to the letter, it is a good "idea" book, and it's strength is its subtle color palette, used to great effect.

Great book
This is a beautiul book filled with wonderful pictures and things to make.
Projects include handmade cards,gift wallets,door wreaths and much much more also included are sheet music for ten christmas songs.Many of the recipes are American favourites.
This is a great book which is well worth buying either for yourself or as a gift ( I would do both)