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Christmas Together
Craft ~ Share ~ Bake ~ Decorate ~ Give ~ Celebrate |
Chapter 1 - Welcome Them Home
Give them a wonderful holiday welcome with easy decorating ideas both inside and out. Frosty-white snowball door decorations or traditional red wreaths make your front door a welcome site. Inside the house, find house-shaped cookies and candy fireplaces that will bring smiles to everyone who comes to call.
Chapter 2 - Cuddle Up with Christmas Comforts
Whether you warm up with sweet white-chocolate cocoa or hearty wild rice soup, you'll find recipes sure to keep them all cozy inside. As a bonus you'll even find simple ways to give these comforts as cleaver gifts.
Chapter 3 - Trim the Tree Together
Everyone will want to help decorate the tree with these fun-to-make ornaments and trims. From pretty painted pinecones and vintage bird cut-outs to brightly stickered Christmas balls, the tree will be the centerpiece of your holiday decorating.
Chapter 4 - Stir Up Some Homemade Goodies
Whether you're making Santa cookies, cranberry toffee, or a raspberry cream jelly roll, this chapter is filled with recipes that will bring them smiling into your holiday kitchen.
Chapter 5 - Surprise Them with Handmade Gifts and Cards
From handmade soaps and knitted hats, to beautiful beaded jewelry and lovely felted scarves, this chapter will give you ideas to please everyone on your Christmas list.
Chapter 6 - Entertain in Holiday Style
Create a chocolate-lovers Christmas table setting, make your own fruity candle centerpieces, and be sure to add a personalized Santa place card- you'll have all kinds of fun creating things to make your holiday entertaining memorable.
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Christmas Happy & Bright
Trees ~ Wreaths ~ Trims ~ Stockings ~ Gifts ~ Cookies ~ Memories |
Chapter 1 - Center of Attention
Trees and Ornaments
Your holiday tree is the center of your Christmas decorating-- make it one they will remember with stunning yet simple ornaments and trims you make yourself.
Chapter 2 - All Through the House
Festive Decorating
From polka-dot stockings to woven-ribbon pillows to poinsettia wreaths and snowman coasters you'll find just the right projects to decorate your home for a Happy and Bright holiday.
Chapter 3 - The Christmas Rose
Pure and Beautiful
Whether you use traditional roses in Christmas white or choose blooms in the colors to suit your decorating scheme, let roses add a beautiful touch to your holiday home this season.
Chapter 4 - Sugar and Spice
Cookies, Cakes and Candies
Cut-out cookies decorated like ornaments, cakes that look like colorful gifts, gingerbread cake topped with whipped cream, candy-covered cookies and pretzels-- you'll find it all in this chapter filled with just the right sugar and spice.
Chapter 5 - Perfectly Personal
Gifts, Wraps, and Greeting Cards
Make it personal and you'll make it right when you design gifts with that special person in mind. Whether you quilt a pillow, knit a spa cloth, fill a jar with candy, or make a handmade greeting card -- your talents will show in these perfectly personal ideas.
Chapter 6 - Holiday Centerpieces
Simple and Stunning
Your holiday table can be the place to share some easy yet cleaver centerpiece ideas. Poinsettia blooms in bowls, fresh fruits and cranberries in pitchers, icy white candles and crystal ornaments in dishes-- you'll find them all in this inspiring chapter.
Chapter 7 - Christmas Eve Suppers
Soups, Breads, and Muffins
Bring them in from the cold with warm and hearty soups served with quick-to-make breads. Whether you prefer a tangy tomato bisque or a creamy potato soup, a simple bruschetta or a sweet caramel roll, you'll love the recipes in this chapter of supper ideas.
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Stitches p155
Index p157
Sources p158
More books from Brave Ink Press p160
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