Download or read book Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg written by Susan Hight Rountree and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb photography, descriptive text, and 27 charming color drawings present ideas and how-to's for creating wreaths, cones, swags, roping, and other holiday decorations for mantels, stairways, windows, and tables.
Download or read book Christmas Past written by Robert Brenner and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical importance, makers, materials, and rarity of Christmas trees, decorations, and ornaments of all kinds are discussed in detail, including glass ornaments, all types of lighting from candles to electricity, cotton and paper ornaments, and Dresdens. All the major manufacturers are identified and much personal information is given about the families that developed the Christmas ornament industry into big business internationally. Christmas Past includes beautiful colour pictures of extremely rare, exquisite glass balls and figurals and early electric lamps.
Download or read book Christmas Ornaments Lights and Decorations written by George Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 750 full-color photos featuring thousands of items. Chapters include storage, repairing, histories, and much more. Items photographed have interesting facts and values listed for the Christmas enthusiast.
Download or read book Planet Christmas written by Chuck Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Planet Christmas" offers a world tour of the best and the brightest, from Auckland, New Zealand, where the Ballentine family pumps clouds of artificial snow off their balcony, to Peters Township, PA, where sightseers view Santa and Mrs. Claus presiding over a Santa's Workshop 50 yards wide.
Download or read book Christmas with the First Ladies written by Coleen Christian Burke and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No home in America celebrates Christmas quite like the White House. Whether adorned with hand-made ornaments or thoughtful crafts, the White House has warmly welcomed celebrities, dignitaries, and hardworking Americans and epitomized the Christmas spirit. And behind each holiday celebration is a First Lady who lends her own style and grace to the festivities. Christmas With the First Ladies is a look at the holiday magic that happens at the White House, capturing the Christmas decorating history and techniques from Jackie Kennedy through Michelle Obama. Each first lady’s design aesthetic is profiled, such as Lady Bird Johnson’s themes of home and family to help heal the nation after John F. Kennedy’s death; Nancy Reagan’s interest in renewing a child-like sense of wonder; and Laura Bush’s “Red, White, and Blue “ Christmas for a nation banding together. With anecdotes and intimate photos of the presidential families during the holiday season, as well as personal craft and recipes used by the first ladies, Christmas With the First Ladies is the perfect centerpiece for holiday gatherings!
Download or read book Make Your Own Christmas Tree Decorations written by Susan Yeates and published by Bright Pen. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how to make your Christmas tree really stand out this year with some lovingly hand-made decorations, designed by author Susan Yeates. Whether you have just purchased a fresh Christmas tree or re-use a favourite artifi cial tree each year, you can now embellish it with some of your own creations for a unique, festive and truly special focal point of your home on Christmas Day. This festive craft book guides you through a selection of over 30 individual projects with more than 200 colour photos. Each project is clearly explained with a list of materials required, step-by-step instructions plus useful templates, tips, variations and suggestions! The decorations described in this book use a mixture of diff erent techniques and crafts from the very simple to the slightly more skilled. Try sewing, threading beads, making salt-dough, using modelling clay, crochet, gluing, sticking, folding, and much much more... Make Your Own Christmas Tree Decorations is a practical, jam-packed craft book suitable for the beginner and the experienced crafter alike. Get inspired this Christmas!
Download or read book Little Christmas Decorations to Knit Crochet written by Sue Stratford and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents projects with instructions and patterns for forty Christmas gifts or decorations, including Christmas stockings, reindeer, snowmen, an angel, and a star.
Download or read book A Very Vintage Christmas written by Bob Richter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Very Vintage Christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Vintage ornaments, lights, decorations, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends. In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and sharing them with others brings an instant feeling of comfort and joy. Coupled with beautiful photographs, tips on collecting, and secret shopping haunts, A Very Vintage Christmas offers a 360-degree look at holiday décor in America and gives suggestions on how to make vintage finds work for today’s audience. While each chapter of A Very Vintage Christmas is unique, there is a common thread that runs through them all: the love of beautiful holiday decorations, and the interest in their history, value, and preservation. The book helps the everyday collector and enthusiast to build their own collection and offers tips on how to make the most of what they’ve got.
Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Download or read book Celebrating Christmas written by Kimberly Roark and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that explains the meaning behind the decorations used around the house at Christmas time.
Download or read book Press Out and Colour Christmas Decorations written by and published by Press Out and Colour. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your own beautiful 3D Christmas decorations with this board book of festive press-out ornaments!
Download or read book Make Your Own Christmas Decorations written by Cath Kidston and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cath Kidston's Make-Your-Own Christmast Decorations book includes all the sewing and embroidery instructions you need along with a kit which contains a selection of coloured felt in six different shades, pompons, ribbon and embroidery thread that can be made up into a delightful selection of 12 different ornaments.
Download or read book Oliver the Ornament written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver the Ornament is a heartwarming tale of one family's cherished Christmas ornaments. The story centers on Oliver, who has been with this family ever since Mom and Dad's very first date. Years later, Oliver, now injured and bullied, still has the magic of Christmas in his heart. The story follows Oliver's excitement for Christmas, his heartbreak, and his determination to overcome all odds to save the day. Oliver, along with his scores of friends, will warm your heart with his kindness, humility, and love for his family. We hope the story will bring families together to tell the stories of their own ornaments and the special meaning that so many of them possess. Because after all, every ornament tells a story.
Download or read book Big Book of Christmas Ornaments and Decorations written by SSW Editors and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful Decorations and Gifts to Make with Your Scroll Saw Create holiday masterpieces for the home, family and friends with the tried-and-true scroll saw projects and patterns from the archives of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts. This collection of holiday favorites features fretwork, compound-cuts, intarsia, and inlay projects for ornaments, wreaths, Santas, portraits, candleholders and more. Big Book of Christmas Ornaments and Decorations also features a stunning gallery of work. Readers will gain information and inspiration from some of scrolling's leading experts including Judy Gale Roberts, Kathy Wise, Sue Mey, Paul Meisel, John Nelson, Theresa Ekdom, Tom Sevy, Volker Arnold, and more. There is a project inside Big Book of Christmas Ornaments and Decorations for everyone, from beginners to advanced craftsmen. With step-by-step instructions and color photos, readers are guaranteed a very merry scrolling experience. Some of the projects inside: " Vintage Fretwork Sleigh Scene " Poinsettia Wreath " Inlay Snowman Ornaments " 12-Piece Intarsia Nativity Set " Christmas Card Tree
Download or read book Christmas Decorations Made with Plant Materials written by United States. Science and Education Administration and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmas at the White House written by Jennifer B. Pickens and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas at the White House beautifully documents the lavish public and private Christmas decorations, celebrations, themes, and traditions spanning half of a century inside the world's most famous address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With a foreword written by former First Lady Laura Bush, this singular book has earned the devotion of six of the most recent United States First Ladies, all of whom penned introductions to their sections. In the book, you can read what Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush have to say about how they celebrated Christmas inside America's most special home. Illustrated with more than five hundred exquisite photographs, most of which have never been viewed by the public before, the 408-page book is the first documented and published history of fifty years and nine different administrations beginning in the early 1960s with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who initiated formal Christmas themes at the White House.
Download or read book Handcarved Christmas Best of WCI written by Wci and published by Best of Woodcarving Illustrate. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of favorite Christmas carving projects from "Woodcarving Illustrated" includes 36 projects ranging from ornaments to decorations and gifts.
