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Creating Your Perfect Christmas: Stylish Ideas and Step-by-step Projects for the Festive Season. [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Antonia Swinson (Author)

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Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1845972554
ISBN-13: 978-1845972554
Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 21.8 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 120,633 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Festive decorations, elegantly dressed tables and home-made stockings all contribute to the happiness of Christmas. This book contains hundreds of gorgeous ideas that will inspire you to make your own decorations, stockings, table settings, cards, gift tags and much more. There are also twelve projects to make yourself, from an advent calendar to a tree topper, using easily available materials. This will be an essential source book for many Christmases to come.

About the Author

Antonia Swinson began her career at Vogue and for three years was Assistant Editor of Conde Nast's Brides. Her many books include The Wedding Planner, Wedding Favours and Roses, and she co-write Simple Chic Flowers with Jane Durbridge. She also wrote the text for Margaret Caselton's Wedding Inspirations (all Ryland Peters & Small).

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3.0 out of 5 stars A little dissapointed, 12 Feb 2007

By	The Primitive Angel "Melissa" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews

Overall, this is quite a nice book with some good inspiration for creating christmas themed projects such as a fairy, table runner, tree decorations. But please don't expect the pattern for the lovley vintage boot alternative to a stocking to be in the book as I did - because it's not ! What is in the book are rough patterns for the embelishments on the boot (i.e. the flowe and leaves etc). I think the book would have been vastly improved by the addition of complete patterns, even if they had to be enlarged as i'm crafty not artistic.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Eye Candy & Ideas, 4 Oct 2008

By	Mrs. B. Handford "Biff" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Lots of eye candy & ideas...

The two best projects:
1)the boot stocking, which in all fairness is layed out step by step but lacking a pattern
2)the air drying clay fairy tree topper, which is beautiful, but lacks any info at all apart from the fact it's made out of air drying clay!

Overall a very nice coffee table book over the festive period but not something you want to read every word of or feel the need to refer to!

To be honest I thought the other projects that were detailed were all rather lame, poor even in some cases:(

But it does have a very nice front cover & I'm going to have a bash at an air drying clay fairy tree topper so did serve as some inspiration :)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty - but disappointing, 1 Sep 2008

By	Crafty Helen (Suffolk, UK) - See all my reviews

This book is full of pretty pictures, but there are very few 'step-by-step projects'. I love all things festive, but would not recommend this to a fellow crafter, it is just disappointing!

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2.0 out of 5 stars a crafty individual christmas
This book has lots of ideas so that you can look through your stash of ribbon lace buttons etc and make your own individual items. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Mrs. Julia D. Hawkins

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book!
On the cover is a lovely design for christmas stockings, however, the template isn't included. When I complained to the publishers they did not give a damn. Read more

Published 10 months ago by S. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Creating Your Perfect Christmas
Filled with lots of good ideas, everything was fun and easy to make. Inspired me with lots of other ideas too.

Published 23 months ago by E. Singleton

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