Decorating for the Holidays: Christmas with Martha Stewart Living

by Martha Stewart

Decorating for the Holidays will put sparkle and a renewed sense of warmth in anyone's holiday decorating. Divided into three sections -- "Deck the Halls", "Trim the Tree", and "Set the Table" -- the book features hundreds of ideas for everything from wrapping a banister with traditional garlands and baking gingerbread snowflakes for the tree to creating candy cane centerpieces and folding origami ornaments. The editors of Martha Stewart Living have combined the magazine's most popular holiday decorating tips with new material -- more than 60 percent of the ideas have never appeared in any previous Martha Stewart publication.

Genres: Christmas, Holiday, Nonfiction, Reference

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Martha Helen Stewart is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, was the publisher of Martha Stewart Living magazine and hosted two syndicated television programs: Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2004, and The Martha Stewart Show, which ran from 2005 to 2012.
In 2004, Stewart was convicted of felony charges related to the ImClone stock trading case; she served five months in federal prison for fraud and was released in March 2005. There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire, but in 2005 Stewart began a comeback campaign and her company returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart rejoined the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2011 and became chairwoman of her namesake company again in 2012. The company was acquired by Sequential Brands in 2015. Sequential Brands Group agreed in April 2019 to sell Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, including the Emeril brand, to Marquee Brands for $175 million with benchmarked additional payments.