Simply Christmas: 201 Easy Crafts, Food and Decorating Ideas

by Carol Field Dahlstrom

Simply Christmas had 201 easy crafts, easy foods and easy decorating ideas! Christmas can be beautifully simple. Now you can enjoy the season, create beautiful things for your family and friends, and have time to spare. You'll find easy ideas for ornaments, centerpieces, Christmas trees, wreaths, cookies, candies, gifts, candles, garlands, wraps - even ways to display your favorite treasures. Each chapter is filled with ideas you can make quickly and easily. Most of these projects can be made in an evening with just a few supplies. Some simple Christmas projects are so easy to make you usually don't need any special materials at all. These are simple Christmas projects that you can make in just a few minutes - maybe after the children have gone to bed or with your children. At the end of each chapter we've listed even more ideas and special tips for making your holiday a pleasure for you and your family. All the simple Christmas recipes in this book have come from some of the best cooks in the country. All of the simple Christmas recipes have been made and tested to assure quality and accuracy. The Christmas recipes don't require a long shopping list, nor do they contain unusual or hard-to-find ingredients. We know you'll love making all the beautifully simple projects and recipes in this book and that you'll find you still have time to spare to enjoy a very Merry Christmas. Each chapter is filled with ideas you can make quickly and easily. Most of these projects can be made in an evening with just a few supplies. Some simple Christmas projects are so easy to make you usually don't need any special materials at all. These are simple Christmas projects that you can make in just a few minutes - maybe after the children have gone to bed or with your children. At the end of each chapter we've listed even more ideas and special tips for making your holdiay a pleasure for you and your family. All the simple Christmas recipes in this book have come from some of the best cooks in the country. All of the simple Christmas recipes have been made and tested to assure quality and accuracy. The Christmas recipes don't require a long shopping list, nor do they contain unusual or hard-to-find ingredients. We know you'll love making all the beautifully simple projects and recipes in this book and that you'll find you still have time to spare to enjoy a very Merry Christmas.

Genres: Crafts, Christmas

Hardcover

Published July 15, 2000

About the author

CAROL FIELD DAHLSTROM was Executive Editor at Better Homes and Gardens books for many years. She is now president of her own company, Brave Ink Press. She became interested in developing gluten-free recipes when family members were diagnosed with Celiac disease.

ELIZABETH DAHLSTROM BURNLEY has a M.S. and B.S. in Nutritional Science. She is currently a faculty member at Iowa State University, teaching food science and human nutrition courses, as well as a class on gluten-free cooking and baking.

MARCIA SCHULTZ DAHLSTROM has Celiac disease. Marcia has dedicated herself to developing gluten-free recipes that are easy and inexpensive and that she can prepare and enjoy with her family."

Reviews

[Tisha (IG: Bluestocking629)]

I've no idea where this book came from. Must be the book fairy again.

I'll not rate it because it's not the book's fault it's not my style. I prefer Shabby Chic, Country/Pioneer Woman and/or vintage. This book seems more 80s or 90s to me. I can't really pinpoint the style. Plus it also includes recipes. But nothing caught my eye.

I did see a DIY I liked: vintage hankee stocking. And I also liked the Christmas tree decorated in tea cups.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not nearly as dated as I thought this was going to be when I pulled it out from the basement. Some good ideas, some wtf, and some that I won't use, but it is staying in the library here for now...

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the title again Simply Christmas: Renew the Spirit, 201 Easy Crafts, Food and Decorating Ideas. That pretty much says it all. The inside cover says:

The first Christmas was beautifully simple. As a single star shown over the manger, elegant gifts of love were brought to the newborn King and the world rejoiced.

As we think about that first Christmas and about those special Christmases in each of our lives, we think of genuine pleasures of handmade gifts, warm greetings, twinkling lights, shiny ornaments on evergreen trees, joyous Christmas carols, delightful flavors from the kitchen, and quiet nights with friends and family filled with smiles and secrets.

Renew the spirit of Christmas in your home by making your holiday one to remember with simple yet beautiful ideas you can make easily - oftentimes in an evening. You'll find perfect ideas for decorating greeting, cooking and baking, gift-giving, entertaining, lighting even a chapter on displaying those treasures from Christmases past.

Christmas can be beautifully simple. So, this year, celebrate and enjoy the most cherished of all seasons by making your holiday Simply Christmas.

What none of these people seem to understand is that I have no time at all to make any of their ideas in December. I am really, really busy in December, and November and October for that matter, any new Christmas ideas I'll have to start trying probably sometime in September.