Frugal Luxuries by the Seasons: Celebrate the Holidays with Elegance and Simplicity--on Any Income

by Tracey McBride

All year-round, create lush beauty and quiet graces for home and family (without breaking your budget)

Tracey McBride's first book, Frugal Luxuries , elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear--without exhausting your bank account.
Emblems of aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter...and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children
Enchanted floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta...and bountiful gifts from the garden
Autumnal scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana...and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws
Winter mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out...and a Christmas gift pantry--begun in January--to create stress-free giving
Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous...and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity.

Genres: Christmas, Holiday, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2000

Reviews

[Madeleine Whyte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely reminders of how to celebrate and create traditions, while expanding and enriching the pleasures of the soul and not necessarily spending dollars.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent

[Jenny Wren · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little out off by the misrepresentation of the holidays (Columbus as a hero, factual inaccurate info about the Irish and St Paddy's day, etc). Further, must if the frugality is about gift giving and making things with boxes of cake mix and prepackaged food.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of those you need to hold onto. Lots of delicious recipes, inspiring quotes, wonderful ideas and encouragement to celebrate the ordinary everyday.

[Desiree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this. Good crafting ideas. Will borrow it again to photocopy some of the recipes!