Vintage Christmas Crafts

by Sara Toliver

Book Overview

Go back in time and add charm to the holidays with these four unique decorative crafting styles: Victorian Vintage, Shabby Chic, Country, and Personal Vintage. For each, you'll find directions for projects, ideas for decorating, and enticing pictures to inspire and evoke nostalgia. Craft cardboard villages just like Grandma used to. Make new ornaments look antique and aged, as if they were passed down through the generations. From a gathering of lighted tapes glowing on the floor, to red ribbons tied around the banister, to wreaths, Santa Claus figurines, and food heaped everywhere, each design is glorious.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402727917
• ISBN13: 9781402727917
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Chapelle
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Nice book to flip through, holiday houses are very cute

I enjoyed looking through this book. Of particular interest to me were the adorable holiday houses. They have about 8 different templates and a lot of photos of them all decorated and displayed quite nicely. Since I ran across them in this book, I have seen more examples of them online, and they are very pretty. I'm planning on making some myself. There aren't many other projects however, hence the loss of a star.

A panapoly of enchantments for your home

This a holiday book in the "folly" tradition. There are an assortment of styles that you can easily implement to make your home a fairyland. I was thrilled that there is a pattern and instructions for one of her "dolls." I got one for this Christmas and I am enchanted. They are more beautiful than presented on most websites. Something new to collect! I have been a LONG time fan of her mother Jo Packham from the 1970's and still have books she published back then. You will not be disappointed. I am going to buy "Ruby and Begonia's Christmas" based on what I have seen in this book.