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Festive

Festive

Simple recipes, crafts and traditions for the perfect Christmas

Summary

Make Christmas magic

In this book, you'll find easy, accessible ways to embrace your festive spirit and create lasting memories with the family with a collection of traditions - old and new - including simple recipes, styling tips and crafts to make your celebrations meaningful and beautiful without the big spend.

By using traditional, low-cost ingredients to create simple and tasty festive recipes and foraging, recycling, and using inexpensive items from around your home for cosy styling and beautiful crafts to keep or give as gifts, you can have a perfect, budget-friendly and more sustainable Christmas.

Recipes will include Mini gingerbread house biscuits, Brie and cranberry waffles, Christmas Cake and Mince pies, with styling tips covering how to dress your front door, tree and shelves, and crafts ranging from honeycomb paper trees to creating needle felted ornaments, recycled wax candles and natural beaded garlands.

This is a book you'll reach for year on year.

About the author

Francesca Stone

Francesca is the award-winning blogger and creative business owner behind Fall For DIY. A space for encouraging creative design with a DIY attitude. Sharing her accessible ideas, skills and many projects with her online following of over half a million is Francesca's passion, and it is the driving force behind her continuously experimenting with techniques both old and new.
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