"Discusses the fundamentals of cross-stitch embroidery and supplies patterns for cross-stitching a variety of Christmas decorations and tree ornaments."--Amazon.com.

This timeless classic offers many helpful tips for making holiday baking affordable, easy, and fun. The text is a one-stop source for scrumptious treats for family and friends.

Presents a variety of craft projects for holidays such as Valentine's, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Includes patterns.

Lorraine uses five substantially different kinds of dough to work her 60 various designs. The familiar flour/salt dough is coaxed into a wide array of decorative pieces: bowls and baskets, candleholders, centerpieces and wall plaques - including a Pennsylvania Dutch-style plaque with tulips and hearts in bright primary colors. A bread/glue dough, which requires no baking and dries to a fine finish, is fashioned into a series of wonderful miniatures like the doll-sized vegetables adorning a kitchen memo board. Lorraine uses a sugar paste concoction in ways no one has dreamed of before. Her set of fragile, lacy ornaments is exactly suited to the delicate sugar paste dough, as is a lovely vase in frosty tints of pink, blue, lavendar and green. A standard cookie-dough recipe and cookie-cutter shapes lend themselves to some fabulous decorated holiday cookies, while a spicy gingerbread dough becomes a dream of a gingerbread house, its roof studded with hearts and windows outlined with candy canes.