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42 of 47 people found the following review helpful Repeats and NO patterns, October 1, 2011 By  3dogs1cat "3dogs1cat" - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday Crafts: 225 Inspired Projects for Year-Round Celebrations (Hardcover) Martha Stewart was on a talk show dissing Rachael Ray. Martha said "Rachael's new cook book has repeat recipes that were already published in other books." Many of the craft projects that were in her magazine are now in this new book. Some of the projects are really nice but many of them are geared towards children. I gave the book 3 stars because of the repeats and there are NO patterns!!! If a particular project needs a template,clipart, etc. --- you need to go to the Martha Stewart website to download the pattern. What is going to happen in the future when I want to do a project and the patterns are not available? I would have NEVER purchased this book-- if I knew the patterns were not included in the book. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment 27 of 30 people found the following review helpful Not for cheapskates like me, October 9, 2011 By  Jennifer L. Rinehart (United States of America) - See all my reviews          This review is from: Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday Crafts: 225 Inspired Projects for Year-Round Celebrations (Hardcover) As always, the pictures are lovely and the completed crafts unique and dazzling, but sadly, I wasn't very inspired. First off, there are a lot of thinsg to buy, many of them pricey and only found at craft stores and second, many of the crafts don't seem very durable, so basically you'd only have them for the one holiday and once you took them down they'd go straight into the garbage, frown. Her are some examples of these disposable crafts: Gilded pears - take some pears, cover them with real gold dust. Done. Not only am I skeezed out by the thought of making a perfectly edible food into a non edible art, GOLD DUST is frigging pricey! Not to mention people starving, sorry, it just made me mad, it seems wildy inappropriate right now. Golden Walnut Ball - Stick walnuts, real ones, onto a ball, spray paint them gold. this one would probably last a holiday or two, but it is again, food being wasted. I grew up in a trailerpark and wasting food... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (5) 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful Needs more help for the holidays, October 2, 2011 By  wogan "the book reader" - See all my reviews    This review is from: Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday Crafts: 225 Inspired Projects for Year-Round Celebrations (Hardcover) This craft book has 255 projects to make for various holidays throughout the year. Many of the `crafts' involve ideas such as putting cellophane and candy in clear plastic balls and placing them in a large glass bowl, or putting dollies on top of wrapped packages for decoration. There are some good ideas; for example how to cover a balloon with glitter, making the popular love knot bracelets (although the bracelets shown are not the thick ones many prefer), felt fortune cookies and many egg dying tips. Sometimes the directions, quite frankly, are awful - almost no directions at all, for instance on how to make a birch basket. One project says use wheat paste, but neglects to tell how to make it or if you should purchase it. Another tells you to download and print spider web templates-where? - There is no recommendation within the project directions itself. Silhouette templates for windows that appear to be 3-4 feet high are less than � inch large? This book just does not... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (3)

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