I would like to share the perfect addition to our Christmas Gift Guide 25: Merry & Chic: Your Most Dazzling Christmas Ever by Kathryn O’ Shea-Evans in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the products you purchase.
I am one of those who believes we should celebrate one #Holiday at a time. I don’t like reading or watching Christmas Movies until after Thanksgiving but I couldn’t help but diver into Merry & Chick once the book arrived because the green, gold and red swirled cover drew me in.
Once inside the book I didn’t want to stop reading and looing at the amazing photos. I was so happy a lot of the projects seem like things we can do inside our Town Home. Charlie saw me looking through Merry & Chic: Your Most Dazzling Christmas Ever and Charlie couldn’t wait to see how she decorated children’s room for things to do in his own room.
Then Charlie and I looked through the recipes and even though Charlie has finished #Homeschooling I would see using Merry & Chic: Your Most Dazzling Christmas Ever in a cooking class, art class and even reading class.
Charlie liked finding out there is a recipe from Abraham Lincoln which would have been perfect for us to create when we was studying Presidents. I can’t wait to introduce Charlie to Audrey Hepburn on our next #movienight and to make her Chocolate Cake.
If your looking for the perfect way to celebrate Christmas I hope you check out Merry & Chic: Your Most Dazzling Christmas Ever and that you purchase a copy of the book for anyone who loves the #Holidays and #Christmas.
About:
A dazzling deck-the-halls guide to creating your most spectacular holiday ever―complete with recipes, show-stopping Christmas décor and chic DIY ideas for gifts galore.
“In this amusing and useful guide, journalist O’Shea-Evans (Alpine Style) shows how to amp up the holiday spirit in one’s home….This brings the cheer.”―Publishers Weekly
Welcome to the merriest, most stylish guide to holiday joy ever made. This dazzling book has it all―including recipes (some from iconic people, such as Abraham Lincoln’s gingerbread recipe and Jackie Kennedy’s Polet a l’Estragon); decor advice (all decadent-looking but easily achievable, thanks to input from designers); monthly to-do list calendars for your sanity; playlists of unexpected holiday jams for different types of events (from cocktail parties to lingering candlelight suppers); and DIY gift ideas that will actually be adored.
Let the festivities begin!
Meet the Author:
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans
About the author
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans writes about design, travel, and food from her home base in Colorado’s Front Range. A contributing editor at House Beautiful magazine, her work is frequently published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. She is the co-author of Lodge: An Indoorsy Tour of America’s National Parks (2023), Veranda: Elements of Beauty (October 2020), Veranda: A Room of One’s Own (April 2019) and many ghost-written titles for Rizzoli New York, Abrams, Gibbs Smith and Monacelli.
Kathryn is a former senior editor at the Hearst Design Group and associate editor at Travel + Leisure. She has appeared as a guest lifestyle expert on The Today Show, The Meredith Vieira Show, The Travel Channel, CBS, The Weather Channel, Fox & Friends, and MSNBC.
Kathryn holds a master’s in journalism from Harvard University’s Extension School. She is a member of the Rocky Mountain Harvard University Club and the Denver Women’s Press Club (founded in 1898). In her spare time, she runs a website for made in the USA Christmas decor and baking supplies, AspenGrange.com.
Follow her on Instagram at @KathrynOSheaEvans.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
