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.

You will be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colours, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic. Personalize your home with practical and beautiful items like the Terra-Cotta Jewellery Dish, Hanging Herb Garden Planter and Salt-and-Pepper Pinch Pot. Get creative with colour and geometric shapes in home accents such as the Colour-Block Photo Holder and Abstract Floral Block Platter. This book is the perfect primer to start making beautiful clay pieces at home and get that handmade ceramic look without the expenses and challenges of traditional pottery.