Merry and Chic: Your Guide to the Most Dazzling Holiday Ever
By (Author) Kathryn OShea-Evans
Gibbs M. Smith Inc
Gibbs M. Smith Inc
26th August 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Hardback
224
Width 210mm, Height 273mm
A dazzling deck-the-halls guide to creating your most spectacular holiday evercomplete with recipes, show-stopping Christmas dcor and chic DIY ideas for gifts galore.
Welcome to the merriest, most stylish guide to holiday joy ever made. This dazzling book has it allincluding recipes (some from iconic people, such as Abraham Lincolns gingerbread recipe and Jackie Kennedys Polet a lEstragon); 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!
Kathryn O'Shea-Evans writes about design, travel, and food from her home base in Colorados 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 (with Max Humphrey) of LODGE: An Indoorsy Tour of Americas National Parks, and the author of Alpine Style: Bringing Mountain Magic Home.