All year-round, create lush beauty and quiet graces for home and family (without breaking your budget) Tracey McBride's first book, Frugal Luxuries , elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear--without exhausting your bank account. Enjoy: Emblems of spring: aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter...and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children Enchanted summers: floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta...and bountiful gifts from the garden Autumnal offerings: scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana...and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws Winter wonders: mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out...and a Christmas gift pantry--begun in January--to create stress-free giving Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous...and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity. " A source book for all of us who strive to live with a sense of luxury no matter how tight our budgets ." ~Publisher's Weekly - " There is an incredible amount of wisdom between the covers of [Tracey's] book on how to live a totally fulfilling life no matter how much money you have ." ~Jack Canfield - " This isn't just a great idea Tracey had--this is how she lives....committed to creating a home and family that celebrate what she calls 'intangible'....to embrace the here and now ."~Publisher's Weekly - " Tracey McBride is a goddess of frugality ." ~O.C. Register All year-round, create lush beauty and quiet graces for home and family (without breaking your budget) Tracey McBride's first book, Frugal Luxuries , elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear--without exhausting your bank account. Enjoy: Emblems of spring: aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter...and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children Enchanted summers: floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta...and bountiful gifts from the garden Autumnal offerings: scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana...and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws Winter wonders: mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out...and a Christmas gift pantry--begun in January--to create stress-free giving Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous...and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity. ALL YEAR - ROUND, CREATE LUSH BEAUTY AND QUIET GRACES FOR HOME AND FAMILY (WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR BUDGET) Tracey McBride's first book, Frugal Luxuries, elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear -- without exhausting your bank account. Enjoy: -- Emblems of spring: aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter...and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children -- Enchanted summers: floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta...and bountiful gifts from the garden -- Autumnal offerings: scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana...and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws -- Winter wonders: mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out...and a Christmas gift pantry -- begun in January -- to create stress-free giving Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous...and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity. Festivals of Spring "Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, To