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Vol. 12 No. 1 - Heidi's Christmas

Vol. 12 No. 1 - Heidi's Christmas

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67th issue of The Storybook Home Journal™. Features Heidi by Johanna Spyri. Made & Printed in the USA. Categories: Christmas, Heidi, Johanna Spyri, Magazine & Nancy Young

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Vol. 12 No. 1 of The Storybook Home Journal

Heidi's Christmas


What's in this issue?

Deck The Walls the Decorating article

Creating homes with the intrinsic sense of Christmas all year long, including instructions for creating inset wall tiles, gilded quotes, frescoes, and gorgeous salt-dough ornaments.



My Little Chamber the Hearth article

Creating the magical feeling of Heidi's "Kammer" in the house she shares in Dorfli with her grandfather, including how-to's for "steinbock" tiles.



Einfach the Kitchen article

Fabulous Swiss Christmas recipes that utilize the best ingredients simply prepared or the best preparation of simple ingredients from "Goat Cheese and Sage Sables" to a towering "Brunsli Kuchen" and much more.



Your Song Was Beautiful the Music article

Piano, voice, and flute arrangement of the German carol, "Kommt und Lasst uns Christum Ehren," or "Come and Christ the Lord be Praising."



Wanted So Much To See The Flowers the Garden article

Growing and using the elegant edelweiss.



All At Once It Was Finished the Workshop article

An easy-to-construct, beautifully painted stool ready to engage the affections of any little Heidi, Peter or Klara.



Johanna Spyri the Bookshelf article

A celebration of Switzerland's most beloved children's author.



Living Richly Without Being Rich the Attic article



The Perfect Christmas the Writer's Garret article

This letter describes the first Christmas Seymore and Bryhta shared as newlyweds. Accompanying a team of loggerheads from the gardeners guild, Seymore and Bryhta go with Leornian and Coca on an outing to the Old Pinewood at Lanham, away to the south of the Promontory. Seymore concludes his letter with this introduction to sundry observations about attempting to make Christmas perfect: If an abstract idea of perfection is the standard by which Christmas is measured, the effort is doomed from the start.



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