GREETING TRIMMING includes Lt biel hiteli Eten ty COOKING GIVING + CELEBRATINGIntroduction... 5 Chapter One: Greeting... 10 Chapter Two: Trimming... 26 Chapter Three: Cooking... 50 Chapter Four: Giving ... 74 Chapter Five: Celebrating ... 104 Resources .. . 123 Index... 125 About the Author & Illustrator/Acknowledgments . .. 12736 INTRODUCTION he idea of ahomemade holiday sounds appealing: taking, the time to create handcrafted gifts and decorations, making home-baked goodies, and enjoying quality time with family. But too often, our busy and over- committed schedules don't allow us to slow down. Our consumer culture encourages us to spend the holidays in a frenzy of wasteful buying and materialism, and the countdown to Christmas becomes fraught with expense and anxiety instead of fun and anticipation. This book is intended to help you find a new approach—to break the cycle and create a meaningful, modern, family- and earth-friendly homemade holiday. &