Product Description

Now your gifts can reflect your warm, caring thoughts and reflect the beautiful and comforting style that is Shabby Chic. Rachel Ashwell shares the wonderful gift ideas she has collected throughout the years and shows you how to express your sentiments with a classic alluring style. She shows you how to pick the perfect gift for the perfect person or occasion and then how to wrap and decorate it with style. For example, instead of giving your fashion-obsessed best friend a sweater in a box, why not put it on an old antique dressmaker's dummy? Instead of giving an impersonal holiday card from Hallmark, why not create personalized cards that fit every occasion? The Shabby Chic Gift of Giving is a perfect book for the holiday season, and it will offer year round gift giving guidance for birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas or Hanukkah, Mother's Day, Father's Day and other special occasions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85643 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-01
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Rachel Ashwell was born in England and has spent the past eighteen years in Malibu, California. She created the Shabby Chic style in 1989 and is the founder of the Shabby Chic home furnishing stores and the designer of a line of slipeovered furniture, bedding, and fabric sold worldwide under the Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell label. She is the author of the bestselling Shabby Chic and Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting & Decorating Guide, and is the host of E! Style Network's Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic on Style.

Amy Neunsinger is a freelance photographer who lives in Los Angeles and New York City. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and ad campaigns ranging from beauty to travel. She is currently working on a fine art book of flowers.

Deborah Greenfield, Rachel Ashwell's sister, was born in London. She studied art at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York. She is a cho reographer and an award-winning flamenco dancer She lives in Los Angeles, where she divides her time among illustration, acting, and dance.

Customer Reviews

Not enough good ideas for a book
Rachel Ashwell makes incredibly beautiful fabrics and needs to stick to what she knows best. She offers some good ideas in this book, but not enough - some of her ideas are downright tacky. I'm a big fan of Shabby Chic and was disappointed with this book. If you've seen some of her shows on the Style Channel, then you've seen enough.

Inspired to give
I am enchanted by this book! I have a minor obsession with all things crafty, and when I bought "The Gift of Giving" I expected a how-to. I was pleasantly surprised to find, however, that the editorial content in this book is far more inspirational. Basically, Rachel gives you great ideas without the step-by-step uniformity that saps gifts of their personal creativity. In short, gift-giving should be highly personal, and this book gave me great ideas that will let my own creativity breathe free.

Lovely!
What a charming book. It's about time there was a Shabby Chic book that contained ideas other than home decorating. This book inspired me to see the possibility of a gift in every item.