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I have always been a huge fan of that book - spent many years making and decorating wreaths with our own apple and other things I gathered on the farm (dried artichokes, chili peppers, herbs, etc). I have even made the fan over the door with a real pineapple and apples! Weighed SOOO much! Killed me to hang it over the door and I love climbing the rickety ladder perched on the front step, LOL. We passed the wreath making baton to the oldest son, but I still make lots of decoration for the home by hand. Last year's feat was cutting down several yuge multiflora canes with all the rosehips attached and weaving it in to a garland that hung over the fireplace in the kitchen - it was great!
We've seen several nights in the 20s and one on the teens, but we are still picking an epic amount of beautiful cabbages of all sorts: red, green, savoy and our favorite Deadon red savoy, so pretty. Even the Napa is hanging on in some fields. It was also a great Brussels growing Fall and we had a huge amount of Red Ball to add to our green ones. Boy are they amazing after the frost! It rains today and I am thankful it is not snow, we are still going to farmers markets and, though it is a lousy day, it could be so much worse if this was snow. I am sure glad Brandon and Co were visiting Boston yesterday to talk about climate initiatives!

Thanks for sharing - fun to hear about other folks who liked the book and used it for making wreaths, decorations.

There is one decoration I would love to make for this year - it’s a “tree” made of oranges, with cloves poked in the oranges. Mmmmmmm ..... I can just imagine the glorious smell of oranges & cloves!

Here’s a link to a pic of something similar:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/89227636345416731/

You can also make Christmas ‘balls’ with the oranges & cloves:

My mom was taking deviled eggs to a ladies luncheon Thursday. I have to make the eggs for her & I pipe in the filling & sprinkle with paprika (put in an empty salt shaker - works like a charm). The eggs are pretty enough, but she had a platter where the eggs go around the outside. She wanted to put some olives/sweet gherkins in the middle. Her initial thought was to put them on lettuce. I went to the garden and picked some rosemary & got some red nandina berries and decorated the center of the platter, alternating with the gherkinss/olives. Boy, was it pretty & VERY seasonal! The other thing I loved - the smell of the rosemary ... again, mmmmm ..... ‘delicious’!! :-)