About Holiday with Matthew Mead

Holiday with Matthew Mead is a book-azine that encompasses all that I love about the holiday season: the traditions, celebrations and magic that is the holiday season. The pages of Holiday with Matthew Mead are filled with fresh, easy ideas that can be achieved in two or three steps. It's a novel approach to almost everything holiday, and I hope you take a chance to pick it up and see how these updated ideas might inspire you. With 144 pages of holiday inspiration - featuring well-known and admired designers, bloggers and top-notch stories - and printed on beautiful paper (while not drowning in ads!), we consider Holiday with Matthew Mead part book/part magazine - a publication that you will keep from year to year and add to your collection of Holiday decorating, crafting and cooking magazines and books.

We are also taking a novel approach to the publishing and distribution of Holiday. Instead of finding our book-azine on newsstands, we are bringing Holiday directly to you, the reader. Holiday with Matthew Mead will be available for sale here, by pre-order only; thus not only will you be guaranteed a copy fresh off the presses, but it will also be shipped directly to your mail box in October, 2010. So, head over to our secure shopping cart and check-out found here and put the kettle or coffee pot on and get ready to curl up with some seasonal inspiration, in plenty of time to beat the holiday rush!

Consider it our gift to you...!

Best,

Matthew

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About Matthew Mead (Editor-in-Chief/Creative Director):

Matthew Mead is a stylist, writer, author, photographer, lifestyle editor, and noted style expert. The former style editor of Country Home magazine and co-editor in chief of Flea Market Style magazine (2010), Matthew is also a regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and Victoria magazine. Matthew has also written several books and produced countless magazine spreads and ad campaigns for noted companies such as Pottery Barn, Dove Chocolate, Target and Stonewall Kitchen.  

Matthew is known for styling beautiful spaces using vintage treasures, nature's offerings and what is at hand; guiding others to entertain with ease in a stylish way; and inspiring home-owners to create beautiful food and living spaces which they can proudly share with family and friends. To view Matthew's portfolio, visit him at his website, Matthew Mead Style.com

 

About Jennifer Mead (Managing Editor): 

Co-President/Project Coordinator of Matthew Mead Productions, Jenny is a contributing photographer and Jill-of-all trades who coordinates the details of photo shoots and manages all advertising inquiries and campaigns for HOLIDAY with Matthew Mead. Jenny also edits images and assists with a multitude of projects within the studio and on location. Her keen eye and attention to detail makes her an invaluable member of the creative team and her easy manner and quiet professionalism is admired by colleagues and clients alike.

 

 

 

 

About Linda MacDonald (Executive Editor): 

 

Linda MacDonald is a freelance writer who, in addition to her role as Executive Editor of Holiday with Matthew Mead, authors the popular decorating blog, Restyled Home, which has twice been featured in The Washington Post’s blog watch feature and was recently named on House and Home's Ultimate List of Online Decorating Destinations. Linda is known for creating stylish spaces on a realistic budget, re-purposing and tweaking the ordinary into the extraordinary, and showing her readers that style on a dime is both achievable and fun! She is currently collaborating on a (decorating) book project and a gardening magazine, due out in the spring of 2011.

 About Sarah Egge (Senior Writer/Editor): 

From the Midwest, Sarah Egge is a busy freelance writer with a decade-long history of writing and editing interior design articles for many noted shelter magazines. These days, she balances her writing career with raising, alongside her husband, their two young daughters. Sarah  authors the blog, Adventures of the Cheapskate Decorator where she chronicles her experiences in decorating her 1920's bungalow in a thrifty manner - employing tips and techniques gleaned from years of working alongside the masters of design, as she puts it, on photo shoots for top decorating magazines. Sarah

has written many of Matthew's Holiday special issues, including his popular Halloween bookazines. 

About Stacey Willey (Art Director):

 

Stacey Willey is a freelance art director, graphic designer, web designer, and photo stylist who has worked with the Meredith Corporation on Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating, Real Life Decorating, Quick & Easy Decorating, Bargain Style, EAT, and Country Home magazines. Prior to Meredith, she was a graphic designer and web designer for several Minneapolis-based advertising agencies, helping to re-brand and position clients such as Caribou Coffee, Damico & Sons, Campiello, and LeeAnn Chin. She also served as the lead advertising art director for Arizona Foothills magazine in Phoenix, Arizona. Stacey is a dynamic designer with a keen eye and we are thrilled to have her on board!