About Team Holiday

FLEA MARKET FINDS with Matthew Mead is a book that encompasses all that I love about "the thrill of the hunt." Our inaugural SPRING publication, FLEA MARKET FINDS  is 160 pages of fresh, easy ideas and projects designed to guide you in using and displaying your vintage treasures with style. With pages filled with seasonal inspiration - featuring well-known and admired designers, style leaders, and top-notch stories - and printed on beautiful paper, we know Flea Market Finds with Matthew Mead is a book that you will keep from year to year and add to your collection of decorating, crafting and cooking magazines and books.

  FLEA MARKET FINDS, released in April 2012, is available for purchase directly to you via Amazon.com and Amazon.ca  Your book will be shipped directly to your mail box beginning in mid-April.  Order Flea Market Finds now and look forward to pages and pages of fresh flea market style!

About Matthew Mead:

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 the official food photographer for the Associated Press and is 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 each issue of 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 each issue of Holiday with Matthew Mead, Linda authors the popular decorating blog, Restyled Home, which has twice been featured in The Washington Post’s blog watch feature and named one of 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! Exercising her green thumb, Linda wrote an entire 144-page gardening magazine, Container Gardening 2011, and loves searching for vintage finds for her home in Nova Scotia, Canada.

  

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 Stephanie Nielson (Contributing Style Editor):

Known and loved by the many readers of her blog The Nienie Dialogues, Stephanie embraces entertaining with her signature style and sense of fun. Recovering from a life-altering plane crash, her story (and blog) has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and in numerous national magazines, newspapers, online editorials and blogs. Stephanie joined us as a lifestyle contributor for HOLIDAY with Matthew Mead 2010 and we are excited to have her join us again for our SUMMER, AUTUMN,  HOLIDAY 2011, and FLEA MARKET FINDS 2012 publications.

About Doug Turshen (Art Director/Graphic Design)

Doug Turshen is a well-known and coveted art director with a specialty in interior design and home furnishings publications. His recent designs include Barbra Streisand's new book, My Passion for Design (a New York Time's Best Seller);  Bunny Williams' recent book, My Scrapbook For Living; and all of Carolyn Roehm's books including the latest entitled, A Passion For Blue And White. See his portfolio at DougTurshen.com