Before the fun part — decorating the Christmas tree — a crucial step to ensure your tree looks the best it can do is to 'fluff' it (sometimes referred to as shaping). This is an integral part of ...

Every December, as twinkling lights go up and the scent of pine (real or artificial) fills our living rooms, one question returns: which Christmas tree is better for the planet, a real or an ...

Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an artificial tree out of storage for the season. In all, about three-quarters of U.S.

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Anyone who’s met me can confirm: I love the holidays. No matter the season, I happily listen to carols, scour estate sales for vintage decor and daydream about my mom’s Christmas cookies. Here at ...

'Tis the season for Tannenbaum. It’s just a matter of which one. The choices can seem overwhelming at first: Will a blue spruce fill the house with the sharp scent of balsam better than a white pine?

The last two years, I’ve posted a list (here and here) of guidelines for decorating your Tannenbaum. This Christmas, my family purchased an artificial tree, which my son immediately declared made this ...

Still thinking about what kind of Christmas tree to have this year? The choices can seem overwhelming at first: Will a blue spruce fill the house with the sharp scent of balsam better than a white ...

On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree branches. They worked on a custom-made machine that’s nearly a century old, ...