John Teichman for decades has been decorating the Christmas tree in Traverse City’s historic Candle Factory building with vintage glass ornaments ... machine-blown bulbs under the name Shiny ...

Created by a German immigrant named Max Eckardt who grew up near the German village of Lauscha where blown glass Christmas ornaments were first crafted in the 1840s, Eckardt brought the technique ...

With your palette of sea glass colors in mind, you’re ready to craft stunning focal points for your coastal-inspired Christmas ornaments. Use glass painting techniques to create intricate ...

It was once one of over 1,500 manufacturers in this part of Eastern Germany, blowing glass ornaments and painting them by hand. But today, most Christmas decorations are mass-produced in China.

My first Christmas tree was a stately, 5-foot fir that was a little too tall for the living room ceiling and tilted ever so slightly to the left. It was beautiful. It smelled like Christmas and ...