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The beauty of Christmas, with its perfectly wrapped and coiffed tissue paper filled gift bags, is fading into last year’s memory, leaving you with the clean up. While having a pre-planned organizing system like a solid wood bookcase, shelving unit, armoire, cedar chest or trunk really expedites the clean-up, realize you should not even attempt […]

H olding a small tree or a branch the hooded belsnickle looks stern and judgmental as he travels from home to home for Christmas visitations. The symbolic Saint Nicholas figure known as a Belsnickle was known to leave a naughty child a whipping switch, very unlike the Santa Claus we have come to know and […]

The simple integrity of an Amish furniture craftsman is extended into how the Amish celebrate Christmas. Focusing on the reason for the season as much as they focus on the reason for a piece of home furnishing keeps their Christmas celebration spotlight first on the birth of the Christian Messiah and secondly on family and friends. […]