Picture-perfect, color-coordinated Christmas ... re just not my family's cup of tea. Instead, we prefer decking out our balsam fir with a swath of mismatched, mostly homemade ornaments, and ...

Like many Christmas trees, ours tells our family’s story, beginning with the ornament of a skier tangling from a glass bell with a snowflake attached to the bottom of his skis that my husband ...

By Ronda Kaysen Growing up, I thought Christmas ornaments were tchotchkes you bought at CVS — shiny, uniform bulbs that came in neat packages of eight. In my secular Jewish family, it never ...

a ballerina figurine and a family photo of Ripa, Consuelos and one of their children. The impressive tree also featured classic Christmas-themed ornaments and quirky decorative pieces.