December is upon us — time to put up the tree and pull the dusty box (or boxes) marked “Xmas” out of the crawl space. But, one expert suggests, before you decorate the traditional conifer ...

Why This Tree Is a Game-Changer. A couple of years back, I designed a spiral Christmas tree that truly took off like wildfire ...

Forget decking the halls – the latest Christmas decoration trend is for “minimalist” trees with metal branches. Designs proving popular with shoppers include skeletal-like wooden structures ...

But Anneli Widenfalk, toxicologist at the Swedish agency, told AFP in an email that the Swedish custom of collecting and using needles from young saplings is safe – if in limited quantities. "This is ...

Take a close look at your Christmas tree -- it has seven times more genetic material (DNA) than you do! Why this is so is still largely unknown, but now the DNA of the spruce is going to be mapped ...

Go ahead and recycle your Christmas tree. But please, the Belgian authorities say, don’t try to eat it. The country’s federal food agency delivered that unusual warning this week after a ...

Your Scandinavian Christmas tree is ready. Keep gifting practical & experiential - Consider gifts that are experiential, such as tickets to an event, an activity etc.

The Christmas tree is most people’s stress-point when it comes to festive decor. Linda proposes seeking beauty in refinement. Start with a modest evergreen fir tree – and since we are after ...

As to the question of whether the tower of wooden stools can indeed be considered a Christmas tree, Ms Yeap said that over the past decade, the mall has been working with its long-term branding ...

Sweden has a lot of trees, therefore Sweden has a lot of wood, which is used in many cases for making useful household items, such as kitchen utensils. Well-crafted spoons, mugs and bowls, cutting ...