Carved ornaments hang on a tree at Hospice & Community Care’s Bob Fryer & Family Inpatient Center with 125 handcrafted wooden holiday ornaments Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

Some say it’s therapeutic. Some say it’s creative. Some say it’s relaxing, a social outlet or even an antidote to PTSD.

And while McVety paints his Christmas ornaments with acrylics, and gives other pieces a coat of urethane, or oil, its always the grain and feel of the wood itself that fascinates him.

I took the video above in one of the showrooms at the Dallas market. The showrooms are just gorgeous and you can get so many decorating ideas if you can just remember them all. So I take a lot of ...

“I’m someone who enjoys carving wood and giving it away, which is what we do at Christmas.” Anyway, he said, it’s rare to make a living as a wood carver in this country — too time consuming.

Ottawa Ornaments carved from scrapped Kingston bridge keep its memory and 'music' alive Hearts, diamonds and rings are made from the now demolished LaSalle Causeway bridge ...

PALM CITY, Fla. — It's a Christmas tradition like no other. Jim Phelps, an expert woodworker, makes wooden Christmas ornaments. Phelps and his wife, LaVerne Phelps, have a 12-foot Christmas tree ...

The beauty of the Christmas season can be shown in the intricate ornaments collected & simply displayed with a centerpiece traditionally formed with evergreen boughs.

NUREMBERG, Germany — Nativity scenes carved of wood, ornaments, candles, children’s toys, gingerbread cookies in myriad shapes, sausages and mulled wine sipped in painted glass mugs.

Chuck Adams looks past the branches of the 7-foot Christmas tree in his living room and directly at every cut and stroke of the more than 170 hand-carved ornaments on them.

Tracy Hubbard remembers her family falling silent in the car so they could listen to the "Singing Bridge" in Kingston, Ont. — the hum of tires on the bridge's grating that formed part of the ...