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 ...

️ Gather enough Christmas lights ... the branches can scratch. Divide your tree into vertical sections. Starting at the bottom of one section, string the lights in a zig-zag pattern up ...

These big, artificial trees start with a steel skeleton. Rollers bend steel tubing into arcs. They'll be joined to form the base of the framework. Workers weld vertical supports to the arcs ...

The modern Christmas tree tradition began in Germany in the ... placing the tree topper on the highest vertical branch of the tree. You can choose any kind of ornament, but the sturdiest have ...