Here's What Happened One of our tried-and-true tips for holiday decorating on a budget is to DIY where you can, and you can get just about everything you need to make this nutcracker from the ...

While the standard "soldier" form is, in part, what makes a modern nutcracker, clever crafters are adding their own styling to adapt the adored holiday decor item to almost any design scheme.

Someone suggested decorating storefront windows with nutcrackers. Her husband suggested scaling that idea up. NELSON: We had a manufacturing company, and we primarily make, like, religious art ...