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.

According to a recent video of his and Zooey Deschanel's holiday decorations, Johnathan Scott's is Nutcrackers. In the Christmas decor video posted on Drew + Johnathan, he states: 'I have so many ...

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 ...