Story by Cymbre Foster Photos by Tessa Lighty & Jan-Michael Stump Nov 28, 2018 Nov 28, 2018 Editor's note: This article was published in Grand Traverse Scene magazine's Holidays 2018 issue.

They were made of blown-glass beads strung into shapes ... As I would see other ornaments, I would want to know which vintage they were.” As DeHamer showed her collection, she spun a century ...

Charles Beck, an artist who lives in Mount Airy, has been collecting antique Victorian Christmas ... Beck’s Christmas collection includes hand-blown glass ornaments, Santa candy boxes, angels ...

Some of the trees themselves are vintage, made from goose feathers. The most stunning of the bunch is a 9-foot-tall tree decorated with an array of mouth-blown glass ornaments from Italy dating ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A group of students put their creative skills to the test, with extreme temperatures and molten glass. "It's running at 2100 degrees. It's on 24-7, 365 days a year," Jon ...

That’s definitely a more solemn origin story. Old World Christmas, a shop that sells traditional, mouth-blown glass ornaments (including quite a few pickle ornaments) prints the origin “story ...