Thirty-three years ago, Mary Myers carved and painted her first nutcracker because she thought the ones in stores looked too shiny and new — too perfect. That day in 1989, the Virginia Beach resident ...

For family-founded Steinbach Volkskunst, the company’s most reliable market has become its biggest bureaucratic headache.

For years, my 92-year-old Father collected wooden nutcrackers. He amassed a colorful collection of figural nutcrackers, mainly from America, Italy and Germany. They were fun to collect and attractive ...

Arlene Wagner has been collecting nutcrackers for nearly 50 years. Now, she's got one of the largest collections in the world ...