Until recently, there was only one way to hide the stand holding your Christmas tree: a skirt. And there are some wonderful tree skirts, both vintage and new, available to choose from. But in the past few years, tree collars have become a fashionable option for dressing up the base of your tree. Let's explore some of the ways you can create your own look for your tree's base. 

We love looking for those things that take center stage on your table: interesting vessels, curated groupings of candlesticks, and all sorts of wood trays, molds and bowls. But as Thanksgiving approaches, you may want to incorporate some additional elements into your table decor, so we rounded up some of our favorite ideas just in time for you to set a fabulous table for friends and family.

Our longtime love of wood is well-documented. Especially when we find it formed into chippy spindles, old cubbies, drawers or nooks and crannies for holding odds-and-ends.

This is the second installment in a mini-series on decorating with old wood boxes, bowls and molds, and today's featured item is a relatively obscure one: the cheese mold. Not to be confused with moldy cheese, this wood board with shallow round holes is a versatile item for decorating, even if its role in the history of  cheese-making is a little obscure.