Forest animals, mushrooms, and bristle ornaments mix the natural and the fantastical -- and bring texture to your tree.

Create your own festive decoration by filling glass ornaments with sprigs of holly, bayberry, and evergreens.

Made of woolly white pom-poms, felt, and ribbon, this frosty friend never has to melt. Just add a loop to the hat, and he becomes an ornament. 

The basic technique for all the ornaments is the same. Bend a pipe cleaner in half and twist once at the top for a loop.

Colorful ornaments stand out against the dense branches of a Nordmann fir.

A dreamy mobile, crafted from iced cookie cutouts strung from a painted embroidery hoop, is a simple, pretty decoration.

Drum-shaped ornaments are among the most iconic Christmas decorations. But you don't need to scour antiques stores and flea markets to drum up your own set -- all it takes to make the ornaments are plain wooden boxes, festive ribbon, and glue.

Just like the real thing, no two of our wax snowflakes are exactly alike. To create them, we used a special cookie cutter set that contains separate pieces for making cutouts.

Bows are always in style at the holidays, and this year they have an added cachet: These festive accents are the darlings of couture, showing up in fresh and inspiring forms on every item of clothing imaginable. Combine their classic and current appeal by outfitting your abode in all sorts of bows.

Try your hand at origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, with these delicate tissue stars.

Echo this holiday luster at home with decorations bedecked with tinsel and glitter.

Create your own jasperware ornaments using Paperclay modeling material and German springerle-cookie molds, or paint store-bought architectural ornaments.

These template ornaments are so simple -- and inexpensive -- to create that you could fill a whole tree with them.

These refined ornaments -- some brightened with gold or silver leaf, others tinted in soft pastels -- are among the dozens adorning Martha's own tree.

Homemade 3-D ornaments are made from bits of fabric stitched together and stuffed with quilt batting.

It's easy to adjust the proportions of the pipe-cleaner pieces to ensure that no two snowflakes on your tree are alike.

Add beauty and history to your tree: These delicate white ornaments, made with off-white oven-bake clay and a piercing tool, were inspired by pierced creamware, first popularized by Leeds Pottery, in England, in the 18th century.

For sea-inspired ornaments, dust shells with glitter and add tinsel for tentacles.

Dust shells, sea stars, and sand dollars with glitter -- a single color, or two shades blended for an ombre effect -- or simply leave as is.

Up the elegance of this year's Christmas tree with beautiful celestial ornaments like these hand-tied ribbon stars.

Add sparkly stripes to shells with glitter and a glue pen for a Christmas tree that shines.