Use these upcycled holiday card boxes to package tiny gifts, decorate your tree or build homemade advent calendars. My grandma taught me how to make these small origami boxes when I was a little girl.

You've set the Christmas table the same way year after year, most likely with the same red and gold porcelain and the same slowly dimming silverware—oh dear, did you forget to polish them again? This ...

I remember my mother used to decorate our tree with the most painstaking DIY ornaments, like the tiny paper origami stars we made one year and the stings of popcorn (yes, you read that right! popcorn!