Dec. 2—Using thousands of white and gold beads and 82 patterns, 14 women spent hundreds of hours creating more than 240 Chrismon ornaments. The beaded Chrismons, which appear in the shape of crowns, ...

Melanie Rufty Beaver conducted a two-day Chrismon workshop March 13 and 14 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury. Beaver and her parents, Harold and Barbara Rufty, have played a part in the ...

Making Chrismons became my therapy,” Swaney said. To prepare for the Advent season, which begins on Sunday and culminates with Christmas, Swaney and her Chrismon-making crew spent an hour-and-a-half ...