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10,000 Personalized Ornaments?

Friday, April 15th, 2011

 Free Personalization at Ornaments & More

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With over 18 years of experience as a successful ornament vendor, you would think that the owner of Ornaments & More would be tempted to “rest on her laurels” and just continue with what has worked in the past.  However, there is no evidence that owner/founder Ellen has a complacent bone in her body.  Ellen and the staff at Ornaments &  More keep up with the latest technology, and they are very active in social networking.   They are busy year round researching and making improvements, so their site always appears fresh and new.   There is a very welcoming atmosphere of customer appreciation and a willingness to listen to individual customers.  Ellen also diligently follows market trends in order to provide the best selection of ornaments possible.  

Not only is navigating Ornaments and More  easy and fun, it is set up in such an organized way that you will find exactly what you need in a very short time.  There are over 3,100 ornaments and at least 10,000 ideas on how to personalize them for just the right gift. You will find everything from hospice nurse volunteer angel ornaments to African safari ornaments and pretty much everything in between.  There are categories for just about every walk of life as well as sub categories to find the perfect keepsake ornament.  There is even a “Sale of the Season” category for discounted ornaments and you can register to receive discount offers by email. 

Their latest blog on Mother’s Day ornaments may just be what you are looking for to choose Mom’s gift this year.  Perfectly timed for Mother’s Day is a storewide moving sale with a coupon offer.  The business is growing in leaps and bounds and needs more space for the new 2011 line of ornaments.  Use code MOVE11 at checkout to receive 15% off of your order.  The code is valid until May 20, 2011.  With affordable pricing and this great discount, now is a good time to plan your gifts for the entire year.  Personalized ornaments are a wonderful way to celebrate graduations, engagements, birthdays, weddings, new jobs and so much more, so see what’s new in 2011 at OrnamentsandMore.com today.

Article and images used with permission from OrnamentsandMore.com

 
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Personalized Ornaments Are Keepers

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

When it comes to personalized ornaments, the possibilities are endless.

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Shopping for Christmas ornaments at GiftsForYouNow.com presents a delightful menu of choices for your family, teacher, minister, employees, business associates, or just anyone that you want to say a special “thank you” to during the holidays.   The folks at GiftForYouNow.com  have a large selection of meaningful Christmas ornaments that are suitable for any recipient, whether it be your children, spouse, friends, co-workers or teachers.  Christmas ornaments make the perfect gift ideas that are treasured year after year, and all of the ornaments at this well organized site can either be personalized with a single name or the names of your whole family.  At GiftsForYouNow.com, you will see many choices for Christmas ornaments that are engraved, painted or printed with unique designs and personalization.  Choose from a wide selection of Engraved Oval Glass Ornaments, Printed Round Ceramic Ornaments or Hand Painted Resin Ornaments to find the perfect custom ornament to meet your needs.

Gingerbread Photo House Engraved Christmas OrnamentPersonalized Christmas ornaments are also ideal gifts for grab bags, exchanges, stocking stuffers or any life changing event.  You might want to give personalized ornaments to a newlywed couple celebrating their first Christmas together, a mother expecting her first child, someone who has just graduated or to a baby for their first Christmas.  More and more, we see gift buyers using custom printed ornaments to mark special occasions and many people order a personalized ornament to celebrate a new baby.  Then they continue the tradition by personalizing an ornament for the child each year.  All of these unique ornaments are perfect to complement any event.   They give you a chance at the end of the year to look back at all of the good times, and the personalized ornaments will remind your gift recipients of these fond memories for years to come.  Christmas will take on a new meaning each and every single year when you give personalized Christmas ornaments.

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Catch an Image – Personalized Ornaments

Friday, April 30th, 2010

                 

The name Catch an Image gives you a glimpse as to what you might expect from this versatile ornament business.  The only limitation to the ornament design is your imagination.  Owners Danny and Mindi Searcy run the  photo ornament business in which they put logos, pictures, wording of all kinds on sports and family ornaments.  Danny modestly says that he makes pretty cool ornaments.  I think you will agree that the Searcys have developed an interesting method of creating ornaments that has evolved from the scientific into the artistic. 

They say that the process is pretty simple, but that it takes some practice to get it right.  The ornaments at Catch an Image are made from pvc plastic with an air valve inside the ornament. The ornaments are not breakable, so there are no trips to the emergency room to get brightly colored glass out of your bare foot.  The process involves capturing an image through taking a picture with an ordinary or digital camera, or using an image a customer emails, or using a printed photo which the staff scans onto a computer.  Any image can be put on these ornaments, and the Searcys have designed ornaments for their customers that include everything from baby pictures to sports teams to weddings. 

After the image is scanned to the computer, it is  either inserted into a simple program template, or a new design is created especially to suit the image.  Once the design is finished, it is printed on a special printer that uses transfer paper.  The image is printed out in reverse so that when the image is placed on a ball or ornament,  it is facing the right way. After the image is cut to size and taped to the ornament, it is put in a heat press, using various pressures.  Next, the ornament is fitted with the hanger and sprayed with either a matte, or glossy finish.  Now the ornament is complete. 

Danny and Mindi both have full time jobs, but they really enjoy making ornaments and sports balls for businesses and individuals. Many of their customers put images of their pets on ornaments, and Danny says that he and his wife have even been asked to attend family reunions to make ornaments for entire families. For golden wedding anniversaries, they have had people bring them vintage pictures of their parents and ask him to design ornaments depicting the couple 50 years ago and another ornament with a present day image of the anniversary couple.

New parents send in their baby photos to put on ornaments and then send in a new photo each year, eventually filling the entire tree with pictures of their children from newborn to grownup.  Now, that is a gift that Grandma would love.

Article and images used with permission from catchanimage.com

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Collecting Christmas Ornaments for Kids

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Collecting Christmas ornaments for children can be a fun adventure!

            

The folks at Pence Christmas Tree Farms have good advice when choosing ornaments for children and they are gearing up for the holidays already.  They will make sure that all of their ornaments for children are ready by June, so bookmark their Santa’s Workshop. 

Age Appropriate:

Baby’s First Christmas ornaments are plentiful and come in a variety of materials and price ranges for every budget. Christmas ornaments make nice keepsake gifts to package with “disposable” baby shower gifts which are so popular. New mothers love getting diapers, wipes, lotions, formula – all those necessary items for the little one. Coupling a basket of “disposables” with a specially selected keepsake Christmas ornament makes that baby gift even more special.

Keep in mind that Christmas ornaments are not toys, even though many are designed after toys and resemble toys. Materials are a consideration also. Obviously glass is breakable, so in the early years you may want to gift some ornaments made of resin, plastic, Claydough, wood, felt and fabrics. When choosing glass ornaments, stay with reputable companies that make it well known that their paints and glitters are lead free. Inge-Glas of Germany and Merck Family’s Old World Christmas are two examples.

Memorable Event:

Beautiful Christmas trees are in fact – beautiful. All kids love brightly decorated trees with candy canes, lights and balls, but the best Christmas tree memories will be those associated with special ornaments. In the toddler years, you may want to collect ornaments to keep memories alive of favorite toys, songs, books, food, etc. Ornaments representing storybook classics and nursery rhymes are easily found.

Special times such as zoo visits, birthday parties, haircuts, loss of first tooth, vacations – are great times to choose ornaments. When children are very young, you may have to take the ornament and remind them where the special ornament came from or the “remember when….” event. But don’t worry….they’ll get it quick enough. It won’t be anytime before they will be pointing out “their” special ornament and the tales will begin to flow. School brings on another host of wonderful opportunities! First day, first bus ride, classroom, teacher, backpack, lunchbox and so on. More memorable events include recitals, sports, dance, gymnastics, karate, band, Sunday school and church functions, movies, makeup, music, cars, trucks..even dental visits and checkups!

Holidays and celebrations are a perfect time to give ornaments. Even when small children may not have the capacity to appreciate the ornament gift, you can couple it with a toy, book or whatever the gift so they will have some “now” and the keepsake ornament as a remembrance for later. Halloween is a wonderful time for ornament giving. Matching an ornament to the costume or memory from a Halloween party is great.

 

Storage:

Each child needs their own special box, one that will last several years. Shopping for this box, or creating it can be a wonderful excursion or rainy day project. All you need is a good sturdy box, one with dividers would be great, but just improvise as you have too. Paper plates work well as dividers.

Some say cardboard, some say plastic – if you’re not storing a priceless ornament collection – I say whatever is convenient – as long as it is stored in a controlled temperature setting. No basements or attics. The top of a closet is great. While you want easy access to the box so you can add to it all year long, you don’t want this to be a plaything. Ornaments are to be gently held, admired, then safely stored away until you decorate the tree. Plain boxes can be painted and decorated. Small wooden chests are also great for children’s treasures especially as they get older.

There are hundreds of ornament vendors that are ready to help you on your adventure.  Just enter your child’s favorite color in The Ornament Finder search at the top of this page and see where it leads you.  Enjoy!

Article and images used with permission from TrendyTree.com

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Customers Help Design New Ornaments

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Personalized ornaments designer Russell Rhodes launches a new line for youth.

Texas based ornaments designer and manufacturer Russell Rhodes is proud to announce his newest signature line of baby ornaments, kids ornaments and ornaments for youngsters. The newest customer-driven line of personalized ornaments came as a direct result of designs submitted by customers and combinations of ornaments ideas sent in by customers.

Russell Rhodes says, “I can’t tell you how much fun it’s been designing exactly what customers are asking for. In the past, I’ve either designed what other ornaments designers thought people might like, or the final personalized ornaments collection stemmed from pages upon pages of analytical research on trends and shopping behavior and all this marketing lingo that does its best to guess at what the average consumer will want for Christmas ornaments 2 years from now. Now, there’s no research and no following requests based on guesswork. We consider ourselves incredibly lucky to enjoy a very involved, highly motivated customer base who knows what they want. It’s as simple as that. We’re asking. And they’re telling us.”

Last year, Russell Rhodes began aggressively surveying their customer base. They asked the customers what they needed or wanted in terms of Christmas decorations. They asked their customers what materials they wanted and questions like when is price important and when does price take a second seat or even a back seat when they are looking for personalized Christmas ornaments. Initially their questions were fairly broad in an attempt to give a specific design direction, but the responses were extraordinarily precise. The ornament collectors and ornament gift buyers are buying because they want to decorate or they need a gift and they know exactly what’s important and what’s not. Russell Rhodes realized they were clearly not selling “impulse buys.” Not only were the vast majority of answers highly specific, but people also sent in ornaments sketches, some of them even professionally drawn and colored showing exactly where it was to become a personalized ornament.

The primary focus in the series is baby ornaments and kids ornaments . The baby ornaments include everything from the moon and stars, to Noah’s ark and animals, circus themes, teddy bears and rocking horses. The ornaments for kids series adds dinosaurs, space ships, aliens, jet skis and just about everything kids can get in to. The design styles range from the cute and whimsical, to highly artistic, detailed blown glass ornaments. Russell adds, “When you’re designing even something as specific as baby ornaments and kids ornaments for a wide range of customers, and you’re doing what they ask for, you are not limited to a specific marketing trend. It’s been wonderful to create Christmas decorations for all sorts of tastes and budgets, all in the same year, and for a specific kind of ornament gift recipient.”

Ornaments.com has more resources for personalized ornaments in addition to the hundreds of personalized ornaments at Russell Rhodes.

Article and images used with permission from RussellRhodes.com

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