Posts Tagged ‘keepsake ornaments’
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Buy personalized ornaments made from optic crystal and leaded glass.
Looking for personalized ornaments? Wealthwood Gifts is a good resource for very nice crystal personalized Christmas ornaments. Each personalized ornament is engraved “in house” and that speeds up the lead time as well as helping to keep the standard of quality very high. Your keepsake ornaments can be delivered to your door in about two weeks. With less than 5 weeks before Christmas, it’s time to choose one of the optic crystal or full leaded personalized ornaments from the many designs at Wealthwood.com in time to fill the stockings or to say “thank you” to those special helpers you want to remember this year. With the many ideas for corporate ornaments, business owners will want to make sure that their logo is seen on personalized ornaments this year by their clients and potential customers. The possibilities are unlimited.
Article and images used with permission from Wealthwood.com
Tags: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, corporate ornaments, crystal ornaments, glass Ornaments, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
This multi-million dollar company is a world leader in ornaments.
ChemArt began as a one-man business in 1976, and they combine several techniques to create over 15 different lines of ornaments, including custom ornaments. Their ornament making process includes photo chemical etching, plating, and screen printing, and this is all done in one location in Rhode Island. Designing, creating, processing and marketing in one central place assures the high quality of each ornament. The staff at ChemArt is proud to tell you that all of their beautiful ornaments are made in America.
Founder and CEO Richard Beaupre is a chemist, and started ChemArt over 30 years ago. Mr. Beaupre’s special training as a chemist, his natural artistic talents, and his burning desire to have his own business all worked together to make the 33 year old business a success. He was able to apply his knowledge as a chemist to creating and processing the ornaments seen in the ChemArt collections such as Baldwin ornaments, Tropical ornaments, Christmas Symphony® ornaments, Toy Chest® ornaments, and so many more ”must-see” assortments.
You can find the ornaments in stores, but you may want to visit ChemArt first to narrow your choices. There are so many gorgeous ornaments to choose from. Enjoy!
Article and images used with permission from ChemArt.com
Tags: brass ornaments, Christmas, Christmas decorations, collectible ornaments, etched ornaments, handcrafted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, ornaments, wholesale ornaments
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Include every member of the family in a personalized ornament.
Montana artist Peggy Kupper has been in the personalized Christmas ornament business for over 25 years. Ornaments with family names have always been a favorite of her customers. However, until recently, she had no way for her customers to create an ornament to fit every size family and even change to growing families. Thus Peggy used her artistic talents and her creative mind to design the Family Charm Ornament line.
The concept behind the Family Charm Ornaments is simple but yet brilliant. Start with a header ornament and then select from a wide variety of different charms to build a unique personalized family keepsake that includes all the family members and the pets too. The end result… smiles and joy. The ornaments have been an instant hit with the customers who have so much fun designing and building them. Designs range from Christmas, wildlife, sports, mountain, ocean, cats, dogs, weddings, farm animals, and more.
With the success of the ornaments, Peggy enrolled the help of her family to build a website for these personalized ornaments, FamilyOrnament.com. As a family they needed to find an innovative but simple way to capture the smiles on the customer’s faces when they built these ornaments, and then somehow digitize that into a website. Peggy’s two sons Ben and Alex, who both have backgrounds in computers, set out to develop the website. Using a drag and drop concept with the website, they were able to give the customer virtually the same experience online building an ornament as they would if they were doing it in person. Through FamilyOrnament.com Peggy is able to offer her customers a unique approach to personalized family memories. Build your personalized ornament now.
Article and images used with permission from FamilyOrnament.com
Tags: Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, family ornaments, glass Ornaments, how to make ornaments, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Tim and Beth Merck keep the spirit of German glass ornaments alive.
The tradition of blown glass ornaments is known to have started in a small German town called Lauscha, sometime in the late 16th century. Originally, only glass balls were produced, but in 1847 Hans Greiner began producing glass ornaments in the shape of fruits and nuts using a glass blowing process that utilized molds to create the unique shapes. These glass ornaments were distributed throughout Europe, and in the 1880’s Woolworth’s began importing these German glass ornaments to sell in the United States – which soon proved to be a very lucrative business move.
In 1979, Tim and Beth Merck’s love of Christmas and its traditions inspired them to begin revitalizing the fine art of mouth-blown glass ornaments. Today, Merck Family’s Old World Christmas is a well known wholesale ornament producer, offering hundreds of fine glass ornaments from traditional fruit and nuts to all varieties of animals, cars, decorative bells and balls, flowers, houses and churches, angels, pirates, various renditions of Santa Claus, and much more.
Producing glass blown Christmas ornaments like the pieces offered by the Merck Family is a labor-intensive process that involves mouth-blowing molten glass into a mold and then pouring a hot solution of liquid silver inside the ornament. The Merck Family’s Old World Christmas ornaments are then hand-painted with fine details and dusted with glitter to add an even more magical appeal.
While the tradition of blown glass ornaments has been around since the 16th century, the grand appeal of these whimsical ornaments has not lost any of its popularity. Old World Christmas ornaments are hand made with pride. Browse the staggering collection of glass ornaments by Old World Christmas at the Christmas Treasures website.
Article and images used with permission from Christmas-Treasures.com
Tags: angel ornaments, Christmas, Christmas gifts, Christmas history, Christmas ornaments, Christmas traditions, collectible ornaments, German glass ornaments, glass Ornaments, handblown ornaments, handrafted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, Merck Family Ornaments, Old World Christmas Ornaments, santa ornaments
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
This is a great search tool if you are looking for unique ornaments.
If you are reading this blog, you have an interest in ornaments. Whether you are an avid ornaments collector , gift buyer, or just love anything beautiful and creative, you will want to look at The Ornament Finder on Ornaments.com. There are already over 3,000 ornaments listed and many are unique ornaments such as the images pictured on this page. In the next few weeks, we will be inviting more and more ornaments artists and designers to include their latest creations in the new search tool.
Our very creative webmaster has poured his heart into this program, so that our readers and guests will be able to find new ornaments, vintage ornaments, and hard to find ornaments. This idea came about because so many of our visitors have contacted us to ask where they can find specific ornaments. They know exactly what they want and their requests are sometimes very detailed. Mostly, they want a unique ornament that they already see in their mind, but haven’t been able to find it in stores and they don’t know how to produce it themselves. Chances are that one of the ornament artists or ornament vendors listed on The Ornament Finder has just what you want or will be willing to customize an ornament for you. We are grateful that you come to Ornaments.com to find ornaments. Now your search will be even easier. Find ornaments fast with The Ornament Finder.
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Each unique basswood Christmas ornament can be personalized.
A licensed artist with Great American Collectibles, sculptor Robert Francis is a self-taught artist who has turned his love of wood and sculpture into a thriving online business at RFStudio.com. We were astonished to learn that he creates all of the ornament designs without ever touching a pencil to paper. The graphic design is already in his mind before he begins each ornament, and in that artist mode, creativity flows, and another matchless wooden ornament is formed. Then, the handcrafted basswood ornament is hand painted with bright and cheerful hues. That beautiful hand painting is the “icing on the cake.â€
From his home studio in Syracuse, New York, Robert Francis spends the day around his snowmen ornaments, angel, santa and folk ornaments. His shelves also include wonderful figurines for Christmas, as well as other holidays. But he doesn’t get to keep the ornaments and figurines around long, because once he displays them on RFStudio.com, the ornaments usually sell out very quickly as does his other artwork. As you can see from the close up image of the snowman ornament, it is attention to detail that sets the hand carved wooden ornaments apart from the ordinary, and each of the ornaments are designed to be unique and one-of-a-kind with a personality of its own. No two ornaments can ever be identical!
The artist will accept commissions to create special heirloom orders. If you have an ornament design in mind, you can take advantage of Robert’s years of experience and his natural talents to bring that design to life. Contact him through the studio today for an appointment to discuss your keepsake ornament. Mention Ornaments.com or enter the word “ornaments” in the coupon manager at the time of the order and receive 20% off of any purchase!
Article and images used with permission from rfstudio.com.
Tags: angel ornaments, Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, handcrafted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, santa ornaments, snowman ornaments, wooden ornaments
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
How many Northwest landmarks can you recognize?
The name PortlandOrnament.com gives us a clue as what to expect in the way of ornament designs, and Portland and Seattle sites are the focus of most of the ornaments, but the ornaments are not entirely limited to the Pacific Northwest. Even though you will see very nice ornaments depicting well known sites such as Pikes Place Market in Seattle and OMSI in Portland, the specialty ornaments range from Baby’s First Christmas to the delightful snowman that seems to be ready to dance right out of the computer on to your Christmas tree.
PortlandOrnament.com offers an annual issue ornament, and we northwesteners especially await the new design each year. The Portland ornament for 2009 celebrates the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s statehood and is pictured above. The 2009 Specialty ornament is the “I am an Individual” ornament which honors the resiliency of cancer patients and this limited edition ornament can be personalized as well.
Northwest companies and charitable events are also represented by the ornaments at PortlandOrnament.com such as the ornament they created in 1998 to celebrate the Nike World Masters Games. The detail and careful workmanship of each ornament is very precise, and the Portland and Seattle ornaments are plated with 24 karat gold and are silk screen enameled. Collectors will love that these unique and exclusively produced ornaments are hand numbered and come with a “story” about the historical landmark.
Article and images used with permission from PortlandOrnament.com.
Tags: collectible ornaments, handcrafted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, memorial ornaments, pacific northwest, pacific northwest ornaments, portland ornaments, seattle ornaments
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Collecting Christmas ornaments creates lasting Christmas memories.
We gaze at them—bright, shiny, glittering glass rainbows of color that conjure up joyful memories of so many Christmases past and the promise of so many Christmases yet to come. There are round prisms where the colors change before your eyes as they seem to dance in the warm lights strung on the tree with the glow of nearby candlelight.
Who doesn’t get a little excited at the sight of the first ornament being hung on the family Christmas tree? How many of us are comforted by seeing our favorite ornaments adorning the tree year after year, no matter what other things in our lives may have changed? And who doesn’t gently and a little bit wistfully pack their treasured ornaments away after the holiday’s memories are made, to be revisited next year like old friends who have a cherished place in our hearts?
The staff and artisans at The Glass Noel believe in the spirit of Christmas, and it is their hope that they can add to your enjoyment of the holidays through their colorful glass ornaments. Since each one of their glass ornaments is hand-painted on the inside, no two are the same. Each unique glass ornament is lovingly created by the artists at The Glass Noel, and each handpainted ornament is a numbered original design, making it a perfect collectible heirloom-quality gift for family, co-workers, friends, or as a keepsake adornment for your own Christmas tree for years to come.
If you are in the southeastern United States, you can still catch one of their ornament shows and see the unique handpainted glass ornaments up close. If you can’t get to their show, you can enjoy visiting The Glass Noel online and choosing a new favorite ornament for your ornament collection.
Article and images used with permission from TheGlassNoel.com
Tags: Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, collectible ornaments, glass Ornaments, handcrafted ornaments, handpainted ornaments, keepsake ornaments
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
The quilted ornaments can be customized from your wedding materials.
The artist at Dusty Oak Ornaments is Sandy, and she says that she uses a very old pattern to create her ornaments, and that she has gradually adapted the vintage patterns to fit her own creative style. There is certainly nothing lacking in creativity here. From school bus ornaments to fancy pink silk ornaments, there really is something for everyone to enjoy in Sandy’s ornaments designs.
The quilted ornaments are handcrafted, using combinations of many types of fabrics and ribbons, including some designer fabrics. The customized ornaments are made to celebrate every holiday or special event and are perfect for year-round Christmas trees. A single ornament stand on a desk top or table can be changed out to add a little charm for holidays or seasonal changes.
Sandy says that her favorite ornaments to make are the wedding keepsake ornaments, because each bride has her own unique ornament made from the materials actually used for the wedding. “It’s such a joy to me to know that one of my ornaments has become a treasure and brings happy memories to its owner.†Sandy’s passion for the custom made ornaments is contagious and understandable as evidenced by the gallery of ornaments that she has produced over the years.
Dusty Oak Ornaments offers very nice pastel quilted ornaments that make lovely gifts for the Mom-to-be at baby showers or for a Baby’s first Christmas gift. The Fall Collection at Dusty Oak Ornaments is timely and clever and I’m sure you will want to bookmark her site to see what she has in store for Christmas ornaments this year as well.
Article and images used with permission from DustyOakOrnaments.com
Tags: Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, handrafted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments, quilted ornaments, wedding ornaments
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Make your own Vintage Ornaments with Ornament Project Kits.
Decorating your home can be a fun family tradition to be looked forward to all year. Preparing for the holidays can involve everyone in the household with preparations and decoration projects for months in advance.
The website name 32 Degrees North was chosen by the owners as the name because that is the latitude of San Diego County (where their family has lived since 1881). Amanda Rigney said that they wanted a name that reflects who they are and where they come from but also reflects well on what they make. She says that creating has always been something they’ve done. Every year her family made ornaments and decorations for themselves, and they decided in 2006 to expand on their collection and make it available to others who love Christmas and heirloom quality pieces made in small quantities.
Hand-crafted with meticulous attention to detail, 32 Degrees North ornaments are one-of-a-kind and many of the ornaments are limited editions, made in very small quantities. There are sets of ornaments available which are presented in a very nice wooden keepsake box for gift giving and protecting the fragile ornaments. The ornament sets are lovely and would please collectors and gift recipients any time of year.
By using vintage and authentic elements, the designers are able to create vintage-inspired ornaments in the noble tradition of Victorian craftsmen. From design to construction to finishing, they spend hours carefully detailing each piece with carefully chosen elements to capture the charm and elegance of traditional ornaments and decorations. 32 Degrees North’s website at vintage-ornaments.com has become well known to Victorian ornaments collectors and their vintage ornaments have appeared in the Victorian Homes magazine, a testimony of how committed the designers are to creating ornaments in the authentic Victorian style
For those who want to try their hand at creating their own vintage ornaments, you can purchase a select sampling of unique supplies, like scraps, Dresden trims and foils, spun glass, fancy papers, as well as ready-to-make project kits. The project kits have everything that you need to create your own vintage ornaments and decorations in one kit. With the easy to follow instructions, you will be able to design bottle brush trees, vintage inspired ornaments, tree toppers and more. You may find that making ornaments together is such a fun family project, that you will want to create ornaments for other holidays besides Christmas.
Amanda and her family are proud to showcase their collection of handmade ornaments and decorations and hope that the vintage ornaments will find a place in your family’s celebrations and traditions to be enjoyed for many years to come.
Article and images used with permission from 32 Degrees North.
Tags: Christmas ornaments, keepsake ornaments, ornament supplies, ornaments kits, Victorian ornaments, vintage ornaments
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