Posts Tagged ‘personalized ornaments’
Friday, May 14th, 2010
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
It was around 400 BC that Plato said necessity is the mother of invention, but that maxim could easily apply to the early days of FMH Collectibles. Self taught artist and owner Frances McFarland began painting ornaments because she wanted to give Christmas presents to her family and friends at a time when her funds were very limited. What was unlimited was her creativity and passion for art, and that boundless artistic ability took shape in the form of beautiful handpainted glass ornaments. There seemed to be no end to Frances’ resourcefulness.
Frances McFarland Horne still credits her family with planting the seeds for this thriving ornaments business. Her mother suggested she create custom ornaments for family members one Christmas, just after Frances had finished grad school and money was too tight for Christmas shopping. From then on, Frances painted ornaments and tailored them to each family member. A few years later, her brother started pushing her to go into business after she gave him an ornament representing his fraternity, and her father extolled the advantages of e-commerce.
Frances finally followed her family’s advice in 2009. She applied for licensing from several Greek-letter organizations and began building her website, and a family tradition became an online business. FMH Collectibles was “invented” out of the need to create personal ornaments as gifts. Although much of her made-to-order work is for fraternities and sororities, the handpainted glass ornaments can be personalized for wedding favors, birthday gifts, graduation gifts and class reunions.
Custom ornaments are available at the FMH Collectibles website for anywhere from $15.00 to $30.00. Discounts are available for larger orders, and a wholesale program is available for retailers. Visit the site to order your ornament, and become a fan of her page on Facebook to receive updates.
Article and images used with permission from FMHcollectibles.com.
Tags: Christmas, Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, collectible ornaments, corporate ornaments, fraternity ornaments, glass Ornaments, graduation ornaments, handpainted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, logo ornaments, personalized ornaments, sorority ornaments, wedding ornaments
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Personalized ornaments are a great way to honor graduates of all ages.
The staff at OrnamentsAndMore.com is very enthusiastic about expanding their site and adding new and exciting products. Right now, they say that it’s time to celebrate Spring! 
Graduation ornaments are a big seller this time of year. Add Pomp and Circumstance to a recent graduate’’s Christmas tree this season with a graduation ornament from Ornaments and More. Browse through their selection of graduation Christmas ornaments to find the one that is perfect for the graduate in your life. Mark this important milestone in a student’s life with a graduation ornament personalized with the graduate’s name, school or university that they graduated from, and the year of graduation.
The traveling Ornaments.com team has noticed an increase in ornaments being used to decorate offices, homes, vehicles, and schools year round. Ornaments are becoming very popular as gifts for all occasions, and personalized graduate ornaments are in vogue as gifts for everyone from high school graduates to doctoral candidates. Retailers are noticing the trend too, as evidenced by more ornaments vendors online as well as the extra space that brick and mortar stores are consigning to ornaments now.
Consider a graduation ornament to honor and commemorate a graduate’s achievements and a job well done! A treasured keepsake personalized graduation ornament helps the graduate remember his high school and college graduations with great pride and a real sense of accomplishment for many years to come. “ConGRADulate” someone who has just earned a degree from law school, medical school, nursing school or pharmacy school with a meaningful ornament from Ornamentsandmore.com. The best part is that the graduation Christmas ornaments you order will be professionally personalized FREE of charge by one of their highly-skilled calligraphers with the utmost care. The ornaments are delightful and the personalization is the “icing on the cake.”
OrnamentsAndMore.com also offers one of kind Baby’s First Christmas ornaments, Engagement & Wedding ornaments plus many more unique gift ideas! Be sure to check out their newly added “Best Sellers”, “What’s New for 2010?” and “1st Christmas Ornaments” categories. You will find exceptional quality at an affordable price and your personalized ornament will be remembered and enjoyed for a life time.
Article and images used with permission from OrnamentsAndMore.com.
Tags: collectible ornaments, college ornaments, graduation, graduation gifts, graduation ornaments, high school graduation, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments, school ornaments
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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
Tags: baby ornaments, baby's first Christmas ornaments, Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, collectible ornaments, corporate ornaments, how to make ornaments, ornaments, personalized ornaments, pet ornaments, photo ornaments
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Family owned business personalizes ornaments for families around the world.
No matter what the size of your family, TreasuredOrnaments.com has the perfect ornament for you. They have ornaments for single parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, families of 12, and everything in between. Ready to personalize, each polymer-resin ornament is carefully designed to suit every family’s needs, but some of the ornaments are so cute, that you may want to purchase them without personalization. Their center for selling ornaments is at the Merced Mall in Merced, California. Online for 6 years, they are set up to ship ornaments worldwide.
In addition to traditional family ornaments, they have a nice collection of licensed ornaments from Elvis to Betty Boop to Coca Cola, and these unique ornaments can all be personalized as well. There are also plenty of children’s ornaments available, such as Hello Kitty, My Little Pony and many of the characters from Sesame Street.
You won’t be disappointed in the customer service at TreasuredOrnaments.com either. They are committed to their customers and want to make sure that you are 100% pleased with your personalized ornaments. With free personalization and only 3 days lead time before shipment, this is a wonderful source for ornaments for every holiday.
Article and images used with permission from TreasuredOrnaments.com
Tags: Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, clay ornaments, family ornaments, handpainted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Customized ornaments at their best…..
Design artist, Duke Marcoccio started My Little Town in 1999. His first village piece came out in 2004, which was the Narragansett Towers porcelain lighted building. Duke says that the success of that one piece inspired him to come out with several other porcelain buildings in the following years. A Rhode Island native, it was in 2007 that he decided to create an ornament collection of Rhode Island icons. The overwhelming response to those ornaments helped Marcoccio to realize that this was the new direction for MyLittleTown.com. Now his personalized ornaments and villages are so popular that he has a hard time keeping up with the demand on several pieces.
The creative customized ornaments and village pieces that are offered here are very unique and Duke says that he wants the public and businesses to know that he can create almost anything as an ornament. He is already taking orders from businesses and groups for 2010. Many businesses send the customized ornaments of their building, trucks, products, or logos as corporate gifts to their valued clients. The customized ornaments also are a great fundraising idea for churches or schools.
Every piece is designed personally by Duke Marcoccio. The ornaments are made of resin because you can get the most detail from this material as apposed to porcelain. He has used the knowledge from his degrees in art as well as in photography and design and has paired that knowledge with his natural talents and creativity to develop this truly one-of-a-king website.
Duke’s favorite design is the Blizzard of 78, because it’s the most creative and he wanted to recreate the way so many of us went shopping during the blizzard. He says that at the time it was almost like a living Norman Rockwell experience.
However, the most popular ornament on MyLittleTown.com seems to be the U S Navy Fighting Seabee. Marcoccio tells us, “This piece reaches out to a global audience and happens to be the most intricate piece I have created, along with taking the most time to create. The average ornament takes between 5 – 7 months from start to finish. The Seabee took me over one year to perfect. I am a perfectionist and try to show as much detail as possible, right down to the correct PMS colors (pantone matching system).”
Take a look at MyLittleTown.com now to take advantage of several ongoing promotions and to see the distinctive style of customized ornaments, villages and village accessories.
Article and images used with permission from MyLittleTown.com
Tags: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, Christmas villages, collectible ornaments, corporate gifts, corporate ornaments, customized ornaments, figurines, handcrafted ornaments, handpainted ornaments, keepsake ornaments, logos, memorial ornaments, personalized ornaments, vintage ornaments
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Free personalization on a huge inventory of Christmas ornaments!
OrnamentsAndMore.com is excited to be a part of the Ornaments.com family and we are very pleased to have their beautiful personalized ornaments displaying on the Ornaments.com directory.
Offering 2,500 + personalized Christmas ornaments with over 8,000 ways to personalize ornaments, Ornaments And More creates uniquely-designed, high quality and affordably priced gift ideas for Baby’s First Christmas, Wedding, Expecting, Engagements, Our First Christmas, Grandparents, Graduation, Sports, Kids, Tweens & Teens.
The folks at OrnamentsAndMore.com guarantee that their selection and personalization options are the most extensive you will find anywhere! All of their ornaments are hand personalized, never computer generated. Each purchase comes with a FREE holiday-themed gift bag. They’ll even include a hand-written note on a packing slip for gift recipients to add that special touch.
In years past, they have seen how parents, grandparents, aunts, godparents have enjoyed selecting ornaments each Christmas season to commemorate what different family members have done over the course of that particular year. The idea is that their Christmas tree tells the wonderful story of the family’s life. Many of their customers have expressed to us that it would be hard to part with such cherished ornaments. However, they intend to pass these personalized ornaments down to their children when they leave home.
Be sure to stop by OrnamentsAndMore.com frequently as they will be adding to the site as often as possible. And remember, besides shopping with them that the best compliment they can receive from you is a referral. Begin a family tradition of sharing keepsake ornaments with OrnamentsAndMore personalized ornaments.
Article and images used with permission from OrnamentsAndMore.com 
Tags: career ornaments, Christmas decorations, Christmas gifts, Christmas ornaments, Christmas traditions, collectible ornaments, college ornaments, graduation ornaments, keepsake ornaments, personalized ornaments, sports ornaments
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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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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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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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