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NEW: Whimsical Snowball Scene Christmas Ornaments

Snowball Family with Tree personalized christmas Ornaments

Calliope Designs is thrilled to be offering a new line of personalized Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments exclusively on their website, https://www.calliopedesigns.com. Designed by Calliope’s lead designer, Dorr Eddy, the originator of personalized ornaments since 1972, these clay dough three-dimensional globes offer a new handmade ornament for Christmas 2007. Priced between $19.99 and $25.99, these Christmas ornaments are highly collectible and a wonderful original holiday keepsake or gift.

Santa Rosa, CA (PRWEB) August 27, 2007 — Calliope Designs is thrilled to be offering a new line of personalized Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments exclusively on their website, https://www.calliopedesigns.com .

Designed by Calliope’s lead designer, Dorr Eddy, the originator of personalized ornaments since 1972, these clay dough three-dimensional globes offer a new handmade ornament for Christmas 2007. Priced between $19.99 and $25.99, these Christmas ornaments are highly collectible and a wonderful original holiday keepsake or gift.

We wanted to offer a truly original concept in claydough. Each style is expressly created to become a personalized ornament, and each ornament will be dated with the year to increase its collectivity.
Snow Globe Ornament
Calliope Designs has been a designer, manufacturer and importer of personalized holiday ornaments seen at Gump’s, San Francisco to Fortunoff of Westbury in New York, as well as at many gift shops and department stores, kiosks, and websites across the United States. With original designs ranging from traditional Santa Claus motifs to Penguins, Snowmen, and Teddy Bears, these new Snowball Scene Christmas Ornaments mark an exciting new addition to their product line and the website.

“Within each Snowball Scene ornament is a special Christmas story. We offer everything from the Night Before Christmas Snowball Scene to the Holy Family Nativity Snowball Scene. You’ll find Snowball Scene globes that commemorate the family our Christmas tree shopping in a festive winter sleigh, a rocking horse personalized ornament marking Baby’s First Christmas, and even a Christmas Snowball Scene wedding ornament with a bride and groom for Our First Christmas,” said Owner and President, Stephanie Eddy.

“We wanted to offer a truly original concept in claydough. Each style is expressly created to become a personalized ornament, and each ornament will be dated with the year to increase its collectivity,” she added.

These unique Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments can also be used in various holiday displays in the home. They are designed to hang on a tree or sit on a mantle or holiday table because they have a slightly flattened base. These ornaments can be used as pieces in a lovely holiday centerpiece, as party favors sitting at each guest’s table setting, or as a hostess or housewarming gift.

“We’re also excited about these Snowball Scene ornaments because our wedding theme ornaments are often used as holiday wedding favors, as gifts to the bridal party, or as part of a wedding or shower centerpiece! Our goals at Calliope Designs are always to provide a wide selection of holiday ornaments to our customers and these exclusive, fabulous, and versatile Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments will be another wonderful addition to our site and catalog.”

Calliope Designs has also added over 75 other new clay dough Christmas ornaments to be personalized for Christmas 2007. As well as new Penguin and Snowman groupings, there are all kinds of new themes including Irish ornaments featuring shamrocks and Celtic crosses, fresh New York ornaments, new Las Vegas ornaments and New Orleans ornaments!

About Calliope Designs
When Dorr and Stephanie Eddy began making bread dough ornaments in their kitchen in 1972 they had no idea how popular their handmade Christmas tree decorations would become. Today, after more than 35 years of distributing their Christmas tree ornaments through fine retailers and major department stores nationwide, their whimsical little clay dough ornaments are treasured by children and grownups all over the world.

Each Calliope dough and claydough ornament is an original creation designed by Dorr Eddy. The unique character of each personalized Christmas ornament adds to the style of a completely handmade product. The bright colors and high gloss coating add to the ornament’s attractiveness and durability. The special techniques and the tools we have created greatly enhance our consistent quality.

Every design can be personalized to order creating a unique and treasured gift.

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Gift Ideas: An Individually Handmade Christmas Ornament

Two Grandchildren For Grandparents personalized christmas Ornament

An individually handmade Christmas ornament is something that you can be proud to give as a gift. The wide range of holiday ornament designs, from pet ornaments to occupation ornaments, means that you can find something special for everyone on your list. There are ornaments for athletes with sports like football, wrestling, baseball, fishing, tennis, and karate (and more!) and each can be personalized with a name, a year or a special message. Do you have a new baby in your life? We have special ornaments for “Baby’s First Christmas” for that new bundle of joy! These ornaments last a lifetime and will bring a smile of joy to your loved one each year that they display these treasured gifts. These beautiful personalized ornaments are crafted to capture the spirit of Christmas for people of all ages! Find a huge selection of personalized ornaments at https://www.calliopedesigns.com.

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Personalized Christmas Ornament Designer Calliope Designs Launches Refreshed Website for Consumers

Calliope Designs, a Santa Rosa, California based Christmas ornament manufacturer is proud to announce their refreshed and updated e-commerce website at www.calliopedesigns.com.

Santa Rosa, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2007 — Santa Rosa, California based dough Christmas ornament manufacturer Calliope Designs is proud to debut their new and improved website at https://www.calliopedesigns.com. This newly refreshed e-commerce website allows consumers to purchase and to order custom personalization for their high quality and whimsical claydough ornaments.

Owner and President Stephanie Eddy explained, “In the competitive industry of Christmas ornaments, you have to have a fun and usable website so people can really see what they are ordering and you need to offer your consumer control over the personalization of this special gift. We worked hard to recategorize and refresh our website to improve the user shopping experience.”

In the competitive industry of Christmas ornaments, you have to have a fun and usable website so people can really see what they are ordering and you need to offer your consumer control over the personalization of this special gift. We worked hard to recategorize and refresh our website to improve the user shopping experience.

By offering a Christmas ornament with a creative and original look as well as a personal touch, like a depiction of a family unit, we feel like we offer people the chance to capture their own family personality on their Christmas tree. When you know you can find the personalized Christmas ornament that is right for you, or the perfect Christmas ornament for a family member or friend, the ornament goes from afterthought impulse to thoughtful gift.
Christmas ornaments can be a challenging sell online. Most consumers prefer to see the product, touch it and make sure they approve of the color and quality. Additionally, Christmas ornaments can be more of an “impulse buy” rather than a well planned out keepsake. Calliope Designs aims to change that perception, offering ornaments that not only depict traditional Christmas themes like Santa Claus and Christmas angles, but also families of all shapes and sizes, hobbies, geographic regions and even sports!

“By offering a Christmas ornament with a creative and original look as well as a personal touch, like a depiction of a “non traditional” family unit, we feel like we offer people the chance to capture their own family personality on their Christmas tree. When you know you can find the personalized Christmas ornament that is right for you, or the perfect Christmas ornament for a family member or friend, the ornament goes from afterthought impulse to thoughtful gift.”

This understanding of the changing market and industry, and the evolution of the internet made it clear that this small business needed to update their website to be as thoughtful and friendly as their product. Using cogent usability studies and watching their customer behavior closely, they were able to formulate a plan and implement changes that will help people find the perfect personalized Christmas ornaments for their tree or the perfect thoughtful gift for friend or family through their website at CalliopeDesigns.com.

Eddy said, “Now that our site is laid out the way we want, our plan is now to build out all kinds of resources for our consumers. We already have a guide to making your own dough ornaments at home and we have plans to offer guides on writing personalized messages, Christmas ornament display ideas, choosing the right personalized ornaments as gifts and other helpful tips for making your holiday season brighter!”

About Calliope Designs

When Dorr and Stephanie Eddy began making bread dough personalized ornaments in their kitchen in 1972 they had no idea how popular their Christmas tree decorations would become. Today, after more than 35 years of distributing their Christmas tree ornaments through fine retailers and major department stores nationwide, their whimsical little claydough ornaments are treasured by children and grownups all over the world.

Each Calliope dough ornament is an original creation designed by Dorr Eddy. The unique character of each Christmas ornament adds to the style of a completely handmade product. The bright colors and high gloss coating add to the ornament’s attractiveness and durability. Our special techniques and the tools we have created greatly enhance our consistent quality.

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A Personalized Ornament?

What’s a personalized ornament? It’s usually a Christmas ornament, but can be for any other holiday depending on the design, and it has something written on it, or engraved on it, or printed on it – usually done to order.

We’ve been making personalized ornaments out of bread dough since 1971! And it’s the way we’ve made our living all that time. Of course, as our company grew and grew we had to hire helpers, move into a warehouse and a whole lot of other things that are a fun story.

The reason I’m starting this blog is to teach anyone interested how to make dough ornaments. It’s a fun project. Kids of all ages (3-83) love playing with the “dough” which is cheap and non toxic. And the ornaments themselves become treasured family heirlooms!

It’s also a fun classroom activity, and a fun fund raising activity.

I know it’s January 2007 – and Christmas seems a long time away. We can begin with a spring project – perhaps some Easter or Mother’s Day ornaments.

Before you get started you have to have the ingredients – Here’s your shopping list, and come back soon for your first lesson!

Ordinary inexpensive white flour
Ordinary inexpensive salt, fine grind
For coloring –
Wilton cake decorating colors (quite expensive)
Schilling food coloring (inexpensive but limited in color selection)
School quality tempra powdered paints.

The alternative to making batches of colored dough is to make the ornament in natural color, then come back and paint it after it is baked.

If you’d like to see the results of our years of work you can visit our website: https://www.calliopedesigns.com