Christmas Ornament Gifts
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The ladybug ornament was a gift from a Bluebird Gardens customer. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Christmas Ornament Gifts
Christmas ornaments may often be considered as just home decor items but they also make wonderful personalized gifts.
A customer recently gave me a ladybug ornament as a thank you for a special order we completed for her. The ornament now hangs prominently at the top of a skinny Christmas tree in my office where I see it every day. The ladybug is the logo for our custom gift company.Conversely, one of my customers gave me this charming ladybug ornament, the inspiration of the Bluebird Gardens trademarked logo. Ladybugs are garden helpers, something we hope we are also to our customers. And they are more prevalent for gift-giving now than they have been. We made a custom quilt into a ladybug throw because there was a time when few gifts had a ladybug theme.
Christmas ornaments can also preserve memories.
Many years ago a friend of mine started giving her son a Christmas ornament that represented something they did that year. She marked the ornament on the bottom with the year and added a tag noting the event. When he graduated and started his own home, she gave him the Christmas ornaments in an ornament storage box so he would have a set of ornaments for his own Christmas tree. Isn’t that a lovely way to mark someone’s childhood memories?
This cat with a chipmunk in an ornament also works as a tiny tree topper. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
i’m also on the the lookout for Christmas ornaments that can moonlight as tree toppers. For a number of decades our homes with cats have featured mice at the top of Christmas trees. For a few years we had birds as well.
To be more accurate, I should have a cat at the tree top, some of my cats really enjoy the climb.
Some Christmas ornaments already have dates on them. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Over the years I have also given, and received, Christmas ornaments for office gifts. We used to have a gift exchange with a limit of $10 per gift; a personalized ornament was a great way to give something that was personal and nicely met the spending limit.
Tiny Christmas ornaments flesh out this small door wreath. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Christmas ornaments can also be used in decorative wreaths.
Here are some other suggested ways to use a personalized ornament to mark a special event:
Newlyweds with a first Christmas together
New baby
New house
New home
Graduation
New family member like a cat, or dog
Remember to add a date on the bottom if there isn’t one already and a little card explaining why you are presenting the ornament.
And don’t forget to add a Christmas ornament to your own tree year to year!
Charlotte
