Local Club News
December 2018
2018 KOC Memberships
As you know enrollment for 2018 closed on 10/31/18. However, if you have a club member that still needs to renew their KOC Membership for 2018, please encourage them to call 1-800-Hallmark.
2019 KOC Program
(Enrollment Opens January 29, 2019 at 9:00am CST)
2019 KOC Membership Enrollment starts on January 29, 2019. This is going to be a year full of member benefits such as exclusive members-only savings and rewards, Crown Rewards Bonus Points, exclusive ornaments, insider looks into our studio with access to the artist, a member gift of the Dream Box (valued at over $100), and access to the KOC Convention in August 2019. The annual membership fee is $49.99 (plus applicable state and local taxes). In 2019 KOC Members will NOT receive a renewal application in the mail. KOC Members can renew by going to their local Hallmark Gold Crown store, online at Hallmark.com, by calling 1-800-Hallmark, or mailing in an application. Applications can be downloaded from Hallmark.com/KOC beginning on 1/29 or picked up from your local Hallmark store starting in January.
2019 KOC Local Club Rosters
It’s time of year! Please partner with your Hallmark Gold Crown store sponsor (if applicable) to complete the 2019 Local Club Roster. Rosters must be emailed to [email protected] and received by February 28, 2019 to be included in the 2019 Local Club listing. The roster is a little different this year but hopefully easier to fill in. It is a one page document. Please be sure to fill it out in its entirety. This information is requested on an annual basis and is required to be included in the 2019 KOC Local Club program. Local Club Presidents and/or contacts will receive a confirmation email from the [email protected] email and should consider that a confirmation of receipt.
2019 Keepsake Ornament Club Convention
Come experience the MAGIC at the 2019 Keepsake Ornament Club Convention, August 8-10, 2019 in Kansas City. Meet friends old and new, chat with Keepsake artists, join in fun workshops and make great memories with us. Registration information will be coming in early 2019. We will send you all an email when the website is ready for registering for the KOC Convention.
Free Local Club Members Ornament
The 2018 FREE Local Club ornament; Teensy Nutcracker by Tracy Larsen has mailed to store sponsors and/or Local Club Presidents. Upon receipt, please pass along to your Local Club members. This ornament is an exclusive gift from the Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Club, in sincere appreciation. Ornament quantities were based on the Local Club Rosters submitted in the first quarter of 2018. Please email [email protected] if your club did not receive your shipment or you have questions.
From the Vault: Three Little Angels
For this holiday season, Hallmark artists and writers designed more than 1300 new ways to say Merry Christmas. But, it is safe to say – none of these fresh offerings will be as popular as Three Little Angels.
Three Little Angels is the best-selling Christmas card in Hallmark’s history –and perhaps greeting card history –as it was sent 36 million times (and counting!) since its introduction in 1977. Three Little Angels has been an enormous success because its design is delightful with a touch of the mischievous. The card could be portraying three actual angels or three children dressed as angels for a Christmas pageant. It also has perfect balance –both visually and verbally. The sentiment of three little wishes corresponds beautifully with the design of three little angels. Many people consider it their special Christmas card, and send it out year after year, including its original creators, retired Hallmark Artist Ruth Morehead and retired Hallmark Writing Stylist Bobbie Burrow. The initial design concept -three little angels, one with opened eyes and a drooping halo -came from a memory of a childhood photograph featuring Ruth and her twin sisters. “We were three little towheads, and one was always the mischievous one—but I won’t say which one,” Ruth recalled. The sentiment -“God bless you, love you, keep you…at Christmas time and always” -was also inspired by personal experiences. “I thought about what little angels would say if they could speak, and then about what my children might say at the end of a Christmas pageant,” Bobbie said. Through the years, Three Little Angels has changed only in size, some years larger and some years smaller than its present 5-by-7-inch dimensions. The most recent version, which is currently available as a boxed card set, has bright, fresh colors and glitter. Although the core design and sentiment have remained the same for four decades, it has inspired countless Hallmark artists to recreate it and incorporate angels of different ethnicity, representing their loved ones, in recent years. Several of these designs have also appeared on gift wrap, home décor, and ornaments, much to the delight of card shoppers who think of Three Little Angels as part of their Christmas traditions.
We Want to Hear from You
Tell us all about what you’ve been up to! Share your stories and photos with us of how you’re giving back to your communities. Let us know on Keepsake Community or email [email protected]. You’ll be entered in a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue of For Keeps!
If you have any questions about the information above please email Anita Winter at [email protected].