2019 Sneak Peek: Halloween Keepsake Ornaments
The Halloween Vulture
The PEANUTS® Gang
Spooky Sugar Skull
Tiny Black Cat
Miniature.
Happy Halloween!
7th in the series
Bewitching Black Cat
Stately Little Raven
Miniature.
Frank on Guitar
Wolfgang on Drums
KOC Benefits for 2019
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, and access to the KOC Convention in August 2019.
Membership at $49.99 USA includes the following:
- A KOC membership card. Use your card to receive members-only perks at your local store, like access to buy event-exclusive ornaments.
- Special offers throughout the year. Look forward to exclusive Crown Rewards Bonus Points opportunities, plus members-only Keepsake event offers and surprises, like a FREE ornament at Ornament Premiere.
- Access to the KOC Product Shop, featuring club-exclusive ornaments and other products at special member pricing. Order in store or online.
- The For Keeps quarterly publication and monthly email newsletter. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Keepsake Ornament creation, exclusive videos, timely announcements and local club and community news.
- Insider access to Keepsake Community, an online social space where you can connect with Keepsake artists and other ornament enthusiasts like you.
- The Keepsake Dream Box (valued at over $100) Shipped directly to your home, this year’s membership gift is full of Keepsakes magic.
- Access to the KOC 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.
Enrollment Opens January 29, 2019 at 9:00am CST
*NOTE: 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.
October Keepsake Wallpaper
Create some frightful fun with this month’s free desktop or mobile device wallpapers featuring Hallmark’s Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree decorated with a few of this years mini Halloween-themed Keepsake ornaments.
Among the many Keepsake Ornaments found in this free wallpaper are a Halloween tree featuring a smiling jack-o’-lantern base with posable glittery purple branches, a sparkly sugar skull, Snoopy dressed as a wizard, and a little bat wearing a bow tie and party hat.
Featured Keepsake Ornaments
2018 Sneak Peek: Halloween Keepsake Ornaments
Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree
Re-issue of 2017 Display Tree
Sugar Skull Gal
Miniature.
Bitty Bat
Miniature.
Trick-or-Treat Snoopy
Miniature.
Spooky Snoopy
The PEANUTS® Gang
Ghostly Mausoleum
Caramel Apple Goodness
Season’s Treatings
Bewitching Bat
Happy Halloween!
6h in the series
2017 October Keepsake Wallpaper
Mysterious Manor
Have a ghostly good time with this month’s free desktop or mobile device wallpapers featuring Mysterious Manor by Terri Steiger. It’s downright haunted…
2017 Ornament Spotlight: Happy Halloween!
Although the 2017 “Happy Halloween!” ornament was excavated in July—revealing a cute mummy in a frightfully fun jack-o’-lantern—true to it’s ancient Egyptian theme, it comes with a bit of mystery.
Hidden within the hieroglyphics is a secret message. No, it’s not a curse but perhaps something more revealing about the mummy. If you would like to test your cryptography skills, take your 2017 “Happy Halloween!” out and try to decipher the riddle of the ornament! However, if exploring hieroglyphs where mummies might roam frightens you, the answer is below!
Happy Halloween!
5th in the series.
Hover here for the Translation!
Translation: “All Wrapped Up in Halloween Fun! Anita Rogers 2017.”
2017 September Keepsake Wallpaper
Beer Stein
Celebrate the end of Summer and the arrival of the crisp Autumn days with this month’s free desktop or mobile device wallpapers featuring a traditional beer stein by Tom Best.
2017 Sneak Peek: Scare Up Halloween Fun
Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree
The Great Pumpkin Rises
The PEANUTS® Gang
Teensy Weensy Ghost
Pint-Sized Pumpkin
Wee Little Owl
Sweet Trick-or-Treater
2nd in the unofficial series.
Ravishing Raven
Complements The Beauty of Birds series.
Happy Halloween!
5th in the series.
Mysterious Manor
Featured Series: Happy Halloween!
This month’s featured series, Happy Halloween! by Anita Marra Rogers celebrates its 4th year in 2016.
Whether it’s her family members or her favorite Halloween icons, Anita Marra Rogers puts a lot of herself into the Happy Halloween! series.
The first ornament, which debuted in 2013, has a witch inside that was modeled after her daughter as a child.
“I gave her long brown hair and green eyes like my daughter,” Anita says. “She’s 24 now, but she was a witch a couple times for Halloween when she was little.”
The little zombie boy in the third ornament was modeled after her son—especially the mop of messy hair. He’s 22 now, but she says he still refuses to comb his hair.
This year her husband joined the series depicted as a vampire.
One secret: If you look closely behind the ghost in the second ornament, you’ll spot Anita’s own self-portrait. It’s just another piece of herself in this series.
She says it’s fun to pick a new character each year then coordinate both the inside of the pumpkin and the jack-o’-lantern’s face with the character. That’s why the zombie is in a green pumpkin and this year’s jack-o’-lantern has fangs.
Her own Halloween traditions include putting up a black tree decked out with this series and a few other Halloween favorites. She always carves a jack-o’-lantern, too. Her favorite part of Halloween? That would have to be the trick-or-treaters.
“When the kids were little, my husband took the kids out trick-or-treating and it was my job to stay home and pass out candy,” she says. “I love to see all the costumes.”
She even puts on an old Hallmark cassette tape of spooky sounds to set the mood for the neighborhood kids.
As we look forward to the Halloween season, we can also look forward to next year’s Happy Halloween! ornament. It’s a special one, Anita says.
“Next year I’m keeping ‘under wraps,’ and you can quote me on that.”
DESTINATION KEEPSAKES Sneak Peek Seminar
2015 Destination Keepsakes Sneak Peek seminar was hosted by Theresa Murphy (Retail Associate Merchandise Manager) and Kurt Gaulke (Product Development Manager).
DESTINATION… The Beach
Kokomo
Features a melting snowman (wearing sunglasses, a visor, and three sea shell buttons on his chest) holding a tropical drink. He is laying back on a light blue Adirondack styled lounge chair under a palm tree. Press the button to hear music from “Kokomo” performed by the Beach Boys.
By Nina Aubé.
Little Cup of Happy
Miniature version of 2015 “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” ornament. By Sharon Visker.
NOTE: Miniature line will be sized down and expanded in 2016.
DESTINATION… Halloween
Little Cup of Happy
Features a sweet little child done in Mary’s Angel styling wearing a black cat onesie costume holding a light purple square trick-or-treat bag while sitting on a squaty jack-o-lantern. Designed by Mary Hamilton. Sculpted by Robert Chad.
NOTE: This is one of the last ornaments Mary worked on prior to retiring.
Little Cup of Happy
Female companion to the 2014 Sweet Skull. Features a skull with a black braid across her head and big gold hoop earrings. A red rose is tucked into her left part line and an orange butterfly rests on her right part line. She has flowers around her eyes and a toothy grin with one red tooth. By Sharon Visker.
Happy “Owl”oween
Complement to the Beauty of Birds series. Features a stylized owl with an orange-red chest and eyes, a black head with a purple crest and glitter accents and black and purple wings and tail. All trimmed with thin gold lines. A gold crescent moon dangle hangs from underneath the owl. Designed by Edythe Kegrize. Sculpted by Jim Kemme.
DESTINATION… Happiest Place on Earth
The Art of Skiing Goofy
Based on “The Art of Skiing” animated short. Features a snow covered hill with a house on top. Pull the string to hear yodeling and see Goofy practice skiing (on the top of the hill going down the cliff). After a brief ascent, he skis down making a flip along the way. And see Donald and Mickey and Minnie sledding down the icy hill. By Ken Crow.
Disney Beauty and the Beast
25th Anniversary
Features Beauty and the Beast standing in front of a stained glass window surrounded by gray block. Press the button to hear music from “Beauty and the Beast.” performed by Angela Lansbury. By Katrina Bricker.
Lumiere
Disney Beauty and the Beast
Limited Quantity
Features Lumiere, wearing a top hat and holding a cane, in a dancing pose.
DESTINATION… Christmas
Beautiful Birdhouse
1st in the series
Features a simple light blue bird house decorated with white snowflakes surface detail atop a white base.
By Edythe Kegrize.
Crazy Christmas Camper
Features a gray RV with an inflatable snowman on top of it. Two thick bold curving red stripes and multiple angled large green bells silhouettes are painted on it’s side panels. Strings of white lights cover the vehicle. Press the button to hear a version of “Deck the Halls” and see a synchronized light show. By Matt Johnson.
DESTINATION… North Pole
Fly
Features a chubby faced penguin wearing a green scarf with a red jet pack with silver accents strapped to his back. Yellow and red flames are depicted coming out of it’s boosters. On ornament: “North Pole or Bust.” Press the button to hear music from “Fly” performed by Sugar Ray. By Jake Angell.
Santa’s Sweet Ride
10th in the series
Features Santa in a gingerbread sleigh with white icing on peppermint candy cane runners. By Tammy Haddix.
Santa’s Sweet Reindeer
Designed as a companion to the 2016 Santa’s Sweet Ride (sleigh) ornament (sold separately). Features a reindeer with a Swiss Roll body, a purple Zebra stripped gum saddle, green ears, peppermint candy cane horns, candy legs and gumdrop feet. By Tammy Haddix. Available beginning Ornament Debut.
Swing in the Holidays
The World of Frosty Friends
Features Frosty and his penguin pal on the playground. Depicts Penguin wearing a green scarf sitting on a peppermint swing that is attached to a white block pillar. Frosty is standing behind him. Push the button to hear a version of “Let it Snow” and see a synchronized light show as Frosty pushes his penguin pal on the swing. By Tracy Larsen and Tom Best.
Frosty Friends Gifts
Stocking Holder – Features Frosty sledding down a hill.
Snow Globe – Shaped like a large ice block with Frosty and his polar bear pal sitting on top (echos the first in series piece).
Perpetual Calendar – Features Frosty, his polar bear friend and ice block numbers.
Treat Container – Features an Igloo with Frosty and his polar bear friend sitting on top.
Ear Muffs – Features Frosty’s Head on each muff.
DESTINATION… Outer Space
Death Star Tree
Topper/Tabletop
Star Wars™
Connect to a Magic Cord or AC plug-in (both included) to hear “Star Wars Theme Song” or “Imperial March” and see a red or blue synchronized spinning light show. Remote control activated. By Orville Wilson.
Imperial Stormtrooper
Star Wars™
Press the button to hear memorial moments from this classic film including: …”These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…” and “Stop that ship. Blast them. By Orville Wilson.
NOTE: 2017 will be the 40th anniversary of Star Wars.
Ensign Pavel Checkov
Star Trek™
Limited Quantity
Complements the STAR TREK™ LEGENDS series.
By Anita Marra Rogers.
NOTE: 2016 will be the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
DESTINATION… Hollywood
Sheriff Rick Grimes
The Walking Dead
Ollivander’s Wand Shop
Harry Potter™
Attaches to a light string for optional lighting effect. Look in magnified peek hole (on back) to see interior (stacks of wands). By Orville Wilson.
Meet the Flintstones
The Flintstones
Features Fred Flintstone sledding down the back of a purple Brontosaurus. Press the button to hear music from “The Flintstones Theme Song."
You're the One That I Want
GREASE
Press the button to hear music from “You're the one that I want” performed by Olivia Newton John.
DESTINATION... Blue Skies
Festive Flyer
KOC Exclusive
Features a hot air balloon (crafted from a gold glass bulb) trimmed with gold laser cut metal accents, red rhinestones and red flags with an artist crafted Santa Claus in a gold gondola with a red swag. By Edythe Kegrize.