Featured Series – Season’s Treatings
This month’s featured series, Season’s Treatings by Sharon Visker celebrates its 8th year in 2016.
Each of ornament in this series features an assortment of delicious homemade treats displayed in festive holiday style.
Season’s Treatings
8th in the series
Although this year’s ornament is the eighth in the series. Overall, this series boasts 14 ornaments, including two special editions, one limited edition and three Keepsake Ornament Club exclusives.
The seventh in the Season’s Treatings series, a Christmas cookie tree, was a particular favorite of Keepsake Ornament collectors. You can even make your own cookie tree to match the ornament. Just watch this video to find out how.
Bear, DE Sneak Peek
At the Local Club Dinner event in Bear, DE, Edythe Kegrize gave a Sneak Peek of two of her 2017 ornaments: “Beautiful Birdhouse,” 2nd in the series and “Seven Swans-A-Swimming,” 7th in the Twelve Days of Christmas” series.
Beautiful Birdhouse
2nd in the series
Seven Swans-a-Swimming
7th in the Twelve Days of Christmas series
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Featured Series – Snowball and Tuxedo
This month’s featured series, Snowball and Tuxedo celebrates its 16th year in 2016.
Joanne Eschrich’s inspiration for the Snowball and Tuxedo series came from growing up on a farm and always being around animals. Critters are what she grew up drawing, and this series takes her back to those roots.
That’s a Wrap
16th in the Snowball and Tuxedo series
Inside Split-Level Dream Home
Relive the high-life with this mid-1950s to mid-1970s split-level architectural icon. The exterior is composed of wood and brick punctuated by large picture windows. That said, it is the interior that hearkens back to another era.
Split-Level Dream Home
(exterior)
33rd in the Nostalgic Houses and Shops series
Split-Level Dream Home
(interior)
33rd in the Nostalgic Houses and Shops series
The floor plan features a two-story high section, with vaulted ceilings and large picture windows, joined to a single-story section located a half-story in between, creating three distinct interior areas. A bedroom is tucked away on the quiet upper level, the central level makes room for a spacious living room while the lower level (partly below grade) provides room for storage and parking.
All three rooms contain minimal decorative elements for a modern feel. The bedroom features a Meredew double bed with 2 night cabinets, matching atomic lamps and a daffodil yellow Chenille bedspread. The living-room highlights geometric wallpaper, an asymmetrical Adrian Pearsall Platform sofa, and a teak wood lamp. An undecorated Christmas tree awaits the homeowners personal touch. Can you imagine Anita’s Nifty Fifties Keepsake Ornaments and Bubble Lights on the tree? How about Robert Chad’s Retro Reindeer?
2017 Sneak Peek: Nostalgic Houses & Shops
Palmiter Hardware & Supply
Nostalgic Houses & Shops
34th in the series.
Featured Series: Santa’s Sweet Ride
This month’s featured series, Santa’s Sweet Ride by Tammy Haddix, celebrates its 10th and final year in 2016.
Santa’s Sweet Ride
10th and Final in the series.
Santa’s Sweet Reindeer
Limited Edition
“This one was for my mom,” Tammy Haddix says of her Santa’s Sweet Ride series. “Not everyone knows this, but Santa’s hat is made out of an icing tip–a nod to her cake decorating.”
Lots of candies and sweets have gone into the making of each year’s ornament, as Tammy figured out how to craft each part of Santa’s annual vehicle. She has used everything from wafer cookies and fruit-striped gum to candy canes.
And while Santa’s Sweet Ride is coming to an end in 2016, you can be sure Tammy has lots of ideas for Santa in the works for the future!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Watch Tammy’s 2015 ‘Home & Family” interview, where she talks about this series and some of her ornaments.
2016 Sneak Peek: Tin Toys
Classic Canine
Tin Toys
3rd and Final in the series.
2016 Sneak Peek: Puppy Love
Puppy Love
(Pomeranian)
26th in the series.
Featured Series: The Beauty of Birds
Pine Grosbeak
The Beauty of Birds
12th in the series.
Edythe is well-known for her beloved The Beauty of Birds Keepsake Ornament series. This year’s design, the Pine Grosbeak, marks the 12th ornament in the series.
Inspired by her family of nature lovers, Edythe has been a bird lover from childhood. These are among her favorite ornaments to work on because she finds their forms wonderful to work with, as they can be stylized in many different ways. For this series, she likes to choose strikingly colorful birds that many people will be familiar with. She starts with a sketch that “idealizes” the bird and then translates it into a very decorative, almost jewelry-like quality.
If you love this series, chances are you’ll also love her new Beautiful Birdhouse series that expands on her love of birds and crafty surface design.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Reprint of: “Beauty of Birds, Inspired by Nature’s Charm and Elegance.”
Watch Edythe talk about how she selects which birds to represent in this series.
2016 Sneak Peek: Santa’s Sweet Ride
Santa’s Sweet Ride
1oth and Final in the series.