At the Local Club Dinner event in Rochester, NY, Edythe and Orville each showed a picture of one of their 2014 Keepsake ornaments while giving a personal insight into their respective designs and then gave a Sneak Peek of one of the designs they created for the 2015 Keepsake ornament line.

Orville started off the presentation by talking about his Godzilla ornament. He said that the ornament was based on the first [Warner Bros.] model. He also said that when he was initially given the assignment to sculpt this piece, he didn’t know what Godzilla was going to look like, as such it took longer (approximately 1-2 weeks beyond the regular 2 week period) than usual to design the ornament.

He then showed Megatron, the Transformer ornament that will be released in 2015. He said that he designed this piece from scratch based off pictures. As an interesting side note he commented about if this piece could be taken apart, it could be transformed into the shape of a gun.

Megatron

Edythe then spoke about her popular “Twelve Days of Christmas” series. While showing a picture of “Four Calling Birds,” this years 4th in series piece, she talked about Four Colly Birds, the more traditional interpretation of this fourth verse of the song. She went on to say that Colly birds are sort of like black birds or starlings. She then turned her attention to next years design, “Five Golden Rings.” Before revealing the final design for the piece she shared a concept drawing of one of the earlier renditions of this series piece that she had come up with. The design featured a tree with a partridge on top and garland golden rings. Despite getting approval for this design, Edythe wasn’t happy with it and decided to scrap it for a new design incorporating a golden pheasant.

Megatron