Personalized Gift Ideas For Valentines

With Christmas behind you and New Years Eve soon to pass – its onto the next big holiday where choosing the perfect gift is a must and all the stores will be abuzz with Holiday Decor and specialty gift ideas to help you make the right decision.

Here at Ornaments And More.com we are preparing for this big day too.  But we want to start off on the right note.  We know your bank accounts are depleted and this Holiday won’t be as generous as Christmas was. So… we have some Personalized Valentine Gift Ideas that WON’T Hurt Your Wallet. …

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personalized engagement ornament gift idea We all feel that extra sense of being loved when we receive a personalized gift from someone because the giver went through great lengths not only to pick the perfect gift for us, but also spent the time to choose the absolute best words to personalize our gift as well.  To make them even more special, we know that personalized gifts are usually given a little extra care by the recipients too – so that many can and do remain in the family for years.

Some personalized gifts are even passed down from generation to generation (if they are in the family name). 

Yet, even though they are part of a multi-billion dollar industry, personalized gifts still seem so rare in households across the globe today.  Think about it?  How many personalized gifts do you have at home (that you didn’t purchase yourself – and don’t include trophies)? Why are they so rare?  Unfortunately – most personalized gifts are expensive; sometimes way too expensive to even contemplate. 

In a bad economy, even the “better off” seem better off spending less.  Gift giving at Valentines Day is no different.  If you are on a tight budget and you have to choose your gifts a little more wisely – personalized gifts may take a back seat.; especially if you are going for some of the most common of such “rare gifts”.

Among your options for some of the better, more common personalized Valentines gifts you have:

 

  1. Handmade Gifts (such as sewn items with special messages on their labels (such as jackets, vests, quilts etc), knitted items (winter scarves, winter hats/toque’s), scrapbook albums, handmade cards, baked goods etc.).  The materials or supplies for such items may be more affordable than buying such an item, finished from a big box department store – but the TIME investments involved with handmade gifts are still way up there.  This is fine for the well prepared – and well-timed crafters, but as we all know Valentine’s Day is full of events and adventures that can take our time away.  Even the best planners / romantics can be left with unfinished crafts and doing last minute Valentine’s shopping.
  2. Etched or Engraved Gifts (such as photo frames, plaques, door knockers, cutlery, glassware, glass ornaments etc).  As stunning as these gifts can look among your home décor, etching and engraving gifts can run anyone’s bill up to hundreds of dollars per item.  After all, you need to choose high quality materials so that your etch work or engraving won’t chip away and ruin the gift.   There is no wiggle room here. No one wants to give a “cheap personalized gift” that will deteriorate over the years, nor does anyone want to receive one.
  3. Embroidered or Screen Printed Gifts (such as jersey’s, bath and hand towels, pillow cases, fabric calendars or other wall decor, table linens etc.) are always a nice gesture. BUT unfortunately they are not the most precious of personalized gifts to everyone.  They don’t make a lot of sense on a day like this. Yet, embroidered gifts can fall under the $50 per gift range which is always nice.  With some retailers you will be allotted a specific letter count with purchase and then every additional is $0.50 – $2.00/letter depending on quantity, size and color etc.  A great option for a nice gift at the end of the day and that extra sense of love you want to pass along will be received regardless of the word count.

 

What we need to ask however is why personalized gift giving for Valentines Day has to be so difficult?  Why does it have to break your wallet?  We are writing today to tell you it doesn’t have to!  We have the perfect solution to Personalized Gift  giving that might just save your Valentines Day and your money!

We’d like to introduce you to Personalized Ornaments

Personalized Ornaments come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, they can look like any human with any hair color.   You can even find Personalized Ornaments that have nothing to do with Christmas and more to do with life’s great moments – such as getting engaged, getting married, taking a romantic couples vacation, having a baby, buying your first home and so much more.  

The absolute best part about personalized ornaments as personalized gifts however is that you can find MOST Personalized Ornaments for less than $15.00 an item (if you shop at the right places)! Gift personalization can also be completely free (at the right place)!  You might even receive free ornament gift bags or cards with your ornaments as well – making it that much easier to GIFT your ornaments to others.

To explore your options for Personalized Ornaments today, please visit www.OrnamentsandMore.com – there are over 5500 ornaments to choose from and well over 10,000 gift personalization ideas to contemplate.  

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12 Days of Christmas – 3rd Day

University of Delaware Hens Christmas OrnamentThe Third Day of Christmas (in the 12 Days of Christmas Song) traditionally brings in 3 French Hens – along with the 2 Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Cool – that’s a lot of birds!

(We have bird ornaments; including an Angry birds ornament – did you know that?)

Anyhow… when thinking of The Three French Hens gift idea

 

It doesn’t always make us think of birds.  Nope.  It also  makes us think about our adorable University of Delaware Hens Football / Snowman Ornament.  It’s a big hit among the Delaware Hens  - which is understandable.

But we also think about unique gifts.  Boutique gifts. Crafty gifts. Etc. Every so often we will walk into one of those beautiful boutique shops that carry unique gifts and we always see such creative decor.  We love the painted branches, silver and gold table top decorations in the shape of seashells, birds or abstract geometrics too.

SO.. as par for the course we wanted to help our visitors think outside the box with their Christmas Shopping and appeal to that MORE creative boutique shopper inside. Are you a boutique shopper? If so we be you have amazing style!  We also assume that your home looks like it should be in a home decor, home style magazine. Is that true?  Is that you?  If so, you might like the following resources we found for today’s 3rd Day of Christmas post. 

We did a little snooping around for some great boutique shops where you can find 3 French Hens if you wanted to present those as a gift to someone this year, and while we cannot say we found exactly those items, we did find a few very sweet MARKET websites, one in particular that we thought stood out a little more than the others because of the uber creative retailers they seem to have in their showcase. : http://www.threefrenchhens.com.au/AWE/index.php?p=4

But after learning that the above site was in Australia we wanted to find something localized (in the USA) as well – and in turn we found  http://www.threefrenchhensboutique.com/

And we also rediscovered LouBabs&Moogs - they are a sweet boutique shop – full of unique gifts and some of the most adorable Animal Accessories / Home Decor.  We had to add them to this post simply because we know they are a great supplier of fantastic gift ideas.

At the end of the day – we know this post doesn’t have much to do with the “gamey” French Hens – but considering the months leading up to Christmas are the most concentrated shopping times across the entire globe – we thought that Christmas Shopping  might be a good fit for you anyhow. Hope you see and appreciate the connection. 

Happy Shopping!

P.S. The University of Delaware Hens Football Ornament shown above is one of MANY new 2011 Christmas Ornaments at Ornaments And More – so if you are in the shopping mode for Ornaments today – we would sincerely welcome your visit in our online personalized ornaments shop - so you can find the RIGHT ornament for you.

 

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12 Days of Christmas – 2nd Day

Can you believe it there are only 10 more days left until the little ones run wild around the Christmas Tree with lit up eyes and the extreme joy that only Santa’s visit can bring.  

With half eaten cookies or carrots, overstuffed Christmas stockings and an extra layer of gifts under the tree we will ALL know that Christmas Day has finally come and all is right with the world!  

Christmas Day really is one of the most perfect days of the year.  

Without working very hard at it – you have probably noticed that there is very little to fuss about (other than Christmas dinner) on Christmas Day.  And because of that, you and your family may seem to get along better on Christmas Day than most days of the year.  It’s not because of the endless supply of Christmas Gifts, nor the Christmas Decorations, it’s not the Christmas goodies (such as sugar cookies, gingerbread, cheese and crackers to snack on) – it’s not even the Christmas Visitors that stop by the does this…. (it’s all of it combined) and the Christmas Drinks!  Yep!  We said it!

Christmas Day is the one day you are allowed to have a little rum in your egg nog or a little baileys in your coffee.  Perhaps you even put a little creme de menthe in your hot chocolates – even if it’s just one drink – it’s simply delicious and somehow remarkably soul soothing. That first sip is a great one isn’t it?

So in light of this and in keeping with the SPIRITS (now literally) of the season – we thought we would bring a new twist into the traditional meaning of “2nd day of Christmas”  and it’s accompanying Two Turtle Doves to share this Hilton Two Turtle Doves Drink Recipe with you.

 

P.S. For those of you who just turned 21 this year – not only do we hope you enjoy this holiday drink – but you might also appreciate our  Personalized 21st Birthday Gift it’s a Christmas Ornament as you might expect – but it’s a BEST SELLER and we think you deserve one too! Afterall you only turn 21 once.

Happy Holidays!

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12 Days Of Christmas – 1st Day

Woo Hoo!  There are ONLY  12 Days Left Until Christmas!!!

Are you excited or what?   Here are OrnamentsAndMore – we couldn’t be more excited.  Clearly we love Christmas or we would not be in business, however our elves work extremely hard around the clock fulfilling Christmas Ornament orders every day UNTIL Christmas.  Perhaps like some of you who work in retail or other Christmas Booming industries – they barely get to see their families.  Our elves share their tiny heartaches with you if you are experiencing the same.  Like you, we then to cherish Christmas Day more than others leading up to it – just because it’s the one day (Christmas Day) where we all take a well deserved break.  

Everyone should be able to take a break on Christmas day right?  We hope you get to as well!

Anyhow, in effort keep things light around here and to stay in Spirits as we count down our days just like the rest of the world – we wanted to kick off the 12 days of Christmas in the most traditional way we know how… with the song that kicked it off.

Here is the Straight No Chaser version of the 12 Days of Christmas.  We hope you like it.  12 Days of Christmas Video

 

 

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