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Collecting Nutcrackers
Collecting nutcrackers is one of the great hobbies associated with Christmas.
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Can Retailers Get Consumers into the Christmas Spirit?
The jack-o-lanterns are still on the stoop, but already we're seeing prices for holiday ornaments slashed in half at J.C. Penney and pricey toys at Wal-Mart marked down to $10 a pop. Home Depot skipped Halloween altogether, piling up Christmas trees by early October
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Time to get ready for Christmas
Move over, Halloween. It's Christmas time.
If you're trying to ward off the fact that the holiday season has already started, too late.
How do you maintain sanity? Make a list. Even Santa Claus -- the ultimate guru of all things jolly about Christmas -- has a list.
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Retailers Weigh Holiday Mood
Many say they have cut inventory and plan sales, but a few say early returns give reason for hope.
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Bad Economy Can't Stop Halloween High Spirits
While many will cut back on trips, they will not cut back on holidays like Halloween.
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Christmas Comes Early
Roger’s Gardens decks its halls with the yuletide decorations people flock for and also sets aside a room for Halloween.
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For Rocky Mountain Haunters, Halloween is more than a hobby
If you do one thing this week ... Decorate for Halloween
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Halloween items already appearing on retailers' shelves
Kids have been in school for merely a week and temperatures are holding steady in the upper 80s, but that hasn't stopped some local retailers from decking the aisles with paraphernalia more appropriate for fall and winter holidays than the waning days of summer.
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Marketers Try to Scare Up Halloween Sales Early
Holidays seem to start earlier every year and Halloween is no exception. Marketers are already trotting out the jack-o-lanterns and spooky skeletons nearly three months before Halloween.
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Christopher Radko adds 72 new traditional designs to mid-year collection
Rauch Industries Inc announced its Christopher Radko Division, the creator of European handmade glass ornaments and holiday collectables has introduced 72 new glass ornament designs to its 2008 Mid-Year Collection.
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Hallmark inks licensing deal for CBS characters
Jed Clampett could be an ornament hanging on Christmas trees this year.
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Hallmark Store, It’s Christmas Year-Round
With seven months left in the year and summer not yet officially under way, it may seem a little early to be getting ready for the coming winter’s holidays.
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Christmas fanatic's fantasy has a home all its own
After the holidays, Linda Manor used to spend three weeks putting away almost 2,000 Christmas ornaments and decorations in her Escondido home. The process was tiring to watch.
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Historical Treasure: Christmas tree legends and treasures
Legends of the “first” Christmas tree abound. One legend has it that as far back as the Middle Ages in the northern countries, evergreens became a symbol of immortality.
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Local collector has a 'Shiny-Brite' Christmas
Article published Dec 15, 2007
Local collector has a 'Shiny-Brite' Christmas
BECKY EMMONS
Tribune Columnist
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Oh, so many tannenbaums
Christmas devotees can't stop at one tree
By Rebecca Boren
SPECIAL TO THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR
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German Kugel is Popular Decoration
Some of the most popular 19th-century holiday decorations came from Germany, originator of the Christmas tree, the outdoor Thuringian markets and early glass ornaments.
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Join the Latvians - celebrate with a Christmas tree
Nobody probably cares all that much while decorating their Christmas tree, but today's tree - whether decorated with paper rings and cutouts or lavishly lighted with colored bulbs and twinkling silver ribbons - has a genealogy that goes back for millennia.
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Halloween Business Booming
Halloween isn't just for the kids anymore...area merchants say it's beginning to rival Christmas when it comes to decoration sales alone.
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After Labor Day, Go Directly to Halloween
On Madison Avenue, it’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween. From The September 17, 2007 New York Times.
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Survey: Average Halloween Tab is $64.82
Consumers are expected to spend $5.07 billion on Halloween-themed merchandise this year.
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Hallloween Spending Is Over $3 Billion
Halloween is second only to Christmas for spending.
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Radko Supplier to Sell Direct
Christopher Radko is in a legal hassle with Rausch Industries, the company that makes his ornaments.
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It's Christmas Time In August
At least according to Hallmark it is!
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Handling the Risks of a Seasonal Business
From ice-cream stands and landscapers to ski shops and hotels, many small businesses are seasonal -- meaning they rake in cash just a few months of the year.
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Revised Christmas Ornament Guide Traces Culture, History and Material Science
My new book is completely revised and updated for 2007. There's more about the history of the Christmas tree and the development of ornaments than ever!
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Christmas Shoppers Rapidly Adopting Artificial Christmas Trees as Holiday Decoration of Choice
As preference for the artificial Christmas tree in the marketplace continues to grow, so does consumer perception about the traditionally tacky holiday option. Over 60% of those polled say they are more likely to purchase one than 10 years ago.
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Store Christmas decor safely and carefully
The first strains of "Auld Lang Syne" had yet to ring out, but some people are already thinking about packing up the Christmas gear. Here are some suggestions for keeping your decorations unbroken, untangled, and generally unscathed.
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Eye on Antiques: Christmas Ornament History
For Christians and others who celebrate Christmas's secular traditions, decorating their home and Christmas trees with ornaments is one of the most enjoyable ways to capture the magic and excitement of the holidays.
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Carefully pack away those Christmas ornaments
The first strains of "Auld Lang Syne" have yet to ring out, but some people are already thinking about packing up the Christmas gear. Here are some suggestions for keeping your decorations unbroken, untangled, and generally unscathed.
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Crafty containers to store ornaments safely
The post-holiday packing up of Christmas ornaments and other holiday home decor never is nearly as much fun as the unpacking of those very same baubles several weeks ago.
But you want to do it carefully, so that those precious ornaments, whether they are expensive Christopher Radko glass figurines or Popsicle-stick reindeer made by your first-grader, are in good shape next year.
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Feather trees and bubble lights Christmas adornments of the past at museum
The Spirit of Christmas Past might be found this season at the Museum on Main Street.
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Products let you stow your holiday stuff in style
he latest ornament organizers are designed to protect for the long term fragile Christmas accessories such as glass balls, calendar plates, train sets, artificial greenery and lights - not to mention saving time and space.
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2006 Ornament Collections from Reed & Barton, Lenox, Waterford and Steiff
2006 Holiday Season Ornaments from Reed & Barton, Lenox, Baldwin, Waterford and Steiff.
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Ornaments More Than Decoration
by Leslie Boyd, LBOYD@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
published November 28, 2006 12:15 am
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Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland Announces New Site Featuring Home Light Displays
Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland® announces the arrival of MyChristmasWonderland.com, the Christmas lights site.
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Predicting Christmas Ornament Collecting & Buying Trends for 2006 & 2007
Midland, MI (October 30, 2006) – For Christmas ornament collectors who want to know the ornaments that will be among the most sought after this fall, the author of “The Experts Guide To Collecting Ornaments” has some advise.
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It's Christmas Time in the Autumn
The calendar may say September, but some Toledo area retailers are beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
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Stores Get Jump on Christmas
Retailers grab early for a cut of $435 billion holiday pie
By Alex Davis
alexdavis@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
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Beginning to look like Christmas in stores
Santa Claus had better have on a thick coat of sunscreen because the wintry saint is getting plenty of exposure this summer.
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Christmas Arriives Early In London
Christmas officially arrived in London on Tuesday as one retailer ignored the hot weather and got into the festive spirit.
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Perfect Christmas trees don't happen naturally
Labor - OSU forestry experts are experimenting with a hormone technique that could be revolutionize the industry
Thursday, August 03, 2006
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You Have Not Experienced Michigan Until You've experienced Bronner's Christmas Wonderland
In Frankenmuth, MI. an angel greets visitors to the place where it's Christmas all the time.
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A Year Round Christmas Store In Japan?
It's interesting how the spirit of Christmas is popular in a non-Christian country. A nice story from the Japan Times.
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Unwrap Christmas ornaments, memories
Deciding where to place a Christmas tree is key. For many American families, the process of decorating a tree is a cherished tradition.
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For Christopher Radko, Christmas is ornamental
In his red velvet Valentino sport jacket and black Valentino shirt, Christopher Radko could pass for the U.N. ambassador to Christmas, if there were such a job.
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The tradition of handcrafting Polish Christmas ornaments continues in Ford City
Traditions are kept by making a variety of paper Christmas ornaments which are steeped in Polish traditions.
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Seiffen is the center of Germany's wood-carving industry
Seifen is a small town in former East Germany where the people who create famous German ornaments and Nutcrackers can be found.
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Identify the Best Investments for Ornament Collectors
If you want to collect Christmas ornaments as a moneymaking investment there are some things you will need to do to preserve their value.
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This Christmas, it's personal
Retailers said this year's hot Christmas decorative items are different. This time, they're personal. From Port Huron, Michigan.
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Shopping at the post office deserves a stamp of approval
The postal service now offers Christmas ornaments.
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Keep your tree fresh and fragrant
Follow these basic steps to ensure freshness and fragrance, thus avoiding the dreaded D's – dry, droopy and dropped needles.
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Antique lightbulbs, ornaments displayed
Shannon Litz/The R-C Ann Hunt-Laird holds some of her husband's Christmas ornaments that will be on display at Antiques Plus in Genoa. Hunt-Laird of Yerington has been collecting since 1957 and she has ornaments from the 1920s and 30s though the 1970s.
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The History of Christmas Trees and Ornaments
How the whole Christmas tree and ornament tradition started. A news item from north of the border.
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Touring German Christmas Markets
Taking in Bavaria's Christmas Markets.
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Is Christmas Creeping Up Too Fast?
From MSNBC, Are we going fom summer straight to the holidays? (Is it a bad thing?)
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New Mexico Prepares Nations' Christmas Tree
Following on the heels of a recent decision to allow an 80-foot spruce tree to be chopped down in the Santa Fe National Forest and delivered to Washington, D.C., for the 2005 national holiday festivities, Rio Rancho Public Schools students started making ornaments to adorn the tree.
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Glassblowing Flourishes in Czech Republic
Studios in eastern Europe have kept the art of ornament making alive throughout the ages.
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Glass Blown Ornaments Still Made In Europe
The art of making ornaments is still alive in Germany and The Czech Republic.
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Make It a Fun-tastic Halloween in Your Home
Chance to Win Hallmark's New Hauntington, U.S.A., Collection and Visit from Butch Patrick
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Kurt Adler Turns 60
One of our favorite ornament companies celebrates its 60th birthday.
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Time to think about Christmas for the troops
Christmas in September? It's not too early to think about Christmas if you're trying to provide care packages for 5,000 American soldiers.
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Joyful spirit of Christmas past drives their collecting
All that joy, all those memories -- that's what feeds interest in buying and cherishing Christmas items.
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Ornament Collectors Adds Halloween Items
To celebrate the start of fall, we've added Halloween decorations.
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Radioman Was Santa's Helper
Gerald Stein made an odd Santa Claus. For one thing, he was thin and dressed in olive drab.
For another, he was Jewish.
Yet, on Christmas in 1944, he brought a bit of yuletide cheer to a bitter corner of France.
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Anticipated ornaments give taste of holiday: Des Moines Register
Christmas Can Come In July.
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Christmas Crackers
In the dog days of summer people think vacations, outdoor cooking and Christmas ornaments.
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Christmas Collectors: Joseph Sansbury With A Few Of His Many Santas
From The Toledo Blade, December 19, 2004
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Things You Remember Don't Happen By Accident
From The Kalamazoo Gazzette, December 12, 2004
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Magnificient Obsession
From The South Bend Tribune, December 11, 2004
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How To Choose The Perfect Artificial Tree & Ornaments
From PR Newswire, November 10, 2004
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White House 2004 Ornament Honors Rutherford Hayes
November 5, 2004
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2004 White House Ornament Sets A Nostalgic Holiday Scene
Santa Paula News, Published on: September 22, 2004
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The New Versatility of Christmas Trees Inspire Holiday Decorating Ideas
From PR Newswire October 5, 2004
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They can't see the trees for the ornaments
Date: 12-13-2002; Publication: USA Today; Author: Maria Puente
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Buyer's Edge: HAVE YOURSELF A retro KIND OF CHRISTMAS
Oldies but goodies from holidays past are the trim of choice for nostalgic collectors.
Date: 12-19-2002; Publication: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution; Author: SANDRA ECKSTEIN, Staff
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Dec. 26? Never Heard of It.; At These Shops, Christmas Takes No Holiday
Date: 12-23-2002; Publication: The Washington Post; Author: Don Oldenburg Washington Post Staff Write
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