Three of the new 2011 Keepsake ornaments incorporate design elements from past Keepsake ornaments into their design.

Checking It Twice
1st in the Once Upon a Christmas series

Keepsake Artist contributions:

  • Design concept – Tom Best
  • Santa, ornament base & plate of cookies – Robert Chad
  • Chair & table – Ken Crow
  • Labrador puppy on pillow – Anita Marra Rogers
  • Lamp on table – Chris Webb

Interesting Details

  • The chair Santa is sitting in was Ken Crow’s contribution to the ‘01 Santa’s Desk, Studio edition (QXC4562).
  • Desk lamp was Chris Web’s contribution to the ‘01 Santa’s Desk, Studio edition (QXC4562).
  • The plate of cookies on the table features Sharon Visker’s snowman, snowflake and Christmas tree sugar cookies from the ‘10 “Season’s Treatings”, 1st in the series ornament (QX8242).
  • A miniaturized version of the  ‘04 Labrador, 14th in the Puppy Love series (QX8441) was created by Anita Marra Rogers and is shown laying on the floor next to santa’s chair.
  • The base features (clockwise) Lynn Norton’s “Spartan Model 7-W Executive”, 8th in the Sky’s the Limit series (QX8391) from ’04, a rocking horse and tin locomotive based on the two popular series by Linda Sickman, Edythe Kegrize’s Northern Cardinal, 1st in the Beauty of Birds series and a teddy bear.
  • The names of all the people who worked on this ornament are listed (alphabetically) in the book Santa is reviewing.
    • Anita ✓
    • Chad ✓
    • Charles ✓
    • Don ✓
    • Edythe ✓
    • Jim ✓
    • Ken ✓
    • Linda ✓
    • Lynn ✓
    • Mike
    • Rebecca
    • Sharon
    • Tom
    • Valerie

Decking the Door
Companion to Once Upon a Christmas series

  • The stain glass panels that make up the side windows

 depict: (left, from top to bottom) the ’77 Colors of Christmas Bell (QX2002), the ’09 Home Sweet Home (QXM9032); the ’05 Poinsettia Fairy, 1st in the Fairy Messengers series (QX2145) by Kristina Kline-Gaughan & the ‘04 Timmy Racer, 11th in the Kiddie Car Classics series (QX8444) by Don Palmiter (right, from top to bottom) A Rocking Horse by Linda Sickman, the ’03 Pop! Goes the Snowman, 1st in the Jack-in-the-Box Memories series (QX8457) by Sharon Visker, the ’11 Festive Santa, 3rd and Final in the series (QXM9127) by Nina Aube and the 2010 Ornament Premiere in-store Register-to-win Berry Sweet Bear (LPR3413) by Sue Tague.
  • Iris, 4th in the Mary’s Angels series (QX4279), designed by Mary Hamiliton and sculpted by Robert Chad, is embossed on the base of the ornament.
  • The KOC 25th Class Reunion event exclusive Wreath of Memories (which also includes several Keepsake ornaments in its design)* is displayed on the door.

Wreath of Memories
KOC 25th Class Reunion event exclusive

Features (clockwise): ’05 Forsythia, 18th in the Mary’s Angels series (QX2315), ’10 Snow Buddies, 13th in the series (QX8103), ’05 Toymaker Santa, 6th in the series (QX2205), ’99 House on Holly Lane, 16th in the NH&S series (QX6349), ’11 Ireland, 1st in the Angels Around the World series (QX8917), ’05 Northern Cardinal, 1st in the Beauty of the Birds series (QX2135) & ’89 Frosty Friends, 10th in the series (QX4572).