Personalized Ornaments by Calliope

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Storing your Personalized Ornaments and all other Christmas Ornaments

Storing your Personalized Ornaments and all other Christmas Ornaments

Beautiful Christmas ornaments are often fragile so it’s important to develop a nice way to store them and keep them safe from breakage, weather conditions (humidity, heat, dampness, etc.) and little unwanted creatures (bugs and mice)!

Calliope Designs offers two types of personalized ornaments. Our traditional “dough” ornaments and our new claydough ornaments. http://www.calliopedesigns.com/about_personalized_ornaments.aspx




Our traditional dough personalized ornaments are made of a mixture of flour, salt, water and colors, and are baked in an oven until hard, then glazed with a clear shiney coating to protect them for years. No matter how thick the coating, dough ornaments need to be stored in an airtight container to protect them from any moisture deterioration. We recommend they be stored in a tupper ware type container or a zip lock freezer bag for ultimate protection. Using this practice we continue to use the ornaments we made when we first started Calliope Designs in 1971! http://www.calliopedesigns.com/about_how_made.aspx to make your own dough ornaments.

Our new claydough ornaments are made of a polymer clay – and it is not subject to any moisture or weather conditions, bugs, or mice. They are also extremely durable. So there are not specific storage requirements for their preservation.

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