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Calliope Designs Adds Whimsical Snowball Scene Christmas Ornaments to their Collection of Personalized Holiday Products

Snow Globe Ornament

Santa Rosa, CA (PRWEB) August 27, 2007

Calliope Designs is thrilled to be offering a new line of personalized Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments exclusively on their website, http://www.calliopedesigns.com .

Designed by Calliope’s lead designer, Dorr Eddy, the originator of personalized ornaments since 1972, these clay dough three dimensional globes offer a new handmade ornament for Christmas 2007. Priced between $ 19.99 and $ 25.99, these Christmas ornaments are highly collectible and a wonderful original holiday keepsake or gift.

Calliope Designs has been a designer, manufacturer and importer of personalized holiday ornaments seen at Gump’s, San Francisco to Fortunoff of Westbury in New York, as well as at many gift shops and department stores, kiosks, and websites across the United States. With original designs ranging from traditional Santa Claus motifs to Penguins, Snowmen, and Teddy Bears, these new Snowball Scene Christmas Ornaments mark an exciting new addition to their product line and the website.

“Within each Snowball Scene ornament is a special Christmas story. We offer everything from the Night Before Christmas Snowball Scene to the Holy Family Nativity Snowball Scene. You’ll find Snowball Scene globes that commemorate the family our Christmas tree shopping in a festive winter sleigh, a rocking horse personalized ornament marking Baby’s First Christmas, and even a Christmas Snowball Scene wedding ornament with a bride and groom for Our First Christmas,” said Owner and President, Stephanie Eddy.

“We wanted to offer a truly original concept in claydough. Each style is expressly created to become a personalized ornament, and each ornament will be dated with the year to increase its collectivity,” she added.

These unique Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments can also be used in various holiday displays in the home. They are designed to hang on a tree or sit on a mantle or holiday table because they have a slightly flattened base. These ornaments can be used as pieces in a lovely holiday centerpiece, as party favors sitting at each guest’s table setting, or as a hostess or housewarming gift.

“We’re also excited about these Snowball Scene ornaments because our wedding theme ornaments are often used as holiday wedding favors, as gifts to the bridal party, or as part of a wedding or shower centerpiece! Our goals at Calliope Designs are always to provide a wide selection of holiday ornaments to our customers and these exclusive, fabulous, and versatile Snowball Scene Christmas ornaments will be another wonderful addition to our site and catalog.”

Calliope Designs has also added over 75 other new clay dough Christmas ornaments to be personalized for Christmas 2007. As well as new Penguin and Snowman groupings, there are all kinds of new themes including Irish ornaments featuring shamrocks and Celtic crosses, fresh New York ornaments, new Las Vegas ornaments and New Orleans ornaments!

About Calliope Designs

When Dorr and Stephanie Eddy began making bread dough ornaments in their kitchen in 1972 they had no idea how popular their handmade Christmas tree decorations would become. Today, after more than 35 years of distributing their Christmas tree ornaments through fine retailers and major department stores nationwide, their whimsical little clay dough ornaments are treasured by children and grownups all over the world.

Each Calliope dough and claydough ornament is an original creation designed by Dorr Eddy. The unique character of each personalized Christmas ornament adds to the style of a completely handmade product. The bright colors and high gloss coating add to the ornament’s attractiveness and durability. The special techniques and the tools we have created greatly enhance our consistent quality.

Every design can be personalized to order creating a unique and treasured gift.

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American Bridal.com Named Regional Minority Retail Firm of the Year by the U.S. Department of Commerce

(PRWEB) August 29, 2007

American Bridal.com, the wedding favors and bridal party gifts online retailer announced today that it has been awarded 2007 Regional Minority Retail Firm of the Year by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). American Bridal was selected among the “best of the best” candidates from eight western states.

The U.S. Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) honors outstanding minority entrepreneurs that have contributed to the economy as well as to acknowledge individuals whose efforts have advanced minority business development throughout the country. MBDA is the only federal agency created specifically to foster the establishment and growth of minority-owned business in America.

The company was recognized for its continuous growth and its business model of providing extensive personalization of its wedding products. As American Bridal’s founder and CEO, Shirley Tan, explains, “We make a bride’s wedding as unique as she is by offering thousands of products and ways of customizing those products. With engraving, embroidery, label and tag printing, and monogramming, our brides can create the wedding of their dreams.”

Under Tan’s leadership, AmericanBridal.com has grown from a five person operation to twenty eight employees in three years. She is a self-taught expert on search engine optimization, the art/science of adjusting a website to be more readily found by search engines such as Google and Yahoo when particular key words are searched. Her internet marketing strategy allowed American Bridal to move up to the top of search engines for “wedding favors”, “bridesmaid gifts” and other key terms. Tan is passionate and committed to create values to her lifetime customers by continuously providing new products that meet American Bridal’s customer’s needs in their different life stages.

Shirley Tan can be reached at Shirley @ americanbridal.com or at 415-856-0357

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Custom Candy Bar Wrappers Deliver 10 Years of Success

Traverse City, MI (PRWEB) September 7, 2007

Announce It!, a custom candy bar wrapper designer, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.

Like many stay-at-home-moms, Lori Shirley needed to find a balance between work and family. With a strong desire to raise her children herself and a longing to put her artistic talents to good use, Lori began a search for a vocation that would allow her to do both. It came in a surprising form: Candy bar wrappers.

After making wrappers for her son’s birth announcements and dabbling with the Internet, Lori found the magic combination she’d been looking for. She began making customized candy bar wrappers and selling them online. Now, 10 years later, Lori’s company, Announce It!, has gone from a part-time venture to a full-fledged business, complete with several full- and part-time employees. “I can still remember how it felt to get that first sale,” recounts Lori.

What’s been the key to her success? “I am always looking for new products and services in order to keep my site fresh,” Lori reveals. In fact, this year alone brought two major additions. In March 2007 a satellite of the Announce It! web site was added that specialized in wedding favors (see http://www.idoweddingfavors.com). In August 2007 a party-planning blog was started and, though not completed yet, will provide visitors with exceptional information, tips and resources.

“A web site is a crucial marketing tool for small businesses,” says StartupJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal’s guide for entrepreneurs. But what will ensure an Internet startup will make it through the first month, much less celebrate its 10-year anniversary? Frank Blateri has some tips.

Frank Blateri is CEO of Winnow Companies Inc, a full service supply chain management solutions company. His new book “Becoming a Small Business Champion” highlights several of the most important steps to take. Not surprisingly, Lori has done all 10. Blateri suggests that small businesses will be more successful if they define their niche, identify their strategic advantage, stay technologically competitive, constantly add new products or service and have fun among other things.

With 10 years behind her you might think Lori would be growing weary. Not hardly. With visions for new products and services as well as a dream of passing her business down to her two children, the future looks bright for this creator of custom candy bar wrappers.

For additional information or to arrange for media interviews, contact Lori Shirley directly at 231-275-2140 or info(at)customcandybarwrapper.com To view Lori’s inventory or place orders, visit http://www.customcandybarwrapper.com.

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