http://apersonalplace.co.nz Handcrafted Personalised Christmas Ornaments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:19:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/memory-dove/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/memory-dove/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:09:44 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=982 When I first started making Christmas ornments I used to get request for memory ornments. At first I was freaked out, but now after losing my mom a few years back I understand. So this memeory dove is in memory for my mom. We made Christmas decoartions ever since I could remember. So making Christmas [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/memory-dove/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/princess-crown/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/princess-crown/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:38:51 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=442 Every girl wants to be a Princess we all can’t be Princess Kate, So show your little girl that she is a princess in your life. Girls like to get this crown to hang on their bedroom door to let people know a princess is in their presents. This ornaments comes in assorted shade s [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/princess-crown/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/red-heart-with-penguin/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/red-heart-with-penguin/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:31:15 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=440 I created this ornament to use some pebbles I found on the beach. I wanted to bring aspects that I fell in love with when I came to New Zealand. These little pebbles I though were really cute and natural looking. I love to walk on the pebble beaches in New Zealand. I can sit for [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/red-heart-with-penguin/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snow-family-baby/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snow-family-baby/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:08:25 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=409   This ornament is perfect for a growing family. You can start out with just the couple and purchase add on grandchildren.I have had mother in laws buy this ornament along with extra babies to let their children know just how many grandchildren they expect. This is also a good ornament for offices, or small [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snow-family-baby/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-christmas-cat/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-christmas-cat/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:27:43 +0000 Tina Dudley http://apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=1179 My christmas cat is a favorite with many people. I have found that many New Zealanders love cat more than dogs. My cats were never that popular in the states as they are here in New Zealand. This cat comes in white, black, grey,and black. Price is $10.00.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-christmas-cat/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-and-silver-cross/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-and-silver-cross/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:16:20 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=970   I started making this cross as a memorial cross for a friends husband that had died. This cross is perfect for a special memorial ornament or a gift for a family. This cross can have name hearts on it or plain. This cross also comes in red and white. The Price is $12.00.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/white-and-silver-cross/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/fireplace/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/fireplace/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:56:44 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=959   When I was a kid I didn’t have a fireplace to hang a  christmas stocking on. So I made my own fireplace to hang my stockings on. This ornament can have up to 8 stockings and two hats hanging  from it. The price $12.00.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/fireplace/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/father-christmas/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/father-christmas/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:45:21 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=953   Everyone loves Father Christmas or Santa Clause. What ever you call him he has the same meaning and envokes all our favorite childhood memories. This ornament can be personalised for any occassion. Perfect for a family or a First Christmas. Price is $12.00]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/father-christmas/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowflake/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowflake/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:38:00 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=949   We may have chirstmas in the summer in New Zealand but we still like  little snowflakes at christmas. This snowflake can have up to 8 names on it. The price is $10.00.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowflake/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/angel-with-apple/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/angel-with-apple/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:08:33 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=968  An apple for the teacher. This is a teacher angel. For all the teachers out that that teach our children and take care of them all day long. This makes a great thank you gift for your teacher at the end of a school year. Can be personalised with the teacher name and year. Price [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/angel-with-apple/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/little-angel/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/little-angel/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:43:32 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=578 This ornament has a habit to make Grandma’s and Nana’s alike cry. I don’t mean to make them cry, but when I personalise this to say Grandma’s Little Angel with the date and the name of her grandbaby, She usualy crys. This star comes with one to nine faces. So all of Grandma’s Little Angels can [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/little-angel/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/ginger-bread-boy-ball/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/ginger-bread-boy-ball/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:43:11 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=577    Our little gingerbread boy. I made this little fella out of boredom one day. He is now I regular in my collection. One year a dad and his son were shopping and the  dad asked what ornament did he want? The little boy responded by saying he wanted the one with the grenade. Well This Gingerbread boy is not holding a grenade, it is a Christmas ball. [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/ginger-bread-boy-ball/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/christchurch-star/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/christchurch-star/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:38:19 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=566 Last Christmas I had a lot of requesst for Christchurch earthquake ornaments. At first I didn’t feel inspired to make any. Well, 7500 earthquakes later and my house needing to be demoed. I got inspired. I choose to make a star because the people of Canterbury and Christchurch are super stars. I have had Student Volunteers at my house and [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/christchurch-star/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/cross/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/cross/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:50:22 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=755   When I first starting making ornaments I had what I thought were unusal requests. People would request ornaments to remember love ones who had pasted. At first it freaked me out. After my Mother pasted the request didn’t freak me out any more. I designed several pieces to remember my mother and other people [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/cross/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/purple-star/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/purple-star/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:38:07 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=804   This ornament was a happy mistake. We had a lot of purple clay laying around and we just starting making purple stars. My husband thought I was crazy. We sold out of all these stars in the first show 3 years ago, we now make them on purpose. This star is popular with the [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/purple-star/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/standing-sheep/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/standing-sheep/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:23:32 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=808 New Zealand at last count had 44 million sheep in this country. Meet 44 million and one. This  sheep is a cute souveniur to send overseas to a kiwi or a friend of a kiwi. This ornament can be personalised with any thing you wish.Our most common personalisation is Love from New Zealand or Christcurch [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/standing-sheep/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowmen-couple/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowmen-couple/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:12:12 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=807 This ornament was our first couples ornament. This ornament is perfect for best friends, couples, first christmas, and twins first christmas. All we have to do is change how we personalise the decoration. This ornamnet comes in many colours, purple,pink, blue,red,green,silver ,and black. You can have this personalised any way you wish. some of our [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowmen-couple/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-cat/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-cat/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:21:32 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/see-them-all/uncategorized/silver-cat/ Every one in the family needs a christmas decoration even the cat and dog. This ornament comes in white,black,silver,ginger. This ornament is $10.00 plus postage.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-cat/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/skates/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/skates/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:30:25 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=482 Ice skates or inline skates anyone. I grew up with roller skates on my feet. I loved ice skating but my ankles were too weak. I created this design for people who were better at Ice skating then I was. They come in black or white. I can also make and ice skating girl or boy. I [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/skates/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/baby-star/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/baby-star/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:40:05 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=466   When I got married our first christmas tree was so sad. I didn’t have any ornaments to hang on my tree. I bought some store bought ornaments to put on the tree, but the tree felt empty. I grew up with a Christmas tree filled with hand made  ornaments that were made by my brother and sisters in [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/baby-star/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/paua-shell-hearts/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/paua-shell-hearts/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:30:18 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=500   This ornament was another one of my wonderful accidents. My children had helped me roll out some hearts for Valentines Day and they made them out of white. I couldn’t use them for Valentines day, so I added some Paua shell pieces I had. I had been trying some designs to use Paua shell [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/paua-shell-hearts/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/kiwi-boots/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/kiwi-boots/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:33:42 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=479 I moved to New Zealand 6 years ago for a short career break. Well we feel in love with New Zealand and my heart is here. I worked very hard to create some ornaments to send to friends overseas. After my Kiwi friends saw what I was making they wanted me to make some for them to send over [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/kiwi-boots/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowman/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowman/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:08:06 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=477 I created this little guy because customers wanted ornaments  that were smaller and in differnt colours so they could give the same design for multiple  grand children. This ornament is great for first christmas or just to give instead of a chirstmas card. This little snowman comes in four colours: green, red, blue and purple, [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/snowman/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-bells/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-bells/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:30:12 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=424 This cute little silver bell ornment was made for a friend who got married and wanted a picture frame to hang on the first chritmas tree. Just cut out a small picture and cello tape it to the back of the ornament. This ornamnet can also be personalised with names and wedding date or “Our [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/silver-bells/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/small-red-boot/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/small-red-boot/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:18:08 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=419   When the reccession hit I had to get creative so I could still produce a quality product and keep my business a float thru the hard times. Customers have been asking for smaller ornaments for years, so I jumped to the challenge and reduced the size of some of my designs. The result is [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/small-red-boot/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/tractor/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/tractor/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:02:28 +0000 Tina Dudley http://test.apersonalplace.co.nz/?p=404 This Tractor comes in four colours: green, red, blue and yellow. This is another one of our accident ornaments again. When my son was little he was so into tractors all he wanted was a tractor. So I made this ornament just for him. As always I always make several ornaments, I placed the rest on [...]]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/tractor/feed/ 0 http://apersonalplace.co.nz/family-christmas-tree/ http://apersonalplace.co.nz/family-christmas-tree/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:47:19 +0000 Tina Dudley http://tina.natisparite.com/?p=27 This keepsake decoration can be personalised with up to 14 names, the year and the family name. Start ccollecting ornaments to remember how your family looked year after year.]]> http://apersonalplace.co.nz/family-christmas-tree/feed/ 0