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Magical Memories #PCholiday

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With eyes shining brightly, the six of us kids would dash into the family room on Christmas morning. We’d squeal with delight as we spotted our personalized stockings, for they were filled with treasures from Santa!

The stockings had our names on them, and were embellished with handmade miniature ornaments and candies. The letters on mine were the smallest of all six of us, since I had the longest name — Elizabeth.

I could smell the Christmas turkey in the oven as I reached into my stocking to pull out my gifts, and one by one I marveled at them all. When I reached the toe, I knew I would find the juiciest, sweetest orange I could ever imagine, and I’d race to the kitchen to eat it as my special Christmas morning treat.

Personal Creations personalized Christmas stockings

Nothing will ever replace the cherished memories of my special childhood stocking, but I desperately wanted to order new stockings that would mimic the feeling and style of the one I hold so dear.

I spotted a selection of “Winter Wonderland” stockings at Personal Creations, and when I instantly got the warm fuzzies, I knew they were meant to be mine.

They’re super soft and squishy, have dimension and texture, and they ooze warmth and comfort. I adore them.

Personal Creations Winter Wonderland Stockings

As you can tell, I’m sentimental, but I also have a fondness for whimsy. I personalized these jingle bell mini stocking gift card holders for my kids. The designs make me think of mischievous elves, and I love that!

Personal Creations Jingle Bell mini stocking gift card holder

I have hundreds of ornaments, and my Christmas tree needs the entire year off just to prepare itself for the number of decorations I insist it hold for the entire month of December.

However, in the last few years, I’ve really tried to be more selective in the ornaments I buy. But when I saw “The Christmas Key,”  it was destiny. It just had to be my 2013 ornament.  In fact, I liked it so much that I ordered one for my mom as well.

Personal Creations - Christmas Key ornament

It comes with a little message to Santa that talks about the key to Christmas being Jesus, and it makes me smile that this ornament brings the two sides of Christmas together. Love.

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I hope you enjoyed sharing my Christmas memories with me, and perhaps you’ll find some personalized holiday magic yourself at Personal Creations. It’s certainly worth a look.

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  4. I’ve always wanted to purchase personalized holiday stockings for my family, but I always seem to forget until it’s too late. I’d like to have stockings we can keep for decades, so when they kids are grown, they still use the same ones at mom and dad’s house!

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  5. I just love this post so much I thought I’d come back again. We’re loving the Snowman stocking, he would so cute with my other snowmen stockings. I collect snowman everything.

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  8. I love your stockings and that key ornament is so amazing. My daughter would love that! I’m definitely going to check out Personal Creations. When my 2 sisters and I were little my mom decorated our stocking and wrote our names on it with glitter. We couldn’t wait to see what Santa put in our stockings. We did our stockings before we even opened presents or looked under the tree. I have so many wonderful memories from Christmas when I was a kid. My mom raised us by herself, and she always makes everything so special. My parents divorced when I was 10. My dad would take us to my grandparents where we got another big Christmas. Thank you Liz for this post. It makes me smile and get teary eyed thinking about all the fun Christmases I had when I little. We still have fun every single Christmas. We go to my mom’s house for the whole day. We had to make my mom stop filling our stockings a few years ago. She was doing us 3 girls plus my brother-in-law,my daughter and my 2 nieces. It was costing her a lot to fill that many so now she does her 3 granddaughters. Next year we will have a new addition to the family. My daughter is expecting, and our Chloe is due in May. I’m so excited it’s not even funny,Lol! Now I need to get back to the giveaway 🙂

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  11. It’s only our 3rd christmas as a family and as our ornaments grow in number, I too am trying to be selective. We love our disney favorites and our personalized ornaments best of all. I really like your key.

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  13. I actually have one of these ornaments myself. They are so colorful and lovely for the tree!! Thank you for sharing your personalized Christmas!!

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  20. This has been the tradition when I was going up, my daughter and now my grandchildren to open their stockings first too. I would love to get them the Sleigh Stockings from Personal Creations. They are so beautiful and I know my family would just love them.

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  21. I loved going through my stocking early Christmas morning too! l adore these stockings, thanks for the review.

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  22. I love that your childhood stockings had an orange at the bottom – ours did too! I was just at my parent’s house the other day and was looking at their tree, which includes all of our childhood ornaments. There was one – a Snow White ornament – that was my favorite as a child. I remember thinking it was the most beautiful thing! So many memories!

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  23. I love personalized items. My youngest two have stockings that have been personalized with their names. I have also ordered from Personal Creations and have been pleased with my order.

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  26. I love Personal Creations! I get catalogs every year and drool over a million things I want, but it’s never in the budget to buy them. Next year I am vowing to get the personalized stockings for all of us!

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  27. Oh my goodness I love the stockings you picked out and I love the Christmas Key. How adorable and what cute items. I also love the ornament very beautiful.

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  36. I love the personalized stockings! They really make the mantle and my kids love having their very own. 🙂 I’m headed to check out Personal Creations and that adorable Christmas Key ornament!

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  39. I still have a stocking my Mom made for me in the 60s yep the 50s! That year she made all 4 of us kids stockings from craft kits. Its gaudy beat up but means so much to me. I have drug it everywhere thru the years!

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  44. I love Personal Creations. They have so many things that make your house festive for the holidays. We got personalized stockings for the kids from them this year. We also got the cutest little personalized family ornament. Too cute.

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  47. oh, i like that santa key and jesus connection. that’s sweet. i need to look at that more closely.

    stockings are my FAVORITE part of Christmas. i love them.

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  50. I loved reading your story of Christmas morning. It reminds me of all the Christmas mornings my brothers and I woke up to presents under the tree and full stockings. My mom personalized all of our stockings and as I got older I added a few things throughout the years. Thank you for sharing your story with us. 🙂

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  52. I think that holiday stockings and /or ornaments can hold many memories and are an important part of the celebration. There is no reason why you can’t add to the memories with more of them

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  55. When I was a little girl my parents friend made me a personalized stocking. I treasure them to this day, I really need to get some for my boys. I always had great memories as a chid during the holidays. My mother decorates her house and it looks like a winter wonderland

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  56. I was looking for some stockings for the kids. I admit I love stockings and tend to replace them (the kids get to keep them, of course). These look lovely and I’m sure they will love them. Besides, we have a new little pet this year and he needs one (though he is a teacup chihuahua and smaller than the stocking!)

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  59. These are such adorable stockings! I only have two stockings, but we are a family of 5 so I do need more!

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  64. Your Christmas memories are much like mine. It’s wonderful that you carry the spirit of those long-ago Christmases with you in your traditions. Me, I’m a different story and don’t even decorate at all any more, but reading your post has made me nostalgic for the days when Christmas meant something. Thanks for sharing.

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  67. Those personalized stockings are too cute! We currently have basic stockings which I personalized with glitter pens. I want to get some better looking ones soon!

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  73. I try to have a classically themed Christmas decor scheme, and all of my vintage stockings have unraveled. These would be great replacements.

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  75. Those stockings are adorable! I still have my stocking that Grandma made for me when I was a baby, and it still gives me the fuzzies 🙂 Doesn’t Personal Creations make the cutest products?! Love them!

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  76. I really love stockings! My grandparents used to have a faux fireplace in their living room and they always had a stocking for each grandchild. I just hang our stockings on my key shelf!

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  77. Those stockings look super nice, and that Christmas Key ornament I REALLY love! I would love to have that myself! Thank you for sharing.

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  85. I really love those personalized stockings! I have been debating ordering something like that for me and my husband, but didn’t know if it would be needed/worth it. I think I am going to take the plunge, thanks!

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  86. We have lots of family heirloom ornaments that bring back such wonderful memories of my own childhood. We have also added new ornaments over the years that just add to the warm fuzziness!

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  87. I am in love with those stockings! Especially the snowman! I still have my baby ornament and hang it on the tree every year.

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  89. When I think of Christmases I celebrated as a kid, the homemade stockings are always one of my first thoughts. Such lovely memories! I do love the idea of the key ornament too 🙂

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  90. we usually try to buy one ornament a year that’s symbolic of a special occasion or memory. this year we bought an ornament from our summer vacation!

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  91. Cute, cute, cute! I know a lot of people who would love that Key ornament.

    BTW, I like your name so much that I named my firstborn after you. Well, actually, I didn’t know you at the time, but she does have the same name.

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  93. I have an ornament that I made with my dad when I was little, a glittery angel, I love that ornament, such fond memories!

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  94. I like the tradition of an ornament every year, maybe I will try it. I like the elf stockings too, so cute.

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  95. Ever since my husband and I got married 23 years ago, we always buy or make an ornament every year. Some years we have themes others we just pick whatever. Every year when we decorate the tree, we always remember when we got each ornament and who picked it out. Last year, we all agreed to buy a package of snowflakes for the tree. This year, we are going to each pick our own. It is such a fun tradition!

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  99. I love love love that Key Ornament – must get one! Our daughter has a stocking that was knitted for her when she was young with her name and the year of her birth. It’s seen a lot better days and really is not my style of décor at all – but it’s pretty sentimental so we still hang it up each year. 🙂

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  100. I always had personalized stockings growing up. I just found out my Mom still has them all so that was very cool.

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  101. My family had a number of siblings and 18 grandchildren. We quickly adopted drawing a name amongst the adults to reduce the expense. One of the inlaws families also brought the gifting under control by exchanging a single ornament each year. There was great expectation and appreciation for the unique ornaments that were exchanged. My family never adopted that, but it certainly worked out well.
    I try to switch out and use different ornaments from my collection. The tree just won’t hold all of them.

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  104. I love the post. Isn’t it wonderful the memories we can carry. We had personalized stockings as well. I have to say that I love the stockings you got . So full of depth and colorful. Whenever we decorate our tree it isn’t just with ornaments and lights. It’s with heartfelt memories that we’ll have forever. 🙂
    Carol L

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  106. These are adorable! I especially love the gingerbread man.I do the same thing you do – buy a new ornament every year because I already have a ton of ornaments.

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  107. Those are such cute stockings! I also really like the size. So many times they are either to small or way to big. These look like they would be just right. Personalized stockings are the only way to go in my book.

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  108. I love Christmas stockings and I have mine and my son’s that we have had for years with our names on them. I hang them up over the fireplace and I still put in presents for my son even if he is grown up! I sure do like your Christmas stockings!

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  109. When I replaced my cookie monster kid stocking it was a bittersweet day, hahaha I have out grown cookie monster but I had such sweet memories from it. Now we have new stockings we use each year, and I have built wonderful new memories with those with my husband. Those stockings are adorable and I love the key, and how it has such a great message!!

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  110. These stockings are adorable.I think my favorite would be the moose. My fondest memories of xmas morning was when I would wake up to the smell of coffee and pine.

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  112. We recently put up our tree. As I put on the ornaments, I would remember where I got it, or who gave it to me. On gift ornaments, I usually find a spot to write the giver’s and the year.

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  113. Those stockings are adorable!! My daughters always got so excited to hang up their personalized stockings over the years.

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  115. love the decorations. my mother still has the christmas ornament and decorations i mad as a child, she still cherishes them. i personally, do not have anything as yet in the way of decorations.

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  116. These are great! I love the stockings. We buy an ornament as a family every year that represents something special. I love looking back on the ornaments every year and remembering.

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  117. My kids have had personalized stockings for years and we really enjoy revisiting so many special, meaningful ornaments while decorating every season as well. There’s just something extra about custom Christmas items that make the holidays even better!

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  118. My Daughter has a decoration that my Mother used to put on our tree when I was a kid. That is the first decoration that goes on her tree. She is now in her early 40s and still does that decoration first.

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  119. Those certainly are darling stockings you got for your kids! The ornament is unique-one of a kind-I don’t think I have ever seen one like it before.

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  122. I have a lot of fond memories of Christmas stockings as well. Of all the holiday items I have, I think my antique glass ornaments are my favorite as they have been in my family for a long time. Every year I always find a new ornament that become my favorite and I must have – even though I have 6 crates of ornaments! LOL

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  125. We never did stockings, it didn’t seem to be part of my parent’s German tradition. So for us , stockings have only been a decor item, rather than part of the gift giving. I do love those ornaments, they are beautiful!

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  126. I have a ton of great memories of stockings from my childhood – my mom always found the best stocking stuffer toys for us since she didn’t have much money for “big” gifts.

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  127. I’d like to get new stockings. I’ve been eying their needlepoint ones, but their selection is low right now. Somethings are out of stock. I am going to do a post on my favorite ornaments.

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  131. Do you know that I ordered a second set of stockings this year? I totally forgot about the Personal Creations stockings I already had. Whoops! I love the look and the sentiment behind the key ornament.

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  134. the one ornament that gives me that special feeling is one I still have that my 3rd grade teacher gave me – It is engraved with my name & date and of an angel in a star. and I am happy to see it every year

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  135. I love your key ornament. I have many ornaments too and try to select special ones now. I cherish the ones my mom gave me every year

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  136. I have several ornaments and pieces of decor that carry lots of memories. I took my dog to the groomer the other day and she gave me an ornament with my dogs name on it and his cut hair inside. Loved it!

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  141. Our whole family have the same stockings, each with our names on them. Started 64 years ago, when my aunt made one for me, and then one for each sibling in my family. When we married, my Mum made matching ones for our spouses and then for each of our kids. Now that we are having grandchildren, my sister makes new ones every year for the new members of the extended family. It is one of our most cherished Christmas traditions–family. I think it’s wonderful that you have found nice replacements for what your remember from your childhood.

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  142. I really love those Christmas stockings! We got brand new ones last week and my daughter is really excited because hers lights up! LOL!

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  152. I love that ornament. I collect them, with my goal being to have a tree full of ornaments where no two are the same. I am off to a great start and pick one new one each year.

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  161. Those stocking are adorable. My mom hand made a stocking for each of my boys when they were born, so their stockings are definitely something that they cherish. She made mine too out of all my old dresses from each of my school dances growing up.

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  162. I have an ornament from every place we have visited. I have hauled them hither and yon as we have moved here and there. Each one makes me think of the trip and the place and decorating my tree is like reliving all of our travels and adventures.

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