Hixson's in Lakewood known for glass ornaments, serving White House events Updated: Dec. 16, 2014, 7:29 p.m. | Published: Dec. 16, 2014, 6:29 p.m. By Patricia Neligan Barley, Special to the Sun News ...

Beck’s Christmas collection includes hand-blown glass ornaments, Santa candy boxes, angels that top the trees, Dresden and scrap decorations and spun cotton and cotton-batting ornaments.

The ornament then goes into an annealer that keeps the glass at 900 degrees so all the molecules align and give it strength then slowly cools to room temperature.

The ornaments are endorsed by celebrities, from Ted Danson and B.B. King to Betty White and good ol’ Uncle Lee, and a portion of proceeds from their sales goes to the celebrities’ favorite ...

Dresden ornaments These die-cut fiberboard ornaments might not seem valuable, since they lack the blown glass and bejeweled exterior of other collector’s items. But Dresden was one of the major ...

Clockwise from left: Ornaments from Swarovski, Glass Forest, CollectKlove, and Ekam The Christmas tree must be up by now, and the boughs weighed down by pretty baubles. But we say it’s never enough.

The Glass Orchard will be open Friday through Sunday 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. through Dec. 19. You can find them online or in-person at 130 Deerfield Rd, Eau Claire, WI 54701. Geo resource failed to load.

Seven-year-old Isabelle Bevan flashed a wide smile when her grandmother told her the blown-glass ornament she was making was huge. “I holded it in,” Isabelle said proudly about holding her ...

In the 1890’s, Woolworth’s Department Store in the U.S. sold more than $25 million in German-imported ornaments made of lead and hand-blown glass each year.