Bidding Farewell to Ornaments We Love 'til Next Year

We can't believe the Holiday season is almost over! In just days, most of us will be packing up our ornaments and décor and saying goodbye until next year. And, if you ask Sterling Pear fan, Jerry Durante, our signature Keepsake Ornament Chest is a great place to keep those items safe for the next, say, 10 months.

Let's hear from Jerry directly...

 

First let me say we love Sterling Pear's chests for storing our holiday ornaments. We didn’t start our collection, my mother did, unknowingly, 27 years ago.

 

When my wife and I got married, my mother purchased a Lenox ornament. It kind of grew from there. Each year thereafter, she purchased a Lenox piece, which she still does today. Adding to that, when my wife and I see a Lenox piece we like, we buy it. Then our son bought us a Swarovski snowflake one year and now after 27 years of Lenox and 10 years of the Swarovski flakes, we have 80 large and small crystal snowflakes, each sentimental.

With our collection, one of the biggest challenges with putting up the tree was opening all the boxes of the ornaments. And, all those boxes took up a lot of room. Then, of course, taking down the tree and put them all back in the correct boxes was not fun. Plus, we wanted to ensure the ornaments were protected in storage. That is when I started looking for something better than what we had.

I found Sterling Pear's  keepsake ornament chests online. They not only keep the ornaments safe, they are easy to empty and fill. Now putting up and taking down the tree isn’t the chore it use to be.  The chests are great looking and very easy to store everything. We need two chests, which fit all of our ornaments perfectly, including the tree top angel.

 

These chests, I feel, are the best investment we could have made for our ornaments. After all we have over $4,000 invested in ornaments. Keeping our investment and our memories safe is priceless.

Thank you for making these!

Kathy and Jerry Durante


contributed by Lizzy Smith for Sterling Pear