Is Getting Personalized Christmas Stockings Worthwhile?

Personalizing a Christmas stocking takes some research and effort but the rewards are awesome.

During Christmas holidays all the stores are stocked with Christmas decorations.  Christmas stockings are part of this great display.  However most stores do not offer those Christmas stockings personalized.

One of the reasons for that is because personalizing any items requires skilled craftsman who would master that particular craft of engraving the names or initials on the holiday items.

Thus you need to look for specialty stores that are experts in transforming everyday items into personalized masterpieces.  It’s not like you can walk into any store and get a personalized Christmas stocking even during holidays.

 

So it requires some effort to put personalized Christmas stocking set together.  If you do find a set of your favorite Christmas stockings, which you love in a regular retail store or a department store, then you may want to buy your Christmas stocking in a regular store and then find a local embroidery shop and ask them if they can personalize your Christmas stockings on their embroidery machines.  Sometime the embroidery shop will do that for you and they usually charge pretty penny, often times you would pay more for the customizing of your stocking that you paid for the stocking.  The shop will also tell you that they cannot guarantee their work because you brought in your own items so if anything happens during the customizing process and your item gets damaged, the loss is your responsibility.  Some shops, which specialize in embroidery will not embroider on items brought by the customers because of the possible liability in case the item gets damaged.

So your best bet is to locate a shop, which specializes in personalized Christmas stockings.  Those companies are experts in putting names or initials on the specific Christmas stockings they sell.  Embroidering on any garment, stocking, fabric, shirt takes certain amount of experimenting before you get all the aspects of customizing that item in totally perfect way.  In such process a bunch of items gets ruined at first but the embroidery shop then ends up with a perfectly embroidered personalized Christmas stockings.  If you purchase your stockings from such specialty shop, you would certainly be pleased.

One of the issues you may face is that you may not be able to find a custom embroidery shop that specialized in personalized Christmas stockings locally.  So your next best thing is to do catalog shopping or buy your personalized Christmas stockings online.  One drawback of buying from catalog or online merchants is that you cannot see the Christmas stocking in person.  Sometimes pictures of the item may look slightly different than they look in person.  This may be because your computer monitor brightness and color may be slightly adjusted away from standard settings.  If you are really particular about color schemes and what the item looks like in person, you may need to see if the online or catalog merchant offers to ship you blank items first so you can preview them and then you would just pay for shipping both ways, return the items and switch it for a personalized stockings.

We have just started uploading videos of our personalized Christmas stockings so you would be able to preview the stockings in most complete way before you make your purchasing decision.

 

As you can see getting personalized Christmas stockings for you and your family may become quite a project.  It requires advanced planning and some research.  The good news is that there are many stores online which specialize in Christmas stockings and some, like us, can take your order online and ship it to you in 24 or 48 hours tops.  Expedited and express shipping options further make it possible for you to get your personalized stockings in no time.

There is a big difference between plain stocking and a Christmas stocking with your name on it.  Plain Christmas stocking is just a wrap for some stocking stuffers.  A Christmas stocking with a name becomes an awesome part of your holiday decor, sometimes even a crowning jewel of your holiday living room decor.  You can stuff the stockings in advance and just watch your kids beaming with anticipation of Christmas Eve or Christmas day so they can dive into those stockings and discover the goodies they hold.  Tastefully embroidered Christmas stockings on your fireplace mantle, windowsill or wall are a focal point for your holiday visitors.

You may just hear: “These are gorgeous stockings, where did you get those?”

If you are looking for some gift ideas for Baby’s first Christmas, you can take a look at some favorite things you can make, purchase or find.

First make sure that you have something cute to put all those baby’s fist Christmas gifts into. You can get a Baby’s First Christmas Stocking – make sure to have it personalized. Baby’s first Christmas Stockings could become a treasured possession for years to come and can be passed down from one generation to another. There are so many cute stockings on the market. The favorite color choices and designs for Baby’s First Christmas are either blue stockings for the boys or pink ones for the baby girls. If you personalize those Christmas stockings with the baby’s first name and a year, it’s sure to be a hit and a family heirloom.

 

Now what to put into the Baby’s 1st Christmas stocking?

 

Baby’s First Christmas Photo Ornaments with baby’s pictures are also considered unique and appreciated gifts. It’s a nice tradition to start a collection of ornaments for your child when he is a baby, and add one each Christmas. You can get the baby’s picture and have it printed on the photo ornament or photo frame Christmas ornaments.

 

The first thing the baby will need is a super cute outfit for all those Christmas photos. You don’t need to spend lot of money, there are many cute, good quality baby Christmas outfits or Baby Santa Suits available in the stores during holidays.

 

Baby’s First Christmas Photo Album is another great idea. Once the parents and family members took the Christmas pictures of the cutie, you may want to put them into Baby’s Fist Christmas photo album. There are companies online that will print such album book from the digital pictures and mail it to you.

 

Baby’s First Christmas toys, such as plush animals and light up baby safe toys will make the little darling smile.

 

There are many possibilities to have everyday things personalized for the baby and use those as gifts. Personalized baby shirts, bibs, blankets, hats or even coats.

 

While gifting for baby’s first Christmas do not forget about baby’s parents. They may need a custom bag to carry all those baby things with them or a nice personalized t-shirt with some funny saying that relates to them becoming a new parent.

 

Baby first jewelry is also a very popular item. You may also add an accessory for the baby’s nursery room, such as Christmas mobile for baby’s crib, a pillow, a clock or a lamp that fit into the existing baby’s room decor.

 

Video Shopping is probably the next best thing to seeing the product in person.  Shopping for Personalized Christmas Stockings is challenging enough.

 

First challenge is to find a store that has the right kind of Christmas Stocking that fit your holiday decor.

Most Christmas Stocking retailers do not embroider or personalize the Christmas Stockings so you might need to take your stockings to a specialty embroidery shop just to be told they do not embroider on items not bought in their store.

If you do ultimately find a merchant that carries Christmas stockings you like and embroiders personalized names or initials on the stockings they carry, it will probably be a specialty online store half way across the country or continent. So you are left with online shopping alternative.

There is a challenge to online shopping though:

Viewing those product pictures on your monitor….. the thought:
“I am hoping the Christmas stockings will turn out the same way they look online when I receive them…”
…..probably crossed your mind.

So we at Stocking Factory came up with a solution that will further enhance our shopper’s experience, adding a raw video of each Christmas stocking we personalize. It’s almost like being in our showroom and having the Christmas stocking in your hand.  We aim to set up the shopping video featuring each individual Christmas Stocking, including what it’s inside looks like.

We are concerned about the shopping pages loading fast so currently our videos are compressed as much as possible to make them buffer and play as fast as possible.  We know that once you start seriously Christmas Shopping, time is of an essence!

We hope you will enjoy the videos.  You can sample one of the product shopping videos here and then please check out our selection of Christmas Stockings.  We have over 100 different designs in stock and you will see videos added to each and every one of them as we produce them and deploy through our own YouTube Channels.

 

Visit our stores at : http://www.centrinet.com/christmas or our Yahoo store at http://www.stockingfactory.com and if you need help or have any questions feel free to call our friendly customer service at 800-761-XMAS

Your personalized Christmas stockings are most likely made from delicate materials such as velvet, organza, chiffon, satin, or other materials.  Since you cannot always be sure if the materials are synthetic or natural fiber,  the best way to press your Christmas stockings is to treat them as if they were made from the most delicate materials.

There is a special trick to get even the most delicate fabrics pressed.  It is quite simple.  Take a spray bottle and fill it with water.  Lightly spray the Christmas stocking with water so it it damp.  Find a cotton pillowcase.  Place the cotton pillowcase over the Christmas stocking.  Then set your iron for cotton temperature.  You can then iron the stocking.   The cotton pillowcase protects the finer materials that may be sensitive to higher temperatures from burning.  Also the fact that the stockings are dampened with water creates the steam, which in turn lowers the temperature while making the stockings flat.  If you are unsure if this method works safely, you should test it on the least conspicuous are of the stocking – for example the back side of your Christmas stocking may be suitable.

 

Another clever way to get your Christmas stockings pressed is to hang them in the bathroom when you are raking a hot shower.  This steams the stocking fabrics by infusing them with moisture.  Sometimes that process alone straightens out any wrinkles in the stocking and it may be enough for the stocking to look good.   If after the steaming process in the shower your Christmas stocking still needs more to look perfectly pressed and you do not want to use the iron and pillow case method, you may simply weigh the stocking with something heavy.  Place the stocking on a bed or table with a flat surface.  Put a pillowcase or a blanket or a sheet over your stocking.  Then place something heavy on top of the Christmas stocking.  For example you can use a big book or a box evenly loaded with heavy items.  The weight will dry press your stocking without damaging it’s materials.

 

When you purchase personalized Christmas stockings for the whole family, they usually represent a significant portion of your Christmas decorating budget.  Since most Christmas stockings are personalized by embroidery process, they also have a sentimental value.  Most people want to hold on to their personalized stocking for many years to come.  If one Christmas stocking gets damaged or soiled, it is usually difficult to replace it because the specific store where you have purchased it no longer carriers it.  Christmas stores usually update and change their inventory of Christmas stockings every year so most likely you may not be able to find the exactly same Christmas stocking and have it personalized to replace the one lost or damaged.

 

Here are some useful care tips make your Christmas stockings last for many years:

The safest method to clean your stockings if they get dirty is to have them dry cleaned.  Our personalized Christmas stockings are usually made from delicate materials and fabrics so putting the stockings through a normal wash may damage them or ruin their colors as one fabric color may run into another.

If you do not have a dry cleaner in your area, you may want to try home dry cleaning methods.

There are dry cleaning spays and solutions available at your local supermarket.  One such dry cleaning method we found very effective is using Oxy Clean spray.

Fist test an area on the back side of your Christmas stocking, spray it and dab or rub with a white face cloth and let dry.  If the material of your Christmas stocking survived the test without any damage, then you can use the solution on front area of your Christmas stockings, which actually needs cleaning.

Check out our Thanksgiving Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale on Personalized Christmas Stockings.

We appreciate return customers.  Every one of our customers automatically receives a coupon code for their next order.  The coupon code is automatically emailed on the new order confirmations as well as printed on the packing lists that are sent with the shipment.

We have just initiated a private reward program for customers who just purchased from us.  The reward details will be emailed about 10 days after the order is shipped to assure that the order was received first.  Details of the Reward Drawings will be posted on the comments section of this post every ten days.

Our new Fishing Christmas Stockings just arrived and were added to our catalog of personalized Christmas stockings.

So if you have that fishing enthusiast in your family, this velvet Fishing Santa Stocking is for them.

We have made it easier to shop our Personalized Christmas Stockings. Now you can  shop by size, by theme and by the color scheme. As our selection of Christmas Stockings grows every year, we thought that organizing the store by those features would help our customers choose the right personalized stocking set with just a few clicks. This year we are bringing in a large number of blue Christmas stockings: while it is difficult to find one blue Christmas stocking in other online or brick and mortar stores, we have so far added six new designs and still adding more. Our selection of blue Christmas stockings will have more than 20 blue personalized stockings to choose from!  From cute Santa, Snowman to nice blue velvet Christmas stockings, the choices will hopefully satisfy any one who is looking for these hard to find Christmas decorations.

Buy More – Save More Discounts

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Everyone loves this program.  We love to reward the customers who buy more in a single transaction with additional discount.

• Orders over $50 receive 5% Quantity Discount
• Orders over $75 receive 7% Quantity Discount
• Orders over $100 receive 10% Quantity Discount
• Orders over $150 receive 12% Quantity Discount
• Orders over $200 receive 15% Quantity Discount

This discount is applied at the checkout on the current order and other coupons can be also redeemed on top of this discount. So you can combine our Quantity Discount with other store coupons or promotions in our store.  As soon as you add products to your shopping cart and the value exceeds US$50 or more, you will see the Quantity Discount applied.  This discount is calculated on the total product price, shipping and taxes do not contribute to qualify for the Quantity Discount.

Customer Loyalty Coupons : we love our customers.  Once you place an order, we will email you a discount coupon good for future purchase.  Keep it for yourself or gift it to a friend.

Buzz Coupons : up to 40% off on any order on our Christmas Stockings and personalized photo ornaments.

To get the full details of our current promotions, please go to our Stocking Factory Coupons and Discounts program page.