The Guild, Inc. Unveils Highlights of its 2007 Holiday Season

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ — The Guild, Inc., the leading online retailer of original art and fine craft items shipped direct to customers from artists’ studios, unveils the highlights for its 2007 holiday season. Among them:

  — more artist-made ornaments then ever before, including blown-glass tree

     toppers being offered for the first time through The Artful Home(R)

     catalogs and website, http://www.artfulhome.com/.

  — Seventy-nine new styles of ornaments and 25 returning customer

     favorites. Nine new ornament artists have created 20 of the styles.

     Seven styles are special editions for 2007 such as the collectible

     “Murrini Sphere” by Ralph Mossman and Mary Mullaney which

     incorporates the year into its canework. The ornaments are available at

     http://ornaments.artfulhome.com/ and The Artful Home and Artful(R) Gifts

     catalogs.

  — new artists in popular gift categories including jewelry, clocks, and

     wearables.
  — a repeat of the successful Ornament-A-Day Giveaway promotion, launched

     in 2006, in which one artist-made ornament is given away every day from

     November 26 through December 20. Visitors will be able to view each

     day’s ornament and enter to win it at

     http://ornamentaday.artfulhome.com/. Entrants without e-mail can enter

     each day’s daily giveaway by faxing their name, address, and phone

     number to Ornament-A-Day-Giveaway at (608) 257-2690.

  — an expansion of The Artful Home’s successful gift packet program,

     making it possible for customers to shop until the last minute. These

     beautiful packets include a picture of the artwork, the name and

     description of the piece, information about the artist, and a gift

     message if desired. The packets provide customers with something to

     wrap or send if the artist-made item they are purchasing as a gift

     won’t be completed in time to arrive for the holidays.
  — an enhanced online Holiday Gift Guide to help customers find all of the

     artist-made gifts that can arrive in time for the holidays. It will be

     available at http://holidaygifts.artfulhome.com/ in late October.

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