What our customers say about Hestia

The Gift Cottage has a distinct advantage over our competitors (especially the large chain stores) when we carry personalized items like Hestia ornaments. They have sold consistently for ten years now and customers actually start checking in with us during the summer to inquire about the new designs for the year. As of fall 2004, we will have 43 different custom AmeriScape Ornament designs. The great thing about the ornaments is that they sell all year. People buy them as keepsakes for christenings, weddings, moving-gifts - any occasion where a gift that evokes a special memory is called for.

Joan Craybas
The Gift Cottage
Bethel, CT 

We have sold thousands of Hestia AmeriScape Ornaments. We are now in our tenth year of creating new designs. Products with local appeal are our best products. That is why Hestia works well for us.

Elizabeth Wooten
Owner, Gifts and Goodies
Rome, GA

We are successful because we buy only from people who make unique products. That?s why Hestia ornaments are a big part of our product strategy. Our Hestia Naperville ornaments are the product that the local people buy the most.

Gail Andrews
Owner, the Canterbury Shoppe
Naperville, IL

EJ's is excited to offer ornaments from Hestia for the third consecutive year. Our customer base at EJ's is a repeat local shopper and they not only purchase the 'new' ornament but also the previous year's ornaments. This buying pattern motivates EJ's to have the entire line of Hestia products available year-round for our gift shop, as they are season less.

Eilene Barrett, Owner
EJ's, Cleveland, GA 

Hestia has helped us give our customers another reason to return to our shop. As a matter of fact, our customers get so excited about the yearly ornaments that we hold an annual kick-off party where we unveil the new Hestia ornament.

Chris Gerbman, Owner
The Country Gourmet

Nature's Trail in Jim Thorpe, PA has been doing the AmeriScape Ornaments of our town buildings since 1996 and then started with VillageScape Miniatures several years later. We are extremely pleased with our customer response to both. They appeal to our tourist trade but mainly to our local customers, who look forward each year to the new production. They also rank as one of our top selling items. We highly recommend the creation of ornaments and villages by anyone who would like a unique and profitable product. We are also extremely pleased with Hestia's great customer service through the years.

Anne Marie Fitzpatrick & Raymond Brader
Nature's Trail
Jim Thorpe, PA

Hestia's artisans go far beyond merely creating a memento — they skillfully capture Christmas on the Green's spirit and imagination in what has become our annual souvenir of the holidays.

Michael R. Reilly
Christmas on the Green

A short thank-you note to let you know how much I like your ornaments. I've had an ornament made for my store and the downtown business people of Baraboo use them to raise money for our downtown organization. Our community just loves them. Keep up the great quality.

Barb Traxler, Owner
Nautical Notions
Baraboo, WI

Bowhe & Peare have been fortunate to have in their selection the Hestia Companions Nativity items for many years. Customers have been able to collect these timeless, handmade figurines and use them as special gifts, both at holidays and other special occasions. Other outstanding features of Hestia products are the service and the people.

Torben Huge-Jensen
Bowhe & Peare

Their products are extraordinarily unique and their staff – of professional artists and customer service personnel – is top-notch.

Susan Dodge

Thank you, Hestia, for all of the wonderful work you've done on all eight of our Lowell ornaments. Business leaders, proud citizens and local organizations all look forward to July when the Welles Emporium introduces the annual ornament design.

Janet Pitzer, Owner
Welles Emporium
Lowell, MA

Old Town Cape and The Downtown Merchant's Association have been working with Hestia, to produce our annual ornament, for about eight years now. Our customers look forward to the new ornament every year. They are one of our best fundraisers.

We love selling the complete line of Marblehead Hestia VillageScapes at The garden Collection. We've carried VillageScapes for years and they sell beautifully year-round – to Marblehead residents as well as tourists. The quality and charming detail of each one makes them irresistible.

Becky Ellis, Owner
The Garden Collection
Marblehead, MA