Willow Tree Angel Ornaments

Willow Tree is a company known for the simple angel forms without facial features that are treasured and placed in a special spot in people's homes as a reminder of love.  Willow Tree angels make wonderful gifts because they are beautiful to look at and they also bear special messages -- as angels are supposed to do -- between the giver and the receiver of the gift. These messages are part of the angel's design, and include such sentiments as love, friendship, and freedom. As such, they are perfect as a gift of encouragement between mothers and daughters, grandmothers and granddaughters, friend and friend, husband and wife.

Susan Lordi, the creator of the Willow Tree Angels, has been crafting these figurines since 2000. She carves each sculpture, which is then cast in resin and trimmed with metal wire. Each piece is lovingly painted by hand.

Willow Tree Angel figurines are fun to collect and look beautiful displayed together in a group. The ornament variety are lovely on a Christmas tree, too, and can be displayed hanging somewhere else when the Christmas tree is taken down for the year. Susan Lordi designs a new ornament each year, This year's special angel is the Trellis Angel Ornament. It makes a great friendship gift to hang on someone's tree.

Although we usually interpret a person's emotions by looking at their faces, Willow Tree Angels have no faces. Their expression of emotion is more subtle and involves a tilt of the head or a gesture with the hands.

Yet while looking at this body language of the small figurines, we can sometimes feel the emotion they are trying to share bubbling up within us. Strange, isn't it, that what seems like no show of emotion can express so much?

Look for example, at the Angel of Happiness. With her arms outstretched and with the bluebirds perched there, she seems to be ready to take flight in a surge of joy. Maybe it's just me, but I get that feeling of dancing with joy when I look at this figurine.

When my niece was little and came to visit her grandmother, their time together seemed way too short for both of them. When my three-year-old niece left the house to return home, her grandmother would blow her kisses. Somehow that was not enough for the little girl and so she began a little tradition of crossing her arms over her chest to send her grandmother a hug from a distance. From that day on, they blew kisses and sent hugs each time they parted.

This little Willow Tree Sign for Love Angel reminds me of them both.

It's hard not think of freedom and its preciousness when you look at this Willow Tree Angel Figurine. A butterfly perches on the angel's cupped palms, ready to take off and flit away. The angel could close her hand over the creature, but doesn't, and so the fragile insect will most likely leave her behind. 

How many of us have experienced the love and pain of letting go?

Last, but most important of all, is this lovely Nativity scene from Willow Tree. Your family will recall the Christmas story each year while unwrapping and setting up this creche scene.

Figurines include Mary holding Baby Jesus, Joseph, a shepherd holding a lamb, two additional sheep, and a donkey.

This six piece set can be added to now or in subsequent years with the three Magi, an ox and a goat, as well as any number of angels, all available separately.

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