NYC Hotel Matchbox Glass Ornament by Cody Foster

A matchbox ornament modeled on the kind you pocket at a hotel bar and find in a coat six months later, done in deep red glass. It is flat and graphic, which means it hangs beautifully on the branch tips where a rounder piece would disappear. Give it to the person who keeps every hotel key card, hang it on a travel tree, tie it to luggage as a tag for a December trip, or slip it into a stocking.

Perfect for: travelers, hotel bar regulars, collectors, city trees, stocking stuffers, and ornament exchanges.

A travel ornament collection usually starts with one piece bought on a trip and grows a city at a time, which is why matchbox and landmark shapes are so common in them. Most people keep the collection on a single tree, hang the newest piece toward the front each year, and let the group double as a record of where they have been.

Hang it near the lights so the red carries, then browse the rest of our glass Christmas ornaments.