Heavenly
Belles
Four angel bells. Four years. Each one a little girl in an ornately designed gown with wings — and each one a working bell that actually rings. Porcelain, handcrafted, and finished with the shimmer of something celestial.
An Angel That Actually Rings
The Heavenly Belles series works on two levels simultaneously — as an ornament and as a bell. Each entry in the four-year series is shaped as an angelic figure: a little girl in an ornately designed gown with detailed decorative wings, rendered in fine porcelain with shimmering accents. But the gown itself is the bell's body, and the clapper inside means that when you lift her from the tree, she rings — a small, clear chime that belongs entirely to December.
The series ran from 2013 through 2016, with each annual entry depicting a different angelic character. The 2014 Arctic angel, caught in a wind-swept coat of blue, had just caught a snowflake from above — the box poetry described her as chiming with winter wonder. The 2015 entry, named Holly, brought botanical warmth to the celestial theme. Each figure has her own seasonal identity, her own color story, her own moment in the December world — while sharing the unifying format that makes the set immediately recognizable as a collection: angel, bell, porcelain, ornate gown, wings, chime.
Edythe Kegrize, the Hallmark Keepsake artist behind the series, brought to the Heavenly Belles the same sensitivity to angelic figures that distinguishes Hallmark's long tradition of collecting-grade angel ornaments. The series sits within a rich catalog lineage of Hallmark porcelain angels — but distinguishes itself through the functional bell format, the level of ornamental detail in each gown, and the specific character of each annual figure, which makes every entry feel both individual and part of a whole.
"This Arctic angel has caught a snowflake from above. In her wind-swept coat of blue she chimes with winter wonder."
— Hallmark description, Heavenly Belles #2 · 2014
Heavenly Belles #1 (2013) · Heavenly Belles #4 (2016)
Edythe Kegrize — Porcelain & the Angelic Tradition
Edythe Kegrize is a Hallmark Keepsake artist whose work spans a broad range of the catalog's most refined and decorative traditions — including porcelain, angelic figures, and the kind of ornamental detail that rewards the close look. The Heavenly Belles series demonstrates this aesthetic at its most distilled: four porcelain figures whose gown designs carry genuine decorative complexity, whose wings are rendered with the specificity of something meant to be examined rather than merely glanced at, and whose seasonal identities — the Arctic angel, the Holly angel — give each figure a distinct character within the collection's shared visual language.
The functional bell element of the series presents a specific technical challenge that Kegrize meets in each entry: the figure must work as both an ornament (hanging, stable, decorative from every angle) and as an actual bell (the clapper must have the right movement inside the gown-body to produce a clear tone). That dual purpose, met without visible compromise to either function, is the series' central artistic achievement — a beautiful object that does something beautiful.
Every Entry in the Series
When the Ornament Rings
The bell and the angel are two of the oldest symbols in the Christmas decorating tradition — separately, each carries centuries of association with the season. The Heavenly Belles series combines them in a single object: the angel whose gown is a bell, the bell whose form is an angel. The result is an ornament that is both decorative at rest and expressive in motion — beautiful hanging on the tree, and possessed of a specific voice when lifted from it.
There is something about a porcelain bell that different from metal: the tone is softer, more interior, with less overtone and more presence. A Heavenly Belles angel rings with the quality of something fragile and sure of itself at the same time — which is, in a sense, exactly what an angel should sound like. The ornateness of each gown, the detail in each set of wings, the particular seasonal identity of each figure — these are qualities that reward attention. But the sound is the series' most unexpected dimension, the one that makes it genuinely different from any other Hallmark ornament in the collection.
Four angels. Four bells. Four years, 2013 through 2016 — a small, complete, quietly extraordinary series that arrived, rang its four chimes, and closed. The full set is achievable, and displayed together the four figures represent one of the most refined and distinctive completed collections in the Keepsake catalog.
Tips for the Collection
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01Display the complete set together. Four angel bells from 2013 through 2016, grouped on a tree or arranged on a mantle, create an effect the individual pieces can't replicate — a choir of four, each with a distinct seasonal identity but a shared elegance. The complete quartet is the natural unit of the series.
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02The bells actually ring — use that. These are functional porcelain bells, not just bell-shaped ornaments. When taken from the tree and rung, each produces a clear tone. In a household that includes children, this feature will be discovered quickly and appreciated repeatedly.
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03Place them where they can be seen closely. The gown detail on each figure is the series' primary visual achievement — ornate patterns, shimmering accents, the specific craft of each year's design. Position them at eye level or on a tabletop where the decorative detail is accessible to close looking, not lost in the back of a tree.
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04The 2015 Holly is the most gifted by name. A porcelain angel bell named Holly is one of the more personal and instantly legible gifts in the Keepsake catalog — for anyone named Holly, or for anyone who associates holly with Christmas in a particular way, this is an ornament that doubles as a named recognition.
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05The complete series is now permanently complete. Four entries, closed in 2016. All four are available at Already Christmas — assembling the full quartet now means owning a finished set, with no annual updates required. The choir is complete.
All 4 Angel Bells — 2013 to 2016
Four porcelain angels. Four working bells. The complete Heavenly Belles series. Click any bell to shop.
Four angels in porcelain gowns. Four December chimes. 2013 through 2016 — a small, quiet, complete choir that rang its bells and closed.
Lift one from the tree. She'll ring.
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