Plush Christmas Gnome Hanging Ornament with Warm LED Glow

A Christmas tree looks different once the room has gone dark, and the difference is usually made by one or two small things rather than by the whole box of decorations. This plush gnome is one of those: a soft, rounded figure of long-pile white faux fur with a hat, a pom-pom nose and a fir sprig at the brim, and a warm light inside the body that comes on with the room lights off. It hangs from its own cord, so it belongs on a branch, on a hook by the door or on the edge of a shelf, wherever the glow can be seen.

The plush body carries the light

The whole figure is built around one soft mass of long-pile faux fur that works as the body, the beard and the shoulders at the same time, so there is no separate head to line up and nothing rigid inside. The light sits within that mass, which means the glow spreads through the pile instead of shining out of a single point, and that is what gives it the warm, slightly hazy look in the photographs. The nose is a large pom-pom and the arms are short red-and-white striped knit sleeves, and both stay dark while the body glows.

A cord, not a stand

A thin cream cord comes out of the top of the hat, which is how this ornament is meant to be used: hung rather than balanced. That makes it easy to place on a fir branch where a heavier bauble would pull the branch down, or on a hook, a door handle or the edge of a shelf where the light can be seen from across the room. The body is light enough for the cord to hold it on its own, and the flat base means it can also simply sit on a surface once the season is over and the tree has gone.

Three designs, two sizes

The range covers three different figures rather than three colourways of the same one. The black top hat model is the smallest at about 11 cm and carries an orange pom-pom nose, while the buffalo plaid model and the reindeer antler model both stand about 20 cm and differ in their hats and in the colour of the nose. Each one carries the same fir sprig, berries and pinecone at the brim and the same striped arms, so a set of three reads as one family on a tree or on a tray.

An ornament like this earns its place by being the one thing that still looks warm when everything else in the room has been switched off. It is soft enough for a tree with children around it, light enough for the thinnest branch, and simple enough to sit on a shelf in January without looking out of season. Choose the hat that suits the room, or take the three designs together and let them keep each other company.

Specifications

• Plush hanging Christmas gnome ornament, one piece per pack (supplier specification)
• Body of long-pile white faux fur forming the body and the beard
• Warm white light inside the plush body; the hat and the arms stay unlit
• Pom-pom nose: orange on the black top hat model, cream on the buffalo plaid model, red on the reindeer antler model
• Hat: matte black top hat with a red band; red and black buffalo plaid cone with a white pom-pom; brown faux fur cone with dark brown antlers and a white pom-pom
• Green fir sprig with red berries and a pinecone at the hat brim
• Short arms of red-and-white striped knit with red mittens
• Thin cream hanging cord at the top of the hat
• Dimensions (supplier specification): black top hat 11 x 5 x 5 cm, 31 g; buffalo plaid 20 x 5 x 5 cm, 35 g; reindeer antlers 20 x 5 x 5 cm, 33 g
• Origin: mainland China (supplier specification)
• Material composition and power source: not published by the supplier