Hand-Painted IVF Embryo Christmas Ornament

A hand-painted Christmas ornament made from your embryo photo - a tiny beginning, on your tree forever.

For IVF families who want to bring their embryo into the celebrations - this ornament is made from your own embryo photograph and hand-painted to hang on your tree each year. A quiet, beautiful way to acknowledge where your family's story began.

Each ornament is hand-painted from your embryo image on a ceramic or timber disc, finished with a ribbon for hanging. Personalise with a transfer date, embryo name, or short message if you'd like.

A meaningful gift for anyone who has been through IVF, embryo donation, or surrogacy - and a gentle way to remember embryos lost along the journey. Arrives gift-wrapped and ready to hang.

Browse all seasonal keepsakes or explore our full range of IVF keepsakes. Also available: the baby ultrasound Christmas ornament.

Every ornament starts as a 6cm wooden disc — the professional archival standard, chosen because it's built to outlast a printed photo for decades, not just a few years on a shelf.

The colour comes from Sennelier L'Aquarelle watercolours, handmade in France since 1887 using a honey-based formula that keeps the pigment richer and more luminous than standard student-grade paint. Every brush I use is cruelty-free nylon, never natural hair.

Caring for your painting:

• Arrives ready to hang
• The cord can be tied off once your beads are adjusted to the desired hanging length
• Avoid handling the painting itself directly where you can — the natural oils from fingers can affect the quality over time
• Keep it out of direct sunlight, the way you would any watercolour or archival print, to protect the colour long-term

Every painting starts with your photo — a phone snap of the screen, a scanned printout, or a clinic file all work. If you're ever unsure whether your image will translate well to paint, message me before you order and I'll take a look.

From there, I paint your piece entirely by hand on a wooden disc, in the palette you've chosen. This isn't a print or a filter over your photo — it's a genuine watercolour painting, which is part of why no two pieces are ever identical.

Turnaround is currently 14–20 days from when I receive your image, because each painting is done individually, checked by hand, and given time to dry and set properly before it's packaged. If you're ordering for a due date, a baby shower, or another date that matters, message me first and I'll tell you honestly whether the timeline will work — I'd rather say so upfront than rush a piece that means this much.

Once finished, your painting is gift-wrapped with a personal note and shipped tracked — free within Australia on orders over $100, with international shipping available at checkout.

I want you to love what arrives, not just accept it. I don’t provide mock ups or preview photos (unless previously discussed) as I find the final pieces tend to evoke something different to a phone snapshot. That being said, if once it’s in your hands, your painting doesn't feel right — the colours are off, something about the likeness doesn't sit well, anything at all — message me within 14 days of delivery and together we’ll come to a fix.

This is hand-painted, one-of-one work, so variation between your reference photo and the finished piece is normal — it's part of what makes it a painting rather than a print. What I'm guaranteeing is that it's made with care and that you're genuinely happy with it, not that it's a pixel-perfect copy of your scan.