From the most excellent Adafruit blog (http://www.adafruit.com/blog/category/3d-printing/):
Thingiverse | Ornament Challenge RESULTS
http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2013/12/11/thingiverse-ornament-challenge-results/
The Challenge We teamed up with the Peabody Award-winning public radio show Studio 360, hosted by cultural critic and author Kurt Andersen and produced by WNYC and PRI, to co-sponsor the challenge. All our winners will receive one spool of a MakerBot PLA filament and a Thingiverse t-shirt and have their designs featured on Thingiverse over the next ten days and in each of our MakerBot stores
10 3D Printed Christmas decorations to brighten your home
To fill the tree you might be looking for something extra-special, a one off piece that none of your friends have. Here we’ve selected some of our favourite 3D printed decorations for you to either buy or print off at home.
Gemma 3D Printed Tree Topper: Design and 3D Print a custom tree topper
http://learn.adafruit.com/gemma-3d-printed-tree-topper
video: Make a light up Christmas tree topper with Adafruit's GEMMA and NeoPixel - YouTube
Start a new tradition and design your own Tree Topper. Celebrate this holiday with DIY electronics from Adafruit. Our tutorial will show you how to use Autodesk's 123D Design software and a 3D Printer to create a custom tree topper.
This is a great "Learn to 3D model & print" project as the shape is fairly simple, snaps together and can be customized
3D-printed Arduino controlled Xmas ornament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TO0m-z4hKI
Here's my 3D-printed Arduino-controlled Adafruit NeoPixel Christmas ornament. It came out quite beautiful. It's printed in glow-in-the-dark PLA on a Makerbot Replicator 2.
Has anyone here 3D printed their own decorations?
Cheers,
Drew