{"title":"Animal Christmas Ornaments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe dog doesn't know it's getting an ornament. The dog has never known, will never know, and would not understand the gesture even if it were fully explained. That's not really the point. This collection is for the person who loves the animal enough to put it on the tree anyway — the dog, the cat, the horse, the dinosaur someone's never stopped loving since they were four years old. It's not really about the animal. It's about the person who noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cow-with-collar-ornament","title":"Chihuahua with Collar Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eChihuahua gifts tend to make the dog into a joke, and the Chihuahua with Collar Ornament refuses. This is glasswork done by hand — a small painted collar on a smaller glass dog — and it carries itself the way the breed does: fully informed of its size and certain the information is not relevant. The chihuahua approaches large dogs with the confidence of something that has never been told no in a way that stuck. It sits in laps with the authority of something that has decided this is its place, and the lap agrees — and if the lap does not agree, the chihuahua will wait, because the chihuahua has time and a very specific idea of how this ends. Get this for the owner who stopped explaining the dog because the dog explains itself. The collar helps. A little. Not really. File it next to the Royal Ontario Museum's smallest, fiercest specimens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797940361,"sku":"ORN022","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-chihuahua-1.webp?v=1784816552"},{"product_id":"golden-dog-ornament","title":"Golden Dog Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eDog dad gifts rarely capture the actual arrangement, so the Golden Dog Ornament does: a hand-blown glass golden retriever, hand-painted in that unmistakable honey coat, mouth-blown like everything we hang on a hook. The golden did not ask to become the symbol of unconditional acceptance, but it took the job seriously when the job arrived and has performed it with total commitment ever since. It greets you at the door every single time as though your return is what it has been building toward all day — which it has, which you know, which is why the door moment gets you every time even though you see it coming. Buy this for anyone who has a golden, has loved one, or has stood at someone else's door and felt, briefly and completely, that they were exactly where they were supposed to be. TIFF audiences applaud endings like that. So do we.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797973129,"sku":"ORN023","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-golden-retriever-1.webp?v=1784816862"},{"product_id":"fish-ornament","title":"Fish Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fish ornament belongs to the aquarium people and the fishing people and the people who simply like things that swim, and Chive's version serves all three constituencies in hand-blown glass stretching nearly five inches long. The body is pulled from molten glass in a continuous motion that gives the fish its mid-turn posture — tail curving one direction, head angled the other — as if it has just noticed something interesting on a neighboring branch and is deciding whether to investigate. Painted scales layer blues over silvers in a pattern that catches light the way actual fish catch light, which is to say unpredictably and from angles you did not expect. Hang it on an outer branch where it can rotate freely, because a fish that cannot move is a fish that is not finished being looked at. Chive started making ornaments in 2004 and the Royal Ontario Museum now stocks them, which says something reliable about the fish currently swimming toward your branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798136969,"sku":"ORN107","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-trout-1.webp?v=1784820523"},{"product_id":"kitty-with-bow-ornament","title":"Kitty with Bow Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eReal cat mom gifts respect the household's actual power structure, and the Kitty with Bow Ornament understands exactly who is in charge. Shaped in glass by hand and finished with a painted bow, it arrives with its cap and loop included and the cat's dignity fully intact. The important thing to understand is that the bow was not the cat's idea. The cat knows this, you know this, and the cat has communicated its position through a series of slow blinks and one brief, unsuccessful removal attempt. Now the bow stays, and the cat wears it with a composure the bow has done nothing to earn but the cat brings to everything regardless. Buy this for everyone who has ever put something on a cat, been judged for it, and done it anyway. The cat is fine. The cat is always fine. TIFF gives out awards for performances like that one every September.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798530185,"sku":"ORN020","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-white-cat-1.webp?v=1784823173"},{"product_id":"peacock-ornament","title":"Peacock Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe peacock ornament is blown glass shaped into a bird in full display — tail feathers painted in blues and greens that catch light the way the actual peacock catches attention, which is to say completely and without reservation. Hand-blown, hand-painted, finished with its cap and hook: the whole piece reads on a branch the way the bird reads in a garden. The peacock decided long ago that modesty was not a strategy worth pursuing and has the plumage to prove it. It spreads the tail and the tail is an argument, and the argument is that being extraordinary at something means you do not owe anyone a quieter version of yourself. My colleague enters rooms this way — presence first, explanation never — and everyone who has worked with her knows exactly who this piece is for. Consider it the Royal Ontario Museum's natural history wing rendered in miniature: all spectacle, zero regret, entirely correct.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798562953,"sku":"ORN036","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-peacock-1.webp?v=1784823429"},{"product_id":"happy-dino-ornament","title":"Happy Dino Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eChive's Happy Dino Ornament sits near the top of any list of dinosaur gifts that actually surprise the person unwrapping them, a hand-blown glass dinosaur with a grin that reads as genuine rather than ironic. Each one is shaped by hand and finished with several layers of hand-painted color, so no two dinosaurs leave the studio looking quite the same, and the paint alone takes most of an afternoon per piece. The dinosaur has been extinct for sixty-six million years and has never once seemed less interesting for it, which says more about dinosaurs than it does about extinction, and considerably more about the people who still stop and look. Put this on the tree of whoever gets a small, private thrill from the word Cretaceous and never fully outgrew the phase everyone insists is supposed to end by age nine. The Royal Ontario Museum is the kind of neighbor this piece was built to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798595721,"sku":"ORN076","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-t-rex-1.webp?v=1784823733"},{"product_id":"pink-duckie-ornament","title":"Pink Duckie Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eChive's Pink Duckie Ornament is a duck ornament built around the bath's most loyal companion, reimagined in hand-blown, hand-painted glass and given a color the original rubber version never had the option to wear. The glass is blown as one hollow form so the duck keeps its rounded bath-toy proportions instead of the flatter shape a mold would produce, a small technical choice most buyers never consciously register even as they pick the piece up and turn it over in their hands. The duck has never asked for anything beyond an occasional squeeze and the general acknowledgment that the bath is better with it floating there, which it is, which everyone already knows, which is why it has quietly outlasted every other bath toy ever invented for a child, decade after decade. Hang this as a small annual reminder that the best things are usually simple and also float. TIFF does not have a bath-toy department yet, but this duck is ready if they open one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798661257,"sku":"ORN087","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-rubber-duck-1.webp?v=1784824418"},{"product_id":"hedgehog-ornament","title":"Hedgehog Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople searching for hedgehog gifts already know what they want — something small, charming, and impossible to ignore — and Chive's Hedgehog Ornament delivers all three in mouth-blown glass that fits in a palm but commands an entire branch. A glassblower forms the body while the spines are painted on by hand in strokes that manage to look both sharp and friendly, which is the hedgehog's signature trick and the ornament replicates it perfectly. At roughly two inches long and just over two inches tall, this is a presence that earns attention by being exactly the right size in exactly the right place, the way hedgehogs have always operated. Tuck it among the inner branches where only the observant will discover it, because the hedgehog has always rewarded close attention over casual glances. Founded in 2004, Chive now crafts ornaments that the Royal Ontario Museum keeps in permanent inventory, and this hedgehog curls into your holiday display with similar quiet permanence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798726793,"sku":"ORN097","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-hedgehog-1.webp?v=1784824684"},{"product_id":"green-dragon-ornament","title":"Green Dragon Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best dragon gifts capture something older than any single mythology, and the Green Dragon Ornament captures it in blown glass: a scaled creature formed at the torch and painted forest green with detailed wings and spine ridges, a silver cap overhead for hanging. The green dragon specifically has the advantage of looking like it grew from the ground rather than descended from above — a different kind of power, the kind that was always there waiting to be discovered. My neighbor Margaret keeps a ceramic dragon on her front porch that she found at an estate sale in 1998 and named Harold. She speaks to Harold when she waters her geraniums and Harold has never once responded and Margaret has never once found this troubling or particularly surprising. This ornament carries exactly that same energy. TIFF runs retrospectives on stories that endure across centuries; Chive designs the ornaments those stories deserve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799218313,"sku":"ORN204","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-dragon-1.webp?v=1784830294"},{"product_id":"pink-duckie-with-hat-ornament","title":"Pink Duckie with Hat Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rubber duck ornament in hand-blown glass is an object that has decided to be taken seriously despite its origins in a bathtub, and this particular version has added a hat, which is the duck's way of announcing that it has evolved and would appreciate acknowledgment. Chive's rendition stands barely four inches from base to hat brim, blown as one continuous glass shell at the furnace and painted in opaque pink with a brush small enough to define individual eyelashes on a face roughly the size of a grape. The hat is a painted-on detail, not a separate component, which means the painter had to commit to the angle before the first stroke and live with the decision. The brim required six passes of layered pigment to achieve depth against the pink body. A piece the Royal Ontario Museum might hang in a holiday vitrine about decorative objects that refuse to explain themselves and do not need to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799349385,"sku":"ORN230","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-rubber-duck-2.webp?v=1784831420"},{"product_id":"pug-on-a-pillow-ornament","title":"Pug on a Pillow Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003ePug gifts should commemorate the breed's worldview, and the Pug on a Pillow Ornament does it with honors: a glass pug shaped over the flame, reclining on a painted cushion, metal cap and loop up top. The pug is the dog that looks like it has been considering something difficult for a very long time without arriving at a conclusion. It is wrinkled and round, it breathes audibly, and it remains completely certain it is the most important thing in any room it enters, a position its owners confirm daily. Note, please, the pillow. The pug does not sit on floors. The pug's standards are low in some ways and extremely high in others, and the pillow is where the high standards live and have always lived. This ornament records the pug's position on the matter with the seriousness the Royal Ontario Museum reserves for minor royalty, which is roughly how the pug sees it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799545993,"sku":"ORN024","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-pug-1.webp?v=1784832322"},{"product_id":"pug-on-a-platform-ornament","title":"Pug on a Platform Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pug ornament is a hand-blown glass Christmas ornament shaped like a pug standing on a small platform, surveying the room with the composed certainty of something that found the highest available surface and claimed it. Glass shaped over an open flame, painted by hand, capped and looped for hanging — the details hold up at arm's length, which is where tree ornaments actually get examined. My neighbor's pug found a stack of coffee-table books and sat on them and stared at the front door for six hours as if guarding a kingdom, which in fairness it was, and nobody moved the books because the pug had made its point. You know this posture. You have seen it on couches, on laps, on anything one inch higher than the floor. Hang this for that specific energy. TIFF gives out awards for performances with that kind of commitment; the pug has never needed one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799578761,"sku":"ORN025","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ORN025_1.png?v=1738634717"},{"product_id":"pink-whale-ornament","title":"Pink Whale Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis whale ornament comes in a shade of pink no actual whale has ever worn, rendered for the tree in hand-finished blown glass. Painters apply that improbable color entirely by hand after the glass is shaped, and a metal hanging loop finishes the piece, generously sized to anchor a lower, sturdier branch. A pink whale does not occur in nature, a fact the pink whale is aware of and does not find remotely limiting, having simply claimed the color without waiting for anyone's permission. That is either the whale's clear right, or, considered honestly, the correct approach to any situation where the available options fall short of what you actually want. Hang this for whoever decided early that the given choices were only a starting point, and has been picking their own ever since. TIFF has hosted plenty of bold, unauthorized color choices on screen, and would approve of this one completely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799971977,"sku":"ORN075","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-whale-1.webp?v=1784836331"},{"product_id":"weiner-dog-sprinkles-ornament","title":"Weiner Dog Sprinkles Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Weiner Dog Sprinkles Ornament is the star of this year's dachshund gifts, a hand-blown glass sausage dog hand-painted with a scatter of sprinkles that suggests it has already been to one party this week and is angling hard for another. The sprinkles go on in a final pass after the body color has fully set and cooled, so they read as genuinely scattered rather than uniformly printed across the surface. The dachshund was bred to hunt badgers, a fact that should change how anyone feels about a dog shaped like a sausage that spends most of its actual life horizontal on a sofa, and somehow changes nothing at all, because the dachshund is exactly who it appears to be regardless of what it used to do for a living generations ago, badgers included. TIFF holds its glass to a finish standard this particular dachshund was built to meet, sprinkles and all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800234121,"sku":"ORN090","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-dachshund-pastry-1.webp?v=1784836872"},{"product_id":"princess-horse-ornament","title":"Princess Horse Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA horse ornament belongs on the branch where it catches light first, and this one — crowned, pink, standing at full attention — earns the spot without argument. Chive's Princess Horse is hand-blown glass shaped by a gaffer's breath into a creature that manages to look both regal and entirely approachable, the crown resting on its head the way confidence rests on someone who stopped needing permission a long time ago. The hand-painted detail starts at the hooves, climbs through a body glazed in blush and lavender, and finishes at a mane that catches every nearby bulb. Hang it low enough for a child to study or high enough to surprise a guest reaching for an hors d'oeuvre — the horse does not mind where it stands because the horse already knows what it is. Chive launched in 2004 and now supplies ornaments to the Royal Ontario Museum — this princess earned its place on that résumé and on your branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800299657,"sku":"ORN092","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-unicorn-head-1.webp?v=1784836967"},{"product_id":"white-owl-ornament","title":"White Owl Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf all the owl gifts on our shelves, the White Owl Ornament is the one built to look like it is quietly watching you back, rendered in hand-blown glass with careful hand-painted feather detail. Body and folded wings are shaped together in one continuous pass over an open flame, and the individual feather markings go in afterward, once the glass has settled enough to hold a steady brushstroke. The owl sees everything and says nothing about it, which reads as either wisdom or the single most effective social strategy available, and it has never once clarified which, because clarifying would rather defeat the entire purpose of the thing. Get this for whoever in your life has that exact quality, who clearly knows more than they let on and never rushes to prove it. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps entire halls of creatures who watched history happen and kept the details strictly to themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800496265,"sku":"ORN158","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-owl-white-1.webp?v=1784837770"},{"product_id":"whale-with-presents-ornament","title":"Whale with Presents Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best whale gifts acknowledge scale, and the Whale with Presents Ornament does: a hand-painted glass whale ferrying a stack of wrapped packages across 3.94 inches of length, 2.76 inches of width, and 3.15 inches of height. Glassworkers shape the body freehand at the flame, add the parcels while everything is still hot enough to fuse, and paint the blue gradients and ribbon details in stages afterward. The premise here is that something enormous and far away is bringing you things because it thought of you, which is the holiday season stated as plainly as it can be stated. My uncle Bram lived three time zones away and still remembered every occasion, usually with something too big for the mailbox. The whale is for people like him. The whale makes the effort. It has the gentle absurdist charm of a TIFF short-film program, the kind you leave smiling without quite knowing why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800529033,"sku":"ORN176","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-whale-teal-1.webp?v=1784838292"},{"product_id":"sea-turtle-ornament","title":"Sea Turtle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most meaningful sea turtle gifts honor patience, and the Sea Turtle Ornament is built for it: hand-painted glass, 4.72 inches long, 2.56 inches wide, and a surprising 4.92 inches tall, with a shell that catches light the way water does. That shell pattern is painted in translucent layered greens over silvered glass, each scute outlined separately, which takes longer than the flippers, and the flippers are not quick. Sea turtles have crossed the same oceans for over a hundred million years without hurrying once, which suggests they know something about direction the rest of us are still working out. Petra swims her laps at six every morning, slow and unbothered, and has quietly outlasted every fast person who ever shared her lane. The turtle is hers. It was always going to be hers. The Royal Ontario Museum devotes entire galleries to creatures this durable; this one asks only for a branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800594569,"sku":"ORN189","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-turtle-gold-1.webp?v=1784901100"},{"product_id":"unicorn-pink-ornament","title":"Unicorn Pink Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper unicorn ornament commits completely, and the Unicorn Pink Ornament holds nothing back: hand-painted glass in unapologetic pink, 3.35 inches tall, 3.15 inches long, and 2.17 inches wide, horn included and non-negotiable. Body and horn are shaped separately at the flame and fused before the pink lustres and gold accents are brushed on, layer over layer, until the finish glows. The unicorn has never existed and has never once let that interfere with being instantly recognizable, which is a kind of conviction most real animals cannot manage. June wears sequins to the grocery store and has never in her life explained herself, and the tree with her ornament on it is simply better than the tree without it. Commitment like that improves everything nearby. This is the ornament equivalent of it. It brings the full-conviction sparkle of a TIFF midnight screening to any branch that will hold still for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800660105,"sku":"ORN199","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-unicorn-white-1.webp?v=1784901256"},{"product_id":"turtle-ornament","title":"Turtle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA quality turtle ornament should feel unhurried even on the branch, and this one does: glass blown one breath at a time into an animal that has been arriving at its chosen pace for two hundred million years without revision. The shell is painted green-brown by hand with legs extended in calm forward motion, a hanging cord secured at the top. The slow is not a limitation — it is the method, and the method works in ways that faster strategies have never quite replicated. My friend Dale walks to the grocery store that is eleven minutes away by car because he says the walk is the point and the groceries are merely the secondary outcome. Dale has not been in a hurry since 2003 and he has missed nothing of consequence. Hang this for whoever takes their time — not because they cannot move faster but because they settled on the right pace years ago. The Royal Ontario Museum houses Triassic shells; consider this our glass contribution to that archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800955017,"sku":"ORN207","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-tortoise-green-1.webp?v=1784901589"},{"product_id":"sloth-ornament","title":"Sloth Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe right sloth ornament refuses to be rushed, even in production. Ours is a smiling glass sloth caught mid-hang — which is, conveniently, also an ornament's entire job description — mouth-blown, painted in soft taupe, given a hand-brushed face, its claws curled around an invisible branch. Actual sloths move so slowly that algae grows on their fur, and the algae turns out to be working camouflage, which means the famous pace is not a flaw at all but a strategy that has generated its own small ecosystem. Lena operates on this principle. She finishes the crossword last and correctly, shows up to the potluck an hour late with the dish everyone remembers, and has never once run for a bus. The outcomes speak for her. Hang this for the person whose pace turned out to be right all along. Audiences sit through four-hour films at TIFF on purpose. Patience has always had a following.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911801217161,"sku":"ORN227","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-sloth-tan-1.webp?v=1784902581"},{"product_id":"pink-glittery-dog-bone-ornament","title":"Pink Glittery Dog Bone Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Glittery Dog Bone Ornament is what it says on the label: a blown glass bone in pink, finished all over in a fine glitter. The glitter is laid on while the surface is still tacky so it sits down into the finish rather than resting on top of it, and it will not shed into a storage box over the summer. A metal cap and loop close the piece off, and it weighs so little that a thin branch takes it without dipping. My sister Sylvie has a dog who is not permitted on the furniture, a rule enforced entirely by the dog, who sleeps on the sofa all afternoon and vacates the moment he hears her car. TIFF runs two festivals at the same time, one for the industry and one for everybody else, and a pink glitter bone belongs without argument to the second, where the better time is generally had.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273710729,"sku":"ORN340","price":14.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-dogbone-pink-1.webp?v=1784905036"},{"product_id":"unicorn-head-ornament","title":"Unicorn Head Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong unicorn gifts there is a spectrum, and it runs from the frankly deranged to the quietly magnificent; this hand-blown glass Unicorn Head sits firmly at the magnificent end, a single noble profile rendered in glass that catches light the way the animal supposedly catches the untrainable. Chive has been hand-blowing glass since 2004, and the house rule from year one has been that whimsy is only worth doing if it is done seriously. A unicorn head done seriously is a strange and lovely thing: horn forward, gaze level, entirely convinced of its own existence. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps carved and cast creatures that no one ever saw and everyone believed in — griffins, dragons, the whole bestiary of wishful thinking — and this belongs in that company. It is the best of the unicorn gifts precisely because it does not apologize. It is a head. It is a horn. It believes. 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The jeweled crab has additionally decided the journey itself should look good along the way, which was never a requirement but became an option it took completely, without apology, and without slowing down. Hang this for whoever takes the scenic route on purpose and still shows up looking better dressed than everyone who went straight there instead. TIFF's red carpet has hosted less committed sparkle than this, and it has certainly, over the years, hosted considerably worse posture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274693769,"sku":"ORN271","price":26.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-crab-orange-dimensions-1.webp?v=1784914864"},{"product_id":"dino-ornament","title":"Dino Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dinosaur ornament asks for a decision most ornaments never face: how to pose something nobody living has ever seen. This one stands upright and confident in hand-blown glass, tail balanced, head high, painted in a green that the fossil record can neither confirm nor deny. The body is blown full and round so the silhouette carries across a room, the eye and the grin arrive last, in the finest strokes of the day, and a capped loop at the spine keeps the whole animal level, mid-stride, clearly going somewhere. My nephew Thaddeus corrected a museum docent at age seven, turned out to be right, and has never once allowed the family to forget the vindication. Every skeleton in the ROM's dinosaur halls is a reconstruction, and every reconstruction is an argument — bones plus a claim about how they stood — revised whenever better evidence walks in. This dinosaur makes its claim in glass, and never has to update it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665944625289,"sku":"ORN364","price":24.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-stegosaurus-green-1.webp?v=1784919190"},{"product_id":"purple-poodle-ornament","title":"Purple Poodle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoodle gifts tend to go grand — rhinestones, monograms, portraiture — and this one goes grand in the only direction left: purple. The Purple Poodle ornament is mouth-blown glass with the full show cut rendered in paint, pom-pom ankles, sculpted topknot, tail carried like a flag, all of it in a violet that no kennel club has ever sanctioned. The coat is built in layered passes so the curls read as curls rather than texture, the eyes and nose are set last in fine black strokes, and a capped hanging loop holds the whole dog upright and forward-facing on the branch. My neighbor Elspeth has owned four poodles, all named after composers, and maintains that a poodle is the only dog that understands it is being looked at. The ROM can take a modest specimen and, with one well-argued placard, convince a hallway of strangers it matters; this poodle makes the same case for itself in purple, no placard required.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665960353929,"sku":"ORN346","price":19.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/small_ornament_poodle_-purple-PS_3_transp_3ac97967-4e0d-4d9c-844a-fe60e9eace9a.webp?v=1784670926"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/collections\/ORN090_2-5126659.png?v=1786631885","url":"https:\/\/chive.com\/collections\/animal-christmas-ornaments.oembed?page=2","provider":"Chive Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}