Pink Glittery Dog Bone Ornament

You can buy the dog bone ornament here on the Chive site, in this pink glittered finish, shipped directly to you. My sister Sylvie bought three in one order and has never explained where the other two went, though I have a theory involving two colleagues and a fairly specific sense of humour. She denies the theory but has not denied the colleagues. Not once.

It usually does, and the mechanism is that nobody keeps it for themselves. Whoever unwraps it immediately announces it is for the dog, and a room will accept a gift being redirected to an animal in a way it would never accept for a person. Sylvie has seen this happen at two separate parties. Same result both times.

It works for coworkers precisely because it is not aimed at them. A glittered bone is legible across a desk, costs nobody an awkward reaction, and is genuinely useful to roughly a third of any office. Sylvie gave one to a man she had spoken to four times. He brought in a photograph of the dog wearing it. Not on the tree.

Yes, real blown glass, hand-painted pink, with the glitter laid down while the surface is still tacky so it beds into the finish instead of sitting on top of it. It will not shed into a storage box. Sylvie tested this by shaking hers, at length, over a dark worktop. Nothing came off at all. She seemed disappointed.

It is 2 inches wide and 3.75 inches tall, which is close to the size of an actual small dog treat, and light enough that a thin branch takes it without dipping. It reads clearly from across a room because of the finish rather than the scale. Sylvie's dog has looked at it once. He was not interested.

Wrap it loosely in tissue and avoid anything that will rub the surface, since glitter that is bedded into a finish still prefers not to be scoured by cardboard for eleven months. A soft bag works. Sylvie packs hers with the other pink things, which is not a system, but it is a habit. She can find them.

We do — the Animal collection runs to dogs, cats, birds, several fish and a number of creatures that would object to being grouped together, all hand-painted in glass. Sylvie has been working through the dogs specifically and treats it as a completion problem rather than a decorating one. There are more than she expected. She is undeterred.

It arrives in secure transit packaging rather than presentation packaging, so it is protected but not ready to hand over as it comes. Most people wrap it themselves, which takes about a minute given the size. Sylvie skips that step entirely and hands hers over in the shipping carton with a bow taped to the lid. Nobody has complained.