{"title":"Food Ornaments for the Christmas Tree","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFood ornaments for a christmas tree are exactly what they sound like and better than they sound: the things a household actually eats, argues about, and orders at eleven at night, rendered in hand-painted glass and hung where everyone can see them. A glass taco is not an abstract holiday motif. It is a portrait of somebody in this house, and the tree knows exactly who.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe range runs the whole menu — bakery, produce, takeout, sushi, coffee, and the drinks cabinet — each piece blown and then painted by hand at the Chive studio. Food is the easiest gifting category in the collection because everyone eats and almost everyone has one dish that constitutes a personality trait. Find the dish, hang the dish. The recognition does the rest, every December, without needing to be reheated. Ships across Canada from our Toronto studio.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"6-pack-of-beer-ornament","title":"6 pack of Beer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost gifts for beer lovers involve actual beer, which vanishes; the 6 pack of Beer Ornament does not, which is the entire argument for it. This hand-painted glass six-pack measures 3.54 inches long, 2.17 inches wide, and 2.95 inches tall, and every bottle stays exactly where it was put. The carrier and bottles are blown together as a single form, and the amber tones and label details are brushed on individually, so no two packs leave the studio quite alike. Doug has supplied the beer at every gathering our family has held since 2011, and his contribution disappears first and gets thanked least, while the fancy cheese sits largely untouched and collects the compliments. Everyone knows this. Nobody says it. Hang the six-pack front and centre this year and consider the debt acknowledged. The Royal Ontario Museum documents what civilizations actually valued, and on honest evidence, this belongs in that record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364369598,"sku":"ORN180","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN180-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"bacon-ornament","title":"Bacon Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bacon ornament captures the single food that became a personality type without anyone holding a vote, blown from a gather of molten glass and painted in crimson-and-caramel stripes with a cap for hanging overhead. It sits on the tree the way bacon sits on a plate — unapologetic, central, declining to share attention with the eggs. The bacon person in your life brings it up at breakfast, obviously, but also at other meals and in conversations that were not about food, in the specific tone of someone who expects agreement and has always received it. They do not consider bacon a preference. They consider it a settled matter. My coworker Phil once brought bacon to a potluck where the theme was dessert and nobody questioned it because Phil had already made his position clear years earlier and further discussion seemed redundant. This ornament says what Phil has been saying all along. TIFF celebrates auteurs who commit fully to a single vision; bacon qualifies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364697278,"sku":"ORN209","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN209-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"banana-oranment","title":"Banana Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA banana ornament succeeds by admitting what a banana is: a fruit with a one-day window of perfection that always lands on a day you are not home. Ours is hand-blown glass, painted in the exact ripening yellow of that one missed Tuesday, freckled realistically at the stem, and hung from a firm metal cap that will outlast every real banana you ever buy. The glass is worked over an open flame and coloured in layers, so the curve reads as fruit and not as prop. My friend Nell buys bananas every single week with the confidence of a woman who has never once eaten the last one. Her freezer holds four black bananas and one unbaked intention labelled bread. She will get there. The banana believes in her, and so do I, and now there is a version that cannot turn. Nell's timing is the kind TIFF builds whole retrospectives around, though her freezer footage remains unreleased.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364730046,"sku":"ORN218","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN218-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"cheeseburger-with-ketchup-ornament","title":"Cheeseburger with Ketchup Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cheeseburger ornament blown from glass by hand — painted ketchup dripping down a sesame-seed bun, every detail rendered because a cheeseburger is a value system and value systems deserve precision. Shaped glass, hand-applied paint, metal cap, hanging loop: it is built to last longer than any debate about condiments. There is a hierarchy of cheeseburger opinions in this country and everyone believes they sit at the top, which is perhaps the most American thing about us or simply what happens when a food becomes a belief. Whoever you are buying this for has a place — a specific place, possibly called Duffy's or described only by the exit number — and they have been taking people there for years. The look on their face when someone orders wrong is a thing you have witnessed and will not forget. Hang this and watch them tell the story again. TIFF programs entire festivals around devotion that specific; the cheeseburger understands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364959422,"sku":"ORN033","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN033-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"chinese-take-out-ornament","title":"Chinese Take Out Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the shortlist of genuinely original chinese food gifts, the Chinese Take Out Ornament stands alone: a hand-painted glass rendering of the classic white folded carton, wire handle included, at 1.38 inches long and 1.18 inches wide, rising 3.94 inches tall. The carton shape is blown into a sculpted mould while the glass still glows, and the fold lines and red pagoda details go on by brush once the form has set. The paper original was patented in the 1890s and has not required a single improvement since, which is a track record almost nothing else made by humans can claim. Gloria orders from the same place every Tuesday, and the restaurant answers the phone by reading her order back to her. That is not a transaction; that is a relationship. This ornament honours it. File it, mentally, next to the design classics inside the Royal Ontario Museum's cases — the carton has earned the company.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365156030,"sku":"ORN175","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN175-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"champagne-ornament","title":"Champagne Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA champagne ornament belongs on the tree of anyone who finds occasions easily, and December is nothing but occasions. This is a hand-blown glass champagne bottle, foil-gold at the neck, deep bottle-green through the body, label painted freehand, hanging from a firm cap and sturdy loop at a jaunty, celebratory, slightly irresponsible tilt. The glass is blown thin and coloured in the mass, so it glows when the tree lights hit it. Simone opens champagne on ordinary Tuesdays, on the firm grounds that it is Tuesday and there is champagne and it would be a shame not to. Several of my best Tuesdays are her fault. I have adopted the policy and regretted nothing except the mornings. Hang the glass bottle exactly where she would hang it: front, centre, and well within reach. Civilizations get catalogued by what they toasted with — ask the Royal Ontario Museum — and Simone's Tuesdays now have their artifact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365221566,"sku":"ORN221","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN221-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"bucket-of-popcorn-ornament","title":"Bucket of Popcorn Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA popcorn ornament for the Christmas tree should look like it just came from the concession stand, and Chive's hand-blown glass bucket delivers nearly four inches of red-and-white striped glass packed with kernels that are individually painted and permanently unbuttered. The bucket starts as a molten glass bubble shaped into a truncated cone, and the red stripes are applied while the surface is cool enough for pigment adhesion but warm enough that the paint bonds chemically rather than sitting on top. Each kernel is a separate raised dot of off-white paint, placed in a deliberate heap that mimics the overflow a real bucket achieves approximately four seconds after purchase. The stripe width varies slightly from piece to piece because a human hand held the brush, and a human hand does not produce factory intervals. This is the food-adjacent art object TIFF would include in a festival lobby display, where the subject is popular culture and the execution is anything but casual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365254334,"sku":"ORN238","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN238-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"chocolate-cupcake-ornament","title":"Chocolate Cupcake Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chocolate cupcake ornament preserves, in hand-blown glass, a dessert that once had a cultural moment and has been quietly living it down ever since. Frosting swirl, paper-cup ridges, hand-painted colour on shaped glass — made the slow, traditional way, capped with a metal hanging loop, and ready to earn its branch on the tree. The cupcake became a personality in the mid-2000s before anyone understood the consequences: lines around the block, television shows, price points that required a brief sit-down. Then it was over, and the cupcake was just a cupcake again, slightly embarrassed, doing its best. But the person who waited in that line, who found it worth it, who still finds it worth it and does not need the cultural moment to justify the frosting — that person is correct, and this is for them. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps entire galleries devoted to things civilizations briefly worshipped. We rest our case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365287102,"sku":"ORN008","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN008-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"croissant-ornament","title":"Croissant Ornament - Large","description":"\u003cp\u003eA croissant ornament in hand-blown glass — golden layers and a buttery curve captured in shaped glass, every ridge hand-painted, the piece finished and ready to hang by its metal loop. It holds its own among larger ornaments without apology, which is exactly what a croissant does on a bakery shelf. Everyone who has eaten a good croissant has a croissant opinion, and the opinion is always that their croissant was the best one, and the story involves a specific bakery and a line and a morning that was, somehow, worth the wait. My mother tells hers at every holiday dinner and the details shift each year and nobody corrects her because the pastry has earned the right to be remembered however she likes. Hang this for the person with that story. You will know them immediately because they are already telling it. TIFF screens films about obsessions like that one; the croissant qualifies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365385406,"sku":"ORN028","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN028-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"fast-food-combo-ornament","title":"Fast Food Combo Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fast Food Combo Ornament packs a burger, a cardboard sleeve of golden fries, and a fountain drink into one bag, painted in hand-blown glass, grease spot soaking through the paper and all. Our glassblowers shape it first, painters add the detail by hand, and a metal loop finishes it, sized to hold its spot on a full tree. Somewhere in your life is a person with a usual order, recited from memory and understood before it's finished by whoever's at the window that day. This one is for that regular, who hasn't opened a menu in years, because opening it would suggest a doubt that was never really the issue. Hang it near the lights and someone in the room will name the exact drive-through within four seconds. That is not a coincidence — it is recognition, on a branch, of a rhythm nobody had to explain out loud. TIFF would happily stock this brand of specific, understood joke, if its gift shop carried combo meals the way it carries film reels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365450942,"sku":"ORN053","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN053-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"french-fries-ornament","title":"French Fries Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eGolden, salted, and gleaming with just the right shine, this french fries ornament renders a paper sleeve of fries in hand-finished glass. Glassblowers form the shape, painters add the colour and that particular grease-sheen entirely by hand, then a small metal cap finishes it off, sized to tuck between larger ornaments without disappearing. Nobody has ever eaten a french fry and felt genuine regret about wanting one more, and nobody has ever meant it when they said they probably should not have. The fries arrive hot and salted and vanish before any real decision gets made about them, and the only open question was ever how many, and the answer was always more than originally planned. Buy this for whoever intends to have just a few and never quite does, and has never once been sorry about it. The Royal Ontario Museum has never displayed a fry, but it would understand the appeal of something devoured on sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365516478,"sku":"ORN069","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN069-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"coffee-cup-ornament","title":"Coffee Cup Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe coffee cup ornament honours the beverage that most mornings are legally required to begin with. It is a mouth-blown glass mug for the tree — handle, saucer-white glaze, a painted swirl of steam rising off the rim — built with a reinforced loop so it hangs perfectly level on the branch, the way any full cup should. Every cup is shaped by breath and finished by brush, which is more craftsmanship than most of us can manage before ten a.m. In our house, Marcus does not speak before his first cup, and we do not speak to him; the household runs on a system of nods that has kept the peace for eleven years. His mug has a spot. Nobody moves the mug. This is the ornament for that person, hung at eye level as fair warning to guests. A Royal Ontario Museum placard would call it an everyday artifact, circa right now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365778622,"sku":"ORN219","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN219-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"eggplant-ornament","title":"Eggplant Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eggplant ornament is a glass vegetable, blown by mouth and painted by hand, designed to hang on a Christmas tree and say exactly what you think it says, which is either a sincere tribute to Mediterranean cooking or something else entirely, and the ornament is content with both readings. Chive's version stands nearly five inches of deep purple glass, shaped from a molten gather and painted while the surface is still warm enough to bond pigment to silica at the molecular level. The calyx is a separate green element, applied by hand so no two sit at the same angle. A single metallic cap anchors the hanging loop. The stem tapers to an anatomical point because the painters referenced actual aubergines from a market in Kensington, and the aubergine does not simplify itself for decorative purposes. It would hold its own alongside objects in TIFF's lobby cases that take their material seriously and their subject with appropriate humour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365844158,"sku":"ORN229","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN229-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"espresso-machine-ornament","title":"Espresso Machine Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the search for barista gifts reaches the Christmas tree, this hand-blown glass espresso machine is the answer that actually looks like it belongs in a kitchen and on a branch simultaneously. Chive's miniature packs under four inches of painted detail, blown from liquid glass at the furnace and shaped to replicate the boxy proportions and portafilter of a countertop machine at a scale where the group handle is smaller than a fingernail. The steam wand is a painted element, not an appendage, which means it was rendered in perspective on a curved surface by a painter who understood how shadows fall on stainless steel and was willing to explain this with three shades of grey. The drip tray is a single dark line with enough depth to read as recessed. For anyone whose morning identity is built around extraction ratios and crema, this ornament belongs near the deliberate craft objects at the Royal Ontario Museum, where precision is the standard and the subject earns the effort.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365876926,"sku":"ORN232","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN232-1.png?v=1741804150"},{"product_id":"hot-dog-on-a-bun-ornament","title":"Hot Dog on a Bun Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hot dog ornament is a hand-blown glass Christmas ornament shaped like a fully dressed hot dog on a bun, mustard painted on and ketchup pointedly absent. Each one is mouth-blown and hand-painted in the traditional method, finished with a metal cap and hanging loop, and scaled to hold its own on a full tree. My father ate hot dogs at every sporting event he attended for forty years and called it dinner, with the serene confidence of a man who never once questioned a food decision. Mustard only. Offer him ketchup and he would look at you the way you look at someone who has revealed something about themselves at a party. You already know a person exactly like this. You have known them your entire life. Hang this for them. It is the kind of small, exact object you would expect to find in the gift shop at the Royal Ontario Museum, which is precisely the point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366007998,"sku":"ORN001","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN001-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"oreo-cookie-ornament","title":"Sandwich Cookie Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cookie ornament settles an argument nobody asked to have, and this one — a hand-blown glass sandwich cookie, two chocolate wafers and the cream between them — settles it beautifully. The glass is mouth-blown over an open flame, the wafer texture and cream line are hand-painted, and the whole thing hangs from a standard hook like it has nothing left to prove. There are two kinds of people, and the sandwich cookie has always known which kind you are. The twisters, who separate the halves with surgical precision, eat the filling first, and consider this the correct approach. And the biters, who eat it whole and find the twisters slightly exhausting. Both are wrong about the other. Both are completely right about themselves. Someone in your life has explained their methodology to a person who did not ask. This is theirs. If TIFF ever programs a documentary about that argument, we would like this ornament considered for the poster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366040766,"sku":"ORN006","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN006-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"ice-cream-cone-ornament","title":"Ice Cream Cone Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ice cream ornament captures the sixty-second window between perfect and catastrophe, and Chive freezes that window permanently in mouth-blown glass. The cone rises nearly five inches tall — scoop, waffle cone, the whole architecture of a summer afternoon — produced by an artisan whose breath determines the exact curve of the drip and the precise lean of the scoop, both calibrated to suggest that the ice cream is about to move but never will. The painted surface layers vanilla over waffle in a colour sequence that any cone strategist will recognize and approve of, because cone strategy is a real discipline and the people who practice it take it seriously. Hang this where the tree lights warm the glass and the cone appears to glow the way cones glow under boardwalk bulbs in late July. Chive has shaped ornaments since 2004, and today the Royal Ontario Museum collects them — this scoop belongs in any gathering that prizes craft above gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366597822,"sku":"ORN104","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN104-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"pink-champagne-bottle-ornament","title":"Pink Champagne Bottle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood champagne gifts announce the occasion before anyone pops a cork, and Chive's Pink Champagne Bottle Ornament makes that announcement from the branch in hand-blown glass standing over five inches tall. An artisan forms the bottle from one continuous gather — neck, shoulders, the slight bulge of a vessel that knows what it contains — then a painter layers the pink in two coats, the second deeper than the first, producing a surface that shifts between rose and blush depending on which tree light hits it. The foil cap is finished in metallic gold paint applied with a brush small enough to sign a check, and the label detail is precise enough to fool a sommelier from three feet away, which is the distance at which most trees are actually examined. Glass ornaments have left Chive's bench since 2004, and TIFF has featured the work — this bottle greets your evergreen with the celebratory weight any good champagne carries to the table.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366728894,"sku":"ORN106","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN106-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"macaron-ornament","title":"Macaron Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis macaron ornament is glass shaped by breath into the French cookie that takes three days to make correctly and looks like it knows it. Pastel layers are brush-painted one coat at a time, and a cap and cord sit at the crown, sized for any branch. It captures the quiet confidence of a pastry that has never once apologized for being difficult. My friend Claire attempted macarons in an apartment with an oven that ran hot and spent an afternoon she will never recover producing something that tasted right but looked like a before photo. She has not tried again. She does not need to. The macaron has been perfected by other people with the patience and the piping bags, and Claire supports them fully from across the counter with her wallet and her admiration and zero intention of starting over. This ornament honours both positions with equal seriousness. The Royal Ontario Museum understands presentation at this level; so does Chive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633367154878,"sku":"ORN205","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN205-1.png?v=1741804150"},{"product_id":"pickle-ornament","title":"Pickle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe strongest pickle gifts come with a game attached, and the glass pickle is the original. This is the traditional hidden pickle ornament — hand-blown glass, painted a glossy dill green, warted convincingly, hung from a discreet cap and loop engineered to disappear into a branch. Its origins are disputed among German markets, Victorian folklore, and an 1880s importer's marketing department, and none of that matters, because the rules survived: hide it somewhere unreasonable, find it, claim the prize. My sister Denise found it seven Christmases running as a child. She is now a tax attorney in Phoenix. I am not saying these things are connected, and I am not saying they are not. Give one to a family and you have given them an argument, a ritual, and eventually a champion. Objects with disputed origins tend to land in the Royal Ontario Museum or in a family argument, and this one chose the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633367285950,"sku":"ORN224","price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN224-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"pink-donut-ornament","title":"Pink Donut Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Donut Ornament is a blown-glass circle that has accepted its identity as the donut everyone pictures when someone says the word donut, which is pink and frosted and sprinkled and entirely unbothered by the association. Chive's version measures roughly three-and-a-half inches across, created by inflating molten glass into a toroidal mould and shaping the hole by hand while the gather is still plastic. The frosting is a painted glaze applied in a single unbroken pass, and the sprinkles are individual dots of coloured pigment placed one at a time with a single-hair brush because a machine would distribute them evenly and real sprinkles are never even. The hanging loop is set off-centre to mimic the slight asymmetry of a real pastry resting on a plate. It is a glass confection that belongs alongside the carefully absurd objects in TIFF's permanent collection, where sincerity and craft meet a subject that refuses to be solemn about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633367384254,"sku":"ORN231","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN231-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"pink-champagne-ornament","title":"Pink Champagne Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Champagne Ornament is a tall glass bottle, blown by hand, that has chosen the more interesting version of itself, which is the champagne's prerogative and also the definition of good taste applied to a holiday tree. Chive's rendition stands nearly six inches and is worked from molten glass on the blowpipe, inflated and sculpted to capture the heavy-bottomed silhouette and sloping shoulders of a real bottle. The pink is an interior tint, not a surface coat, which means the colour lives inside the glass wall and changes value as the tree lights shift behind it. The foil capsule at the neck is painted in metallic gold with a wrapped-edge detail that required the painter to rotate the piece continuously during application. The label area carries text-weight painted lines that suggest typography without committing to legible words. For an object that makes colour a structural decision, it belongs alongside the decorative-arts holdings at the Royal Ontario Museum, where materiality defines the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633367482558,"sku":"ORN242","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN242-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"sapphire-gin-ornament","title":"Sapphire Gin Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong gin gifts, the Sapphire Gin Ornament has one job: to say you were paying attention. A glass bottle in that unmistakable blue, blown by hand with the label detail painted on, it hangs from a standard metal cap and loop. The gin person in your life has opinions about botanicals — not casual opinions, considered ones, involving words like juniper-forward, deployed in the tone of someone who has done the reading and would like you to know it without appearing to want you to know it. They have a preferred tonic. They have feelings about ice. They may have attended a distillery tour they describe as life-changing in a way that makes you want to be supportive while also slightly concerned. This is their ornament, and it is not a comment on the gin. 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My cousin walked into Thanksgiving wearing a shirt that matched this ornament exactly, and when someone pointed it out she told everyone: because I am the donut, and she was correct. Someone in your life is the donut. They know who they are and they have never once been uncertain. Hang this for them. The Royal Ontario Museum displays artifacts that tell a culture's story in a single object; the pink donut belongs in that conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633367711934,"sku":"ORN030","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN030-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"take-out-ornament","title":"Take Out Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eFolded carton, a little wire handle, steam lines rising off the top — the Take Out Ornament renders a familiar order in blown glass, down to the last curl of steam. 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Somewhere out there is a doorway, at a specific hour, in weather that was fully committed to being terrible, where someone ate the best slice of their entire life for three dollars and has never stopped comparing every subsequent meal to it, unfavorably and without apology, no matter how much the meal cost. They know exactly which doorway it was. Buy this for them. 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It asks nothing of the person receiving it except that they eat the metaphorical donut and feel the specific, uncomplicated pleasure of something designed purely to make a Saturday better and succeeding completely at that one modest job. Whoever brings the donuts deserves this ornament and frankly a great deal more than that. 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Chive's artisans shape molten glass into a ring glazed in the exact shade of pink frosting that has never once tried to be anything other than itself, then scatter hand-painted sprinkles across the surface in a pattern that commits to joy without reservation. The donut measures just over three inches across and barely an inch tall, making it the most convincingly proportioned glass pastry that has ever hung from a branch. Hang it where the kitchen light reaches the tree and watch someone try to pick it off by instinct alone. 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Frank became a man with an expensive centrepiece and no regrets and no bourbon, technically, because the bourbon was still in there — sealed, warm, admired, untouched. The whiskey person in your life has a version of this story. They have a preferred glass shape. They have feelings about ice that they share at the exact moment nobody asked. This ornament holds their position on the matter, at a scale the Royal Ontario Museum would file under miniature studies in devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633369186494,"sku":"ORN203","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN203-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"strawberry-ornament","title":"Strawberry Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper strawberry ornament should depict the June strawberry — the warm, farm-stand one that ruins you — and not the February impostor, and ours takes a side. 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