{"title":"Unique Gifts: Ceramic Flowers, Ornaments, Cards \u0026 Candles","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUnique gifts are the ones the recipient still has in five years. Chive Studio has designed that kind of object in Toronto since 2004: ceramic wall flowers shaped by hand and formed one at a time, glass ornaments painted by hand, cards, candles and jigsaw puzzles. This page is built to route you, not to make you scroll. The tiles above open each category; the recipient links send you straight to the pages we have written for a particular person or occasion; the grid below is a short list of the pieces we would give ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMuseums and botanical gardens carry Chive work in their shops because it photographs well, ships well and holds its value on a shelf. For gift buyers that translates to three practical things: nothing here needs a particular wall colour or a particular style of home to work, a boxed set arrives ready to give without wrapping, and a gift card covers the moment you truly cannot decide. If you want a hand, the FAQs at the bottom answer the questions we hear most in November and December. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"day-box-set","title":"Day Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur ceramic flowers began as a single design — then we realized they belonged on the wall. Today they hang in homes, galleries, and large-scale installs around the world, each one shaped by hand, no two exactly alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese set of 3 wall art arrives in eight combinations, each one a different trio of ceramic flowers chosen because the blooms actually belong together on the same wall. Fleur runs three shades of green. Night goes moody — Grey Rose, Grey Goyet Azalea, Blue Grey Succulent. Dawn warms the whole arrangement with champagne pink and canary yellow. Every flower ships inside a branded gift box, a keyhole recessed into the back of each piece, so three screws and a level are the entire installation. Glazed ceramic needs nothing from you afterward — no water, no dusting beyond the ordinary, no argument with direct sunlight. The New York Botanical Garden carries this collection, which felt right given the range across all eight variants. Shaped by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio, each bloom is finished with reactive glazes that leave slight surface variation from piece to piece, the kind of difference a factory line cannot produce and does not attempt. Pick the palette, hang the trio, move on with your afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42950238863550,"sku":"CODAY","price":111.88,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/day-box-1.png?v=1792016730"},{"product_id":"dusk-box-set","title":"Dusk Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur ceramic flowers began as a single design — then we realized they belonged on the wall. Today they hang in homes, galleries, and large-scale installs around the world, each one shaped by hand, no two exactly alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese set of 3 wall art arrives in eight combinations, each one a different trio of ceramic flowers chosen because the blooms actually belong together on the same wall. Fleur runs three shades of green. Night goes moody — Grey Rose, Grey Goyet Azalea, Blue Grey Succulent. Dawn warms the whole arrangement with champagne pink and canary yellow. Every flower ships inside a branded gift box, a keyhole recessed into the back of each piece, so three screws and a level are the entire installation. Glazed ceramic needs nothing from you afterward — no water, no dusting beyond the ordinary, no argument with direct sunlight. The New York Botanical Garden carries this collection, which felt right given the range across all eight variants. Shaped by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio, each bloom is finished with reactive glazes that leave slight surface variation from piece to piece, the kind of difference a factory line cannot produce and does not attempt. Pick the palette, hang the trio, move on with your afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42950238961854,"sku":"CODUSK-W","price":89.48,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/dusk-box-1.png?v=1792016726"},{"product_id":"night-box-set","title":"Night Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur ceramic flowers began as a single design — then we realized they belonged on the wall. Today they hang in homes, galleries, and large-scale installs around the world, each one shaped by hand, no two exactly alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese set of 3 wall art arrives in eight combinations, each one a different trio of ceramic flowers chosen because the blooms actually belong together on the same wall. Fleur runs three shades of green. Night goes moody — Grey Rose, Grey Goyet Azalea, Blue Grey Succulent. Dawn warms the whole arrangement with champagne pink and canary yellow. Every flower ships inside a branded gift box, a keyhole recessed into the back of each piece, so three screws and a level are the entire installation. Glazed ceramic needs nothing from you afterward — no water, no dusting beyond the ordinary, no argument with direct sunlight. The New York Botanical Garden carries this collection, which felt right given the range across all eight variants. Shaped by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio, each bloom is finished with reactive glazes that leave slight surface variation from piece to piece, the kind of difference a factory line cannot produce and does not attempt. Pick the palette, hang the trio, move on with your afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42950239223998,"sku":"CONIGH-W","price":114.28,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/night-box-1.png?v=1792016723"},{"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":"vw-van-ornament","title":"VW Van Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong van life gifts that actually earn a permanent spot on the tree, the VW Van Ornament shows up in hand-blown glass, finished in the two-tone paint job that still turns heads at a stoplight. The body is gathered and shaped whole at the torch, and the second paint tone goes on entirely by hand in a separate pass once the base colour has fully set and cured. It belongs to a specific decade and a specific idea about what travel could be once you removed the schedule and the reservation and replaced them with a direction, some good company, and just enough gas to see where it went. Hang this for whoever still finds that version of themselves in quiet moments when exactly the right song comes on the radio. TIFF has screened a hundred road movies built on precisely this feeling, and not one of them needed subtitles to land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364435134,"sku":"ORN155","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN155-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364500670,"sku":"ORN158","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN158-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364598974,"sku":"ORN176","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN176-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"purple-tape-measure-ornament","title":"Purple Tape Measure Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome people think tools should stay strictly practical, and then there is the Purple Tape Measure Ornament, a hand-blown glass tribute to the ones who disagreed and were correct. The body is worked hot at the torch, the case colour goes on freehand once everything has set, and a plain cap with a hanging loop finishes the piece before it ships out. Somebody in your life bought a tape measure in a shade no toolbox has ever officially sanctioned and never once apologized for it, in fact expanded the whole campaign to levels, drills, and one unsuspecting hammer. The reading on the tape stays exactly the same. Everything else about picking it up somehow does not. Give this to whoever brought colour into a drawer that used to be strictly yellow and grey. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts people for changing how a room sounds; this ornament is simply for whoever changed how a toolbox looks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364631742,"sku":"ORN120","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN120-1.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":"blue-lighthouse-ornament","title":"Blue Lighthouse Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeep blue and white, this lighthouse ornament brings a full lantern room and a tall glass tower down to tree-branch scale. It starts as blown glass, gets its detail work entirely by hand, and finishes with a slender metal loop, tall enough to stand out but never enough to tip a smaller branch. A lighthouse has been telling ships exactly where the rocks are since before most buildings on land existed, which is either the most useful thing any structure has ever done, or the loneliest, depending on whether you dwell on the ships or the tower itself. It stands alone on its point, turning and turning, sending light toward people it will never actually see arrive safely. The role falls to whoever plays it in your own life — standing steady, sending out light, asking nothing back for the trouble. TIFF has screened enough quiet, overlooked devotion on film to recognize this one on sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364762814,"sku":"ORN068","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN068-1.png?v=1741804150"},{"product_id":"big-ben-ornament","title":"Big Ben Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eSerious london gifts tend toward the skyline, and the Big Ben Ornament goes straight to the top of it: a hand-painted glass portrait of the clock tower, 1.57 inches in diameter and a properly commanding 5.31 inches tall. The tower is drawn out vertically from a single gather of hot glass, since height like this cannot be moulded convincingly, and the clock faces, stonework, and gilt details are painted on under magnification. The real clock has told London the time since 1859, minus the 2017 renovation, four years of silence that Londoners still describe with genuine grief. Margaret stood on Westminster Bridge at nineteen, looked up, and reports that she felt briefly and correctly small. She has been chasing that feeling ever since. This ornament will not replicate it, but it will remind her. There is TIFF-gala assurance in this piece, the kind that fills a room before the lights go down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364828350,"sku":"ORN184","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN184-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"blue-airplane-ornament","title":"Blue Airplane Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best airplane ornament for your tree earns its altitude in blown glass, and the Blue Airplane Ornament does exactly that: a swept-wing fuselage in sky blue, formed at the furnace with cockpit windows and a tail fin brushed on by hand, loop and cap up top. The airplane is the machine that turned distance into a negotiation — places that were a month away became four hours, and those four hours are either the highlight or the price of admission because the destination justifies every minute. Everyone who has looked out a window at thirty-five thousand feet has felt briefly and completely free, and then the beverage cart arrived and the feeling adjusted but did not disappear. Buy this for whoever checks the window seat compulsively. Who has explained turbulence to a stranger using hand gestures nobody requested. TIFF programs journeys across eras; Chive hangs the craft that made them all possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364861118,"sku":"ORN206","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN206-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"black-camera-ornament","title":"Black Camera Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best camera ornament to buy is one that a photographer would recognize as a real body rather than a vague rectangle with a circle on it, and Chive's hand-blown glass version passes that test at over three inches across. The form is worked at the furnace into the squat proportions of a vintage rangefinder, with a top plate that steps upward at the viewfinder hump and a front face dominated by a painted lens ring with enough concentric detail to suggest focal-length markings. The shutter button is a single silver dot placed on the top plate with positional accuracy that the painter verified against a reference photograph pinned to the workstation wall. Film-advance and rewind knobs are painted as raised circles on opposite ends of the body. The leather-grip texture is a stippled pattern applied with a dry brush at low pressure. An ornament built with this fidelity to the original belongs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where concert photography is honoured alongside the artists it documented.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633364926654,"sku":"ORN241","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN241-1.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":"bulldozer-ornament","title":"Bulldozer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best gifts for construction workers honour a fixation, and this glass bulldozer does it in the old tradition — hand-blown, hand-painted yellow with the blade down and the treads rendered in detail, capped with metal hardware and hung from a standard loop. The craftsmanship rewards the close look, which is exactly the look a bulldozer person gives everything with treads. That person is three years old and has been three years old for approximately eighteen months now and has not moved on from bulldozers and is not planning to. The bulldozer books, the videos, the toy that makes the sound when you push it — these are the organizing facts of current life. Get this for that kid, or for the adult who has watched enough content to have opinions about equipment grades now, which was not the plan but here we are. TIFF curates entire retrospectives around fixations like this; the three-year-old could program one from memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365024958,"sku":"ORN038","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN038-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"cassette-tape-ornament","title":"Cassette Tape Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Cassette Tape Ornament belongs on any short list of 90s gifts for the person who still owns a Case Logic binder they refuse to part with, a hand-blown glass cassette finished with hand-painted labels down to the little reels inside the case. Each reel is painted individually before the case is closed, a step that adds real time to every single unit and shows up plainly in the finished piece regardless of who is looking. Somebody in your life recorded a tape for somebody else once, with a finger held over the pause button so the DJ would not talk over the good part, and they spent three weeks getting the running order exactly right and have never entirely stopped thinking about how the whole thing turned out. Hang this where they will see it first. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sets the bar for what a music object should feel like in your hand, and this one clears it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365057726,"sku":"ORN080","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN080-1.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":"cement-truck-ornament","title":"Cement Truck Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood construction ornaments respect the machinery, and the Cement Truck Ornament gets the details right: a hand-painted glass mixer truck, 3.54 inches long by 1.57 inches wide, standing 2.95 inches tall, with the drum rendered mid-turn. Cab and drum are blown as separate forms and joined while hot, then striped and detailed by brush; the drum's spiral alone takes a steady hand and a held breath. The cement truck mixes as it goes, doing its thinking on the way to the destination, which is either sound logistics or a philosophy, depending on who you ask. Gus, who finished concrete for thirty-one years, does not need it to be a philosophy either. He needs the drum to sit at a working angle, and it does, because we checked. His daughter Dana ordered it the day she saw it. Retirement, it turns out, is negotiable. It would hold its own comfortably among the working models in the Royal Ontario Museum's engineering displays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365188798,"sku":"ORN198","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN198-1.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":"chihuahua-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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365319870,"sku":"ORN022","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN022-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365352638,"sku":"ORN023","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN023-1.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":"game-controller-ornament","title":"Game Controller Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our video game ornaments, the Game Controller Ornament reproduces a classic two-handed controller — buttons, joysticks, and grip — faithfully rendered in blown glass. Every button gets hand-painted individually before a slim metal cap goes on, sized to hang flat and steady on any branch. The controller has been through generation after generation since the early seventies, and every redesign has added more buttons, and every added button has proven, eventually, necessary. Whoever learned each version at each stage learned it the way anyone learns something that actually matters — by doing it until it stopped being thinking and simply became playing, and the playing took them somewhere real, even if the somewhere itself was not. Get this for the person who knows exactly what happened in there and has never needed to explain it to you. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame knows a formative obsession when it sees one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365549246,"sku":"ORN072","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN072-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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 neighbouring 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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365614782,"sku":"ORN107","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN107-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"fire-hydrant-ornament","title":"Fire Hydrant Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilt as our firefighter ornament for the person who always answers the call, no matter the hour, the Fire Hydrant Ornament stands in hand-blown glass, painted the same red you would expect from the real thing on a real corner downtown. The rounded body is blown first, then the bonnet, caps, and bolts get outlined in enamel-bright hand-painted layers before the piece is capped off and finished, ready to hang on any branch that will hold it. The hydrant does nothing visibly and simply waits, which reads as either patience or purpose, and it has never bothered, not once, to distinguish between the two, because for the hydrant the two amount to the exact same job, every single time. Hang this for whoever stands steady, who shows up ready when it actually matters and never once makes a production of it. TIFF has never made a film about a fire hydrant, which honestly feels like an oversight somebody at the festival should correct.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365680318,"sku":"ORN167","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN167-1.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":"eiffel-tower-ornament","title":"Eiffel Tower Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best eiffel tower ornament argues, in miniature, for the tower itself: a structure built to be temporary that simply declined. Ours renders the full iron silhouette in hand-blown glass — the arched base, the tapering lattice picked out by hand in warm bronze tones, the spire finished with a secure cap and hanging loop up top. Blown light and hollow, it weighs almost nothing and sits on a mid-height branch without complaint. The real tower was scheduled for demolition in 1909 and was saved by a radio antenna, which is the most French possible reason to keep something beautiful. Ingrid stood under it on her honeymoon when the hourly lights came on and stopped taking photos, because none of them came out and she decided the failure was the point. Some things you just have to stand under. TIFF would give that scene a standing ovation and a restored print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365811390,"sku":"ORN220","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN220-1.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":"electric-guitar-ornament","title":"Electric Guitar Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eSearching for gifts for musicians during the holiday season eventually leads to an ornament that actually captures the instrument, and this hand-blown glass electric guitar earns that description at nearly five inches of painted detail. Chive's version is formed from a gather of molten glass stretched and shaped to approximate the double-cutaway silhouette that changed popular music permanently. The neck is a single narrow extension, painted with fret lines fine enough that each one was applied with a brush whose bristle count the painter could recite from memory. Tuning pegs are six individual dots arranged in a three-by-two grid on a headstock smaller than a postage stamp. The pickup is painted with raised pole-piece dots, because the painter knew that a guitarist would check. The body is finished in a solid colour with enough coats to achieve the gloss depth of lacquered wood. A piece with this level of instrumental accuracy belongs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where the real versions live behind glass too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365909694,"sku":"ORN235","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN235-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"crossword-ornament","title":"Crossword Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Crossword Ornament is a flat glass grid, blown and pressed by hand, that has been filled in by a painter rather than a pencil, and the answers are permanently correct, which is more than most solvers can claim on a Thursday. Chive's version measures under three inches square, starting as a heated gather pressed into the proportions of a folded newspaper puzzle. The black squares are painted with an opacity that required two coats because the first pass let light through and a crossword with translucent voids is a crossword that has not committed. The white squares contain individual painted letters small enough that the brush tip was essentially a single bristle held at a fixed angle. The hanging loop exits from the top edge, treating the grid as a page that has been pinned to the tree the way a completed puzzle deserves display. It is an object the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would file under creative obsessions honoured in glass, alongside instruments and lyric sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633365975230,"sku":"ORN237","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN237-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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":"mr-roboto-ornament","title":"Mr Roboto Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost robot gifts play it safe. The Mr Roboto Ornament does not: a hand-blown glass robot with a boxy chrome body and a face caught somewhere between menace and customer service, mouth-blown and hand-painted like every ornament we make. The reference arrived in 1983, in a Styx concept album about a dystopia run by machines, and it was either profound or completely over the top depending on how old you were when it found you. The ratio has shifted over the decades, but the song stayed, the robot stayed, and the phrase has been said by people who never listened to Styx roughly as often as by people who did. Get this for whoever owns the album — who has explained the concept to someone who did not ask and watched their face do the thing faces do. TIFF would call this ornament a period piece. They would not be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366073534,"sku":"ORN009","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN009-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366204606,"sku":"ORN036","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN036-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"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 colour, 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 neighbour this piece was built to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366237374,"sku":"ORN076","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN076-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"pink-robot-ornament","title":"Pink Robot Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eChive's Pink Robot Ornament is a robot ornament that made an early, permanent decision about colour that the rest of the robot community did not see coming, blown by hand in glass and finished with several coats of hand-applied colour in a shade robots rarely choose for themselves. The finish goes on in three separate coats so the pink holds its saturation instead of reading pale under tree light, a detail the studio does not skip even on a thin production run. There is no rule anywhere requiring silver, and a robot in pink operates with the same efficiency as any other robot and considerably more style, a fact this particular ornament is entirely comfortable stating outright to anyone who asks. Hang it for whoever walked into a room expecting one thing from them and left having brought something else entirely, correctly, and made the room better for it. This robot would sit comfortably among TIFF's most deliberate small acquisitions without drawing a correction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366302910,"sku":"ORN085","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN085-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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 colour 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 mould 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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366368446,"sku":"ORN087","price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN087-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"product_id":"pink-lipstick-ornament","title":"Pink Lipstick Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eChive's Pink Lipstick Ornament is a lipstick ornament for whoever has worn the same shade for years running and calls that loyalty rather than a lack of imagination, the glass mouth-blown and finished with a proper matte-look paint job instead of a glossy one. The cap alone takes a separate firing pass to get the metallic band right, a detail most people will never consciously clock and would absolutely miss the moment it went missing from the design entirely. The lipstick has always known that applying it is sometimes the actual reason for the confidence and sometimes only the confirmation of confidence already fully present, and it never has to decide which one came first in order to do its job well, day after day, without complaint or hesitation of any kind. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the benchmark this finish was held against, and it passes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366401214,"sku":"ORN089","price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN089-1.png?v=1741804148"},{"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 Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366433982,"sku":"ORN097","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN097-1.png?v=1741804150"},{"product_id":"magenta-high-heel-ornament","title":"Magenta High Heel Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA high heel ornament makes its argument in architecture and colour simultaneously, and Chive's magenta version makes both arguments at full volume. Mouth-blown glass forms a stiletto that stands just under three inches tall, sculpted by an artisan who understands that the heel is the engineering and the colour is the conviction, and neither works without the other. The magenta is painted in layers — a base coat, then a second pass that deepens the shade into something closer to a declaration than a colour — and the result catches light the way a confident entrance catches a room. The sole is glazed smooth, the heel tapers to a point that would be impractical if this were a shoe you planned to walk in, but this is a shoe you plan to admire, which changes every calculation. Chive began producing ornaments in 2004 and its work now appears at TIFF, meaning this heel walks onto your evergreen with gallery-grade conviction behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366466750,"sku":"ORN099","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN099-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"product_id":"knitting-ornament","title":"Knitting Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA knitting ornament honours the craft that turns patience into something wearable, and Chive's version renders the yarn basket, needles, and a half-finished project in hand-blown glass lighter than the scarf being knitted inside it would be. The basket is shaped from a molten gather in one continuous session while the needles form separately and join at the angle every knitter recognizes — slightly askew, mid-row, the project interrupted but not abandoned because it is never abandoned. Hand-painted yarn spills over the rim in colours that suggest someone has strong opinions about fibre weight and is correct about all of them. At just under four inches tall, the ornament hangs with the pleasant heft of a finished object that remembers being raw material. Operating since 2004, Chive builds ornaments honoured at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — because craft earns recognition whether the instrument is a guitar or a pair of bamboo needles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366532286,"sku":"ORN101","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN101-1.png?v=1741804149"},{"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":"hammer-ornament","title":"Hammer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best carpenter gifts acknowledge that the craft is ancient and the satisfaction of a clean strike has not changed in two million years, and Chive's Hammer Ornament makes that acknowledgment in hand-blown glass. Head and handle form from separate pulls of molten glass, joined at the neck with the kind of precision a carpenter would approve of, which is exactly the standard this ornament is trying to meet. At roughly four inches long and under three inches tall, the hammer hangs with a weight that suggests purpose without burdening the branch it rests on. The oak-toned handle glows warmly while the head carries a steel-grey finish applied in thin coats that replicate the look of a tool that has done real work and shows it proudly. Chive built its first ornament in 2004 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame agreed the work was worth keeping — this hammer strikes that same chord of credibility on your evergreen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633366761662,"sku":"ORN113","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/files\/ORN113-1.png?v=1741804149"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/9073\/collections\/gifts-chive-studio.jpg?v=1792084590","url":"https:\/\/chive.ca\/collections\/gifts.oembed?page=9","provider":"Chive Plant Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}