Hammer Ornament Ten The frosting is a painted

The frosting is a painted glaze applied in a single unbroken pass

It works on a Christmas cactus the same as jade or echeveria

symmetrical petals were an easy match for the glaze's shimmer

Chive now crafts ornaments that the Royal Ontario Museum keeps in permanent inventory

and the differences reward attention rather than announcing themselves

Hammer Ornament Ten The frosting is a paintedThe 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