Crayon Box Ornament Elephant closer to a dried field

closer to a dried field than anything fresh-cut

and as an organic form vase it carries short stems at an easy sideways angle rather than at attention

The pug is the dog that looks like it has been considering something difficult for a very long time without arriving at a conclusion

since a single pebble would be inert and the stack is what suggests it arrived by weather rather than by design

Nobody names anything Jojo anymore — not children

Crayon Box Ornament Elephant closer to a dried fieldA hand blown glass Crayon Box ornament holds the full unbroken spectrum in painted miniature eight distinct colors visible through the glass box face, each one demanding a separate brush and a separate pass from a Chive painter building the set left to right. The box itself is shaped in a single blow, the rectangular form held while the glass cools into flat panels that frame the crayons, and the label across the front is hand lettered at a scale that