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Add a playful touch to your holiday decorations with this charming dragonfly ornament in green, blue, yellow, orange and black hues. The petite glass beads bring a mesmerizing shimmer to your Christmas tree while the eye-catching design enhances your festive atmosphere. Make a bold statement this season with this adorable accent skillfully handmade by artisans at the Santiago Atitlan Women's Group in Guatemala.

Add a bit of nature to your holiday tree or delight the bird lover on your gift list with this set of four holiday ornaments. Indonesian artisan Gusti Ngurah Semarajaya hand makes these bell-shaped ornaments out of albesia wood and paints each with a heron stretching its wings on the shore of a beautiful blue lake surrounded by abundant green foliage and pink blossoms. The ornaments are decorated on both sides.

Tiny red seed beads find a complement in white and forest green in these dramatic long earrings. Handcrafted by Mirian Zet, they cascade from sterling hooks in a dancing waterfall of vibrant color. The pair measures just over four inches in length.

A cluster of leaves cascades to the ground in this lovely piece of Christmas-themed home decor from Indian artisan Rajesh Gehlot. Designed from wool, the leaves on this charming Christmas tree come in shades of green and orange.

Four Thai elephants join the holiday celebrations as a festive set of ornaments. In vibrant green, yellow, blue, and red, each cheerful pachyderm is handcrafted by Thikaporn. She adorns each ornament with glass bead eyes, brass bells, raintree wood beads and cotton pompoms. They hang from yellow satin ribbons.

Sajad in India works in the time-honored art of papier mache to create this pretty set of six Christmas ornaments. Layer after layer of papier mache is applied over a mold and then sanded until smooth. The ornaments are then carefully hand painted in red, green and white for a cheerful addition to your tree.

Stylized peacocks and pretty flowers pose on festive ornaments — one each in green, red, yellow and orange. Working in an ancient art they learned from their father, the Canto Sisters craft the set from dried gourds harvested from the yerba mate plant. They are cleaned, dried and painted before the images are meticulously engraved around the surface by hand.

Cultivated on the Peruvian coast for 6,000 years, mate gourds were decorated with images of birds and fish by the pre-Inca Moche and Chimu peoples. But it was the Inca who went on to use the gourds as cups and bowls, in ceremonial objects and in musical instruments.

Because each unique piece is handcrafted from a natural gourd, please expect slight variations in shape, size and motifs.