Announcement    Kissa Design Handmade original Polish paper stars on Etsy, based on a multigenerational family tradition! Please note current production times and shipping speeds before purchasing. Kissa Design is celebrating 14 years of Christmas on Etsy this year! Thank you for visiting www.etsy.com/shop/kissadesign and for your tremendous support of my small business throughout the years. You help me put my heart into my handmade. -Kathleen.

Kissa Design Handmade Star Urchins™ are an exclusive brand of modern paper Christmas ornaments and home décor, based on a traditional form of Polish folk art decoration, called jeżyk, meaning hedgehog, and also called Polish stars, porcupine balls, or starbursts, for entertaining, Christmas tree and holiday decorating, gift giving, and year-round decorative use. Each piece is independent-artisan handmade and signed by Kathleen in her Michigan, USA studio, and reflects, in a modern presentation, her family's heritage and many crafting traditions.

From the artist:
A heartfelt thank you for your interest in my craft! Star Urchins are my modern presentation of a cherished family holiday tradition that I first learned to make from my mother when I was a child. She learned to make them from a dear Polish friend as a teenager and, after recruiting a couple of her younger sisters into the production process, sold and gifted their creations to friends and family in the 1950s. This entrepreneurial spirit lives on in Kissa Design today.

Welcome to my vivid, one-of-a-kind collection of meticulously handmade three-dimensional paper ornaments, magnets, stemmed stars, wall urchins, tree toppers and more of my original creations, gallery-quality gifts for the holiday season and beyond.

I am proud to continue this traditional style of ornament making with a unique assortment materials, colors, forms and techniques, offering creations for everyday decorative use beyond the Christmas tree. Shop by ornament color by using my store's sections. Here you will see a variety of ornament and tree topper sizes, wall urchins, magnets, stemmed bouquets and more of my original ideas, transformed into modern creations based on this traditional Polish art form that has been a part of my family's crafting tradition for over sixty years!

Thank you for shopping Kissa Design on Etsy!
- Kathleen.
Kissa Design

Kissa Design Star Urchins have been featured here:
-HGTV Magazine The Christmas Idea Book 2022 (Contents page and page 2)
-HGTV Magazine (December 2019 issue, cover and page 14)
-Southern Living Special Collector's Edition 2019: Christmas at Home (Blue Christmas)
-BuzzFeed.com (28 Gifts For People Who Love Words)
-Coastal Living magazine (December 2016 issue)
-CoastalLiving.com (9 Dazzling Tree Toppers with Serious Wow-Factor)
-Food52.com
-Fox 2 Detroit (one of my magnets was on TV!)
-Country Living Christmas Joys (Hearst Books, "Deck Your Halls: Trees, Garlands, Wreaths & Mantels" section, page 41)
-The Wall Street Journal (The 14 Best Modern Christmas Ornaments, Vol. CCLXII No. 141)
-Book Riot (7 Literary Hostess Gifts for the Holidays)
-BUST Magazine (December/January 2014 issue, Good Stuff for the holiday season)
-Better Homes and Gardens Magazine (December 2013 issue, one of the 10 things to love about Christmas in the holiday decorating section)
-BHG Christmas Ideas Magazine (2014)
-HGTV's blog, Design Happens (Color of the Month: Copper; December 2013)
-Design*Sponge (gold, silver, copper ornament roundup 2013)
-Cool Mom Picks (Loveliest Handmade Ornaments, Holiday Gift Guide 2013)
-Outblush (top tree topper picks, 2013)
-Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts Magazine (2012 issue)
-Country Living Magazine (December/January 2012 issue)
-Apartment Therapy ( http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/put-a-star-on-it-christmas-tree-toppers-180900 )
-Re-Nest (10 Holiday Ornaments To Keep Up After the Holidays)
-The Storque, Etsy's handmade blog
-The HGTV online marketplace
-Time Out New York
And more, including dozens of amazing blogs and Etsy treasuries!
(♥THANK YOU♥)

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Back sometime down the road: fabulous vintage finds from my vast personal collection will be sold here, too!