CZESTOCHOWA, Poland -- If you could design a bauble for your own Christmas tree, what would it be -- a teddy bear dressed as a ballerina, a hummingbird or a crimson phoenix?

The workers at GlitterLab, a company producing Christmas decorations in southern Poland, vow to turn those fantasies into reality.

Calling themselves "the magicians of glass," their clients have included Swarovski glass, the French chain Galeries Lafayette, and Harrods, the iconic London department store.

"We have the ability to create shapes and designs that glass will not normally take," the company promises on its website.

And the whole production process, "our closely guarded trade secret," is manual, making each product unique, it says.

"In an age when you can buy anything anywhere for next to nothing, someth

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