The winning entries from our ‘Make Your Own Matryoshka’ Competition. Congratulations to Olivette, Ruby and Evelyn (it was too difficult to choose between the two sisters’ entries so they both scored a prize!) A creative use of papier mache and paint. And Olivette’s knitted set is very cute.
Well the Czech Marionettes are in the shops now and we’ve just received a new delivery of traditional Matryoshka from Russia which is making it into the shops over the next few days. Shortly we’ll receive some more Marionettes from Germany and France.
The Czech Marionettes were caught with pinecones in their pockets by Australian Customs/Quarantine so they’re taking sometime to arrive in the shops.
Some of the Czech Marionettes that we have coming from Prague. They should be in the shops by the end of February.
A small sampling of some of the new products we’ll have in the stores this year, from the Nuremberg Toy Show, the Frankfurt Xmas Show and a short trip to Poland. We will be getting some Marionettes from the Czech republic as well.
We realise some of the links are not working, hopefully we will have these fixed in the next few days.
For those of you interested we have a Facebook account at;
Babushkas @ Facebook
And a Google+ account at;
Babushkas @ Google Plus
We will try and keep the Blog, Facebook & Google+ synchronised for the moment with the same posts so you can choose which one you want to follow.
For trivia, frequent updates and so on we have Twitter accounts at;
Babushkas Main Account
Babushkas @ Royal Arcade’s Twitter”
Babushkas @ Harbourside’s Twitter
бабушка @ Harbourside’s twitter (our Grandma has her own twitter)
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We’re in the process of installing a facility for emailing receipts for purchases. It’s proving a little difficult to set up but we should have it working this week.
For those who are still wishing to do some christmas shopping in person our hours at our Royal Arcade shop in Melbourne over the remainder of the Xmas period are;
Today: 9am – 7pm
Friday 17th: 9am – 8pm
Saturday 18th: 9am – 7pm
Sunday 19th: 9am – 7pm
Monday 20th: 9am – 8pm
Tuesday 21st: 9am – 8pm
Wednesday 22nd: 9am – 8pm
Thursday 23rd: 9am – 9pm
Friday 24th: 9am – 6pm
Our Harbourside shop is open 10-9 every day. Closed on Xmas day.
