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.
We’ve added some more stock to our website from one of our favourite suppliers from Kirov in Russia. These are the dolls that have had a reduction in their price due to the Australian dollar and suppliers price reductions. These are a very popular line.
And here are some pictures of a few of the products from this company;
Well the new stock is in the shops and best of all there’s been a price reduction on some of the stock due to the lower prices from one of our suppliers and the strong Australian dollar.
The internet site will be updated with the new prices in the next few days.
After visiting the main Sergeyev Possad factory we made a visit to Maria who’s a Matryoshka artist of some note. Her dolls have made it into exhibitions in Japan, Europe and the United States. Despite this fame she still paints in her bedroom so the dolls share space with a bed, computer and TV. She’s been painting the dolls since she was 6 years old and is consequently very fast and very good at it. Here’s a photo of Maria painting a pokework style matryoshka;
And here’s a link to all the photos we took at Maria’s place which we’ve put up on our Facebook page.
