Babushkas | Russian and European Gifts and Jewellery | Melbourne, Sydney Australia

Make your own Matryoshka competition

Babushkas Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:54:54 +0000

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.

New Stock

Babushkas Admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:14:50 +0000

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.

Czech Marionettes

Babushkas Admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:54:57 +0000

The Czech Marionettes were caught with pinecones in their pockets by Australian Customs/Quarantine so they’re taking sometime to arrive in the shops.

Czech Marionettes

Babushkas Admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:10:23 +0000

Some of the Czech Marionettes that we have coming from Prague. They should be in the shops by the end of February.

European products

Babushkas Admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:56:17 +0000

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.

Happy Australia Day everyone.

Babushkas Admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:35:57 +0000

Blog problems

Babushkas Admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:02:32 +0000

We realise some of the links are not working, hopefully we will have these fixed in the next few days.

Social Media & blog

Babushkas Admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:03:25 +0000

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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Emailed receipts

Babushkas Admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:46:04 +0000

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.

Royal Arcade shop Christmas hours

Babushkas Admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:28:32 +0000

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.

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