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We have a store near by who sells all kind of stuff to make your decorations yourself. They have everything for each seasonal occasion like Christmas, St. Valentine, Easter etc. So I was quiet surprised that the main theme in May was birth celebrations ! Maybe the decorator was expecting a baby, because a big part of the store was dedicated to celebrate the birth of a baby !
It's the use to distribute "dragées" (whole almonds coated with a sugar shell in various colors) when a baby arrives. Not so long ago the color was pink for a girl and blue for a boy. But this has changed as you can see !
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The dragées are filled into these little boxes or in the little bags
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You can also paint them yourself. These are distributed to family and friends
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For the table I saw this decoration
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and pacifiers as napkin rings
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two examples of the dragée presentation
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and table decorations. What a difference between the white, pink and pastel blue of the past !
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As in May there are also Confirmations and Communions there was a little decoration too for girls
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and boys
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and finally a lot of couples marry in May so there was a little bit for the wedding cake too.
Wow what a store. :) Plenty of stuff. Those yellow hands are sorta scary if you ask me LOL :) Have a wonderful Mother's Day :)
ReplyDeleteI adore all those decoration's stores!!! I didn't see in France the little figures for the commnuions still. Just those you put on the top of la pièce montée but not those for the table's decoration. Table's decoration is really in the air and particulary with a tV emission where people invite for a dinner and each one gives a note about the food, decoration, atmosphere...I posted my last report. Now I only post one per week because the end of the schoolyear is always full of events to prepare!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing shop. Very handy for grabbing last minute decorations or gifts.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day,my friend!
ReplyDeleteYou look BEAUTIFUL, then and NOW!
You are such a wonderful friend and MOTHER!
May this Mother's Day be one of the best with more to come in years!
YOU ROCK, MOMMY!
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shakira
lots of beautiful stuff! Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteWhat a creative store! I haven't seen anything like it before, but I love it! Never seen so much baby stuff either, we don't celebrate it like that over here. Perhaps we should...
ReplyDeleteWe do have a party store, it it's all stuff generally for a party - and not presented as well as in your shop - they should do that though!
You have the best shops!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have hobby shops here, but nothing that elaborate. I would love browsing through the aisle.
ReplyDeleteOh wow! What wonderful colorful displays they made. How fun!
ReplyDeleteThat is an incredible store! Love the display tables!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I love all the colors, especially those bright tables. =)
ReplyDeleteWe have "Party" stores that carry all of that stuff too! You know... I STILL prefer PINK for girls and BLUE for boys though! Although... that ORANGE is really spunky!
ReplyDeleteWhat did you BUY???
This is great !
ReplyDeleteHappy Mothers Day Gattina!!
Your photos remind me why I want to flee across the water ~ everything looks better over there!
ReplyDeletePeople always look at me like I'm crazy when I say I want to emigrate "across the water" (to somewhere like France/Germany/Holland/Belgium/Luxembourg) ~ that's another reason I wanted to do Dutch again. I know they all speak English but it drives me round the twist when people use a foreign language to talk over your head and it's not like the radio/TV/newspapers and people having really interesting conversation on trains and buses are really going to translate for me!
PS Harrods used to do amazing silver and gold dragees which weren't almond but CHOCOLATE centred!
They also did these amazing California Fruit Sugared Almonds, which had soft sugar coating... We were just about to leave the shop when my Mum gave me £5 and told me to run and get something nice from the food halls ~~ and those are what I got...
Now I hear the Greatest Shop in the World has been SOLD ~ for £1.5 billion! If I had £1.5 billion I'd have bought it myself!!!
Hi Gattina, thanks for your message, I put a long blabberous reply underneath but I had one query about Belgium ~what language do the Royal Family speak at home? French or Dutch?
ReplyDeleteI would have thought historically they spoke French because French had so much prestige in the 18th and 19th centuries... I heard even the courts in places like Austria spoke French because German was considered course and vulgar!
Also in Anna Karenina all those Russian aristocrats spoke Russian-French in front of the servants in order to have a bit of privacy!!
That's one thing about being English that annoyed me since childhood (though no-one else ever seemed really to understand) that almost wherever you go on earth you can NEVER have a private conversation in English in front of anyone, because you don't know how much English they know! At least with Dutch you can be fairly confident that if bartering prices e.g. in the market in Goa you're able to speak back and forth to one another over the stallholder's head ~ just as they will gabble back and forth over you ~ about how much you want it and what's the most you'll pay etc etc... something the Anglophones of the world can never ever do!