Babushkas – Page 2 – Russian and European gifts and jewellery since 1991

Webpage

Oops, our new webpage wasn’t quite ready. Old one is back until we have the new one ready to go.

Xmas Shop at Royal Arcade

The Xmas Shop at our Royal Arcade Store in Melbourne is now open from 11am to 3pm every day except Sunday.

Sales position

We have a casual sales position available in our Royal Arcade store;

http://www.seek.com.au/Job/retail-sales-assistant-babushkas/in/melbourne-cbd-inner-suburbs/23154468

Steadycam past Babushkas in the Royal Arcade

Geoff and his steady cam video on youtube passing our shop in the Royal Arcade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0IMjJk2lA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m46s

You might have noticed a few small changes on our Website (www.babushkas.com.au) as we’ve started to rework it. The items now sort default from cheapest to most expensive. And we also now have new Internet only prices which initially are set at 20% below our shop prices. This reflects somewhat the different costs for us of the two forms of retailing but it is also something that we will refine over the next few months so this is just a starting point.

Make your own Matryoshka competition

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

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

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

European products

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.