Gingerbread World
Gingerbread World's European Market brings folk art, ornaments, gifts & specialty foods from Europe
Gingerbread World European Christmas Market brings beautiful and unique gifts, ornaments and deko from Europe. Throughout the year you can find a curated collection of European made and designed items for your home and garden. During the Holiday Season the Christmas Market is jam packed with authentic Nuremberg Lebkuchen, European chocolate & confections and gifts, ornaments & decorations for the
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Bunting, festoons, garlands…whatever you call them they’re fabulous and they’re in the shop now 🎉. Come take a look at the whole collection at felted wool ornaments and florals from Danish 🇩🇰 company - one of the many European brands we feature 😊 https://gingerbread-world.com
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Bunting, festoons, garlands…whatever you call them they’re fabulous and they’re in the shop now 🎉. Come take a look at the whole collection at felted wool ornaments and florals from Danish 🇩🇰 company - one of the many European brands we feature 😊
Pops of colour for your Tuesday afternoon 😊. Fun felted wool pompon garland to brighten your day, your wall, your table. In the shop now 👍
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When life gives you lemons 🍋 make a bouquet! Big thanks to Charlotte from Winnipeg 🇨🇦 for sending this pic of her felted wool Lemon Branches in a tin jug. So lovely! The new Spring Collection of felted wool Fruits and Florals are in the shop now. Come take a look at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/en-gry-and-sif-summer-2024-collection 😊
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Anemone Flowers 🌸. Available now in the webshop in 6 colours 🎉. But what makes these felted wool florals even more lovely is the story of cooperation between Danish 🇩🇰 company Gry & Sif and the women artisans with whom they work in Nepal🇳🇵. Beautiful beautiful 😍
Find all 6 colours at:
https://bit.ly/Felted-Wool-Anemone-Flowers
Felted wool Vases filled with felted wool Anemone flowers 😊. The Vases are each hand embroidered so each one is unique. Do you have a favourite colour?
There are more colours and options to find in the Webshop at https://bit.ly/Felted-Wool-Florals
Bouquet of the Day 💐 Anemones in felted wool. Flowers that just don’t wilt. Always beautiful. In the shop at
https://bit.ly/Felted-Wool-Anemone-Flowers
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🤔 So what does a Christmas shop owner do when it’s not Christmas? Well, today I’m at a coffee shop working on the annual Christmas catalog that we mail to customers every September. Elizabeth and I have spent lots of hours choosing items for the Holiday Collections and placing orders. Now the challenge is to fit them into the 24 pages of the catalog! You are welcome to add your snail mail address to our mailing list - click here http://eepurl.com/ivXdQo.
You’re also welcome to read my latest Blog post in the webshop where I share about some of the other things we do behind the scenes
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I was in the warehouse packing up orders for Lovi Finland 3D figures and thought I’d show you some of the pieces we’ve got in the shop 🐈⬛🐕🌳
You’ll notice that the packages are flat 😳 but the figures are 3D. Inside the envelope are thin sheets of plywood. Click the individual pieces out of the sheets and slide them together using the easy instructions included. A fun craft (like a puzzle). A fabulous gift. Great decor.
Find them at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/lovi-wooden-creations-from-the-forests-of-finland
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There is so much to love 😍 about this gorgeous Tree ornament by Finland’s 🇫🇮 LOVI . First of all…it’s just a beautiful and unique piece to add to your summer decor. Second, you get to set it up: it’s like a puzzle and a craft in one. Third, it’s made with responsible forest management practices (Lovi has worked with local Finnish organizations to plant 175,000 trees over the past 15 years). Fourth, the packaging is very cool (I’m a sucker for good packaging!!!). Definitely come take a look at the Lovi Collection in our online shop - lots of great options 👍 at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/lovi-wooden-creations-from-the-forests-of-finland
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There is so much to love 😍 about this gorgeous Tree ornament by Finland’s 🇫🇮 First of all…it’s just a beautiful and unique piece to add to your summer decor. Second, you get to set it up: it’s like a puzzle and a craft in one. Third, it’s made with responsible forest management practices (Lovi has worked with local Finnish organizations to plant 175,000 trees over the past 15 years). Fourth, the packaging is very cool (I’m a sucker for good packaging!!!). Definitely come take a look at the Lovi Collection in our online shop - lots of great options 👍
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Summer Fruits 🍓🍑🍒🍋 in felted wool. These gorgeous ornaments just arrived this week from Denmark 🇩🇰 and I’m enjoying close inspection as I pack up orders for our customers. Designed by Danish and handmade in Nepal by the women artisans with whom they work - a beautiful story of collaboration. And the pieces from the brand new Summer Collection - like these felted wool fruit ornaments - are beautiful too 😊
🎉JUST ARRIVED: Brand new Spring Collection from En Gry & Sif 🇩🇰. Felted wool lemon 🍋 tree branches as well as lemon and peach ornaments to display with them. Uniquely European pieces for home and gifts 🍋🍑 Find our newest collection at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/en-gry-and-sif-summer-2024-collection
Gingerbread World Gingerbread World's European Market brings folk art, ornaments, gifts & specialty foods from Europe
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🎉Just placed an order with Denmark 🇩🇰 for more of the absolutely gorgeous felted wool florals. But these hand embroidered Vases are already in stock. How does a wool vase hold water you may ask 🤔…check out today’s Story to solve the mystery🕵️
And see the Felted Wool Fooral Collection in the shop at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/en-gry-sif-handmade-felted-wool-florals
How I want deck life to be this summer…bird songs, fresh flowers, beautiful vases. I think these felted wool vases from Denmark’s Gry & Sif are just so beautiful and so clever. Obviously wool can’t hold water so….they hid a glass tumbler inside so you can display real flowers in these hand embroidered vases. Four colours/patterns are available in the shop now 😊
Find these at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/flower-vases
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Still Life #2. Mini vases on a tray by the window! A couple of weeks ago my middle daughter graduated from university. She received some lovely bouquets as gifts. Now the roses are a bit droopy so I pulled off the wilted petals, cut them way down and they’re getting a new showing in these gorgeous little vases.
Wooden Tray and Bud Vase Set by German company Räder Design. Available in the shop at https://gingerbread-world.com
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Still Life. Felted wool bowls, fresh fruit, sunshine through a window. A few beautiful things can be enough to elevate your home. And when the beautiful soft-sided bowls are designed by women in Denmark and made with fair trade practices empowering women in Nepal you can feel all the more good about those beautiful things. Find them at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/tabletop-and-table-linens
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Trees & Birds from Finnish creator LOVI. I love that these clever pieces are:
1. Beautiful
2. A fun project to set up
3. Made from eco-friendly Finnish birch plywood and packed in plastic free flat packages.
All the good feels 😁
Find the whole Collection of Lovi figures and ornaments in the shop now. We ship 📦 all over North America.
https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/lovi-wooden-creations-from-the-forests-of-finland
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A uniquely European gift for Mother’s Day this year. Find something special for the Mothers in your life. We can send it directly to her anywhere in North America with your personal message. European and Scandinavian designs - felted wool flowers and branches, candle holders, ornaments and lots more 😊. Shop soon to make sure it arrives on time 🎁
Find lots of gift ideas for Moms (and more!) at https://gingerbread-world.com
Name this Smoker figure! I came up with “Teutonic Biker” ( ‘cause he’s made in Germany). Got a better name?
These Smoker figures are an old traditional folk art from a special area of Germany called Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). A thickly forested mining region famous for its wooden “toys” like nutcrackers and smokers. Place a smouldering cone of incense inside the belly of the figure. The fragrant smoke comes out the mouth making this tough dude look like he’s really smoking the cigarette in his hand 💨!!
Find this and other handcrafted Smoker figures just arrived from Germany in the shop at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/just-arrived-from-germanys-erzgebirge-handcrafted-wooden-incense-smokers
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Simple. Elegant. Gorgeous. StoreFactory’s Sevalla glass candle holder can be dressed up in so many ways and in every season. The candle holders from Sweden 🇸🇪 continue to be some of our favourite pieces in the shop - this little glass beauty and the iconic Lidatorp.
See them all at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/storefactory-scandinavia-swedish-designs-now-available-in-canada
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JUST ARRIVED 👑 The Queen Elizabeth Nutcracker is THE most popular folk art piece in the shop. Charles joined the nutcracker-verse when he became King. Both are made in limited quantities in one of our favourite workshops in Germany and we’re excited to have gotten a few for North America 🎉. Something truly unique to add to a Royal Family memorabilia collection 🤴🫅
Details at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/royal-family-collection
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JUST ARRIVED from Germany 🇩🇪 Woodland Gnome Smoker figures - a wonderful fit for summer. Place a smouldering cone of incense in the belly of the wooden figure and enjoy the fragrant smoke curling up through its mouth. We’ve got Citronella incense cones that can help keep away the mosquitoes when you display the Smoker on a deck table. I’ll post some videos in the Story to show the fabulous little details of these handcrafted Gnomes
Find the collection at https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/woodland-gnomes-from-germanys-richard-glasser-folk-art-studio
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Hmm 🤔 how does a shop called “Gingerbread World” come to sell candle holders, vases, housewares and other beautiful things that are not gingerbread?? Twelve years ago when I bought this little company, it only sold yummy German gingerbread called Lebkuchen. Germany is famous for its Christmas Markets and I thought it would be fun to add other festive items from Europe to the shop - like nutcrackers, ornaments and confections - to make it into a sort of Christmas Market online. The designers and workshops we partnered with offered pieces for other times of the year so I thought we’d curate year round collections from all over Europe. It has been a lot of fun finding new lines to add to the shop and hearing from customers how delighted they are with the selection.
Visit our European Market online at https://gingerbread-world.com
I’ve been enjoying these dried roses for several weeks but thought it was time to display them in a new way. I cut off the stems so that the flowers would fit into one of the gorgeous candle holders in the shop made by Sweden’s Storefactory. I love the elegant simplicity of the Sevalla glass candle holder - a beautiful way to display small objects around a candle. I’ll be posting pics in IG Story as I continue playing with ways to enjoy this candle holder 😊
https://gingerbread-world.com/collections/storefactory-scandinavia-swedish-designs-now-available-in-canada
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Can you believe it?! We’re already starting to work on the Christmas catalog for the Holiday Season 😳! So glad to be working again with graphic designer (and good friend 😍) Dian (could this be our 8th catalog together??!!). April is always a busy time of year when you’re in the Christmas biz - we’re placing orders for all the yummy pastries and confections specially imported from Europe as well as ornaments, folk art and gifts. One of my favourite collections to buy for is Advent Calendars - we’ve got some customer favourites returning plus some fun new ones AND we’re still searching for a few more 🎉🎉
(Dian’s business is called Well Creative. She’s based in Winnipeg Canada)
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During the Holiday Season Gingerbread World is a German Christmas Market Online - featuring Collections of the best of German Christmas for Canada - Lebkuchen from the famous Nuremberg bakeries of Schmidt and Fraunholz, handcrafted wooden Nutcrackers, Smokers and Nativity Scenes from the Erzgebirge near Seiffen and Leipzig and Christmas chocolates and marzipan from the best brands in Germany - Niederegger, Asbach, Ritter and more.
Our Christmas Collections are available any time for those who love to Holiday Shop all year. And we’ve added a new concept we’re calling our European Ware Haus - Goods, Gifts & Deko from Europe.
Some exciting things in our European Ware Haus and Christmas Market right now:
CHRISTMAS COLLECTIONS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON AUGUST 26