One thousand and one New Year's gift
All is more persistently distributed a New Year's ring of celebratory hand bells, from brilliant show-windows grandfathers Frosts wink executed solemnity and a fairy tale, and air smells as tangerines, fur-trees and superficial happiness. In total some days, and New year will be knocked at our door, засыпет by the whole fireworks of multi-coloured confetti and wonderful gifts.
So it would be desirable, that in a New Year's eve all most treasured dreams and courageous expectations were embodied. Perhaps, certainly, the old kind grandfather the Frost with a bag of gifts already rushes from far Ustyug on the reindeers. However if and this year he considers, that you too adult for its gifts why most not to become the Snow Maiden for itself favourite and the friends. So, than to please in this New Year's eve of all most close, favourite and native? We will walk on the Chelyabinsk shops in search of a lovely New Year's, unexpected and original souvenir.
To yellow rat – road
The madam the Rat becomes a symbol and the mistress of coming year, therefore, to sweetheart and protection, is better to get... No, not rack of small peeping and brisk infant rats, it is enough to manage various figures, pictures and figurines of these of one of most чистоплотнейших and the cleverest animals. So, крысоловы, on your choice in shops the diversified symbolical souvenirs are presented.
Amusing магнитики – Микки Mice stand from 17 roubles, with the mercury thermometer is hardly more expensive – 50 roubles.
The rat is famous for the thrift and thriftiness, therefore coin boxes with the image of mice with cheese, dollar and euro, under the handle with the Snowball and even the grandfather the Frost – most of all. The prices depend on the size of a souvenir and fluctuate within 65 – 130 roubles. The greatest, fitted by a soft fabric, on a beautiful support, it is possible to buy for 580 roubles (ТК "Nikitinsky").
Where to the businessman without визитокницы? In their knizhno-writing shop "Letter" – a huge choice: the mouse on an ear of corn with a ball in which it is built in визитницадержатель, in a hand costs 74 roubles. Ceramic horizontal визитницы with pink mice-girl-friends will manage in 136 roubles. Is also supports for a mobile phone – horizontal and vertical, – reminding on a silhouette all same rat – 117 roubles («the Children's world»), flower growers will appreciate beautiful pots with amusing mice in сарафанчиках – 500 roubles (ТК "Nikitinsky").
Music fans for certain will be delighted with an unusual mouse musical casket, elegant black colour and rich scenery pastes and shine, a lace and small mouse muzzles with huge ears – costs a gift in Nikitinsky numbers of only 460 roubles.
And still it is possible to buy cheerful mugs with illustrations from «the King of mice» – from 80 roubles, a candle which bottom protects rat patrol – 120 roubles («Синегорье»), small fur handbags and рюкзачки with multi-coloured rat muzzles – 270 roubles ("Nikitinsky").
In ТК «Синегорье» you are waited by a remarkable composition: a rural picturesque landscape with мельничкой, a spring beating from under the earth and the nice mice filling the cans. There is such oasis for your desktop of 890 roubles.
All 365 days
That time and memory lasts longest, as not! That who is inclined by time «to regret (погрустить) that was» and loving to address memoirs in the dream places of the past, is better to present frameworks for memorable photos. In shop "Letter" there is a good choice of ceramic frameworks of different design and formats with indispensable attribute – a flock of small nice rats, the prices vary in a limit of 68-117 roubles.
And not to forget and about value of the present moment, it is not necessary to ignore New Year's calendars. The most simple wall glossy posters stand in shops of only 10 roubles, перекидные – from 12 roubles. In «Синегорье» there was also a new collection of gobelin panels and pillowcases for decorative small pillows with the embroidered calendar for new 2008. There are such textile masterpieces of 400-450 roubles, depending on the size.
The grandfather the Frost and Снегурка
What can be more fantastic and эфемерней and it is simultaneously more pleasant and долгожданней? In the main characters of new year, as though that spoke, trust all. And still they can be presented. How to you the red-cheeked wonderful grandfather in the form of a long candle? He can be bought in different colour variants and accompanying «имиджевыми» attributes – a staff, sledge with deer in «Синегорье» for 120 roubles. In «the Children's world» you buy the present copy of the overseas grandfather of the Frost of average growth – with a long curly beard, in points and долгополом a crimson caftan – for 3500 roubles. Санта with the packed gift in a hand on long pruzhinkah-feet 1800 roubles will cost. High, about 1,2 m, ceramic grandfathers Frosts in an elegant gold attire with staff generously covered with multi-coloured stones in hands will manage in 7720 roubles. And still here it is possible to buy the pendant grandfather of the Frost on a parachute – there are 460 roubles. Boots and варежки
The European tradition to put gifts (basically, it it is chocolate and money) before Christmas in footwear presented or the improvised textile boot, apparently, has come and to us, only in original New Year's interpretation. On a today's New Year's market there was a great variety such original "packings". The prices for elegant boots and варежки originate around 50 roubles. There are sizes and become more respectable, for example, you will find extravagant red stockings in "Letter" with a fluffy pelerine at the basis and an easy silvery dusting for 130 roubles. The big and capacious boots of "a rough grinding» from a sacking, plentifully decorated by ruches, pastes and tightened bows will manage to you in 220 roubles. Speak, to make a boot even more difficult, than to ground a flea. To the full it is possible to feel justice of the statement in shop «Children's world»: There your imagination will be amazed with the present products of the fine arts where on linen boots oil paints mighty crones of fur-trees revive, an edge of the sky and the dazzling sun. There are such masterpieces of 480-616 roubles, depending on the size. The most important thing in a coming New Year's eve – together with New Year's презентом to present to the family a shred of the attention, warmth and celebratory mood!
Alisa Winter