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With summer right around the corner, the snow and the ice have melted, the trees and flowers are starting to bloom, and people are returning to Door County. Here at the Tannenbaum Holiday Shop, the store is filling up with new merchandise and every day feels like Christmas as more boxes show up!
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Happening in Door County this Month...
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All Saturdays Discovery Bird Hike, The Ridges Sanctuary, Baileys Harbor
May 6 Door County Half Marathon & Nicolet Bay 5K,
May 6 - 7 Self-Guided Potter's Guild Tour, throughout Door County
May 6 Sturgeon Bay Shipyard Tours
May 13 Blossom Run (5, 2 or 1 mile), Egg Harbor
May 18 - 21 Girlfriends Great EGGscape, Egg Harbor
May 19 - 21 Sturgeon Bay Open Bass Tournament
May 20 Blessing of the Fleet Festival & Scottie Rally, Baileys Harbor
May 20 Spring Art Crawl, Ellison Bay
May 26 - 28 Door County Festival of Nature, The Ridges Sanctuary, Baileys Harbor
May 27 - 28 Jacksonport Maifest & Maifest Run
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Our Sale room is overflowing! The items in our sale room are already a good price, but for the month of May our Sale room is on Sale! All items will be at least 65% off. We have many of the sale items listed on our website, but there are even more items available in the store.
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The school year is coming to a close and we know that graduation season is upon us. We have the perfect ornament to help celebrate your favorite students achievements. For our youngest graduates, children graduating from preschool or kindergarten, we have crayon, books, and school bus ornaments.
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For high school graduates, we have caps and diploma ornaments. For our college graduates, we have ornaments specific to many Big 10 schools. Regardless of which school your child is graduating from, it is a great achievement and we want to be the first ones to say "Congrats!"
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For many people, summer is also the beginning of wedding season or maybe wedding marathon is the more appropriate term for some people. Regardless of if you going to one wedding or ten weddings this summer, we have a great selection of wedding gifts and ornaments.
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We have individual ornaments available in wedding cakes, wedding rings, and limos. We also have individual brides and grooms available for you to select from that look like the couple themselves!
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Maybe you are looking for a little bit more for the new couple. We also have wedding sets which come with a collection of wedding ornaments. These sets are a great way to help a couple remember their wedding day and start off a collection of ornaments for their first Christmas tree!
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We also have other gifts that may be perfect for the newlyweds. One of our favorite is our selection of Second Nature wooden signs. These signs are a great addition to anyone's home, in particular for a new couple just starting to build a life together. And they are made from recycled barn wood from WI and made in the USA.
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We have received our order of Christopher Radko ornaments and finials for 2017. With over 150 styles it is a great time to shop and make sure that your get all your favorites. In addition, to having a variety of Santas and Snowmans, we have a variety of Little Gems, Halloween, and Dated ornaments!
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We would like to announce this year's David Frykman exclusive,
Silent Night. Silent Night features Santa and Mrs Claus carrying candles. The base of the statue says "Merry Christmas," "Door County," and "Tannenbaum." These pieces are all numbered and personally signed by David Frykman. This is the first exclusive that has featured both Santa and Mrs Claus and a great addition to everyone's home. We are expecting this piece to arrive in June, but are accepting preorders now in the store and online.
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This year we are excited to also have a trio of ornaments by David Frykman. We have a
Santa
,
polar bear, and
reindeer ornaments. We have had many requests for David's ornaments, so we hope everyone will be pleased with the new styles.
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Byers Choice Spring Introductions
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We have more new spring editions to our Byers Choice collection. The first collection is the Lemonade Stand children. This
boy
and
girl
are working hard to sell lemonade. The boy is wearing a blue sweater and blue and white stripe pants holding a lemonade sign. The girl is wearing a yellow dress with white apron holding a glass of refreshing lemonade. To accompany these children is their
table
with extra glasses and lemons.
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We also have a School collection. This collection features a
teacher and her two students (
girl and
boy). The teacher is wearing red plaid skirt with crisp white shirt and is holding a bell and chalkboard. The little girl is wearing a khaki skirt, white shirt, plaid apron, and red vest. She is carrying a basket and has a red apple for her favorite teacher. Finally, the school boy is wearing grey pants, white shirt, and grey hat. He is carrying his favorite book.
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Many of the holiday traditions we celebrate in North America are taken from the Christmas customs of Europe. Although advent wreaths were not prevalent in Dickens era, the practice of lighting advent candles grew more popular in the early 1900s. Celebrate the advent season by “Lighting” another candle on each of the four Sunday’s prior to Christmas. The
Merry Fir Advent Wreaths is a beautiful building that features green wreaths out front and four lit candles on the window sill. To accompany this building consider the
Turnabout Is Fair Play piece which showcases a Victorian maiden waits under the mistletoe ball for a kiss from the gentleman.
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The precursor to the movie theaters, magic lantern shows, became widespread in London during the 1800’s. Similar to more modern day slide projectors, a magic lantern used a light source to project an image from a slide onto a large white surface. Light sources were originally candles or oil lamps, and slides were made of characters and scenes hand-painted onto glass. Changing the slides in succession could create the illusion of a moving picture. Small, comfortable theatres like the
Criterion Magic Lantern Theatre sprang up around London as more working class people began to enjoy Magic Lantern Shows. The
Amazing Magic Lantern Show is the perfect accent to this theatre.
Amazing Magic Lantern Show shows a magic lantern in progress. The theme of this show is “Alice in Wonderland”, demonstrating the 19th century technology of Magic Lanterns.
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Prior to motorized vehicles, besides walking, horse and carriage was the main mode of transportation around the busy streets of London. For many, having a horse and carriage in town was either inconvenient or impossible. Public transportation and for hire services grew to meet the need. The
Hansom Cab Co, a smaller 2-wheeled carriage, was well suited for 1-2 passengers on quick trips, and required only one horse. The Cab Company building housed the stable for the horses, parking for cabs, and an office for the business records. The side room held a small kitchen, where light fare was offered to waiting passengers. To complete this cab company, you need the
Holiday Cab Ride accessory piece.
Holiday Cab Ride features a Hansom Cab carrying a customer through the snowy streets of London.
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The
Olde Bramling Oast House has unique architectural style required to dry harvested hops before being sent to breweries. The fresh hops are layered across a large grate. With a fire lit below, heat rises up to the large chimney vault, drying the hops in the process. The unique vent at the top of the chimney rotates with the wind to create an optimal draft. The finished hops are then sacked for transport. To accompany this house is the
Oast House Hop Harvest, which features a couple prepares freshly harvested hops for drying in the oast.
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The fair isle of Britain is known for many specialty trades, one of which is dairy production. It’s therefore appropriate to tribute the eighth in our Twelfth Night series as a fine Devon County creamery,
Eight Milkmaids Crock. The production of clotted cream, double cream, and other milk by-products grew out of necessity for dairy preservation in the 1800s into the traditional products and recipe ingredients that tourists enjoy when visiting southwest England today. To finish off your creamery, the
Victorian Milk Maid, displays a milk maid with her pushcart filled with the freshest dairy ingredients to serve the customers on the streets of London.
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Studies show that bees arrived on the British Isles 9000 years ago and that the beekeeping trade in England dates back centuries. The
Comb’s Honey Cottage is a charming country cottage that would make the idyllic setting for keeping hives during the time of Dickens’. During winter, while the bees hibernate, the keeper sells honey – which was a special holiday treat for most commoners. Note the hand sculpted bee hives that surround the cottage. Thatched roofing, edged in slate, along with diamond cut windows add to the charm of the warm glow. This cottage includes two detached porcelain beehive accessories. To finish off your cottage scene,
Honey Harvest is a beekeeper gathering honey from her beehive.
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The
Oxford Arcade is the world’s best-known upscale department stores are found in London and date back to the mid 1800s. Oxford Street is home to several high end stores, made famous over the last few years in period dramas. Similar to a mall, an arcade allowed patrons the convenience of visiting several shops under one roof. A transparent domed roof provided natural light into the common hallway extending down the middle. Elegant details such as the brass lanterns and metal scroll work on the door allude to the fine wares offered inside. To coordinate with this piece the
Ladies Auxiliary Brass Band. This band features a trio of horn players spreading cheer on the streets of London with carols in front of the department store.
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Tannenbaum Holiday Shop's reading corner...
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This month we wanted to highlight two new books in the store.
Heroes for my Daughter and
Heroes for my Son (by Brad Meltzer) are collections of stories about ordinary people who became extraordinary. Filled with a diverse group of heroes including women, men, athletes, actors, inventors, and more, each story is unique and reminds us all about the potential to become a hero at any age.
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This month's winner of a $50 gift certificate is.....
Anne Peterson. Congratulations!
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With warmer weather and more people coming back to Door County, we will return to being open 10am to 5pm, seven days a week. We hope to see you soon!
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Stop in to shop
11054 Highway 42
Sister Bay, WI 54234
Open 7 days a week from 10am-5pm
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