Christmas baubles are a must for decorating the Christmas tree. The tradition of a decorated tree is ancient since the Celts already decorated a tree, a symbol of life at the time of the winter solstice.

A Christmas ball which historically was shaped like a ball and which today can take many forms. Over the years, Christmas decorators have made Christmas ornaments out of different materials such as glass or plastic, etc.

The prices of these "Christmas baubles" range from a few centimes for those mass-produced to several tens of euros for the "artisanal baubles" created by glass-blowers and artists. Lovers of Christmas enchantment are prepared to spend staggering amounts of money to obtain decorations, Christmas balls that become more and more incredible every year.

The Christmas bauble that we offer is the ideal gift for the festive season, for the lovers of Christmas decorations who are more and more numerous nowadays. The Christmas bauble with a photo is an original gift for a very successful end-of-year party. A gift to offer to your dad, mum or grandmother, with a photo of the children, the newborn baby or why not a photo of the grandparents during their trip inside the Christmas bauble. Offer a beautiful decorative object to embellish the family Christmas tree every year.

An unusual gift idea? An original decor idea? The cinema clapper. The clapperboard is a symbolic object of cinema. It was already used in the silent movies, and its name originates from tap dancers. Even if today the professional claps have become digital, the black wooden clapper remains associated with the cinema and has become a beautiful object of decoration.

The clap announces with its particular noise the start of the shooting. The tap is shown briefly in front of the camera at the start of each recording to identify the shots and to number the scene. These are benchmarks to facilitate the synchronization of sound and image during editing. This nice clapper is an original idea to decorate your dining room or your bedroom. You can put it on a piece of furniture or hang it on the wall. A fantastic idea to give to a movie buff or a teenager who loves science fiction or action movies.

An essential accessory to animate an event on the theme of cinema or to make your own videos. It adds a fun touch to your shots. The clapperboard is in black wood. As with a real shoot, fill in the boxes with chalk with the name of the director, the title of the film, the camera used and the number of the scene. A fun and playful gift on the occasion of a birthday.

It is towards the end of the Middle Ages that traces of Christmas baubles can be found in French manuscripts in the department of Bas-Rhin in France, more exactly in Sélestat. This tradition spread to Germany where the trees were decorated with flowers, fruits and especially apples. Fir trees appeared on church forecourts in the Middle Ages and are a reminder of the tree of lost paradise. However, one of the trees that keeps its leaves or thorns is the fir tree. Church obliges, these trees are decorated with hosts, apples and round pastry. The first ornamental Christmas baubles hung in Christmas trees appeared in the 19th century around 1830 and were made by glass blowers and were called "Kugel". The Christmas ball was considered a grigri, a good-luck charm against evil spirits. To make shiny Christmas balls, craftsmen used mercury or silver nitrate in their blown glass. Today we offer you to decorate these Christmas baubles with a work of art, but not just any work of art, a reproduction of a work of art chosen from among the most popular paintings. Offering this Christmas bauble with a reproduction of a work of art is really the ideal unusual gift, a kdo idea for mum, for grandma. However, it is also very pleasant to give yourself a small gift with a reproduction of a work of art to decorate your Christmas tree.

History of the cup

Particularity of some cups

In the middle of the 18th century, manufacturers started to produce cups of different sizes: the smallest was called "mignonnette", the most common being 6 cm high. At the end of the century, cups were differentiated according to the drink.

First in Germany, then in Austria and France, porcelain factories started to make "trembling" cups deeply embedded in their high saucer, which prevented the container from slipping. It seems to be used more for chocolate and usually has a handle and sometimes a lid. 

The origin of these cups is Spanish.

The "Queen's" or breakfast cup, also known as the "milk cup", with its strict truncated cone shape and deep saucer, was invented by Sèvres for the morning breakfast, its particularity was to keep the milk hot. Some are without handles and without lid, others have one or two handles and a lid.

The "litron" cup, also called "square cup", with or without a lid, is cylindrical and has an equal diameter and height. It is the ancestor of our coffee cup. It takes its name and shape from an ancient liquid measuring vessel. This cup appeared at the Vincennes factory in 1752.

History of the cup

Expensive beverages, tea, coffee and chocolate give rise to services that are mainly used for consumption but also dedicated to collectors' items, without it always being possible to distinguish the different uses. The size of the services also varies, and the pieces that make up the services are made using multiple techniques that fall under the heading of goldsmithing or ceramics.

The earliest known example of a pottery vessel capable of keeping a liquid hot or cold is an ancient Chinese pottery jar dating from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). A scholar, Xu Xiake, mentioned the origin of porcelain in his book "Zhongguo chuantong shi" (中國出现的歷史), published in the 1730s, which describes that Emperor Muzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the creation of high quality porcelain during the reign of Empress Wu Zetian, who was also the Emperor's wife.

We have no idea how old these ceramic cups are, but they have certainly been around for a long time! They were made in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), and by that time there were already about 20 different types of ceramic cups on the market; in addition, there were many others made by potters, all of whom used clay from different sources in the country, with varying degrees of skill and quality control!

Do you want a surprising and unusual personalized mug? The magic mug is a great idea. Ordinary at first sight but as soon as you pour a hot drink the cup changes little by little and lets appear your favorite photo. Unexpected the first time but always funny each time. If you have several magic cups the surprise of discovering which cup you have chosen is total. You can play to guess which photo will appear. Daddy's photo? or mom? from younger or older? Granny? kitty’s photo?… When the mug is filled with a hot drink, the colored thermo-reactive coating becomes transparent and reveals the printed pattern. Then when the cup cools it regains its blue color. We recommend washing your mug by hand so as not to alter the magic effect. This magic mug is available for all occasions: at Christmas, for a birthday, a wedding, a baptism, a communion or to thank your hosts for an invitation to your friends or relatives. The customizable magic mug will enchant your meals or your moments of relaxation at home, it will surprise your guests at home. It will surprise your visitors or customers in your company or association when the logo or photo of your featured product or company buildings appear.

What child hasn't written or wanted to write on a wall or door with a pencil, ballpoint pen, marker or worse, to the great despair of their parents, and then been told off by them or by their teacher? Unfortunately, most of the time these drawings or texts are difficult to erase and sometimes even impossible to remove from a wooden door. On a wall, a coat of paint is obviously easier. But with our self-adhesive sheet, your children will have no problem and will be able to draw endlessly, as long as they use one of the chalks provided. This pragmatic, practical and versatile sheet can be used on multiple surfaces: windows, mirrors, wardrobes, bedroom walls, turning any space into a blackboard.

Of course, it is essential that the self-adhesive sheet is dust-free. However, the board is not detachable.  

The sheet is a fun, interactive way to communicate, leave messages, share ideas and draw up plans for a project. The self-adhesive chalkboard has an interesting and appreciable size and can be used to create drawings that can be used as decor for any party, birthday or New Year's celebration that friends, mami or grandaddy can admire when they visit.

This chalkboard is an ideal office gift and an original little gift from Gifts-custopolis.com.

What is pink Himalayan salt used for ?

In Pakistan, it is the most famous salt. It is a raw, unrefined salt, rich in trace elements and not iodised. Himalayan salt is red, pink, off-white or transparent. The pink shades of rock salt are due to the presence of iron oxide.

Pink salt is used in cooking in the same way as ordinary salt. However, it is mainly sold as a gastronomic product because pink Himalayan salt contains less sodium per serving than white salt.  The rest of the production is used for other purposes, such as cosmetic applications: scrubbing and exfoliation, bath salts for relaxation and detoxification, but also in handicrafts, for the manufacture of lamps, candleholders or other decorative objects. Each lamp is unique in its shape, colour and intensity. The salt block is simply hollowed out to accommodate a light bulb. 

Ideally, the salt lamp should be placed in a dry and well-ventilated area, for example on a glass plate. Indeed, humidity can cause a slight condensation under the lamp. 

The salt blocks used for our lamps sold on Gifts-Custopolis.com are extracted from the Himalayan mountains - the purest salt in the world. Our supplier works with a family business run by Rana - the raw salt is sourced from the good, government-regulated mines of Khewra.

To obtain a lamp or a candle holder out of salt of Himalayas for a birthday thanks to Gifts-custopolis.com it is magic, lamp and candle holder out of salt of Himalayas which offers many advantages it is an unusual gift for birthday, an original birthday gift , "the" birthday gift, an anniversary gift for the one who likes the gifts going out of the ordinary that everyone will not have in its interior.

It can be said that an oracle is someone who calls himself divine and practices divination.Divination is the ability to augur, to predict, to speculate, to foresee events that could happen in the future. The oracle transmitted predictions that are most often peremptory and absolute... The oracles date back to ancient Greece and Zeus was undoubtedly the first oracle in history. By extension, it can be said that the prophets, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, were oracles who brought divine messages from God.

Our game is based on the same principle of transmitting divinatory messages. However, with our Oracle, we talk more about fun than about real divinatory messages. Our Oracle allows you to have fun without any pretension and thanks to chance... The goal here is only to have fun thanks to a big magnetic ball which stops on a funny and not serious answer to a question you ask. Will I win the lottery in the next draw?

Are you finally going to clean your desk? Will I meet the woman of my life? Will I win the most beautiful cat competition? The answers are far from serious. This game is an unusual gift idea, a Kdo idea for a teenager, for the office, an original gift idea for a woman, a man or for whomever you want.

This film statuette trophy is out of this world. Generally speaking, trophies take the form of a cup, an original sculpture, a work of design art or any other object presented as a work of art, which has the appearance of a piece of PVC, marble or wood, most often engraved, but very rarely a gold-plated human representation!  You'll agree that this statuette adds value. This statuette resembles the Oscars, which have been held in Los Angeles since 1929 to honour the best American and foreign films. So if you're a film lover, this statuette really is the perfect decoration. It's attractive and glamorous to decorate your home, and perfect if you're organising an evening with a seventh-art theme.

Of course, we also sell other film-related gadgets, some of which you'll find on our Gifts-custopolis.com sales site. 

This Oscar-reminiscent gadget can also be used as a reward for a child's good results at school or elsewhere. However, this statuette can also be used as a gift for a competition between friends about cinema, or as a birthday present, or why not as a small gift for a film lover at a party. You're sure to find plenty of other opportunities to give this statuette, which is emblematic of the cinema,.gifts you'll find on Gifts-custopolis.com

A birth day is a very important celebration for all of us. On this day we are the heroes of the day. Originally (and still in some families and peoples), the birthday boy or girl gave presents to his or her parents (especially to the mother) to thank them for giving birth to him or her. Since the Middle Ages, it was the birthday person who organised the festive meal, so each guest brought a share of the meal. Later on, as not everyone worked in the catering industry, everyone brought the birthday boy or girl something from their own production. Today, giving a birthday present has become a custom and an occasion to show affection to a relative, friend or colleague. But what gift should you give to a friend, grandmother or colleague? We suggest a nice little gift: a personalised mug with a personal photo or a message of your own invention. For example: For the best granny in the world. To my lifelong friend. To the funniest colleague, "It's the crisis, everything is increasing, even your age", "50 years old = 30 years + 20 years of experience" or any other message... It's up to you to choose or to find the message that best suits the person concerned. The originality of the mug is its decoration inside, a special colourful and nice birthday decoration. An original birthday gift, a personalised birthday mug proposed by Gifts-custopolis.com

I am sure that many lovers would love to own a mug decorated with hearts inside and a picture of their loved one on the outside of the mug. This mug is really ideal, nice, attractive and has a comforting and invigorating effect. Thanks to this cup, every time you have breakfast or a cup of coffee during the day you will feel happier and more privileged. This mug, decorated with romantic motifs and accompanied by a very nice message of love, will remind you of your beloved, your children or your family. The peace and love aspect of the hippie years is a great advantage when selecting a cup. You will feel like you have a cup that many friends will envy you. This original mug will remind you that you are loved and that he or she is thinking of you. This unique mug will cheer you up, thanks to the shimmering and enchanting heart designs. In short, you will never get tired of this unusual mug. This romantic mug is the perfect gift for him, her, mum, dad, her fiancé or fiancée, for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day or for any other event in his or her romantic life. A pretty personalised mug to say "I love you".