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Holiday ornaments decorate life all year long in this Belgian shop
Christel Dauwe’s shop displays 18,000 ornaments from 33 European suppliers, with her personal collection exceeding 64,000 items she has gathered since her teens.
- Christel Dauwe operates a year‑round ornament shop in Antwerp, Belgium, where her small Christel Dauwe Collection packs every corner with a vast inventory and her holiday period lasts all year.
- 35 years ago the shop started as an antiques store before focusing on ornaments, with Christel Dauwe's collecting beginning in her teenage years.
- On a Polish au pair's suggestion, Christel Dauwe, shop owner, sourced ornaments from the original Polish factory and other European suppliers, with pieces ranging up to specialty ornaments priced at more than 500 euros .
- Local regulars and tourists alike find personalized service and ornament matching at the store, and wedding and event customers often request custom ornaments from Christel Dauwe, shop owner.
- Maintaining the collection, Christel Dauwe dusts each ornament twice a year as she plans for a proposed Christmas museum, The Associated Press reported.
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Ruben Robeyns, owner of Christmas Alley in Hasselt, Belgium, and his decor crew were working on a massive Christmas display requiring thousands of baubles. But the search for additional supplies turned out differently than expected. "The manager suddenly found himself standing next to our seventeen carts of baubles, and suddenly we weren't allowed to pay anymore."
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