Where To Buy Chinese New Year (Cny) Decor Throughout The Year?

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Disclaimer:

Permission has been sought from Marcus Choo of GEMINI BODY SHOP for his products & store to be featured in this thread.

Kindly note that this thread is strictly for the purpose of sharing my humble & objective views of products and services provided by the aforesaid company. And not an advertising platform.

I am not affliated to this company and am a client who bought Chinese New Year decorations, namely a red felt-like chinese scroll from the shop.

Reader's discretion is therefore sought when viewing this thread.

For the ease of viewing and any enquiries related to contact number & address of GEMINI Body Shop, photographs ear-marked with such details are uploaded.

Photographs related to GEMINI Body Shop had also been water-marked in view of copyright issues.

(I would not want to be implicated in any copyright issues should such photographs be abused by other users!)

Thank you for your kind understanding.

Hi folks,

After walking through renotalk's forum, I've difficulties placing this topic specifically under any category. Since Chinese New Year decorations are supposedly relevant for dressing up one's home during the festive seasons, and that Christmas is around the corner with CNY comign soon after, I've decided to start this topic under the Home Deco category.

Several months ago, our Taiwanese fengshui master recommended that we place a red picture or a red scroll on a certain section of our wall. At that juncture, Chinese New Year was well over for a couple of months or so.

We were almost going to acquire a mega print of red roses when an elderly PRC national friend well into his 80s mentioned to us that it's highly recommended that we kept to the conventional practice of using a red scroll with chinese traditional wordings on it.

His daughter in law then told us that there is a particular shop in ChinaTown that might have what we were looking for. And there I was in ChinaTown, but tracking down this shop wasn't easy becox I had to ask many of the neighbouring shops for its location. It was made extra tough by the unpredictable weather. Sunny one moment but rainy during the next second.

However, I finally found it. It was actually running along the street that leads us to the escalator for Chinatown mrt station.

Edited October 31, 2011 by edenstrauss

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When I located the shop at the following address, I was surprised that it had a huge variety of Chinese New Year decorations even after CNY was long over:

Gemini Body Shop

57 Pagoda Street

Singapore 059216

The boss, Marcus Choo, said that CNY decorations were available throughout the year in his shop. And his signage GEMINI BODY SHOP reflected the festive mood of CNY in a cheery tone of red, which is one of my favourite colours!

Edited October 31, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Initially, when I saw a giant version of the Mystic Knot being sold at his shop, I was almost going to purchase it becox I love such knots as it is one of the auspicious symbols in Buddhism. It is associated with an abundance or endless amount of good energy & luck. As such, it had also been known as the Endless Knot and had been very popular with fashion houses & their designers.

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However, after much serious contemplation while looking through the CNY wares at GEMINI, I've decided to settle down for the traditional red felt scrolls since our Taiwanese fengshui master had recommended a red "painting" or picture on that section of the wall.

I was extremely happy that GEMINI has a huge variety of such red scrolls. Although they looked really cliche & typical of an "oldish" CNY decor as there's nothing modernised about it, I had decided to purchase one of these red scrolls since they would serve our fengshui requirements well.

After browsing through a good variety of red scrolls, I selected a version that has the Chinese word "FU" written in a hundred ways as shown partially at the bottom left hand corner in the photograph below:

Edited October 31, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Apart from CNY decorations being sold all year round in GEMINI Body Shop, they also sell traditional wares which are being used during Chinese weddings.

Rental of the Chinese "KUA" which had been used traditionally by the Cantonese during the wedding tea ceremony is also available at the store.

I took a snippet of 2 of such costumes in GEMINI Body Shop and they do look pretty & elaborated with the intriccate embroidery of the dragon & phoenix in silvery & goldish threads.

Perhaps I should jux rent one for myself for a wedding anniversary photo shoot & my hubby could pair off with me in the Chinese skull cap with his pig-tail!

[MarkRobert 0]

Pictures are posted by all users are too good and very beautiful thanks for posting.

[edenstrauss 3]

Pictures are posted by all users are too good and very beautiful thanks for posting.

Hi, thanks for your generous compliment! I love sprucing up photographs with captions & decorations as it'll look more interesting.

As my threads tend too wordy for some, those captioned photos would be user-friendly for the lazy-eyed.

If you are interested in plants, please visit my newly created thread under the following link:

http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=44590&st=0&p=675514&fromsearch=1entry675514

However, I've still got plenty of photographs pending upload...

I'm also thinking of starting a new thread on other plant-related topics... that's if I could find time to do so.

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Hi all,

I have started a new blog website & most of my topics which are started on renotalk forum would be "migrated" over there in due course.

For those who are interested in reading on, kindly visit my newly created blogging website, The Treasure Cove of Barbette at:

http://barbettey.blogspot.com/

Thank You!

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I have consolidated all home decor-related topics under this entry in my newly created blog.

http://barbettey.blogspot.com/2012/05/home-decor.html

and would be updating more in due course.