Gift ideas Lorraine

A truly atypical place nestled in the middle of the old town, you enter Boulet to live a unique shopping experience. Not just for fashion, this concept store is a true trendsetter in all categories. In a Scandinavian and French atmosphere, you'll find a cosy space where you can sip a coffee or enjoy a French chocolate while chatting with other visitors. Imagined as a meeting place rather than a shop, you will visit the exhibitions while choosing your next trendy new outfit. The grocery section offers chocolate, tea, herbal teas, olive oil and anything else the palate desires...

Located in the Saint-Jacques shopping center, you will find this store where color is the key word. Here, objects, fabrics and other knickknacks will brighten up your interior. Why not fall in love with this statuette that will create a sensation on the living room furniture? And what about this jacket with an African touch that will give a boost to your look? Let us advise you, the professionalism of the team is up to the task. An ethnic and original store that will make you travel and decorate your beautiful interior!

Escape with refined scents, create your own olfactory imprint, it's all possible with Les Lumières du Temps! French candles made of natural waxes with perfumes from Grasse, a luxury collection unique in its container and content, named Secret, Poudre d'or or Améthystes, and nearly ninety sweet, flowery fragrances, available in candles, diffusers and room sprays make up this incredible collection. Great: eco-friendly refill for the traditional collection of candles.

Pure originality for products made in France , with a constant search for brands and designers with an eco-responsible or solidarity-based approach. Leather goods, stationery, tableware, stickers, scarves, candles, small furnishings, candles, games and toys... The boutique, which opened a few years ago, has since expanded to include jewelry and cosmetics! People come here to find a decorative object or a gift, but above all they come to buy products designed and made in France. To this end, Isabelle Valdenaire, the store's manager, has unearthed some fifty surprising brands and designers! Take a look at her website, where you'll find some lovely nuggets.

Atypic is the concept store where you feel good: a great decoration, a warm welcome, elegant and refined products, in short, we love it! Just chatting with the team while sipping a small home-made juice on the beautiful sofas puts you in a good mood right away! The shop offers ready-to-wear, mostly men's and mixed, delicatessen and skincare products, as well as decoration, and an exhibition space. All the products are French brands, in a spirit at the crossroads of Paris and Montreal, a little dandy but relaxed! The bar unveils iced teas, lemonades and homemade juices and sometimes transforms into DJ/apéro parties. A classy place!

The garden-center des prés and friendly team offer a wide choice of green plants, cut flowers, shrubs, plants in massif and vegetable plants. Behind the shops of this family-run business, large greenhouses await you to discover their own production of plants. For your orchards, the garden-center offers dozens of varieties of fruit trees, more modern with most popular in the region: mirabelle plum trees and quetsch plum trees. Original flower arrangements are made for the annual festivals like for your personal celebrations. You can also leave your vases them to be flowers and objects that are expensive, for unique and unusual creations.

At the Magasin de Mots, now located on rue de la Source, you will find the boutique-workshop open to the public two days a week, to let the creator take care of her little words... Because here, it is "the movement of maintaining the marvelous in the ordinary environment" through the word, honored by the creator and artists invited to the magical boutique-bazaar. Boxes of kisses, rainbow powder, seeds of tenderness, keys to happiness, pretty words or big words, drawings to tell, to dream, to remind simplicity and to aim at the essential.

An unlikely village store dedicated to stones, minerals and wellness products. Although stones do have something to do with spirituality... The L'Améthyste boutique in Saint-Jean-de-Bassel is housed in a small village house with fir-green shutters and a chalet-like pointed roof, reminiscent of a goblin's house. Here, Caroline and Claude Devot, specialists in stones and minerals, tell you all about the energetic virtues of natural stones from the four corners of the globe. Amethyst and many others. You're sure to find yours!

You just settled in a new apartment, your decoration is rather sober at the moment. A small tour at Hema will allow you to find objects and accessories for all parts of the apartment. The shop has shelves: home and deco, office, eating and cooking, bath, sleep, recreation, baby, child, she and he, beauty, novelty… There's something to see and what to do… Prices are reasonable and some objects are quite good business. The objects have a nice design while being practical!

Located in the colorful Outre-Seille district, the Bro3000 store is worth a visit. Here, the unusual and surprising objects of creators are exposed to draw you at least a smile! At the command, Iseult who also proposes her creations in embroidery or still there, other artists specialized in serigraphy, flocking and other printing processes to please you or find the original gift which promises emulations. More than a store, Bro3000 is a crossroads connecting local artists and the curious, happy to appropriate an imaginary!

It's in a small village in the South Meuse region, in the footsteps of Joan of Arc, that the Le Saint-Gervais earthenware workshop is hidden! Francis Profit has been operating out of an old ploughman's house for a number of years, where he creates objects that are painted, glazed and handcrafted with great finesse. Working with clay on a slab or wheel, he will show you the many facets of a craft he speaks of with passion.

La Boutique des Bouleaux is two crafts, two brands, both MOSL quality. Odos, handmade candles with soy wax and the scent of Grasse, inspired by daughter Eugénie's travels. J'aime la terre, Régine's pottery, stoneware-fired at 1,240°, both utilitarian and decorative. On the shelves you'll find personalized candles, candles in reusable jars, tableware, special creations for events... In addition, we offer workshops: pottery classes, ceramic cafés, olfactory interludes...