Two Gift Stores
Le Panier and Clair de Lune are 2 different types of gift shops. Clair de Lune is all about candles and decor accent pieces while Le Panier offers up gourmet goodies, useful gadgets, jewelry, toys, Christmas tableware, and sweets.
Here are some of the cool items I found this year at Le Panier (300 bord du Lac in PointClaireVillage) www.thepanier.com
– Mop Slippers ($9.99) which you wear on your feet, walk around and clean the floor
– Credit Card shield ($5.99) prevents thieves from passing you and grabbing information off of the card in your purse or pants.
– Hot chocolate variety 12-pack ($22.99)
– Bagel guillotine ($22.99) to slice bagels and not fingers
– Trudeau cutting board with drawers (24.99) which separate food you are cutting
– Cake lollipop molds ($17.50) for the latest craze
– BBQ Spatula in the shape of a guitar ($22.99)
– BBQ lighter in the shape of a fishing rod ($22.99)
– Purse perfume atomizer ($12.99) to keep your favorite scent at hand
– Scarf hanger ($19.99) to keep your favorites in view in a closet
– Angry birds toque ($11.99)
– Solar motor kit: car, boat, animal ($24.99)
– Diet Dog bowl has posts in it so your doggie slows down his eating ($19.99)
Claire de Lune (6801 Rte Transcanadienne, Pointe-Claire in Fairview Pointe Claire Tel: 514-426-8797 and other locations www.clairdelune.ca) is Canada’s most extensive candle store. A gift from here can make your home (or someone else’s) smell just delicious as they have the many fragrances, exclusive decorative candles, aromatic lamps, reed diffusers and scent diffusers.
Choose from Clair de Lune’s exclusive collections of candles: floating ones, aromatic decorative pillar types, tealight, scented votives, mosaic and striped options and even a bird, cactus, rabbit or sparrow candles. To add a wonderful ambiance to a room, you can even buy hanging candelabras which hold real candles. There are many candle holders (of course): ceramic ones, mosaics, 5′ tall giants, elephants and glass blown beauties.
Gift ideas such as Eden & Berger Lamps for diffusing fragrances can be purchased, but also vases and dried flowers, Buddha statues, potpourri, piggy banks, cute notebooks, paper napkins and decorative dancer statuettes, small fountains, cozy throw blankies or scents for a car.
The yummy candle aromas come in: vanilla, Brazilian coffee, eucalyptus, cranberry, mint chocolate, spiced orange, ocean breeze, country fresh, lemon & lavender, mandarin and cranberry, apple, black-eyed Susan, lilac, lily and rose.