Christmas Mouse — Local services in Williamsburg

The Christmas Mouse is well worth visiting. We were there on December 31, 2020, and we came home with a basketful of ornaments that we had not seen anywhere else. That is the strength of this store. They offer designs that are not easily found in other places like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Walmart, etc. We walked away with genuine porcelain ornaments painted blue and white in the traditional Delft style. Very nice.

Ornaments are classified according to theme and color, and there are many designs to browse including those inspired by the seashore, the country farm, ballet, sports, birds, Paris, elves, and peppermint candy and other sweets. In one room, there is a large shelving unit that shows off nutcrackers of every design. These are not genuine, German-crafted nutcrackers, though. They are made in China, but that keeps the prices down.

There are quite a few Christmas plaques and wall hangings. There are a handful of Christmas wreaths, but not an abundance of those. Michaels has a much larger selection of ready-made wreaths. That is one weakness of the Mouse.

Also, there is no wired ribbon for sale at the Mouse. We use wired ribbon as tree garland and not for crafting bows. However, we'll have to go to the big box stores to get that.

The Mouse also does not carry plastic bead garland in a cobalt blue. They carry white pearl garland and perhaps gold, but definitely not blue. True, no one, including the big box stores, carried cobalt blue bead garland this season. We'll need to shop the internet for that.

In addition to Christmas ornaments, the Mouse carries decor for autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving and summertime/seashore fun. We decorate our home with a beach theme during the summer months, so we'll be back to do some serious shopping at that time.

So while the Mouse doesn't have everything, it has a lot. It's a wonderful, charming place to shop for...

Every family has traditions, jokes, and amazing memories. This sends me on a hunt every year for a squirrel to match my mom's imagination. She swore when she walked ever day at a park nearby she would see an albino squirrel sitting in a tree.....

This store had everything imaginable. Lots of breakables so I do not recommend bringing any small children that cannot be handled. I had to hunt a bit but I found the perfect albino squirrel with a fluffy tail to torment my mother's imagination as well as some other great gifts to give for Christmas. They have each tree as a section making it easier to find special gifts for the holidays. My favorite would probably be the vino/wine/cork collection. To my surprise everything was reasonably priced. Most ornaments were $3.50-$7 that I looked at and the much bigger statue squirrel was $15. They did offer personalization but I don't know if they charge or how much.

All in all this is a cute place to shop and makes doing themed...

This is honestly a really nice permanent Christmas store. I honestly don’t mind permanent Christmas stores, especially when done well, and consider it one of the only instances where Out of season Christmas is acceptable behavior. The people working here are fairly nice, there’s tons of Decorations of all kinds and it’s a decently sized store with 2 floors. When I came here They seemed to be really going all in on infinity mirror decorations. Funny story when I came in i was practically bowled over by what I can only describe as the “Christmas Smell”. Something i haven’t smelled since I stopped working in the Christmas industry. I definitely recommend coming here for...