Two Buttons is now open Thursdays to Sundays from 11:00 am to 05:00 pm
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16-17-18 May - Our traditional (well, second year in a row) Spring Opening Party, where we will unveil our containers of new goods and hopefully with Ogoh-ogohs and becaks. Plenty of wine as well.... If you are already a customer you will receive an invitation post card. If you're not a customer, please fill out the form with your address HERE and we will send you an invitation!
If you are intending to stay the night in Frenchtown make sure that you book early one of the two beautiful bed and breakfasts that we have, one in Frenchtown and the other just around the corner in Milford for more information...CLICK HERE
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Happy New Year (Nyepi) 1930. On the 3rd of March was the Balinese New Year.
Bali uses another calendar system, the Wuku, based on the week, Balinese year is 420 days, so the Balinese calendar is 78 years behind us, therefore this year is 1930, HAPPY NYEPI. Click here if you want to know more about Nyepi
Ogoh-ogoh Parade to greet the Nyepi Day
To greet the Nyepi day, Hindu Society throughout Bali Island conduct a parade of Ogoh-Ogoh (Giant Idol like monsters). On the eve of Nyepi, people start to bang gongs or pieces of wood or cooking pans at home this is done in order to send all the bad spirits into the streets of the villages and with the parade in the evening to send the spirits away from the Island. Click here if you want to know more about the Ogoh Ogoh parade.
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The Two Buttons Ogoh-Ogohs - arriving mid May
These three scary monsters are to be part of the New Year (1930) opening at the Two Buttons Warehouse. We hope that the monsters will survive the trip over so many oceans until they arrive in Frenchtown.
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The scary yellow lion ....grrrrrrrrrrrr
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The black warrior boohoo
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And the really, really scary red devil.....woooooooooo
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If you still want to be even more scared click here to see the full parade in the haunted village of Ubud in Bali.
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Mid May, the free Two Buttons shuttle from downtown Frenchtown to the warehouse starts operating. In indonesia these tricycles are called "becaks" and they are lots of fun, now two buttons has its own becaks and should be operating mid may, hopefully just before our spring party.
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Beautiful Two Buttons becaks... |
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Becak driver hoping for a customer... |
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Driver happy got his first customer... |
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