When I was pregnant with Peanut, we received a deluge of baby product catalogs. One that stood out was from Jacadi. Their nursery collection was so disarmingly pretty I actually book my 6 month pregnant self on a train trip to the closest Jacadi shop: in Dusseldorf, Germany. Travelling from Amsterdam in the dead of winter during the Christmas shopping rush (and the Germans take their Christmas shopping SERIOUSLY), I found the shop, nestled between a Gucci and another expensive store I couldn't remember by now since I didn't even bother glancing in their direction.
The store melted my heart. I made a beeline to their Crabes et Coquillage collection; a beach themed nursery collection that we've coveted because we thought it'd look perfect in our living room (the nursery was going to be set in the living room, after all). But after wandering among the €80 mobiles and €90 sleeping sacks, I started to have doubt. I decided to get her something from the collection for her first birthday instead, when she could enjoy it better.
Next month is Peanut's first birthday. I notice at the daycare her favourite toy was the rocking horse (well, it looks more like an elephant, actually). She was beginning to get the idea of playing with it and enjoys rocking in it by herself. I thought a rocking animal would be the perfect birthday gift for her. I remember well that Jacadi had this beautiful rocking mermaid and I was going to get it for Peanut. Going to the Jacadi site revealed that the collection had been scrapped. Searching through Ebay UK, France and Germany also didn't yield any results. No other shops seems to stock it, neither does anybody selling it second hand. What's going on?
I finally managed to find one shop which still stock them, it's Jacadi Australia. Of all places it has to be the exact opposite of the globe?






