I am happy to see more Holiday releases coming out since these are my favorites. Starbucks You Are Here Ornament Christmas – Lebanon is a brand new addition to a country mini mug family. As it is expected it has a red handle and red string and replicates the last year’s full-size YAH. There was no regular ornament for this country, unfortunately.… Read more
This week’s Holiday release is Starbucks You Are Here Ornament Christmas – Greece. It replicates the design of the regular mini mug released earlier this year and features red handle. This “red handle” look was first introduced last year, as you probably remember. … Read more
Very much like last year’s Istanbul YAH, the newly announced You Are Here Ornament Christmas – Istanbul is the only city with this design so far. All other red handle mini mugs were released for countries. As per insider’s information, the new ornament will be officially available in stores on November 2. … Read more
Starbucks You Are Here Ornament – Finland is another country mini mug released this year. I am pretty happy to see that this series is not over yet. This mug has a blue string and a very colorful and bright design. I see no reason why would not Starbucks release minis for other Scandinavian countries. Fingers crossed!… Read more
What I love about Starbucks, that it always does unexpected moves in terms of merchandise and mugs in particular. However, it might be only unexpected to us, while their marketing department knows better what to release and when. Anyway, just when I thought that European country ornaments were the last batch from this series for this region, Starbucks strikes back with the release of the mini city mug – You Are Here Ornament – Istanbul. Pretty amazing, right? On the other hand, this major Turkish city holds a special place in Starbucks YAH collection.… Read more
This is You Are Here Ornament – Denmark, a smaller version of the bigger mug released a year ago. It has a light blue string and features some of the points of interest and symbols from one of the oldest countries in Europe:
– Multicolored row houses became a trademark of the old city architecture of some countries from Nothern Europe. My understanding, it is Nyhavn Canal which is depicted in particular. The boat in front of the houses might be additional proof for that.… Read more
Here’s a sneak peek of You Are Here Ornament – Russia which is supposed to be hitting stores this Friday.… Read more
You Are Here Ornament – Japan 5 – Fall Edition is a little cute mug which is accompanying the bigger one. These two are going to be available in stores just in two days – on August 30. I wish I was in Japan now, to snatch a pair of these for my collection. I bet drinking your favorite beverage from these Autumn themed mugs as nights are getting longer is twice as tastier.
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It was just yesterday that I wondered if there were any new releases on Friday, as it usually happens, and voila, someone reveals a picture of You Are Here Ornament – Scotland today. Here’s the link to the bigger mug for comparison.
“Nessie”, Loch Ness Monster, is still there as an essential part of the local folklore.
I would also like to mention the Great Highland bagpipe on the other side of the mug. Interesting enough, while when we think of bagpipe, we remember Scotland, it came from Spain in the 15th century.… Read more
You Are Here Ornament – Japan 4 Summer Collection is coming right after its bigger brother. The string is green as well as the inside of the mini mug.
As I promised in the previous post, I am going to talk about the remaining elements of the design of this set.
On the side of the ornament, right after the sailboat, we see three slices of watermelon. And this is not just your average fruit, but Japanese watermelons. Let me tell you why they are so special, they are much sweeter than those found in the other parts of the world.… Read more
