Now that's a confusing list for a non-native speaker... What's corsage, a door finger plate, a UFO candle holder, a coaster, an alice band, and a mobile?
<g> I'd have written you off list with translations but, as far as I know, almost none of those exist in Polish... :)
"Corsage" is "butonierka" -- the tiny flower bouquet you pin to your dress (or thread through the non-functional buttonhole in the lapel of a man's suit. That's where the Polish name of it comes from). Your bridesmaids, your fiance, and his groomsmen will all wear those at your wedding :)
"Finger plate" is something you put on swinging doors (usually between the kitchen and the dining room, for ease of serving), at the level where you're most likely to push with your hand. It's there to protect the wood from getting grimy. A bit like the plates you put around the light switches. The fingerplates in our house are metal (painted by my DH's first wife), but you can get them in clear acrylic, which will protect your lace (or embroidery, or whatever). You can get clear acrylic light switch plates too, for that matter.
"UFO candle holder" is, essentially, a round mat edging, but one with a small opening. You dont mount it to a piece of fabric, you slide it over the candle in its holder, then slide a piece of clear glass -- same shape and size -- on top, to protect the lace from wax drips.
"Coaster" is the -- usually square -- little "thingie" (ca 4") which you put under a glass of an iced drink, to protect the wood of the table from condensation (and resulting "water rings"). There are lots of different ones around (I got a set, at the Metropolitan Museum, with printed PG lace on them. And placemats to match <g> Someone gave me a set with Canaletto's paintings of Warsaw), but you can get them in clear acrylic, which permit "sandwiching" of your lace (or whatever) between two layers of it.
"Alice band" is something to keep hair off your face -- like Alice in Wonderland used to wear, hence the name. These days, they come (cheaply from WalMart) not as a ribbon to tie in the back, but either as a fabric-covered elastic (oversized "scrunchie" of sorts), or as a piece of fabric-covered, springy and flat metal (not a full circle in the case of the metal band).
"A mobile" is, in a way, a tree without a trunk (or an upside-down one), but with fruit hanging off its branches :) The "branches" all come out from some central contraption, more-or-less in a circle (though the lengths of the "branches will vary for greater interest), are usually fine (they're not the focus of the whole thing), and made of something that's springy and "bend-y" (wire or plastic, usually). From those "branches", you suspend the "objects" -- coloured shapes, sometimes with different sounds embedded in case of the baby crib "mobiles", for example, and suspend the whole where it can move easily (but won't be in the way; *do not* hang one in the doorway <g>) either when touched, or with the air currents.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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