for the love & support of handmade & markets . . .

Greetings all,

Luckily, for we who like to make money via one of the slowest means possible - handmade - it's now combined with great public demand & the fact market is no longer a four letter word!!  Canberra's Handmade Market & spin off Shop Handmade are massive success stories & i feel quite clever to have believed in both from their inceptions. 
I have, after 10 years in crafty business, sought out speedier ways to make handmade products efficiently & provide a steady income for my family.  These large fabric brooches are simple, fun, colourful, inexpensive yet all add up to a neat bundle of sales.  I think these will be quite fun on my new stand at Saturday's Handmade Market for Spring & Floriade (Canberra's famous flower festival)!!

Now i'm always trying to merchandise my stall effectively & that doesn't have to mean expensive!!  Take this bassinette - for the next market i want to fill this with baby blankets & patchwork quilts.  Cost me $10, imagine finding a lovelier basket or another way to display such products any better??  The cradle (balancing precariously on top of the bassinette in my garage) comes with a stand which won't hog precious table space at a market & i'm filling it with baby clothes!!  Cradle = baby, fill it with baby products, done!!  Cost me $15 & is in such great condition, even the mattress was still in plastic.

Other cool things at Handmade Market include a new range of Riley & Friends badges i made for Tania McCartney's adventure series of books, she's also taking orders for the Handmade Living. book which will be out in December.  Go & say hello to Tania, have a bit of a girl crush on her!!  She'll be the one resisting the helium from the balloons i have surprised her with!!  Let's just say after a long successful market, we can get a little silly at pack up/ exhaustion, i can see a whole lot of laughter come 4p.m.

I've got a cool pile of Yardage Design dessert menu style screen prints to play with.  Look at the gorgeous articoke printed tote bag Nic sent me as a gift, oh, too sweet again, thanks honey!!

So all the lovely things Handmade has brought into my life . . . i've met the most wonderful friends & customers in the world who completely understand a handmade concept!!  I'm so grateful, love it, embrace it & above all, enjoy it!! 
Have lovely weekends, hope you're doing something you love, i'm serving the people!!  Hmmm, that sounds a little saintly, technically i'm just doing 2 big markets this weekend & hope to bring in some cash.  Love Posie