things we loved at the september market

Magnificent giant geese necklaces

Fun designs perfectly suited to Spring weather in Hobart

Chubby little sparrows

Delicate ceramics, designed and made with love

Fresh new colours for spring...loving pretty primrose yellow

Emily Snadden, for being SO clever and winning Jeweller of the Year for 2010 AND The Precious Metal Award at the Jewellers Association of Australia Design Awards. The biggest and best congratulations to Emily, and thanks for being a lovely, constantly smiling/laughing, stall holder at our market.

A big thank you also to our stall holders (check out more images from the day here), and market visitors, who braved the dreary weather and came along to support local art + design at its best. We’d like to order a big serve of sunshine for Sunday October 3rd please! Christmas market planning is coming along nicely, so be sure to check back here to see what fun and exciting things we have in store for our Nov 21st and Dec 12th events...

Bye for now,
Shannon + Holly :0)

Spring in Hobart...

Sunday 5 September, 10am-3pm

Time to blow away the cobwebs and let the sunshine thaw you out...also time for a sunny new selection of stallholders exhibiting fresh designs, a pretty colour palette, and a host of exciting new products.

This Sunday, come visit the market for your monthly dose of premium local design, in the form of linen, candles, jewels, stationery, art, photography, ceramics, home wares and of course food glorious food!

We’ve handpicked a perfectly varied and incredibly talented group of local artists and designers for our September event, bound to put a Spring in your step. We don’t want to name drop (well maybe a little), so just to wet your whistle, here are just a few of the stalls you’ll see to this Sunday:

Red Wren’s delightfully designed linen, I Four Letter Word You - Rosie Shield’s spirited +eclectic collection of jewels. Little Twig, whose beautiful designs are always a winner! Janny McKinnon..simply dreamy photography. Selena de Carvalho, always intriguing to see what she’ll present at The Memory Store. Bree Mooney from Mondo Mama’s ........words can not describe the absolute feast she’ll be serving up to market goers this month, check out her menu, YUM.

Also, exhibiting in our mini gallery, we have two local artists Jen Symons and Nicola Smith...they have a beautiful artistic treat for your eyes, just up the staircase, so make sure you wander up for a look see, and just maybe, after you’ve seen the local artworks, you could have a relaxing coffee and a peruse of the Sunday papers in the lounge.

We could go on and on, but best you just pop along for a visit instead...
Shannon + Holly :0)

on the menu

sunday 5 september

soup

- 'zuppa di cavolo' - deliciously humble with potato,

chorizo & savoy cabbage

salads

- roasted root vegetable, walnut oil & fetta

- borlotti, cannellini & kidney bean with flat-leaf parsley

& mustard dressing

- brussels sprout, speck & juniper berries

toasties on home-made 30% rye sourdough

- baked smoked paprika pumpkin, fetta & walnut chilli paste

- free-range chicken & salsa verde

torta di zucca

- Savoury pumpkin cake

sweeties

- old fashioned meyer lemon slice

- flour-less chocolate & honeycomb brownie

- pasticcini di mandorle (soft little almond biscuits)

- bomboloni (italian citrus doughnuts) filled with rose hip jelly

stall holder profile:

Haidee Neill from Miss Haidee

the market welcomes the very talented Miss Haidee to our September event. An eclectically beautiful, and refreshingly uncontrived children’s wear label, Miss Haidee imparts a unique style, and distinct quality to the design and construction of her range. Releasing small limited runs each season, for boys and girls, all lovingly made by hand. Cute models too! We’re very much looking forward to seeing her stall, in all it’s one off, vintage inspired glory, on Sept 5th...

When and why did your business begin?
The miss haidee label has been around for the last 6 years and has grown with my children as they have grown so naturally has my label. I have all ways made things to sell as some people may remember the hairclips I used to make ,that many a Hobart girl wore .. And apparently still do. I adore making children’s clothing as they are so into textiles and their appreciation of a dress is so transparent. I started the label in Byron Bay NSW but have recently moved back to Tasmania after 15 years away and I am finding the move very inspirational.

What are your creations inspired by?
I love fabrics its a medium you can really manipulate , it is endless with its possibilities. I don’t conform I love clashing fabrics mixing vintage floral with retro stripe and 80’s fluro , I have been sooo lucky as I brought a whole shop full of 70,s and 80.s fabrics from a haberdashery shop that closed down in Northern NSW hinterland. So I do have a fantastic supply. My studio is a world of inspiration, it is full of everything that pushes my creative buttons, 70”s craft books, fabrics. Trims, patterns my exquisite cutting table. Its my sanctuary and will never be neat it is all ways in a creative mess.

What’s your favourite thing about what you do?
Seeing the delight in children’s faces when they fall in love with one of my creations.

Favourite colours/materials to work with?
Florals. Cottons definitely as people dislike anything nylon or polyester even thou some of the best vintage/ retro patterns are so synthetic.

What can customers coming to the market expect to see at your stall?
My signature vintage dress which is a work of art and looks great just hanging on a coat hanger on the wall.

Favourite piece you make?
My signature vintage dress.

things we loved at the august market...

Mossy silver goodness from the talented Emily Snadden

Cathy McAuliffe’s joyful new range of Phat flats

A bevy of bright babushkas from The Snow Queen’s garden

Definitely NOT daggy bookmarks from White Paper

Thanks to customers and stall holders alike, who joined us for our August event - check out the gallery on the website for more images from the day. We look forward to some Hobart sunshine, a fresh and exciting collection of stall holders and some Springtime local love on September 5th.

Bye for now
Shannon + Holly :0)

Visit us this Sunday for all sorts of special locally loved up wares...

Sunday 1 August, 10am - 3pm

Welcome to event number 16, our August market, and we certainly have a delightful mixed bag of stall holders once again, including some market favourites, and a nice pinch of fresh products and talent, to keep you on your toes!

...but to be more specific, eye spy with my little eye...Vibrant new wares from Cathy McAuliffe’s joyful Phat Flats range, a splash of colourful fun, and amazing illustrations make her designs a definite standout.

Wanting a little light in your life, to help you through the last lingering month of the Hobart Winter? The lovely Loz Abberton lights up our hallways with her innovative lighting designs, chandeliers + grandeliers and everything in between. Also Belinda Hills from Room Recipe joins us, with her very cool collection of repurposed objects, these range from pretty teacup lights, to lamps made from old surveyors equipment!

Something pretty...Sashiko Design will be bringing along her chic and beautifully constructed new range of dresses, and from Jane Busby of Scent3, something new, locally made perfumes and extra delicious smelling body products. Award winning jeweller Emily Snadden is also joining us, with her delicate and beautiful collection of silver jewellery.

Upstairs in the lounge we are excited to announce we have the Hunter Island Press exhibiting a beautiful selection of prints from several local artists, a must see for anyone interested in printmaking of the highest calibre.

And of course it wouldn’t be a Market Sunday without a visit to our friends at The Tasmanian Farmgate Market (Melville St carpark 9 – 1) Snap up your fresh seasonal produce, minus the supermarkets and long stints in cold storage. All produce is from Tasmania, making the food on offer the freshest you can buy, direct from the grower/farmer to your basket. We love that you can have a chat to the person that picked/bottled/baked or harvested your food, definitely the best (and yummiest!) way to shop.

We look forward to seeing you this Sunday, and sharing the market’s pick of the very best local artists, designers and makers.

Shannon + Holly :0)

on the menu

sunday 1 august

soup

fragrant almond, whey, garlic & galangal

with free range chicken & coriander

caramelised onion sourdough toasties with

'not your mama's meatloaf', baby spinach

& tomato & apple chutney

welsh rarebit

salads

pumpkin, puy lentil, flat leaf parsley & labna

moroccan citrus with pink grapefruit, carrot,

blood navel orange, cinnamon & rosewater

rocket, pear, toasted walnut & romano salad

with walnut oil & white balsamic

winter slaw with local cabbage, soused red onion,

daikon & free-range egg

shortcrust tart with

caramelised onion, asiago & fresh curd

with rhubarb & cherry plum relish

sweeties

flour-less chocolate & hazelnut brownie

old-fashioned lemon slice

pasticcini di mandorle (little, soft, almond biscuits)

baked beurre bosc pear & cinnamon sugar french toast

macadamia treacle tart