the market.

{autumn} featured stall holders

follow the pinwheels upstairs for...

A new stall holder for Autumn, Adam Aberle, with his extremely cleverly designed wooden fruit bowl. Flatpacked, sustainable, and very stylish....great for a gift.

We’re pleased as punch to welcome back Nina from the rather popular HeartFelt to our Autumn market. These accessories are vintage chic at it’s very best!

Welcome to our {autumn} market...

sunday 15 may, 10 - 3

What a seasonal showcase we have in store for you on the 15th! Lots of cosy-type products to help you nestle in and keep out the cold...or, if crunching through the leaves in the beautiful Hobart autumn days is more your thing, we have a wonderful selection of products to help you do it in style! Come along to the Masonic temple (which is thankfully rather warm and out of the wind!) and see the cream of the crop in our 30+ handpicked stallholders for the season.

Who doesn’t love a softly glowing, beautiful soy wax candle to help light the quickly darkening evenings? We love them in extra large vintage style jars, or in delicate little recycled cut glasses, and are looking forward to the lovely scent of Quiesence candles filling the market.

Also on the home wares front we have some great sustainable wooden products, cleverly designed wooden flatpacked fruit bowls from Adam Aberle, and some lovely new seasonal lighting solutions that are so much fun, from Loz Abberton at Who Did That.

To help keep you warm, we have gathered plenty of quality knitted wares, in nice chunky styles...cushions, tea cosy’s and accessories. We have lovely jewels a plenty from a huge variety of mediums this market, in pretty Autumn colours, or inspired designs in silver and gold.

Are you a bag lady? We have boldly patterned clutches, and sweet little coin purses from several designers, in soft Autumn hues, or bright and punchy fabrics to add a pinch of colour!

Along with our delicious + locally made jams and honey for you to pop on your crumpets or scones, we have for the first time macarons, oh what joy! Have a look/drool over the photos on our blog, from our brand new market friends Patisserie Antoinette.

Do keep an eye out in the coming days for our posts about our ten featured stallholders, they’ll be upstairs with a fabulous selection of wares on display. While you’re up there, enter our competition to WIN a $100 market gift voucher...that would be fun. And maybe take some time out to enjoy a macaron and a coffee in our lounge, perfect for a cosy catch up with a friend, or some peaceful time out reading the Sunday papers.

We hope you can join us to celebrate Autumn, and all the local designers, artists and makers who have been busily creating products to share with you this season.

Look forward to seeing you on the 15th!

Shannon + Holly :o)

Macarons for May!

5 minutes with our patisserie queen - Meg Bailey

We are thrilled to be bringing you something extra fun, and extra scrumptious for our Autumn Market....those lovely little biscuits that hail from France, macarons.

Meg Bailey from ‘Patisserie Antoinette’ joins us for the first time on May 15th with her selection of decadent delights, the perfect tiny treat to enjoy with a lovely Barista Sista coffee in our lounge upstairs.

A couple of Meg’s favourite macaron’s from her repertoire thus far include rose shells with white chocolate butter cream ganache and coconut shells with dark chocolate butter cream ganache... we’ll have one of each please!

When did you begin baking sweet treats?
I’ve grown up with a love for food as my parents have always enjoyed being in the kitchen and have involved my sister and I in food preparation. We all have enjoyed eating and discovering different types of food. As I have a sweet tooth, my passion for baking and making desserts has grown in the last few years.

What inspired you to make macarons?
I discovered macarons about a year ago when I visited France on exchange. Being a foodie I ate a lot including these beautiful crisp shelled bikkies that I had heard a little about from my sister. The first macaron I ate was absolutely amazing, I had no idea what to expect but it was this chocolate crispy outside with a brownie type inside sandwiched together with a delicious chocolate ganache. After I tried my first macaron I ventured around London and found my inspiration at the French Patisserie Ladurée, which in my opinion is the haute couture of food, who also featured their pastries on the movie ‘Marie Antoinette’. After a bit of practise and experimenting I decided on putting my skills to some use and that is where I decided on creating ‘Pâtisserie Antoinette’.

What’s your favourite thing about what you do?
When I bake, I find pure enjoyment in what I’m doing. It can be a challenge and I have had many times where I’ve had disastrous outcomes but it’s so much fun and I have such a great love for food and that’s all that really matters.

Tell us a little bit about the ingredients/produce you like baking with?
The main ingredients for macarons consist of almond meal, egg whites and sugar but its lots of fun inventing new flavours, my most recent is mango.

What’s on the menu and what can we expect to see at your stall on May 15th?
I’ve decided to stick with classic flavours as they always seem to be the favourites, look out for chocolate, raspberry, pistachio and coconut macarons. Also nutella cupcakes and ‘frou frou’ cupcakes which are raspberry, coconut and chocolate cupcakes. There will also be some bikkies available to buy.

The market has a new friend...

Being huge supporters of independent design and good quality handmade product, the market is jumping for joy to have a lovely new friend (partnership to be official) with the very clever and entrepreneurial website madeit.com.au

Some info on the philosophy, beginnings and the future of madeit below, but do stop past their site and have a look...maybe even a little shop, some brilliant products on there, including several by the market stallholders.

Also...there’s a wee interview on their site with the market here.

Madeit.com.au is a handmade online buying and selling destination, which showcases Australia’s most creative, undiscovered art, design & craft talent. Lovers of handmade can purchase items on madeit.com.au, direct from the sellers and can choose from fashion, art, homewares, accessories, stationery, children and babies clothing and toys and much much more.

Madeit.com.au is different to other online designer destinations as it only supports local Australian talent. Shopping on madeit is a great way to support local designers & crafters and sellers can gain exposure and sell their wares all day every day and to every corner of Australia and the world.

You can read more about the lovely founder Bec Davies here

Our seasonal showcase for Autumn is not so very far...

...Sunday May 15th to be precise.

We are getting excited about all things Autumn, including crunching through those pretty golden leaves and watching the wind blow trees, kites and pretty paper pinwheels around! But mostly we are excited about the host of wonderful designers and makers we have lined up for our Autumn Market.

Do pop May 15th in your diary, and come and have a peek at all the local talent we’ve been busy gathering...more on that later!

things we loved at our summer market...

Up up and away, beautiful butterflies + oh so colourful wrap by Studio Oat.

Giant Summery strawberries from I four letter word you.

Majestic birds in flight on the NosMos stall.

Wonderful wooden wares from the award winning duo at Indeco.

Tempting designs in cheerful colours from Melly Frank.

Thanks to all who visited our Summer event, there was so much on this weekend in Hobart, we were thankful people managed to squeeze in some local love, and visited the market for our bevvy of independent artists,designers and makers. A big thanks to our stallholders, who really stepped up to our showcase of seasonal wares (check out more pics in the gallery), and an extra special welcome to all the new talent that joined us, we hope you had a lovely day! Our next event will be for Autumn, on May 15th. Wishing everyone a blissful (and sunny) remaining couple of weeks of Summer!

Bye for now,
Shannon + Holly :0)

{summer} featured stall holders