October...

Sunday 3 October, 10am - 3pm

It’s the kind of month where things start getting exciting...gardens bloom, the sun shines, people get excited about summer, and at the market we showcase a beautiful collection of local artists, designers and makers who have been busy getting into the swing of the season.

Whether it be unique stationery, dainty ceramics, inspired jewels, limited run prints, or perhaps even tiny toy pandas that float your boat we have it all, in a market wonderland filled with talented stall holders and the beautiful things they create.

A few names we’d like to drop to help entice you along on Sunday...

Emily Snadden fresh from her whirlwind of national awards for her jaw droppingly beautiful jewellery.
Cathy McAuliffe from PhatFlats and her colour filled stationery stall (read the interview).
Studio Oat...a brand new stall at the market, full of refreshingly simple and eco friendly loveliness.
Simone Pfister’s gorgeous jewellery and art, eclectically fun wares from Jemima Boyer and gorgeous goodies from Sarah and Hamish Elliot will also make an appearance, much to our delight!

And of course our wonderful regular foodies, Bree from Mondo Mama’s Eats (see her delightful menu below) and Anja from Barista Sista, will keep you sustained and happy, with their delicious and wholesome eats and drinks.

We’re rather excited this month, to have a special someone joining us upstairs in our mini gallery...the celebrated (and awarded!) Wolfgang Glowacki, a Tasmanian and Australian wilderness landscape photographer. He specializes in capturing the beautiful Tasmanian landscape and wilderness, in all its intricate and inspiring glory! Perhaps peruse the market hall first, then head upstairs for a relax in the lounge with the Sunday papers and something yummy to eat and drink, then head in and meet Wolfgang and his beautiful collection of work....what a lovely lazy Sunday!

One more thing! Don’t forget to visit our friends at The Farmers Market this Sunday, held at the Melville St Carpark between 9-1. Gather everything you need in the way of amazingly fresh local and seasonal produce...if you like the idea of buying the food you eat, from the people who grow it, this is the place for you!

Well, the October line up sounds terribly good to us!
Hope you can join in the Springtime fun this Sunday,
Shannon + Holly :0)

on the menu

sunday 3 october

{kolache...fresh out of the oven!}

soup

- fennel, almond & olive smash

salads

- black bean, ginger, coriander & sweetcorn

- spiced yoghurt, roasted cauliflower & green bean

- soba noodles, free-range bantam tea eggs & asparagus

fresh sourdough baguette with

- lamb kofta & meredith fetta

- smoked eggplant, basil & buffalo mozzarella

rice balls

with free-range lemon chicken centre

& sesame & nigella seed crust

sweeties

- kolache (koh-lah-chkey, a Czechoslavakian pastry)

filled with poppy seed, date, honey & hazelnuts

- strawberry shortcake bars

- star anise poached apple & almond filo pastry pie

- pasticcini di mandorle (little soft almond biscuits)

stall holder profile:

Cathy McAuliffe from Phat Flats

phat (say fat) adjective 1. cool ; 2. pretty hot and tempting.
flat adverb 1. horizontal, level; 2. not curved or rounded

Here at the market we’ve harboured a little bit of a secret crush on the bright and bubbly designs from Phat Flats for some time now, and we’re so pleased Cathy will be joining us on Oct 3rd with her fun and quirky collection of stationery. Phat flats products manage to perfectly combine Cathy’s amazing illustrations with a serious rainbow of colours and restrained but fun designs, making them joyful, vibrant and kind of addictive...

When and why did your business begin?
I launched early December of 2008 with a range of four designs. I now have over 60 designs in different sizes and formats. I love creating a new design without having to 'run it past' anyone - compared to my other job as a graphic designer, often the work gets altered from the original idea. It's really fun to go into a shop and see my cards on display and know people are enjoying buying and receiving them. I recently had a baby girl and someone gave me a Phat Flats card to congratulate me - without realising it had come full circle!

What are your creations inspired by?
My artwork is inspired by memories of old toys from my childhood, some of the curtains my nanna had in her caravan, children's books from the 70's, fabric designs from the 50's. Iconic mid century furniture, retro robots, collecting things and simple patterns inspired by Scandinavian artists. Tyre swans and spring flowers!

What’s your favourite thing about what you do?
I actually love just preparing to sell cards - presenting them nicely and packing them up is a great past time and quite relaxing. I also love dreaming up new designs, ideas, applications of ideas onto different materials and creating little flyers and brochures. I also love coming to The Market to have a stall - I get to explore further what people like about the ranges, feedback about what they'd like to see next and socialising with customers and other stallholders!

Favourite colours/materials to work with?
I just love paper and all things printed. That's the idea behind the name - printed on something flat and easy to send off in an express post bag or envelope. I have been enjoying putting together my height charts, it's rewarding to see such a big design printed and thrilling when people are excited to buy them as pressies for loved ones.

What can customers coming to the market expect to see at your stall?
I'm just finishing a range of great little gift cards with Christmas designs, including a small and large card featuring one of my most popular artworks of a tiny little house sitting on a big hill in the night. I will also have height charts featuring princesses and jungle animals, plus all my usual cards and gift wrap.

Favourite piece you make?
My favourite design I think is a small gift card called 'love bird', featuring a little pink bird with a love heart in his tail. It's my bestseller and one I haven't got tired of (yet!)

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

stall holder profile:

Katrina Galloway from lottie cordelia & friends

In one last hurrah for winter, we welcome to our August market, Lottie Cordelia & Friends (Kat Galloway), and her range of extra special heat packs. Made with love...and a fair bit of quirkiness, these heatpacks are adorable, and beautifully crafted. SO much more fun to cuddle up to a foxy friend, or a cosy dinosaur than a boring old hot water bottle. And SO nice to see a uniquely designed and made product and it’s owner that just belong together. We can’t wait till August 1st, to see the Lottie Cordelia zoo, full of warm friends, waiting to go to a new home.

When and why did your business begin?
I have loved sewing all my life – learning at high school. But Lottie Cordelia and Friends started in 2009 when my daughter moved to Launceston for Uni. Nights are cold, so a heat bag was required. Who wants a boring heat bag? I set to work on creating a fun and quirky bag and soon it was named Cecil, then he had a friend Stanley Stegosaurus – there was no stopping us.

What are your creations inspired by?
I find inspiration in everything. Nature, pets, family (oops) children’s books, magazines anything really. I think- what if I was just a little person what would I like to cuddle up to, that was my friend to keep me warm, tell secrets, keep me company and to make me feel better when not well. The ideas are endless.

What’s your favourite thing about what you do?
I love to think I have made something that is quite different and are more than just a heat pack. I enjoy the look on my customers face when they realise that these are not toys but a useful winter warmer. Every child has toys but do they have a heat bag that yells CUDDLE ME. Everyone smiles and always knows someone that this one or that one would suit. Something else about my product is that I have realised that they are not just for children but for all ages. Children, teenagers, mums, dads and grandparents. They look good, feel good and can fix absolutely anything!

Favourite colours/materials to work with?
I like to use block coloured fabric. Materials have to be warm, comforting, and soft. Mostly my fabric is upholstery fabric because of its ability to last, hold heat and the feeling it has when you cuddle up to it. I can then use pretty prints to add colour and uniqueness to each individual creation. I use whatever I can obtain. I have a wonderful friend that allows me to have his leftover pieces of material that cannot be used for his work. So essentially you could say that we recycle.

What can customers coming to the market expect to see at your stall?
A colourful and amazing array of eclectic, quirky creatures that are made with love. These little Lottie Cordelia’s are able to sooth your aching body, keep you warm, be a friend. They can also be put in a freezer to be used as a cold pack. There are new designs all the time. I try to have something different most of the time, but of course favourites are always there – Stanley Stegosaurus, pirates and puppies, birds and cats each one a little different to the last. I have people requesting all sorts of Lottie Cordelia’s, like a Pea in a Pod for a pregnant friend. A neck warmer for a boyfriend- so wrap around Croc was born.

Favourite piece you make?
My favourite piece is the one that makes my customer smile and you know the receiver is going to just love this new friend. How can I choose – I love them all, maybe Ellie Elephant, or Pedro Pirate, or African Elf or ... No , no too hard.

things we loved at the july market

Snip snap purses in fancy floral fabrics

Pretty ceramics, housing softly glowing candles

Terrariums...with striking black lids

Tea towels, screen printed with birdy love

Cute as a button cross stitch

Thanks for your company at our July Market, and for all your glowing feedback on our lovely new friends upstairs, the lounge and our mini gallery.

We were once again blown away by the depth and breadth of our talented stall holders, and look forward to sharing more of them with you in another month’s time. Pop on over to our gallery to see a few more snaps from the day.

Shannon + Holly :0)

What do we have here...

Sunday 4 July, 10am - 3pm

Our July market is upon us and looking at this month’s comprehensive selection of stall holders we think we just about have everything you need for winter covered...

This month we have lovely wintry sorts of animals like squirrels and deer’s adorning jewels, fabric and stationery. We have gorgeous spice grinders...perfect for grinding cinnamon and nutmeg into warm winter treats. We have our brand new eating + greeting space upstairs, the lounge, to snuggle up and have a coffee and a catch up with a friend, and a wander through our mini gallery. We have some wonderful and exciting new handmade scents, along with beautiful miniature indoor gardens (aka terrariums, by the talented Shauna Mayben).

Bright bold prints add a much needed dash of colour to the Hobart Winter, and we have several artists, photographers and printmakers to tempt you. A delightful collection of woollen wares, for little people or grown-ups, made the old fashioned way. And last but not least...wonderful winter food...soup, delicious amazing soup and all sorts of other special eats from Bree at Mondo Mama. The usual great coffees and comforting pots of tea from Anja at Barista Sista, will help to keep hands and tummies warm too.

So come visit us on July 4th, maybe not to celebrate Independence day, but definitely to join us in celebrating our independent, local and brilliant artists, designers and makers.

Shannon + Holly :0)

Ps Don’t forget to visit our friends at The Farmer’s Market this Sunday, held at the Melville St Carpark between 9-1. Gather everything you need in the way of amazingly fresh local and seasonal produce, from bunches of baby carrots and bok choy, to freshly baked bread (best smell in the world!) meats, cheeses and SO much more...yum. If you like the idea of buying the food you eat, from the people who grow it, this is the place for you!

on the menu

sunday 4 july

Warm up those frosty fingers with a 'good fortune' soup or winter braise . . . Mmmm.

soup

'good fortune' soup with greens, tomato,

black-eyed peas & free range ham hock

lunch

'spanikopita' flatbread toastie with curly leaf kale & creamy fetta

asiago, pecorino, & mushroom flatbread toastie

free range pork & small turnip braise

black bean, dried mandarin peel, toasted almond & steamed tofu salad

with citrus honey dressing & coriander

sesame oil noodle salad with maple marinated tempeh,

zucchini & salted peanuts

pumpkin, farro, red pepper, pesto & polenta salad

sweeties

tamarind, walnut & date cake with cardamon frosting

flour-less walnut little cakes with coffee bean butter icing

rhubarb & hazelnut crumble muffins

introducing our mini gallery

in the lounge {upstairs}

What a treat we have for visitors to the July market! We have handpicked a couple of local artists to take over our mini exhibition space upstairs, so people enjoying the cosy comfort of the lounge, will also be able to soak up some wonderful works from two very clever (and completely different) talents.

Firstly, we’d like to introduce Captain Blueberry (Rachel Tribout), with her lovely French accent, and a body of work that is bursting with vitality, colour, and a nice healthy pinch of the bizzarre...

Secondly, we have Janny McKinnon...whose photography perfectly captures the beauty and simplicity of nature. Her images are uncluttered, gentle and soft, and make us feel that lovely sense of awe and wonderment, at things that we see often, but don’t always appreciate.

Read our mini interviews below, for a little bit more background, and come along on July 4th and enjoy.