Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Finding your Niche

Ok ... I am a little stretched preparing for the Mothers Market. Let's just say I am taking a little sewing break to pop a few thoughts here before heading back to Helga the Husqvana (Jan the Janome is on the blink ...but there my friends is another story) I keep speaking softly to Jan who is now in the other room so she doesn't feel like I've abandoned her for Loz's machine (which luckily just happened to be down here!!) Anyways no time for whit ... just a little pictorial tour of what was just a lovely, lovely weekend and market... walk with me...
Here is Niche in all its splendor in the fabulous UTAS School of Architecture
Here is the lovely Selena, organiser extraordinaire of Niche in a lovely dress with a lovely little girl - hey, that's my daughter!The 'Green Forest' dress on the left is the dress I swapped for ...This amazing purse! Score, my friends, score! I love it - I held it in front of me like skippy the kangaroo for alot of the day - thank you, Rachael.
Here is Rachael's stall full of Franrosie goodness. Salivate.
Here is my new dress I made especially for Niche ... but now they have all gone so none to take to the Mother's Market ... but they get another new guy - so even, OK. But enough about me ... here is a whirlwind of some but not all the stalls - I always got a little side tracked when taking photos...
Rebecca Roth's beautiful resin rings
A tantalising morsel of Tara Badcock's amazing goodies ... just a little tea cosy snippet. Look at those beautiful flowers from her mother's garden!

Cupcake goodness with Naomi and Brendan from Mrs G. Yes I got my rocky road... it was better than I remembered.
Jo Pinckiewicz from Perfecto Interiors - her prints were just so so lovely.
The beautiful Vee with her softies from The Purple Finch
and here is Nadia from St Giles manning (or womaning) Hideyo's warren of bag, print and origami joy.
these were Ann Youl's most divine ribbons. OK so not everyone - I didn't even mention the plum puddings, Indeco, children's hats, chocolates by Kate ... aaah! ...but a good snippet, no?
It really was such a lovely market... I was so thankful to be involved. It just had .... well a beautiful energy created by stallholders and customers alike. I cannot thank Selena and the team at St Giles enough. It was an absolute pleasure to be involved and to feel that I helped out such a worthy organisation just a wee bit.
I must fly. I have procrastinated enough. I have to get back to work...get these fingers stitching

7 comments:

tam said...

How fun! Thank You for sharing!!!
Happy stitching!!!

Lexi:: PottyMouthMama said...

WOW! So much goodness. Am off to follow those links!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the lovely virtual tour!! I saw all about the Mothers' Stall on Statewide a while ago. It was really interesting.

Mrs Smith said...

it really was a great market. I hope they do it again.

Jen said...

Looks like one of those places you could browse for hours and all of a sudden its dinner time! You know i might just try and design a loz and dinny inspired dress for adults - we'll see how we go :)

blackie said...

good luck! i may pop in and say hi....if i can brave the crowd. it was mad last time! hope you've packed your 'keep calm and carry on' hat!

Claire (ethel loves fred) said...

Amazing! Looks like a fantastic market - and so much variety! Thanks for sharing!