Mathildas Market

We are so excited!

This Sunday (yep the 14th March), we will be showcasing our wares at Mathilda's market. This is a fabulous niche market that offers unique, stylish and affordable baby & kids goods, which are all lovingly handmade.

Please come and see our stand at the market from 9am to 1pm at the Hawthorn Town hall, or for a sneak peak of the retails, check out the Mathildas market website.

For our interstate friends, don't worry, we will be coming to the next Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide Mathilda's markets!

Grand Opening, sorry for the delay!

Well where to we start... I guess the first place to start is the gorgeous displays that the team had done over the last couple of weeks - Now it had been about 10 days since I had been to the shop before the opening, and the back room was still a store room, so I was absolutely amazed when the guys had transformed this into a new gallery space, it look amazing!!!!

I love how they have grouped like items with each other, so we have a very distinct feel to each part of the gallery, which was devine - The amazing paintings above also looked great hanging, we are hoping to have a feature in an up coming blog on this talented artist, Emma Ward.

Once I walked in and saw how perfect the gallery looked, I just knew the night would be a sucess... Angeline and I had spent the night before making the food, for the Alice in Wonderland inspired theme, and when I was walking past the cupcake bakery in Collins Street, I couldn't go past these gorgeous cupcakes, which I was just so excited to open from their box - we had a range of 6 flavours, which of course meant we had to keep trying until we had tasted one of all of them!

Also the team at Prospect wines did an amazing job with our "Drink Me" wine (which everyone did!)

Well with such a great aray of food, and such gorgeous layout could the night be anything but a success? Of course not! It was fantastic, the gallery was completely full, and there was such a nice buzz around! We met some lovely Williamstown locals, and talented artists, and did a story the next day with the local paper, which was interesting!

Thanks to everyone that came along and made it a great night.

Getting ready for the launch

We are busy at the moment getting ready for our grand opening which is on next Thursday night, so as well as trying to make sure we have some yummy nibblies for everyone, we are also trying to make sure we have plenty of handmade goodies in the store.

We stumbled across these gorgous handcrafted, reversible shoes for bubs, and thought that they were such a stylish alternative to traditional booties! The elastic at the back of the shoes means that there is no cutting into the little ones feet... We only have a few in the store, and i have a feeling they may go like hotcakes!


Also in the same package, we received these notepad and crayon sets, with each set including a notepad and 5 crayons, and done in a beautiful portable little pack - perfect for little birthday presents, and taking on holidays if you can't bear to give them away!

New products

It seems each night that I get home from work I have another bundle of goods sitting on my door step - it makes each day just like Christmas at the moment!

Last night the bone china bamboo dinner plates arrived, and I was so tempted to keep them at my house for the dinner party next weekend, as well as the match bamboo vase...

Also the shippment that I was hoping would arrive before Valentines day arrived yesterday, however I still think they will be great in the shop - the first one is a pack of 3 handmade wishbones, that come in their very own calico bag...

The second were these faux bois logs, with the sweet tag line of wood you be mine...

The are so sweet, I have to remember to keep one to give Simon for our anniversary!

McKenzie and lack of sleep

Sorry for the break between posts, this week has been quite hectic - on top of the new gallery, I have been busy cleaning out my room at Mum & Dad's (I didn't realise I was such a hoarder, until I found all my childhood toys!).

We also picked up McKenzie, our new puppy this week, she is absolutely adorable, though having trouble sleeping at night (she is great at sleeping during the day!) - She is so full of energy and literally bounces every where!

McKenzie & Coup are still a little wary of each other, and sussing the other out, but are starting to play chasey around the house... Our biggest challenge at the moment is keeping McKenzie out of Coups food!

On another note, we had two gorgeous shippments arrive this week, just in time for our grand opening on the 25th - I will take some photographs tonight, and share them with you tomorrow!

Paper City

Over the weekend I was going through all the lovely emails that we have received from everyone (thanks!) when I noticed an email from Emma, that was talking about a Paper City that she had seen in toyko, that had took art student, Wataru Ito over four years to make by cutting and folding hundreds of pages of craft paper...

The design is based on El Temple de la Sagrada Familia, Spain and comes complete with a tower surrounded by a cathedral, school, theme park, factory and airport and of course comes complete with electrical lights and a moving train.

Now if I can just wrangle a holiday to Toyko to check this awesome display out!

A week of contradictions

This week has been one of the most interesting I think I have had, we have had so many great things happen, such as the opening of the new store, plus organising to get our new puppy this weekend, that I guess it is natural there were going to be some not so great things...

Yesterday my dad, who lives in Northern Victoria, was told that Murrary Goulburn were closing down their factory, and the 80 people that work there would need to find other jobs. What makes it sad is the town that the site was located in, only has about 300 people, so this effectively wipes out most of the jobs - I sometimes forget living in the city now, what an impact such a thing can have on a town...

My mum and Dad are now grappling with the decision of whether to relocate and move with Murray Goulburn or to try their luck by staying put... It will be sad to have to pack up the family home, but i really would love them to be a bit closer!

On a lighter note, we have just ordered some of the most beautiful products into the store, which will be arriving hopefully next week - I will post a picture when they are all set up, but here is a sneak peak of some of them!