Craft/Knit social - 12th July

A reminder that the Craf/Knit Social is on this Monday at Mecca Cafe in Devonport.

Details:
When: 12th July
Where Cafe: Mecca Cafe, Devonport.
Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
No need to email - just come along and bring anyone else that is interested.

Beautiful Day

In a stroke of bad-weather-luck, it was raining again for today's market. We had a wonderful day though. Thank you so much to all you lovely people who came to visit us today. Lovely to see and chat to the regulars as well as see lots of new faces from near and far!

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1. 4th July Market, 2. 4th July Market, 3. A four legged visitor to the market, 4. Facepainting, 5. Liberty Lane, 6. Collinswood Designs, 7. Sew Funky, 8. Karric, 9. Deborah Hillman, 10. Tui, 11. Pure Extracts by Adamar, 12. Cult Redemption, 13. A Little Vintage, 14. Tui, 15. Kute Kiwi, 16. Funky Rainbows, 17. Sew Funky, 18. 0 to 2, 19. Bookbeads, 20. Songbird Designs, 21. On Top of a Lilypad, 22. Itchy Fingers, 23. Cotton Kiwi, 24. Emma Ioane, 25. Cotton Kiwi, 26. Zippitydoodah, 27. Cat Taylor Design, 28. June Jane

Thanks to everyone who came along!

The next market is Sunday 1st August.

Applications for stallholders open tomorrow, 5th July and will close on Friday 9th July at 5pm. Please click on the stallholders tab at the top of the blog to find the application forms.

Meet the Seller - Nicole from Sweet Surrender Cupcakes

If you have tasted one of Nicole's cupcakes, you will probably be heading back to the market to buy one from her every month - they are addictive! Find out more about Nicole below.

Tell us a little about yourself – who are you? Where do you hail from?

My name is Nicole and I was born & raised in West-Berlin the very exciting, arty & now once again capital city of Germany. I crossed the big ocean via giant steel bird and set foot on Aotearoa in December 1996.

Tell us a little about what you make?

I make/create edible Artistry for the sophisticated & discerning customer. I have to say a little “toned down” for the markets but give me a special occasion and you’d be surprised what I can come up with.

I specialize nowadays on cupcakes (No they are NOT muffins!) small table cakes and small top tier cutting cakes as part of cupcake towers.

I love baking with liqueurs, champagne or port wine…needless to say I cater mainly for the “grownups”.  I just absolutely love to decorate my little sweet creations in a less then ordinary way) lush & opulent appeals to me naturally. I also study Interior Decorating & Design, I am in my second year

Have you always been a cupcake maker?

No, not exactly…I started baking at the age of 4 with my beloved Grandmother (nope, not your typical Nan but a very flamboyant woman, read about our story on my website but I have been in the Industry for a long time. When I came to New Zealand I bought & hands on operated a Café-Bar-Restaurant on Ponsonby Road for 11 years (Café Logos formerly Expresso Love) it was one of the funkiest places in town. It was all about healthy and tasty Food & a (very) unusual stimulating atmosphere. I was baking up to 6 large cakes a day and heaps of vegan muffins, wholesaling my savoury pesto filled muffins to other cafes, making all soups for “SUJU”, making Birthday-Wedding & other Special Occasion cakes and being the head chef were only part of my daily tasks. Prior to that adventure I was trained & worked as a nurse for 17 years in Germany, mainly in Intensive Care Units, Organ Transplant Units, Operating Theatre, as a Head Nurse, Nurses Teacher & a few years at the second largest Psychiatric Clinic in Germany. Oh, and I was a chauffeur for a while in my life to a few posh business clients..that was great fun and I got to drive the most amazing and expensive cars one could imagine..once a Corvette Stingray with 24 Carat gold interior and mahogany dashboard....hilarious…

  

Your flavour combinations are amazing – where do you draw your inspiration from?

I have traveled a lot and have tasted the most amazing foods. I like unusual flavours and taste sensations and I just have to close my eyes, imagine a place or an event from my past or hear a certain music/look at a picture/ feel a beautiful fabric etc and voila -  a new flavour combination pops right up in my head. I am an intuitive baker, I never follow recipes and my cupcakes are not made using a standard cupcake recipe. Once you understand how ingredients relate to one another it is (almost) “a piece of cake” to put it all together.

What is your favourite cupcake?

Ooohh..too many to pin me down on just one. My mud cake combinations are definitely in the top part of my fav list but at the moment I really like my “Marie Antoinette” - Black Doris Plum-Almonds & Pinot Noir. 

Aside from The Devonport Craft Market, where can people find your work?

People can order directly from me on my website.

July Market Sellers

The sellers for our 4th July Devonport Craft Market have been listed in the sidebar of the blog (take a look over to the left hand side). As usual, they are an extremely talented bunch and we're looking forward to another fun day of market fun.

{Mosaics by Adele}

Some of the sellers have links to their blogs and web pages. Why not take a look at some of them and get a sneaky peak of what they have to offer?

{Lisa Hooley Photographer}

If you haven't already, do sign up to our newsletter. It will be emailed to you just before each market and will contain lovely pics of some of the items that will be on sale as well as useful bits of information about the coming market. We will never spam you and you can unsubscribe at any time.

{Liberty Lane}

In the meantime, keep warm and keep well!

all the best
Sarah and Sarah x

Feeling Crafty?

Come along to the new Craft Social at Mecca Cafe, 1 Victoria Road, Devonport from 7-9pm tomorrow (Monday 14th June).

{image: Cotton Kiwi)

Craft Social is now being organised by the lovely Trish Van Bussell of Fireworks Agnes. The first night will have a knitting theme to it. Here's a message from Trish:

"Come and join us for a relaxing evening, being creative, chatting and winding down after the day. Bring along your craft e.g. knitting - that is appropriate for a cafe.

If you're new to knitting and craft - come along and have a look through some books and talk to us about what and how to start. Or if you would like to learn to knit bring along some needles and wool, and we will start you off. Or just come along and chat.

Don't worry if you don't know anyone else that is coming, wander down to Mecca and ask for the table reserved for " Trish Knit/Craft"

Hope to see you then!
Sarah B & Sarah M