Treasure Hunt!

Sunday 6th March is Childrens Day and Devonport will be hosting a fabulous Treasure Hunt event to celebrate it. The Devonport Craft Market is a sponsor of the event and the market will be running from 10-3 at the Devonport Community House too so why not make it a family day out?

Childrens' Day Treasure Hunt

Here's another great reason to come to Devonport on Sunday 7th March.

The Craft Market is sponsoring the event. It's a great way to learn lots of exciting things that you never knew about Devonport and have fun at the same time.

Spring is in the air!

And to celebrate The Devonport Craft Market will be opening its doors for an extra hour for the next few months. That'll give those of you who have a social life enough time to get out of bed, nurse your head and pop on down for some lovely crafty goodies. And remember, its never too early to start your Christmas shopping. Be there or be square.

The Devonport Craft Market

Sunday 4th October

10am-3pm

Devonport Community House

32 Clarence Street

Devonport

The Sun, the Dads, the colour

What a glorious day it was on Sunday. The sun shone and shone and didn’t stop, which was lovely for buyers and sellers alike.

It was also Fathers Day and there were a great number of Dad’s who made there way with their families in tow to come and check out the markets.

Can we say, HOW STUNNING all of the stalls looked on Sunday. The colour and energy from the stall holders was amazing. There were loads of new products, everyone is going to a great amount of artistic effort to fill their stalls with new and exciting things for buyers.

It was great to see a range of new stallholders as well as the very supportive regulars.

Pickn’ Oakum entertained out the front – they always put on a great performance.

A big thanks to those who helped with the cake and coffee stall on Sunday. Wonderful volunteers manned the stall and the proceeds went towards Jesse’s quest for an Assistance Dog (http://www.jesse.org.nz/). Nearly $2000 was raised in a raffle of Devonport Craft Market goodies (thank you SO much to all of you who donated your wonderful wares) and Wanda of Ikes Emporium did an incredible job selling most of the raffle tickets. There were lots of others out there working hard to make it all work and a particularly big thank you goes out to all of you who bought raffle tickets. It will be absolutely wonderful to see Jesse out with Doug the Dog when he arrives in less than a fortnight.

October next and the countdown to Christmas begins!

Stay well, happy crafting and see you soon

Sarah & Sarah

Knitting Pukeko

Who knew our native birds were so talented? The extremely clever Claire from The Anti-Fashion League has designed the 2nd August poster for us and I have to say, I love it. I have begged her for screenprinted market bags with the image on. Fingers crossed she will have the time.

August's market will be chock full of wonderful goodies. We have a few new stallholders as well as our wonderful regulars. It really is a pleasure having all these incredibly talented people under one roof (and a lot of fun too). Do come along on 2nd August and pay us a visit.

The line up for 2nd August is:

AB CARDS, BABY LOVE MERINO, BEINZSTALK, BLANKIES, CAT TAYLOR DESIGN, CHARLOTTE MARJORIBANKS, CITRUS T’ARTS GARDEN ART, DEVON LOUISE, DRAGONFLYZ, FIREWORKS AGNES, FORGET ME NOT VINTAGE, FRANCIS SILVESTRE PHOTOGRAPHY, GLEN VAN PREHN, INFUSIONS, JANE DOUGLAS, JESSE BEARS, KERRY MIHU, KORU SPIRALS,KRAFTY AS, LIBERTY LANE, LISA HOOLEY PHOTOGRAPHY, MARKO CRAFT, MIRA DESIGN, ORGANIC GARDEN BOXES, PÉPA, PILLOW TALK, PORCELAIN ROVE, RUBY IN THE DUST, R.W. SCISSORS, SANDRA WAINE, SNAPDRAGON, SONGBIRD DESIGNS, TE PONO, THE ANTI-FASHION LEAGUE, THE DEVONPORTIANS, THE NOT SO FARAWAY, TOTO, TWISTED TREASURES.

Sunshine forecast

I have to confess that I did a mini-victory dance when I saw the weather forecast last night (it was only a mini one because it was too cold to move much from under my blanket on the couch). Sunshine for Sunday... Yay! Don't forget to wrap up warm though as it is likely to be pretty cold.

I think the cold weather is proving inspiring some of our stallholders. I know several of our regular crafters have been busy coming up with new ideas and I'm looking forward to seeing them on the day. We also have several new stallholders attending, so the market will be full of exciting new finds.

We have two talented local musicians scheduled to play on Sunday: Mark Howden (who also runs Depot Sound) and Damon Birchfield who plays acoustic folk music. I'm really looking forward to hearing them perform and I will be saving some gold coins to pop in their hats. We also have a balloon artist, Alice Lee of Alice in Balloon Land who will be creating her fab balloon sculptures in the morning.

Do have a look at our photos and the list of stallholders. They stay up on the blog so if you need to contact anyone either click on the shop/entertainer name or email me and I will try to put you in touch.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

The Talent

The May 3rd market is so full of original and talented craftspeople I am going to have to fight hard with myself not to buy everything in sight. The stallholders are:

(some names have links to blogs and online shops)

BABY LOVE MERINO, BESTNBARGAIN, BIRDSPOKE, BOX OF BIRDS, CAT TAYLOR DESIGN, GLEN VAN PREHN, HIHI HATS, CITRUS T'ARTS GARDEN ART, JESSE BEARS, KERRY MIHU, KRAFTY AS, LIBERTY LANE, LIFES JOURNEY ART, LILYPIPALUK, LOTUS DESIGN, MARTIN ADLINGTON RECYCLED ART, MERMAIDS PURSE, NANCY FRAZER ART, NATURALLY GIFTED, ON BLOCKS, PAPER FISH, PEA IN A POD, PILLOW TALK, RACHEL MURPHY DESIGN, RAN WITH SCISSORS, RECORD BREAKER, RELIC, RUBY IN THE DUST, SANDRA WAINE, SARAH C DESIGN, SAZ ORIGINALS, SONYA ANDERSON, TE PONO, THE TWO LS, TOTO KIDSWEAR, TWISTED TREASURES, ZORAS RAINBOW

PLUS LIVE MUSIC FROM HARRY WAINE; FRANCES DICKINSON & ALEX BORWICK - IRISH DUO (11am) AND ANDREW PAPAS & CHANTE (1pm). FACEPAINTING BY ALISHA WARD