Little Melbourne
Here is your one stop shop for things to do with babies, toddlers and children.
use the stash
I have so much fabric and I feel guilty for not producing ‘enough‘ crafty goodness. This coming year, 2012 is now going to be known as USE THE STASH year!
Vintage Willow
Vinatage Willow use genuine vintage typewriter keys & antique buttons to create beautiful wearable art
Merry Christmas
Jump in bed, cover up your head,‘Cause Santa Claus comes tonight
Cup of Tea Anyone??
How AWESOME are these mugs? For the Sewer/Crafty Cat in your life...
Mister Nice Guy
Mister Nice Guy Cupcakes is the brainchild of husband and wife duo Lucas Cook and Deb Kantor.
Twilight Market Take 3
Here is the rest of the great bunch of stallholders for tomorrow nights Twilight Market this Friday from 5.30 p.m.
Come do last minute Xmas shopping and buy all your delicious goodies for Xmas lunch!!
See you there from 5.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
Special guest - SANTA!!
Twilight Market Take 2
Twilight market this Friday from 5.30 p.m. Come do last minute Xmas shopping and buy all your delicious goodies for Xmas lunch!! See you there from 5.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
Special guest - SANTA!!
Twilight Market
Twilight market this Friday from 5.30 p.m. Come do last minute Xmas shopping and buy all your delicious goodies for Xmas lunch!! See you there from 5.30 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. Special guest - SANTA!!
Gingerbread Corner
Gingerbread Corner - one of our many store holders.
Washi Tape
Washi Tape - Utilising the characteristics of Japanese rice paper, each Masking Tape roll is textured and can be written on, is easy to remove and does not leave stains, offering an abundance of creative and decorative uses.
mixtapezine Issue 4 FREE
ISSUE 4 of mixtapezine FREE for you to download.
The Craft Persons Will
I got given a photo copy of this years ago. I‘m not sure who originally wrote it. I have just fancied it up a bit for you to download!
Blythe Dolls
Blythe Dolls - oversize head and big-eyed peepers!
mixtapezine Issue 3 FREE
Yet another FREEBIE, food, dress making, craft & music!
Instagram & Gen Q
Generation Q Magazine is a community of modern and contemporary quilters, sewists and fabric addicts who love to create, are welcoming of new ideas and new styles while respecting what’s come before and who enjoy creative expression in all forms.
mixtapezine Issue 2 FREE
Front cover artwork by Angela, mixtape is a collision of craft, eco-cool and pop culture kitsch
Good Things
A selection of super fun things, music, books, apps & of course some craft action!
Love your music local, live and loud ?
Like your music local, live and loud, then visit the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh.
mixtapezine
We have a FREEBIE for you! miztapezine Issue 1
PBS Radio Melbourne
With over 80 specialist music programs ranging from soul to garage to country to jazz, PBS is dedicated to promoting and nurturing music in all its diversity.
Time Management
We all have busy lives, we all have the same amount of time in the day. How do you spend yours?
Instagram WE LOVE YOU!
Big, big fans of instagram. Here are our weekly LOVES.
Crafty Mamas
Crafty Mamas Are in their 7th year of supplying amazing Crafty Goodness to the world.
Specialising in European patterns and fabrics, sewing mags, and high quality Aussie made fabrics.
Peppermint Magazine
Peppermint is the green fashion magazine, celebrating eco and ethical style with a fun, fresh, intelligent and positive spin. It was created for the rapidly-growing number of consumers who appreciate good design, fashion and creativity, but also care about social and environmental issues and where their clothing comes from.
29 Ways to stay creative
Taken from Pintrest. You‘ve heard of Pintrest right?
5 weeks until Xmas
Only 5 weeks Sunday until Xmas.... visit Mulgrave and enjoy at great morning out.
Local Fabric Designers
Ink & Spindle is a boutique textile studio located in Kensington, Melbourne. Owned by designers Lara Cameron & Tegan Rose, they design and screen print all their textiles by hand in an ethical and sustainable manner
Six (6) weeks until Xmas
With only six (6) weeks until xmas, you can enjoy our makers each week at Mulgrave.
Little Shop Of Handmade
The Little Shop of Handmade or Little Shop as they are affectionately known as is a super cute retail space proudly supporting independent design and creativity.
We love you Christina Gordon!
made BY white have collaborated with Christina Gordon aka Jam Fancy. We‘ve spoken about Christina before and no doubt we will again!
Gentle Art of Quilt Making
Do you read Jane‘s blog?? If you don‘t know about her already, you are in for a real treat!
Amy Butler Revisited
We are big fans of Amy Butler and doesn‘t she love her fans! - look at all these FREE patterns!
Fabric STASH
Well, I don‘t know about other crafters but I do know that at times my stash has been hidden. By hidden I mean, smuggled. Yep, smuggled into the house so I don‘t have to justify why I bought MORE fabric, when I have a room full of fabric.
7 weeks to Xmas
Only seven (7) weeks until xmas....
Lark by Amy Butler
Stunning new fabric range from Amy Butler.
A MUST have BOOK
For all you budding entrepreneurs
The Bizness Book doesn’t promise to make you a millionaire. Instead it lets you define your own idea of success, whether your ambitions are modest or monumental.
Cute Shops - Melbourne‘s South
Lizzy‘s chocolates is a family business. The Doors opened May 1983, in a vibrant little shopping strip in the Melbourne suburb of Carnegie.
Nikkishell Blog
One of the original craft bloggers - still going strong!
Polka Dot Quit Tutorial
Polka Dot Quilt Tutorial from an AWESOME new blog find.
Smurf, smurf, smurf, smurf!
Papa Smurf is the leader of the Smurfs, and the only Smurf who wears red. He looks good in placticine too.
gemma jones EXHIBITION
Enjoy bright, pop art renderings with a nod to crafty iconography at Gemma Jones‘s latest exhibition.
First Birthday Market and Web
The Mulgrave Makers Market celebrates its first birthday this Sunday, October 23rd with a full house, party hats and of course cake!
Jelly Baby Blog
Captured moments in life and BEAUTIFUL photography! A blog to enjoy and be inspired.
Time Management
The key to being productive is knowing what you want to achieve then making it happen.
Springtime Twilight Market - Fri Oct 28
You are invited to join us for our Springtime Twilight Market to be held Friday October 28th.
Stitch ‘O‘Rama is now Perle 8‘s
Two craft groups merging!
Cute little independent Shop in Melbourne.
Lulu is a little store in Balaclava, Melbourne. They stock an eclectic mix of clothing, accessories, gift and homeware and just next door is little lulu their gorgeous new baby and childrens boutique.
School Holiday KIDS CRAFTS Pt 2
You must check out Kids Craft Weekly. So many awesome things for big and little kids.
Top 5 Treasures at the September Makers Market
We welcomed many new stallholders to our market family this month... here‘s a taste of our top 5 new treasures to be found...
School Holiday KIDS CRAFTS
Have you heard of "kids craft weekly"? It was started by Amber Carvan in 2006...
Fabric Shops in VICTORIA
This list is constantly updated and by no means exhaustive! Please leave a coment if we are missing a store you love.
Prints Charming
Daisy Chain the new line from Prints Charming.
Cake & Biscuits
Yummo!
Reading & Writing
Creative SPRING Workshop to chanel your creativity and feel your feelings.
Christmas!
Just to let you know that there are only 15 weeks until Christmas! So you might want to start working on your Christams project now!?
Motivation
Do you have a small business or a hobby that you‘d like to become a business?
It’s really important to have time away to help spark creative ideas or profitable insights.
CREATIVE JOURNALING – SPRING WORKSHOP
We have a few spots left for next week-ends Creative Journaling Workshop
Craft, Music & Food
A quilting book, foodies paradise and AWESOME music.
Jane from Kabwares
Hi my name is Jane, and I’m a blogger. A blog is a ‘weblog’ an online diary where you can record your thoughts, feelings, opinions or creative projects- anything you like really- its your own personal space. I use a blog to promote the business I have with my hubby.
Blogging, Blogging, Blogging
A few days ago Jane shared with you her favourite blogs, today she gives you some blogging tips.
Bye Bye Winter, Hello Spring
We loved our indoor winter markets and so did you, but spring is in the air and we‘re ready to move on outside with our fab farmers again.
Free E-Books
I came across these free eBooks a while ago and they are jam packed full of informative information. I highly recommend signing up to get the new eBooks as they come out. Here are a few tips fro the Craft Show Success eBook.
Making It Handmade
Think craft is for grannies? Think again.
Caravan Music Club
Great Live Music for the south east.
Print your own fabric
Frankie & Swiss is here to offer you all things boutique in fabric.
Fabric news online - True Up
The lastest for fans of fabulous fabrics.
Online Crafty Resources to make
A cool sewing blog and a new crafty place to hang out.
How DO you do it?
Andi from Patch Andi shares a bit of craft action with us.
Cute Shops - Melbourne‘s South
Little Sparrow - a southeast gem.
Merchandising Workshop
The Bizness Babes Merchandising Workshop will help you get more sales from your market stall by teaching you the tips and tricks of experts.
CREATIVE JOURNALING – SPRING WORKSHOP
A light exists in Spring ... You‘ve made it through the winter and now it‘s time to clean house and open all the doors and windows. Creative Journaling is the act of exploring your thoughts, feelings and responses on the page.
Get jiggy with it!
Be clear about what you want to portray online, will it be purely about your products, or will you talk about your family and other things you spend your time doing?
Soule Mama
Amanda Soule is Soule Mama and she has a new book out called, "The Rhythm Of Family".
Sundays & Sewing
A few Melbourne sewing blogs, an awesome fabric store and a Sunday well spent!
Cute Shops - Melbourne‘s South
The first in a bunch of posts on great shops in Melbournes South.
You Sew Girl!
The beautiful Nicole Mallalieu has realeased her first book, and it‘s all you need to know about sewing!
July Makers Market this Sunday
This Sunday 24th July, we will be joined by a fantastic selection of very clever crafters.
Finding your way around blogs
Now I‘ve had a lot of people ask me how I sort through the abundance of information here on the Internet. Ok so when I started blogging in 2005 there definitely was not have as much out there but the same principle applies.
ONLINE STORES
Here are just a select few AWESOME online stores that you can buy and if you‘re lucky enough sell from.
water works
Beautiful blog! - Wild Olive
SOW & GROW AND LOOK & COOK Books
Another two books in the series by author Tina Davis
BLOCK PARTY Book
Are you a quilter? This book may be for you.
Made By Hand
The 9 episode series will be broadcast commencing Wednesday 29th June at 8.30pm on Channel 31.
JUNE Stitch ‘O ‘ Rama
Join our growing fortnightly Stitch o Rama, here at Mulgrave, where you can meet like minded crafters, interested to learn and create all things handmade.
GRASSHOPPERS
Introducing one of our newest stallholders - Grasshoppers. A very special community project we are proud to support.
AWESOME resource
The beautiful Kathreen has been in the blogging world since at least 2004.
New stallholder winter offer
Calling all new budding crafters, join us for winter and win!
From Little Things
We want to tell you about a new profit-for-purpose book that is in the making.
savvy social networking
You’ve got to be in it to win it, as the saying goes.
SOUTHSIDE BLOGGERS Take 2
Just some of the talented peeps living Southside!
Badge/Magnet Making Class
Magnets & Gloves for June 2011
TOO CUTE FOR WORDS
Christina Gordon
Come and stitch n knit with us!
Our first craft group for knitters & quilters starts May 11 and will run every second Wednesday from 7.30 - 10.30pm.
Cost $5 - bring your own project or buy one of ours.
May Market Wrap Up
What a lovely market we had this month!
May Market Top 5 Treasures
Our top 5 treasures to temp you at our market this Sunday...
Our May Makers Market
This Sunday is special because i get to go shopping for all things handmade and unique.
Stitch n knit at mulgrave
For the month of May we had Mary teaching Knitting and Lucy teaching English Paper Piecing.
justines TOP 10 Magazines
Craft/Pop Culture Magazines
Knitter n Quilters Group starts May 11
Our first craft group for knitters & quilters starts May 11 and will run every 2nd and 4th Wednesday.
Southside Bloggers
We WANT you to send us in your link if you are a SOUTH SIDE blogger. We have started it off and await your details...
Justine‘s Top 10 craft blogs
Justine (from Mixtape) joins our blog space with heaps of crafty info to inspire you. This week read her top 10 blog sites to visit.
Justine‘s latest book review - Action Pack
In keeping with my last post on my Top 10 blogs, I thought I would tell you all about Kathreen from whip up‘s latest venture, "Action Pack".
Justine‘s 10 Market Tips
Some of the best advise I was every given when I started markets was be prepared, be proud, be friendly!
A new face to the market
We are thrilled to welcome to our market a familiar face to many of our makers. Groovy mum, innovative businesswoman and clever crafter, Justine Telfer (from Mixtape).
Hop along to our Easter Market
Easter Sunday morning take the family to the Mulgrave Farmers/Makers Market and enjoy fabulous fresh produce plus stunning handmade crafts by talented makers.
Customer Buying Styles Workshop
The first of our workshops “Customer Buying Styles” was held last week in our Mulgrave offices.
March Makers Market
As I walked around the market on Sunday with my camera I couldn‘t help but feel proud.
Welcome to Autumn
I am always excited to see Autumn arrive. The beautiful colours, and the stunning seasonal produce that hit our market.
Make your own necklace
Have you been inspired by our makers to try your hand at making something yourself? Follow our 1st tutorial to make your own necklace.
The changing of the guards
This month we say goodbye to Market Manager Fi Lech as she ventures into a new challenge at university.
2011 off with a bang!
Our 2011 markets begin Feb 27 with a huge day planned.
Fabric Stores IN VIC
This list will be constantly updated and is by no means exhaustive.
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