2 New Locations for The Handmade Expo

The Handmade Expo Team is super excited to announce that we are heading to:

TOWNSVILLE and ROCKHAMPTON

We are yet to confirm our dates, but it will be end of September, beginning of October.

We are currently taking expressions of interest - you can fill in a form HERE.

Once we reach our minimum requirement to fill in an expressions of interest form, we will then confirm venue, prices, dates, etc on an application form which will be sent out to each person who filled in an EOI.

We are so excited to be expanding outside of South East Queensland....

So, if you know of anyone that lives up in North Queensland and would like to express their interest, please pass on this post or the form link....

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam

Market Wrap Up - March 17th

Hi Everyone.

We just get so excited every month to open the gates at 5:30am to see all of our wonderful stallholders ready to set up and have a great day. The excitement then continues watching everyone set up their stalls and then opening the gates at 8am watching the customers come through the gate. Our regulars who wonder around and head straight for their faves OR newbies who have a look of amazement on their faces. We love them all :)
With around 70 stalls of beautifully displayed stalls and customers flowing through the door the weather stayed perfect for us. We have not had a lot of luck with the weather recently, however, Saturday showed a great day for all.

Once again, Krystal K Photography rocked our market world with taking photos and also setting up our Facebook cover photo. Here are some photos to show off the day....













We are working super hard behind the scenes for our April 21st market at the Ipswich Turf Club.
Pop it in your diary and we hope to see you all there.

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam
xo

Market Wrap Up - February 25th

Helllooooo Everyone.

So, one of our new years resolutions was to do a Market Wrap Up every month WITH PHOTOS thanks to Krystal K Photography :)

The weather ended up being kind to us, but did scare some of our stallholders in to not coming as the forecast said STORMY...Wasn't the forecast so wrong. We had maybe 2 tiny showers throughout the day, but if you sneezed, you would have missed them. We still ended up with around 55 wonderful stallholders braving the forecast and ending up having a great old day.

We find that even though it is raining, customers still want to come and shop, which is a nice feeling...Dedicated for sure.

For the first time we had Circus Dreamz onboard... Julie-Ann is hosting FREE KIDS CIRCUS WORKSHOPS at our market, they are so much fun. It seems both the little and BIG kids had a nice time.

Here are some photos....







We look forward to seeing you at our next market on the 17th March....
This is a pre EASTER market and are having an Easter Bonnet Competition. There are 3 prizes up for grabs with the prize being MARKET MONEY...so get creating and come and see us at the main rotunda to enter. The Facebook Public will be able to vote for their favourite...so stay tuned

From
Liesa, Micky & Miriam

Our new website

Hi Everyone

HAPPY NEW YEAR..
Wow, we have seriously neglected our blog...One of our new years resolutions is to do a market wrap up after each market and keep you more up to date.
Our blog is our little baby, this is where we begun and we are sad that we have been "too busy" and "distracted" with other social media avenues...but this will change. WE PROMISE.

We are however, SUPER excited that we now have a website which you can check out HERE.

We hope that you love it as much as we do.

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, MIcky & Miriam

November Market... Been & Gone

Hi Everyone,

We thought we would do a market wrap up with photo's from the biggest market of the year... NOVEMBER.

We welcomed 150 gorgeous stalls to the November Expo plus the Ipswich Young Orpheous Choir to sing Christmas Carols... not to mention FIREMAN WAYNE selling the Fireman Calendars. What a jam packed expo.

With gorgeous weather and thousands of customers we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for a fabulous year. With 2 expos to go - Laidley (this Saturday 3rd December) and our last Ipswich Turf Club expo on Saturday 17th December - Liesa, Miriam and I have had a fabulous year.

With lots happening over the next couple of weeks - expos, Liesa having her baby and of course Christmas it is going to be a busy month for everyone... enjoy it while you can.

Thanks again and keep an eye out on Facebook for the arrival of Liesa's little bundle of joy :)

A BIG shout out to Paula from Minta Entertainment for the fabulous photo's of the EXPO... for all of your photo needs - contact Paula today, just click on the link above.

Also a shout out to Ella, the lovely little lady you see in some of the photo's and her mum Bec, for letting us use her on the day, we appreciate it.

See you over the next 2 markets and we look forward to bring The Handmade Expo back to the Ipswich Turf Club in 2012 :)

Micky, Liesa & Miriam

6 more sleeps :)

Hi Everyone

We are so excited as this is looking to be another HUGE MARKET. We have over 110 stalls booked in, ready and waiting to set up their stalls...

WOW WOW WOW....

We have a huge range of lunchtime options which include:
Twisted Potatos
Sausage Sizzle
German Sausages
Steamed Dumplings

Lets talk about dessert which includes:
Fudge
Cupcakes
Poffertjes
Icecream
French Macaroons
The Coffee Club - Coffee, Cookies & Muffins

Not to mention the huge array of handmade stalls which include (but certainly not limited to):
Kids Clothing/Accessories
Candles
Body Products
Jewellery
Handbags & Clutches
Country Craft
Artwork
Adult Clothing/Accessories
Pet Accessories
Modern Cloth Nappies
Greeting Cards
Plants
Preserves
Tutus
Cheese/Olives
Fresh Fruit & Vegies by Farmer Ian
Dolls/Bears
Timber work
Metal work
and sooooooooooooooooooo much more.

This is a great day out for everyone...We hope that you can all make it Saturday 15th October between 8am-2pm at the Ipswich Turf Club.

Remember FREE ENTRY and FREE PARKING

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam
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Forest Hill Boutique Market

Wow, what a great success our first Forest Hill Boutique market was. Thank you to all the stallholders who had faith in us... and the customers who supported and shopped local. With everything Forest Hill and surrounding areas have been through, it's great to know that the local towns supported this fantastic market.

Held in the gorgeous School of Arts building, we had such an amazing space to work with, indoors and outdoors. With 30 stallholders to grace this beautiful area, they did an amazing job to fill it all with their beautiful, colourful stalls and handmade wares.

The customers came in their droves, with no available car parks left and customers having to park and walk from town.

The Handmade Expo team set the tea room up to give the customers a pink, quality devonshire tea experience, which they loved and kept coming back for more. A big thank you to our Grandma and Miriam's mum for her help all day with the devonshire teas... I don't think we realised how big of a job it was actually going to be... without her - we would have been struggling I think.

With thousands of customers, a beautiful day (a tad windy actually by the afternoon) and a lovely country town The Handmade Expo, Forest Hill Boutique Market will definitely be back!

Thank you FOREST HILL!

We hope you enjoy the photo's.

Micky, Liesa & Miriam

The Handmade Expo Team