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Tales of Craft. Travel. Food. Melbourne. I love my city, my wife and my dog.

So this is a tale of two parts......
Wild About Melbourne Makers :
Wild About Melbourne Makers aims to highlight quality handmade makers in a traditional market settting as well as online. This highly curated selection will feature the best of Melbourne's small and independant makers, especially those with a distinctly Melbourne theme. I'm passionate about good food, good wine, good beer and shar

ing it with good company. Here you'll find photos and occasional stories of what we get up to in our fine city.

08/12/2023

What a wonderful way to wrap our handmade year Wednesday evening was!

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported Local Handmade ❤️

A huge thanks to the team at club 🍻

To our Makers and their support crews, thank you for all of your support and friendship. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Til next year,
Dee and Kate

Delicious cookies
Thornbury sticker by

06/12/2023

It’s December and post Makers Market… coffee in my favourite mug and Mince Pies by is a very good way to start the day.

Thank you to everyone who came along to last night’s market and supported our Local Makers ❤️

06/12/2023

And we’re on….!!!
Market is open…
Bar is open…
We’re here til 8pm!

05/12/2023

It's TODAY!!!!!

and her friends, say….
‘Come along to the fabulous Twilight market and support some amazing handmade local makers!’

4 to 8 pm Club, Ballantyne Street Thornbury!

05/12/2023

Oohh! She’s clever that Nicole M!

We LOVE these upcycled Christmas Tree cards. The perfect Christmas card for a fellow crafty maker or zero-waste aficionado.

Available at our TWILIGHT Makers Market, TODAY, December 6th 4-8pm at club.

See you this afternoon 🎄🍻🎅🏻

04/12/2023

Art makes wonderful Christmas presents…! And .scribbles has wonderful@art for young and young at heart ❤️

The very talented Scarmo Scribbles is joining us tomorrow, WEDNESDAY December 6th for our Twilight Christmas Market!

The hall will be full of Local Makers sharing their wares…..
will have delicious Christmas cookies….
The iconic club will be open….
AND, you can pre-order your Mince Tarts and Wheels TODAY!

See you tomorrow… 4-8pm

04/12/2023

Two more sleeps til Market day..!

We’re excited to welcome WAM regulars as well as some new Makers, including Alex’s Unique Crafts.

Creating beautiful wooden gifts, homewares and Christmas decorations.

Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm club 🎄🍻

03/12/2023

TWO more sleeps til Market day…!

The weather is looking perfect….
Our Makers are busy making and preparing for their stalls….
and are busy baking delicious treats…
And the Bowls Club beers will be local and fresh…!

THIS Wednesday, December 6th 4-8pm
club!

See you there..!

30/11/2023

Happy First of December....
which means, only 5 sleeps til our Twilight Christmas Market at Thornbury Bowls Club!
Wednesday, 4-8pm we'll be filling the hall with Local Handmade and pumping out the Christmas Carols.
Delicious treats by Zee Scott and Poss and Ruby Cookie Co.
The weather is looking good (!) so feel free to bring a picnic or your favourite take away and enjoy dinner with a drink from the iconic Bowls Club bar.

See you Wednesday

29/11/2023

Christmas Earrings at the READY…!

is bringing her beautiful and fun earrings to our Twilight Christmas Market..!

Purchase some as gifts… and some for yourself 🧑🏻‍🎄

We’re very excited to be bringing Local Handmade to club to celebrate Christmas and support local makers.

INDOORS Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm 🎄🍻

28/11/2023

Cookies for EVERYONE!

I love handmade food gifts for Christmas… and are perfect for gifting. And eating!

You’ll find Poss and Ruby Cookie Co and their Christmas themed cookies at our TWILIGHT Christmas Market, WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm.

We will be indoors, so whatever Melbourne weather has in store for us… we’ll be cosy and dry.

Full of cookies, mince pies and beer..!

See you there,
Dee and Kate 🎄🎄

27/11/2023

Stylish, very wearable and gorgeous to gift jewellery by ✔️✔️

Anne is bringing her very creative jewellery to our Christmas Twilight Makers Market.

Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm club.

Now, a reminder, with this unpredictable Melbourne weather… we are an INDOOR market! We’ll be filling the hall with Local Handmade, treats by and as well as the bar being open!

See you NEXT WEEK!!!

26/11/2023

We’re excited to welcome newcomer, .ecokids to our Twilight Christmas Makers Market!

Sun smart, cool and upcycling!

We really do have an amazing line up of Local Makers bringing their wares to share with you.

club
Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm
All indoors with treats by Christmas Carols playing and the bar will be open! 🎄🎅🏻

25/11/2023

The fabulous Nikki Malalieu is bringing her talented makes to our Christmas Makers Market..!

• I'm a big fan of the shady sun hat. I love the lampshade look, and the multiple face-framing options that a wide, stitched brim provides. Lately, I've been adding a few of these to my upcycled denim bucket hat range, and I'll be selling them at the
Twilight market at thornbury bowls on 6th December.

I'm experimenting with a
approach to upcycling post-consumer denim waste. These hats take a lot longer to make than cutting fabric from the roll - lots of piecing, patching, unpicking, reducing bulk and top stitching - but I'm a bit besotted with how perfectly they sit, and how easily the brim is manipulated into sweeping curves •

23/11/2023

If and I believe that one can never have too many earrings, then we also believe that one can never enough beautifully handmade cups / jewellery / garden friends or bells by the lovely ❤️

Thankfully for us, and you, Jacinta is bringing her charming ceramics to our Twilight Christmas Market on WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm at club.

This is an excellent spot to start to finish your Christmas shopping by drinking a local craft beer and supporting local artists.

See you there!

22/11/2023

Sheesh skirts are so very comfortable and stylish…!

We’re delighted that you’ll be able to@find your own at our TWILIGHT Christmas Market on WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm at club 🎄🧑🏻‍🎄

Suzie and her beautiful skirts will be placed, conviently, near the Ladies Lounge (a must visit spot at the Bowls Club, for access to mirrors to check out your new skirt..!

See you on December 6th!

21/11/2023

It’s not Christmas til promises us her Mince Pies…!

“IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE...

🎼 🎶🎤 'Hang all the mistletoe' 🎼 🎶🎤

MINCE PIE SEASON

Truth is, I eat them all year round.... BUT they only come on the menu at Xmas time. 🎄

If you've had one before you'll know about the melt in the mouth pastry that envelopes home made boozy fruit. 😋 [Look... I was always told that the alcohol evaporates when the fruits are boiled so... I leave it to you to decide...💅]

I'm too busy to do a Xmas range this year so... this is it from moi. 🤗

You can pre book from THIS Friday 24th November... [I missed the date off in my last post about these!]

PLUS you can pre order for pick up at twilight market - Wednesday 6th December 4-8pm. 🙌

And before ANYONE asks at the market.... no, they're NOT meat mince pies. 🙄”

20/11/2023

Christmas trees for your ears and table..!

The sparkly, resplendent and talented is bringing her handmade homewares and jewellery to our Twilight Christmas Market! 🎄🎄

We’ll be filling club with Local Handmade on WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm.

Come for the handmade shopping and stay for the beers and treats! 🎄

19/11/2023

Oohh! We LOVE a bright and fun clutch / purse / keyring and that is precisely what the talented is bringing to our TWILIGHT Christmas Makers Market!

WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm at club.

Come for the Local Handmade and stay for the craft beers and treats by ❤️

We’re so excited to be once again filling the Bowls club with Local Handmade for your Christmas shopping.

16/11/2023

COLOUR Friday over Black Friday…!

Image and imitative by and wise words by ❤️

Many small businesses cannot compete with the big guys and the Black Friday sales, particularly now as so many small businesses struggle to keep the doors open.

So, the cool kids (aka us) want to open your mind to Colour Friday 🌈

What’s Colour Friday you ask..?!

It’s shopping small and shopping local.
It’s enjoying a retail experience rather than a transactional one.
It’s finding unique gifts you won’t find in a major store.
It’s having a laugh and a conversation with your local small business owners.
It’s supporting your local businesses who in turn support your community, your local school, your local footy club.
It’s keeping the money within your local shopping community.

Go on…. Black is boring. Colour is fun.

Tag a small business that brings colour to your day. They’ll appreciate it!

15/11/2023

It’s not Christmas til I’ve marvelled at ‘s Christmas fabric creations…!

Sometimes I do feel that an adult bin would be handy for Christmas Day… but at least the youngest members of the family can be Christmas dressed from head to toe in 🧑🏻‍🎄🧑🏻‍🎄

Come down to club, WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm for our indoor Twilight Christmas Market.

Thank you for supporting local and handmade this Christmas ❤️🎄

13/11/2023

We, and are firm believers that one can never have too many Christmas earrings! In fact, we believe one can never too many earrings of any description…!

Which is why we are delighted to welcome to our Twilight Christmas Makers Market, WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm at club.

There’ll be sweet treats, the bar will be open and the Christmas Carols playing.

See you there!

12/11/2023

Also coming back to our WAM Christmas Makers Market is the delightful and talented ❤️

Beautifully crafted ceramic cups, vases, plates, jewellery and more.

Thanks to Miss for this lovely snap of ❤️

WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm
INDOORS at club.

Come for the Local Handmade and stay for the sweet treats and craft beer and Christmas Cocktails 🎄🎄

10/11/2023

She’s back…!

The lovely will be bringing her beautiful handmade jewellery to our Twilight Christmas Market, WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm.

Bring a picnic, grab some local take away or treat yourself to some and delicious treats.

The club bar will be open and the hall will be filled with Local Handmade.

See you there!

09/11/2023

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…”

We are so merrily excited to bringing our Christmas Makers Market to club!

A special twilight Market, WEDNESDAY December 6th 4-8pm 🧑🏻‍🎄

The bar will be open…
will have delicious treats…
Bring a picnic or order in food and enjoy a night with friends while supporting local Makers…

The hall will be filled with LOCAL HANDMADE for your Christmas shopping pleasure, including our very own ❤️

See you there!

03/11/2023

Market planning requires many a coffee!

Thank you to all the amazing Makers who applied to be part of our Twilight Christmas Market on December 6th.

Makers will be notified this week and we’ll be sharing them very soon. 🧑🏻‍🎄🎄

We are SO excited to be bringing AMAZING Local Handmade to club on Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm

Dee and Kate ❤️🎄

29/10/2023

Let’s celebrate Christmas with Local Handmade and Craft Beer at club!

Applications now open, but must close this week, for our Twilight Christmas Market!

Local Makers please apply here : https://wildaboutmelbourne.com/stallholder-application-form/

Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm
Indoors at Thornbury Bowls Club

19/10/2023

We had so much returning to club in October that we are bringing it back for CHRISTMAS…!

Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm
Twilight Market, indoors under the fairy lights
Local Handmade
Craft Beer

Local Makers are invited to apply via : https://wildaboutmelbourne.com/stallholder-application-form/

Bring on Handmade Christmas Shopping..!

Dee and Kate 🎄🧑🏻‍🎄

08/10/2023

A crocodile and a dinosaur walked into a Bowls Club…..

Nope! I don’t have a punch line but I do have a very full heart was today’s Makers Market!

Thank you to our incredible Makers, their support crew, club and of course, all of our lovely shoppers.

Thank you for supporting us, local handmade and your local bowls club ❤️❤️❤️

We’ll be back on Wednesday December 6th 4-8pm for a Christmas Twilight Market.

Thank you,
Dee and Kate x

07/10/2023

Perfect Market Day Weather….!

club 10-2pm

Local Handmade
Devonshire Tea
and the bar opens at 12pm!

06/10/2023

Two more sleeps til MARKET day!

We have an amazing collection of Lical Makers coming to our WAM Makers Market at Thornbury Bowls Club
10-2pm Sunday!

Local Handmade
Devonshire Tea
Craft Beer

See you there!

06/10/2023

A stack of bucket hats are lined and ready to go, and now my focus has shifted to old studio and display samples from book projects, sewing pattern or class resource development. Alongside the new hats, I'll be having a clearance sale on things like A-line skirts, kids clothes, bags and hats at Wild About Melbourne
Market at Thornbury Bowls Club on Sunday. I might even have some sewing patterns and books?

It's time to free up storage space for all the old jeans I appear to be accumulating... and hopefully for new products that make discarded textiles valuable again. This new direction is still a work in progress, but I plan to prototype creative ideas as they flow, with the core focus of zero waste and upcycling. Who knows what will be on the next market stall..?

01/10/2023

I’m in love as well…..

🎄🎄 🎄🎄

I’m in love with this super cute Christmas tree earrings.

You will be able to get your hands on these and many more Christmasy and non Christmas goodies next Sunday at market at the club from 10am-2pm.

01/10/2023

ONE week til Market day…!

There will be Local Handmade, is just one of the amazing Local Makers that we have lined up for you!

The famous club Devonshire Tea…

And, no doubt, we’ll be shopping and debriefing over a local Craft Beer.

Sunday October 8th
10-2pm Thornbury Bowls Club

See you there!

30/09/2023

Happy Grand Final Day Melbourne (and Brisbane!)

Love these footy inspired earrings by

AFLM may be over this weekend, but AFLW continues. I’m sure will take custom orders at our WAM Makers Market, next Sunday, October 8th 10-2pm at club.

Local Handmade
Devonshire Tea
Craft Beer

29/09/2023

Very excited that Nicole Mallalieu is making a return to Makers Markets by bringing her creative flair to our WAM Makers Market at club on Sunday October 8th 10-2pm.

Local Handmade
Devonshire Tea
Craft Beer

We are indoors with heating and or air con…!

See you there!

24/09/2023

It’s TWO WEEKS till Market day…!

Here’s hoping for a day of glorious sunshine… but if not, we are indoors at the iconic club.

Sunday October 8th 10-2pm

Local Handmade
Devonshire Tea
Craft Beer

We have an incredible line up of Local Makers for your handmade shopping pleasure.

See you there!

20/09/2023

Thrilled to be welcoming into the WAM Family, new Local Makers at our October 8th Makers Market!

Are just a few of the lovely makers joining us for the first time.

INDOORS club, Sunday October 8th 10-2pm.

The famous Devonshire Tea
Craft Beer
treats

We can’t wait to see you there!

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Wild About Melbourne - showcasing two of my favourite things.... local handmade and Melbourne.

Wild About Melbourne Pop Up Makers Market - showcasing the best in local handmade. Quite often in venues with craft beer. Always with great coffee near by. Our market is not a sensory overload, you’ll find only the loveliest makers with beautiful wares.

Tales of Craft. Travel. Food. Melbourne. I'm passionate about good food, good wine, good beer and sharing it with good company. I love my city, my wife and my two fluffy dogs. Here you'll find photos and occasional stories of what we get up to in our fine city.

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