The Best Market yet

When it is pouring with rain all day and temperatures have dropped dramatically and you have a huge market the next day with a bunch of outside stalls, one can start to stress.

Luckily for me I have a very good relationship with the weather gods and away went the rain and out came the sun and we had a magnificent day. This was most definitely the best Piccadilly market event to date. It is hard to know exact numbers but it was agreed amongst various people that it was around the 6500 to 7000 mark.

The doors opened at 10am and people came in their droves and continued for most of the day.

The courtyard was bustling with outdoor stalls and Le Sausage did a great job of feeding the masses which included plenty of tired Run Geelong participants.

As usual the quality of wares available were amazing and I am sure a lot of people are going to be very happy with what they find under the Christmas Tree this year.

Here is a slide show of what the day had to offer.

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported all the fabulous stall holders.

Until 2012.

1 more sleep!!!

littlewrapbag and little mexico Special Offer to 50 Lucky Piccadilly Market Shoppers.

Only 9 days till Market Day...Yeh!!!!

I love that I get so excited about an event I run.

The lovely, gorgeous, generous Nicole from Little Wrap Bag once again has a brilliant offer for you shoppers.

I have a lot of Nicole's products. I have a gorgeous primrose ipad cover that gets plenty of ooh's and ahhh's at business meetings. I have the matching duo purse which is great for stashing my phone and little bits and pieces in when I don't want to take my clunky handbag. Last year for Christmas I bought all the kids the little wrap bags which they carry around all their favorite little possessions in. Last but not least I have a divine pair of little mexico silver earrings that I adore.

Spend $15 or more on any littlewrapbag or little mexico purchase from littlewrapbag Stall 42 at Piccadilly Market Nov 20th, 2011 and receive your FREE Chica Purse RRP $10*

Be early! You'll find her on Level 2, near the courtyard doors.

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*Offer limited to one per customer. Applies to first 50 customers who spend $15 or more. Valid 20th November 2011 only. Customer may select their Chica Purse from those available at the market.


Thanks Nicole

Our New Halloween Tradition

In my previous post I mentioned that this year the Pako retailers did not get on board with the Trick or Treating so Peg and I decided to create our own. We came up with the tags that we popped in all the mail boxes with ribbons and hoped for the best.

We were so pleased with the street's response and the kids had a blast and they all thought it was better than Pako. Yeh!!!!! The lesson learned is....What do you do when life gives you lemons? You make lemonade.

We had one guy dress his house in cobwebs and answer the door with a mask on and a smoking cauldron that the kids had to put their hands in to grab a mystery treat. One lovely lady made gorgeous decorated cupcakes.

So we hope we have started a long standing tradition that will get bigger and better every year. I hear people poo poo Halloween and wish it stayed in America. It did not originate in America, you can read up on the history here. I am so glad that there are people who LOVE having it here. It is such fun for the kids to dress up and roam the streets passing other kids and getting to know their neighbors. Pure Childhood Fun.

Once again my kids start the 365 day countdown till next year.