Introducing.....

We'd like to introduce another lovely Melbourne Rummager - this time it's Angie from Precious Little Sakura!!

I have been making clothing and toys as gifts for family and friends for many years. I've also made costumes and wire framed faerie wings (even a pair that was spring loaded so that the wings could flap!).

I was fortunate to move into a house with the most amazing workshop / shed out the back. I also started collaborating with two gorgeous creative friends. Together we created some fantastic items. And the most enduring of these was the creation of the precious little sakura logo and label. For this I am forever indebted to the illustrator / designer (check out their blog - http://littlesumo.wordpress.com/).

I started making elephants as gifts late 2011 and when one was posted on Facebook with the friend tagged a friend of theirs commented and placed an order and from there another 60 odd elephants were made and sold (only a few left now).

I've ventured into deer and these along with the last few elephants are my shops stock. I have recently designed and created reindeers just in time for Christmas!

Along the way I've also made clothing. It's been a great way to bring together the things I love - the challenge of making things reversible, Japanese style / design and retro prints. I think it might be time to put some of the designs out there - maybe make them custom made!

You can find Angie at her etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/preciouslittlesakura

Follow her on facebook

Introducing...Melbourne Installation Artist!

This month in Melbourne (18th Nov - don't forget to register!), we're going to be having an installation by The Sisters Hayes! Rebecca from The Sisters Hayes will also have a stall selling her gorgeous artwork...

We're super excited....

Rebecca Hayes is a Melbourne based artist working across animation, illustration, new media, theatre and the visual arts. She holds a Bachelor of Art (Animation and Interactive Media) from RMIT. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates both traditional and digital techniques to bring to life characters and stories which are colourful, whimsical, and sometimes strange. 

Inspired by mid-century design, Rebecca's illustrations foster a sense of nostalgia for a world of side show queens, cowboys and characters of times gone by. Utilising a range of techniques encompassing drawing, stop motion and cut-outs, her animated works have screened in exhibitions, film festivals and public spaces- once afloat the Darling Harbour as part of the 2009 Sydney Festival.

She is also the youngest member of The Sisters Hayes, a trio of sibling artists collaborating across theatre, craft and the visual arts to bring audiences into rich and decorative worlds.

You can find Rebecca at her website - www.rebeccakhayes.com 

On her blog - www.rebeccakhayes.blogspot.com

On facebook - facebook.com/RebeccaHayesArt

On twitter - @rebeccakay_

At her online store - www.rebeccakhayes.bigcartel.com

At Etsy - www.rebeccahayesart.etsy.com

Canberra Rummage Regos Open!!!

Canberra Rummage is happening again!

December 16 from 12.30pm - 4.30pm
New Acton, Canberra

Register here: http://suitcaserummage.eventbrite.com.au

For more information visit our 'Canberra' page!!

Introducing... My French Sailor

Another lovely Melbourne Rummager! Sunnie from My French Sailor.

Sunnie is a landscape architect by trade running her own small business. To satisfy her fun creative side, she created My French Sailor, a venture that allows her to sell handmade paper goods at local Melbourne markets and also online with Etsy. 

In her spare time Sunnie is busy illustrating and designing new ideas for cards and gift tags and is currently working on a wedding stationary range. She loves nothing more than to sink her teeth into custom designs for her customers too. 

She enjoys heading to the markets, to not only support the local handmade movement, but to interact with customers and other stallholders. November 18^th will be Sunnie’s first appearance at the Suitcase Rummage and she can’t wait to meet you Rummagers there!

Visit the My French Sailor store on etsy.

Follow My French Sailor on facebook or twitter.

Canberra Rummage @ Art Not Apart

We had an excellent day in Canberra at Art Not Apart yesterday! Thanks to everyone that came to check it out and to everyone involved. We'll be back!

Thanks to the lovely Effie Dee and Ruben for their fabulous 'Doodle Circle'! A great addition to yesterday's Rummage.

Registrations

Registrations are open for the November 18 Melbourne Rummage!!!

Register here....Get in quick!

News just in! We have workshops!

Suitcase Rummage at Thornbury Theatre this Sunday is going to be HUGE! Of course, we have all our wonderful suitcase stalls to rummage and trawl through. But we have live local music, installations from local artists and - we have two workshop stalls happening all day!

See the information below about the workshops :)

Cara's Big Idea Brooch Making Workshop using Recycled Textiles. 

Cara's Big Idea is a social enterprise created by Cara Bradley to encourage people to upcycle post consumer textile waste into new products and in the process create community, jobs and new products!

https://www.facebook.com/CarasBigIdea?fref=ts

Kid's Character Design Workshop with Helen Maier & Fil Barlow 

Helen Maier & Fil Barlow are Emmy award winning Character and Creature Designers. Here are some of the shows that they designed the characters for...

Igor: the movie, Tutenstein, Spectrobes: the Disney game, Starship Troopers, Godzilla, Heavy Gear, Max Steel, Extreme Ghostbusters, Gen 13: the movie, Destination Truth: CG creatures, Dark fury: a Riddick animation, Mighty Ducks, Captain Nintendo, Cops, Alf & Alf Tales.
After 25 years working for Hollywood, Fil Barlow & Helen Maier returned to Australia in 2010 to focus on personal projects. Since then they have produced 19 animations for Loop De Loop and begun publishing Zooniverse comics.
http://www.zoonitoons.comFurther links...Commercial Projects on Deviant Art: http://filbarlow.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48

Animated Zooniverse: http://www.loopdeloop.org/tag/fil-barlow
Zooniverse Blog: http://zooniversecomic.blogspot.com.au
Helen Maier's Animations: http://www.loopdeloop.org/tag/helen-maier/
Helen's Art: http://helenmaier.deviantart.com

Installation at Melbourne October Rummage

This month at our Melbourne October Rummage, we're going to have a lovely installation by local artist Simone Bensdorp.

 

For this months Suitcase Rummage she will create a piece, in a suitcase of course, which celebrates the joy of spring, new growth and frolicking in the sunshine. Expect bright colours, weird creatures, and maybe even floral arrangements!

 

Simone is a Melbourne based illustrator/ visual artist who is unable to stick to the two dimensional. She enjoys exploring a wide variety of mediums and themes and draws much influence from tribal and psychedelic art, and childrens picture books. When she grows up she wants to be an origami master, but she's not quite ready to grow up yet.

 

 

 

Introducing...

We'd like to show you the lovely Alex Clark - another amazing Melbourne Rummager!  As for artist background, she's a Sydney-Melbourne dual resident specialising in portraiture, studied Illustration at NMIT Preston 2008-09, worked at a lolly shop for two years and now back on the wagon for making things, so now it's typography, sculpture and portraiture. 

Alex is an artist who also does 2 minute on the spot portraits at various happenings around the place....She'll be set up on Sunday at our October 21 Melbourne event!

Get on down to Thornbury Theatre this Sunday and have a portrait done ...
She also volunteers at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library as their chalkboard typographer, so there's some photos of that below.

 

Check out her other work here and follow her on facebook.

 

Melbourne Rummage Music line up!

Check out the fabulous line up for this weekend's Rummage in Melbourne -  come down and check it out!

11am-11:40 - Damez V

12pm-12:40pm - Jeff Hann (Friendly Yen Solo)

1pm - 1:40 - Dru Chen

2pm - 2:40: Mustered Courage

Introducing...

We'd like to introduce the lovely Nat Sui from HOLA! VINTAGE one of our fantastic Melbourne Rummagers....

HOLA! VINTAGE is a Melbourne based online boutique run by yours truly - designer by trade, professional vintage aficionado by choice, with years of experience collecting, wearing and styling vintage clothing.

I’ve searched far and wide to bring you a tightly edited, handpicked selection of original vintage & preloved fashions, dating from the swinging 60s to the grungy 90s. Each one-of-a-kind piece has made the meticulous HOLA! VINTAGE cut for its inherent time transcending design, character and quality, to best complete your bold and unique fashion statements.

The collection is eclectic, electric and on-trend, with an assured twist of individuality. If you’re a fashion forward, free thinking cat, you've come to the right place.

HOLA ! VINTAGE takes great pride in breathing new life into forgotten preloved pieces, offering you an alternative, conscientious and peaceful shopping experience.

Be one step ahead of the pack and follow us on Facebook for updates on the best buys of the season.

Peace and Love, Vintage Forever!

 ♥ Nat Sui

FACEBOOK - http://facebook.com/holavintage

TUMBLR - http://holavintage.tumblr.com/

PINTEREST - http://pinterest.com/HolaVintage

TWITTER - http://twitter.com/HolaVintage

INSTAGRAM - @holavintage

Broadsheet

Thank you Broadsheet for talking about our lovely Melbourne event which is coming up next week!

Introducing one of our Melbourne Rummagers, Collette!

Introducing one of our delightful Melbourne Rummagers, Collette Dane and her stall Keeper's Secret.


I like to keep busy! I work full time as a Visual and Performing Arts Primary Teacher, exhibit artwork annually and run a craft stall "Keeper's Secret".

Keeper's Secret started a few years ago. I had always been interested craft and spent most of my spare time making, sewing, stitching, folding & cutting.  Whilst working at a craft store I amassed a great deal of craft supplies, but spent most of my time painting artworks to complete a BA of Fine Arts. During this time I experimented with bookmaking, and now my fine arts practice is based around this media.  Finally, after a few holidays overseas and study over, I thought I should probably use all my craft knowledge and materials to make objects to sell.  I spent a summer making jewelry with Japanese Chiyogami paper. I created an Etsy store, however had no sales.  The collection of jewelry was shelved until later this year when I had my first Keeper's Secret stall at the Winter Artisans Market at Northcote Town Hall.  It was daunting being a first time stall holder at a prestigious market alongside more experienced and professional set-ups, however it was a success.  I continued to extend my range of goods, creating handmade blank books and a stationary range, keeping with the Chiyogami paper theme.  I also make small creatures, hair clips and brooches with felt.

Working on my craft stall has been incredibly enjoyable.  It's such a great feeling when someone purchases something I have made. It's great to know someone out there is treasuring their handmade jewelry as much as I enjoyed making it.  You might see me around Northcote with a basket of felt crafting while watching local musicians......

I absolutely love the Suitcase Rummage market. It's a great format and everyone is friendly.  It's informal approach is accessible to anyone and is a great opportunity to give market selling a try!

You can find Collette and her wonderful wares at the next Suitcase Rummage at Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne on October 21.

Brisbane October Rummage

The Brisbane October 7 Rummage is all sold out! 

Come along on Sunday to check it out...plenty of lovely people and goodies to see.

The Weekend Edition

Check out the lovely images from the September Brisbane Rummage at The Weekend Edition - thanks for coming along and capturing a few of the gorgeous folk and wares.

Melbourne October Rummage

Registrations for the Melbourne October Suitcase Rummage are now open!

Go to this link to register: http://suitcaserummage.eventbrite.com.au/ 

Just to get you a little bit excited for our upcoming events, here are some photos from our last Rummage in Melbourne.... 
Thanks to Kai Kenman for the lovely photos. 

You can see a few more at our Gallery.

We're coming back...to Melbourne!

Suitcase Rummage is returning to Melbourne folks!

Our next event is on September 23 - but check out the rest of the dates on the poster. 

Register for a stall here: http://suitcaserummage.eventbrite.com.au/

REGISTER FOR CANBERRA RUMMAGE

Registrations for Suitcase Rummage at art, not apart in Canberra are open!

We're excited about being a part of this great festival and look forward to seeing you all there. 

For more information go to our CANBERRA page above.

To register visit: http://suitcaserummage.eventbrite.com.au/ 

The Native Press

Thanks to The Native Press for a lovely interview on Suitcase Rummage! 
Check out the full interview on their website.

Registrations for September 2 Brisbane!

Hello Rummagers!


Registrations for our September 2 Rummage in Brisbane will be open from August 6 from 9am.
Follow the link below for more information and to register.


http://suitcaserummage.eventbrite.com.au/

Introducing Yelp!

Hi Rummagers! We'd like to introduce you to Yelp, an online urban city guide! Lani, who looks after Yelp in Brisbane, will be at our Rummage this Sunday August 5. So if you have any questions and want to learn more about how you can get involved, look for her and her big wheel of Yelp! Here is some information she's put together for you ...

Yelp is an online urban city guide (website and mobile app) that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the informed opinions of a vibrant and active community of locals in the know. Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great — and not so great — in your world. 

Yelp connects people to local businesses in many ways including:

Reviews
Start sharing your opinion about local places you love, hate, need so badly you dream of at night! It's great feedback for the businesses & for the community of users that use the site.

Yelp Mobile App
It's a free app & when you check in you access great deals & collect cool badges for being a regular of certain spots. You also can search places to explore in your local area whether you need a mechanic, a late night pharmacy or just need a great coffee! 

The Weekly Yelp
It goes out every Wednesday and the theme varies but sums up great spots to discover in Brisbane. The best thing is it's made up from quotes from your reviews, fame awaits you!

The Events Section
You can post events here & check out what's going on around the city. The community of users also create their own events from book clubs to foodie clubs to DVD clubs and more in between!

Talk.
This is a place were you can post topic conversations and get to know the community more.

Events.
I throw free events once a month BUT you have to be active on the site to get an invite! You never know you may get an Elite badge from San Francisco too, don't know what I'm talking about?! Just click on this link http://www.yelp.com.au/e… 
    
Business Owners.
You sign up via this link & get access to loads of free tools. https://biz.yelp.com.au/

Best of all you have a local community and marketing manager on the ground here in Brisbane. So if you want to reach out - whether you're a Yelper or Business Owner - feel free to drop me a line at brisbane@yelp.com

Introducing....

We'd like to introduce Andree from Sweeti Petiti - one of our regular Brisbane Rummagers:

“I make miniature food jewellery from polymer clay.  It’s all made by hand from scratch: no moulds are used.  They are then cured until hard and durable.

I strive to make them as realistically as I can.  I have an obsession with miniatures.  I don’t think I ever grew out of my love of dolls as a child!

French Patisserie items feature most in my range (I’m a bit of a Francophile!), however, I also love to make sushi, sandwiches, spaghetti and other savoury items. I’m always adding new items to my range.

I also run art classes and love drawing and collage in particular.

I’ve been running children’s clay modelling classes for nine years.  We have a lot of fun making jewellery, finger puppets, cake toppers, dolls house items and all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures from polymer clay.

I’m hooked on the Suitcase Rummage market experience!  I think it’s exactly what a market should be: lots of handmade and vintage not to mention the terrific supportive stallholders!”