Start your Christmas Shopping at Ivanhoe Makers Market

The stallholders are busy getting ready for our November market and we've got a full house, including our wonderful fair trade stall 'Daughters' and the charity 'Kelti'.

We have a wonderful new stall, massage from Kikee, just right to get you in the right mood for Christmas!

Of course, there are our usual wonderful stallholders.

Come and see us tomorrow (Saturday the 17th November) and support your local makers market.

Fair Trade in Ivanhoe

As you may be aware, the Livingstone Community Centre and Ivanhoe Makers Market are enthusiastic about supporting Fair Trade charities and businesses. This month we have Carpets for Communities, a fair trade charity that supports women in Cambodia. The carpets are wonderful, they've been at our market previously.

And recently, we've welcomed Diana Ackerman and her fair trade business, Koguis. Her beautiful and bright handmade products are fair traded from Colombia and involve interesting techniques and materials.

Hope to see you at the market on Saturday, (16th June) from 10am till 4pm.

Making a mark at Ivanhoe makers market

The Livingstone Community Centre is all set up, ready for our wonderful stallholders who arrived bright eyed and bushy tailed, tomorrow for the March (Saturday the 17th) Ivanhoe Makers Market.

We have two fair traders with us: Douglas Blane and his wonderful beadwork and Diana Akkerman who is a fair trade business. I didn't get to see her last month, but they tell me there was lots of wonderful handwork for sale.

Last month we also had Shameena Sheriff whose Henna art work obviously made quite a splash!

We also have Stephen Rosana joining us who makes speakers. I haven't seen his application, so I'm looking forward to viewing handmade speakers!

Anyway, come and see for yourself,

Cheers, Teresa

Come to Ivanhoe Makers Market for all your Christmas shopping

Sounds like an ad for a shopping centre. It's not! We're full to the brim with people who can talk intelligently and helpfully about the goods they sell, because they make them!

We'll be having a Christmas hamper, full of lovely handmade goods from our stallholders. Tickets are free when you purchase from our stallholders. Just a little thankyou from all of us.

We have two fair trade stalls: Douglas with his amazing beadwork from Zimbabwe, handmade wooden toys from Kelti and April with her textiles from Daughters of Cambodia. Support these wonderful stallholders, knowing you're helping someone with your purchase.

Hope to see you there!

Fair trade stalls

One of the benefits of our collaboration with Livingstone Community Centre has been the addition of Fair Trade stalls to our market. This has been an exciting development with the view to expanding the range of stalls.

So far we've welcomed:

DAUGHTERS COLLECTION. Daughters of Cambodia NGO was established in 2007 by Ruth Elliott, in response to the horrifying reality of girls being sold into the sex industry. Daughters provides employment in fair-trade business and a range of support services.


Daughters Collection includes kitchen linen, table linen, cushions, bags, jewellery, hats, scarves, purses and other fashion accessories, made with locally sourced eco-friendly materials including handwoven cotton, dyed naturally using forest fruits. The collections is sold by volunteers, all profits are reinvested in the work of the organisation in Cambodia.

For more information: www.daughterscollection.com.au  email: daughters.ozsales@gmail.com

CARPETS FOR COMMUNITIES. Carpets are made in Cambodia from recycled T-Shirt material and rice sacks. All proceeds from these rugs go back to Cambodia to help mothers break the cycle of poverty for their children.

For more information: www.carpetsforcommunities.org

BLESSED LIFE. Set up by Stephanie Woollard to helps women in Nepal run viable businesses manufacturing and selling a range of winter clothing, further development is hoped to help women become community leaders and improve their lives.


For more information: www.blessed-life.com

As you can see I've had fun checking out the stalls. The work is terrific and varied, the quality is wonderful.