Vintage at the Livingstone Centre

There is Vintage clothing happening at Livingstone Community Centre!

The lovely Shirley (Ivanhoe Makers Market committee and beautiful jewellery stallholder) has organised a fantastic sale of pre-loved and Vintage clothing to be held at the Livingstone Community Centre. There's an amazing amount of women's and men's clothing along with accessories, shoes and books.


It's on this Saturday, the 22nd from 10am till 4pm at the Livingstone Community Centre, corner of Waterdales Rd and Livingstone St. Ivanhoe. (Right where we hold Ivanhoe Makers Market.)

Chocolates, children and more

Tomorrow is Ivanhoe Makers market and it's looking lovely. We've three new stallholders: Charmain with chocolates! Yes chocolates.......Amy has children's and adult clothing and Romma has hair accessories, candles and cards (handcut!). I've seen the pictures, can't wait to see them for real.

We also welcome back Sandra and her gorgeous sleepwear, Susie with her beautiful Japanese works and more!

The sausage sizzle will be on and there might be free muffins!

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.

Winter in Ivanhoe

It's Winter, well, almost; it's certainly cold. Come to Ivanhoe Makers Market and see what wonderful winter warmers we have.

Dorothy Higgins, Leonie Teweriek, Olgaa Fienco, Barbara Whittle and Teresa Bennett (me!) have all been busy, knitting, sewing, crocheting to their hearts content. There must be something there for you or a loved one.

We've got some new bookmarks too! They're bright and cheerful and have the dates till June 2013!

Come and have fun, the barbies on too!

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

Saturday 18th February - Market is back for 2012

Hi we're back! This Saturday (18th Feb) is our first market for 2012. We have a mix of some of our regular stallholders, and some interesting new people. There's Japanese Art, henna painting, men's skincare, fair trade indigenous handcrafts and much more.

Join us at the Livingstone community centre, corner of Livingstone St and Waterdale rd, right in the heart of Ivanhoe shopping centre, from 10am till 4pm.