BrisStyle Market - oh so good!

Well it has taken me almost a full week to recover, but the BrisStyle market was not just a full-on on day. It was seriously fun too!!!


Nice steady day without getting too manic at any one time (due to Helen's amazing reorganisation of the set-up we had no crushing crowds or bottlenecks - just a steady stream of happy relaxed people wandering through, buying up, and enjoying the ambiance!).


As for Jade and I, we had a great day. Much of our stock was depleted by the end of the day, and our own shopping bags were bulging with purchases from many other BrisStylettes (I haven't taken photos yet but I came home with wonderful goods from EmBelish, Jellygnite, Shazzabeth, Jetta's Nest, Edward and Lilly, Little Mary Moo, Flight Industries Hot Fudge, Chi Cuff, Kitty Boo Boo Little Chrisy, Twinkle Star Art and Made by Miffy). Oh, and that doesn't count the stalls that my husband took the kids to so they could buy me my Christmas presents... Yippee!!


Of course there were many many other beautiful things I could have spent my profits on....but I guess I'll just have to stalk Etsy for those!!

So I'll leave you with a couple of crowd pics from the day, but if you'd like to have a squiz at all the other stalls (and they're worth checking out, trust me - some very inspiring set-ups and product displays), visit Chi Cuff's Flickr Photostream. Her wonderful husband Darren from Kish Photography and Design took photos of every stall, so grab a cuppa and sit down for a fun tour of all the BrisStyle goodies on display at the market. Now back to the post-market cleaning up....whhheeeee!

Photo by Kish Photography & Design

Photo by Kish Photography & Design

Are you ready for this?

Why yes, for once in my life I actually am. Fancy that! I have everything packed by the door ready to load up at 6.30am tomorrow. I have painted my toenails (because that's totally essential for a successful market day right?) and I'm actually sitting here playing on the interwebs. I know!!!

So if you're in Brissy tomorrow and feel like a bit of shopping, live music, tasty cupcakes and fresh coffee, then get thee to the BrisStyle Christmas Market. Jade and I will be in the hall, next to the divine Robyn from Hot Fudge - if you do come please stop and say hi. It'll be a hoot!!!

See you on the other side folks!

XXX

Forget the dishes...

It's no real secret around here that housework has been taking a backseat to mad preparations for the BrisStyle Indie Designers Market coming up this weekend. But Jade and I have taken it a step further by using the humble tea-towel for something a little less mundane than polishing watermarks off cutlery (hey, who am I kidding - have I EVER cleaned watermarks off cutlery? Well no - but hey, I have seen it done in restaurants).


I'd like to call these something fancy like 'the tea-towel transformation range' but let's be honest - we are pilfering old tea-towels and sewing them up into bags and clutches. Bags and clutches with a talking point though, because surely a bag that says 'fairy penguins' on the front is not something you see being toted around the city every day :)


Anyway, I think they're turning out kinda ok - dad's handmade wooden buttons lend themselves well to the lovely linen tea-towels. Combined with either recycled fabrics, or organic hemp canvases, these bags are most definitely one-offs, and will not be available in our Etsy shop (unless of course they don't all sell at the BrisStyle market, in which case they may appear in the Etsy shop sometime after that...).


Right - better get back to it I suppose. I will definitely be popping back into this blog sooner rather than later as I am currently wearing some gorgeous jewellery that I am dying to blog about. But I want to take a bit more time on that post as I just know I'm gonna go all 'fan-girl' on that one. For now, it's sew sew sew for the next five days.

Giddy-up!!!!

Coming up for air...

Well it has been a record for me in terms of blog absences. I seemed to blink and suddenly almost two months have passed. In fairness though it has been two months of big stuff. Big family stuff. Busy stuff. Nothing terrible. Just difficulties, busyness, illness - lots of 'out of the ordinary' things to deal with. As Pip so eloquently put it on her own blog - "a bit of a rough trot".


But I am being cautiously optimistic that we are coming to the end of our spate of high hurdles. Still not ready to reopen the ol' Etsy shop, or pay daily visits to the sewing machine again. But hopeful that I can at least start to rebuild the relationship with the Janome sometime soon :)

And what exactly do a pair of frilly undies have to do with all this, you may rightly ask? Well not much, except that these are pretty much the last thing I sewed before things came to a screeching halt. I was lucky enough to be a pattern tester for Benita's (from Bettsy Kingston) adult frilly knickers pattern. You may already know that Benita makes the most breathtakingly beautiful ruffle bloomers for babies (so lovely I was actually sad when Kate toilet trained and no longer required nappy covers!!!!). So needless to say I jumped at this opportunity. And I was really happy with them - so totally burlesque I must say. So keep an eye out for Benita's MYO store for when she releases the pattern. They really were so fun to make (and fun to wear, but I'm certainly not going into that here..*cough cough*)!!!!

So that's it from me. Just felt the need to finally visit my blog and dip my toe in the waters again I guess. Still not ready to promise anything like regular blogging yet. Right now I'm dead keen on exercising my head off, making fresh juices, and listening to lots of new music (totally loving La Roux and Midnight Juggernauts at the moment). And playing with the kids. And smoochin' my lovely husband. And making homemade sushi and drinking green tea. All the good nurturing stuff. Stuff that's good to do after a bit of a rough trot!!

Hope you have all been taking care of yourselves too.

XXX
Bec

If you feel like a smile...

I dare you to watch this without grinning from ear to ear.

I am currently making pizzas, drinking Cascade Green, and just did a random search on Google for some 'Friday night music' to see what came up.

This is what came up. It made me ridiculously happy and there's no way I cannot share it. Enjoy :)

Congratultions Christina!!

Well today is the day folks. My, how the weeks are quickly flying by!

I have just fired up the ol' random number generator, and computer says that the winner of the Beckybean Eco Market Tote is...(drumroll.....):

Christina from A little bird told me.

Congratulations Christina!!! If you could send me your address to blog@beckybean.com I will pop your bag in the mail this week!!!

But never fear folks, if you are not the winner here, you might light to check out Jade's blog (assuming you entered the giveaway for her Eco Market Tote there) as Jade has also announced her winner today.

Hope you've had a happy Monday everyone,

XX
Bec

BrisStyle's Ekka Sale!!

Oops, can't believe I almost forgot to post about this - a testament to how busy things are around these parts at the moment I guess!!

Anyway, the lovely BrisStyle crew are having a sale to celebrate Brisbane's annual Ekka (The ‘Ekka’ being the annual agricultural show held in Brisbane, Australia - a fun-packed 10 days of bright lights and rides, local produce, entertainment and cute animals!)

There are loads of bargains up for grabs, free postage and in some cases gifts with purchases! Check out this post for links to BrisStyle Etsy shops taking part.


As for Jade and I, we are offering 10% off everything in our Beckybean shop, plus free postage within Australia. Simply select the 'Other' payment option when going through the checkout, and we will send you a revised PayPal invoice with the 10% off. Or if forget and pay the full price, we will refund you the 10% into your PayPal account. Easy peasy!

Happy Monday everyone (and don't forget about our Eco Market Tote double giveaway - still HEAPS of time to enter) :)