Kongwak Market

If you're ever driving through South Gippsland on a Sunday morning you must make a visit to the Kongwak Market. The beautiful tiny town of Kongwak is situated just 14kms from my home town of Korumburra. The market is open most Sundays from 10am came rain, hail or shine. The market grounds are small but often bustling with colour and life. Here you can purchase locally grown organic vegetables, unique crafts and jewellery and my personal favorite plenty of awesome retro and vintage clothing, footware, accessoires and home wares.
If it's a little cold outside don't worry, just take a seat inside the shed. Enjoy a lovely hot cup of coffee, or feast on the wonderful curries there on offer while you listen to live music.
Kongwak market is well worth a visit not only for the shopping but for the great food and wonderful atmosphere.

Playfully Vintage Collection

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White Picket Fence Dreaming

After many months....7 in fact we have finally moved into our new house, in a quiet little South Gippsland country town. One of the space rooms in the house has now been converted in a studio/workshop/office/storeroom/place for magic and wonder and creating. Complete with tacky old 1960’s floral wall paper and matching curtains?????...!! The carpet is old, worn and going to get replaced when i find the time, but the cute little window fill the room with many hours of glorious sunlight and the whole room as a sense of warmth and belonging to it.....it already feels like home.
I wanted to say to big thank you to all my wonderful customers and stockist who have put up with all the chaos, un-contractibility (hmmm might be making up a new word there), missing stock, running out of stock....and not forgetting the many changes to all my contact details......it been a rough few months but everything is beginning to fall into place....and just in time as spring has sprung and it time to get the house in order for the new season.....Christmas is just around the corner.
IN OTHER NEWS......due to the moving (which took a lot longer than was expected or planned for) the Spring collection BLACK which was to be released on the 1st of August this year, has been put on until further notice. But we will however be releasing a collection of beautiful and unique jewellery for the summer.....watch out for future posts, details are coming soon.

Shhhhh It’s A Secret – The outlook for Spring is BLACK

I have a secret, but you have to keep it to yourselves, well at least just for a little while….lol….a spy camera took these photo’s today. They are of our new spring collection entitled BLACK, also found was a secret stash of black enamel charms, vintage acrylic crystals and cameos, watch faces, and lengths of silver and black chain. But see the full collection and find what all the shhing is about, you’ll have to wait until the 1th of August 2008. ****tip-toes quietly out of the studio, holding secret stash and spy photos…lol****

Give old brass an new charm.

I love to collect old brass..stampings, charm... made from old dies is the 40's, 50's and right upto the 80's. Made from costume jewellery, toy and others orignally design for use in furniture. I buy these from all over the world but most of them come from the US and not in a very attractive state when they arrive. Most are covered in tranish and years and years of dust and oil. but that's part of the fun...sorting out the the usable piece from the junk.....cleaning them up and wondering what desing in can incorpate them into.
I hope to run a series of online workshops during the summer, on selection, cleaning and using brass charms and stampings in basic jewellery design.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND jewellery is soooo cool!!!

As a child, I loved the story of Alice In Wonderland, and imagined myself finding, by accident some secret place on my parents farm, I never did find such a place, but we have created a number of jewellery pieces inspired by the classic story, including charm and cameo necklaces
Many of the pieces feature vintage materials like Czech glass cabochons and old brass setting. Most of the designs are limited editions as a lot of the material used are getting harder and harder to find
These pieces can be purchase from my Etsy store and from selected stockists.