Big Shoes....

It is with great excitement that I introduce myself to the Sugar & Spice community and friends. My name is Sherryn and I am the new Owner and Director of Sugar & Spice Children's Market yay.

I can not go any further without giving much kudos and love to Sugar & Spice creator, Ali. Not only is Ali a lovely person, she is incredibly clever as well. Ali has created this gorgeous little brand that celebrates the world of handmade and takes beautiful and unique kids products to rural Victorian locations. I am so humbled that she chose me to take over! Ali has stayed true to the 'boutique' style market and I know that I wouldn't be alone in saying shopping at Sugar & Spice is a gorgeous experience all round. Thank you, Thank you Ali. You have poured many hours and lots of love into Sugar & Spice - I promise to take great care of your 'baby'.

A little background on me, I am the mother of two beautiful little people, Master Spice, 4 and Miss Sugar, 2. If only you knew how fitting this was to their personalities! I am a crafty lover and have been known to stalk all things market related. Including this very blog.

Have I told you we live in a beautiful part of the world?

I have 10 years plus experience working within the PR/Marketing & Event Management industry, and have just resigned from my role as Scienceworks' PR person to devote my attention to Sugar & Spice.

So from here I plan to throw myself in wholeheartedly. Let's hope for some fun, new relationships, LOTS of publicity, smiley shoppers/stall holders and busy, busy markets.

Drop me a line to say hello. Your suggestions and ideas to further the growth of sugar and spice are so very welcome. sugarandspicemarket@gmail.com

Sherryn

Goodbye and hello!

Well today marks my last day as the owner and organiser of Sugar & Spice. It is a very bittersweet moment, especially typing those words. However, it is most certainly onwards and upwards for the Sugar & Spice market with it's lovely new owner, Sherryn. There are some exciting things happening for S&S this year so watch this space!

Sherryn has a strong background in PR, marketing and event management which is exactly what the market needs. I am sure that Sherryn will introduce herself to you all in the next day or so.

Before I sign off for the last time I just wanted to thank everyone for their understanding and support in the last few weeks. Your messages of support have been touching and heart warming to say the least. I also wanted to thank all of the beautiful businesses that have put their trust in S&S (and me) you guys are what make S&S such a fantastic little market.

Lastly many thanks to the lovely, lovely ladies behind Little Melbourne, Tea & Jam,  Little Eats, tiny & little and The Little Hip Traveller. I would have been lost without your friendship and support. You all inspire and humble me with your brilliance every single day.

I wish you all happiness and success. Especially you Sherryn, I can not wait to see where you take Sugar & Spice from here.

The Mornington launch has been postponed

I am sorry to inform you that I have made the very difficult decision to postpone the Mornington market.

This is not easy for me to write but I feel that it is the least I can do. At the end of last year I experienced a fairly traumatic experience in the midst of all of the Christmas markets. I was devastated at the time and did not feel strong enough to share any information with you all. So I soldiered on and thought all would be fine. Then it was Christmas with all the work do's and running around and on top of that we moved. I kept busy and I thought I was still fine.

But several weeks ago it call came crashing down. A friend of mine experienced a similar tragedy to mine, and it brought all of my sadness flooding back to me. Unfortunately I am also prone to depression and that is where I have managed to spiral to. My husband travelling overseas for a few weeks has not helped either.

Please be assured that I am receiving the help that I need however, it has impacted on my preparations for Mornington and things have not progressed as I would have liked them to. The launch market is very important and I do not want to mess it up by doing an okay job.

So I have decided for the sake of my health and for the sake of the market it would be best to postpone the launch until July.

I will also be handing over the reigns to Sugar & Spice sooner than I had planned and I have found the PERFECT person to take over S&S, but that is a whole different post.

Mornington sweetness!

How sweet is this little hall? I love its blue doors, almost the exact same colour as the hall at Woodend It is going to look even prettier in a few weeks time when it plays host to the first Mornington Sugar & Spice!

Many thanks to the very lovely Nada of Red Mango Design and Photography for these photos. Nada is also the official photographer for the Mornington market!

Mornington Sugar & Spice

Sunday 3rd April

9am - 1pm

RSL Memorial Hall

19 Main Road, Mornington

The show goes on!

Hello all,

Thank you for the concern you have all shown me the last few days. Please rest assured that my family and I are fine and dandy. The catalyst for finding S&S a new home was brought about because my husband is going to travel more and more with his job (and it is a job that he adores so I can't be selfish and tell him to find a new one!!). There are some simply lovely people interested in taking over S&S and they all have some pretty impressive qualifications too, it is gong to be a difficult decision for me to make! The future for S&S is very bright indeed.

I hope you are all looking forward to the Woodend market this Sunday, I know I most certainly am. Here is the list of retailers you will be able to shop at!

Designs at Larch

Miss Ruby May

totally innocent

Little Ray

Eager Hands

Itty Bitty Oak

Maisy Dee

G is for Georgia

Almond Tree Frames

5 star, Baby!

Milladdi Kids
Bunty and Sars
DEAR life
Shady Days
Impressionable Kids
Retrobub
Little Herriot
Mr Moo
Cool Kids Creations
Bridie - Jane

And not forgetting our lovely lovely photographer Kim Selby Photography

To a good home .....

I realise that this is a little unexpected however, due to some personal circumstances Sugar & Spice needs to find a new home.

S&S needs someone who will take the market to the next level and there are already some very exciting developments on the horizon for Sugar & Spice.

If you can offer the right home for S&S please let me know.

Poster perfect!

Prue has out done herself once again! How gorgeous is this poster??!! As we speak (so to speak) 100 of these are being printed on glossy A3 paper. Volunteers to help get these posters out and about would be much appreciated.

Ballarat prettiness

I love Tea & Jam photography, I really honestly do! Kate and Nathan are such lovely people and they take spectacular photos, a perfect combo as far as I am concerned. Here are a few ace photos they took of the very first Ballarat Sugar & Spice and you will find a lot more on our facebook page.

For those of you in business, you should also check out Kate and Nathan's other baby, Tiny Agency

And so it begins again!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all safe and dry after the torrential rain falls we had over the weekend .... is it safe to declare the drought over yet?

I hope that you had a lovely Christmas and New Year with your families! My little family spent a lot of time packing our belongings into boxes because we moved into our lovely new home in the Macedon Ranges and we are loving it.

School has started again which also mean back to work for me (boo) and Mr O is back at school too, though he did inform me that he needed another holiday! He was super excited when I told him he could have 2 days off (the weekend of course).

Of course our lovely markets are back on too with Ballarat the first cab off the rank this year. We are back at the lovely St Alipius Parish Hall at 78 Victoria Street (see the map for a bit of assistance) 9am - 1pm, with a lovely array of stall holders to browse : ) Here are just a few of them!

Myrtle & Grace

Little Brown Owl

Silly Milly Bow-tique

Little Ray

Stuff by Sara

Tell us About it

Sawdust

Morgan Wills

Tom & Molly

Retrobub

CharlieCharlieCoconut

Almond Tree Frames

Baby dimple

Bridie-Jane

Our ever popular goody  bags, packed this time by the Goody Bag Exchange, will be available at the market! HOWEVER, to get your hands on of the 50 bags you will need to bring in a Sugar & Spice ad that we have running in this weeks Courier newspaper. There will be just to two ads this week so you will have to keep your eyes peeled!

Merry Christmas everyone

I just love Kim Selby and her lovely, lovely photographs! This one would have to be my favourite. Head over to our facebook page to see lots more gorgeous photos from the last Woodend market

Wishing you all a safe Christmas filled with love, laughter and loved ones as well as wonderful New Year

Congratulations Chantell

Calling Chantell Brooks you are the lucky winner of our gorgeous Christmas giveaway.

Many thanks to all of you who entered our giveaway there was over 100 forwards which is fantastic. Also a huge thank you to all of the businesses that contributed to the giveaway:

MoonmuM

Giggleberry

Little Kitchen

The Cupcake Wrapper Co

Tiny & Little

Little Sooti

MissRuby May

Ah Tissue

Style Me Gorgeous

Mini Envy

And just incase you missed it Sugar & Spice will be closed from this Friday until the 17th of Jan next year. Retailers need to have their applications to me by this Friday to secure your retail space at 2010 prices.

Better late than never .....

Honestly where is my time going these days? I feel like I am living in some sort of a time warp!
Anyway here is the retailer list for tomorrows market. Better late than never as my gran would say!!

Charlie Bird Clothing

Adorning Al

Kim Selby Photography

Osihi-M

Fawn & Fox (formerly Little Elk)

La Toriana

Cro-chelle

totally innocent

Dandelion

Retro bub

The bear & the Whale

Picanniny rugs

Little Nogg

Miss Ruby May

Tom & Molly

Mister Mista

Spunkee

Moederkip

Clucky

Eco Clay

Ceci Bean

Little Puddles

Piper + Lily

Owl Designs

Amore kids

Iggle & Boo

Almond tree Frames

Little Wrap bags

5 star, Baby!

ByeBye Birdie

Inspired by paper

Sissy & Bro

So make your list and check it twice ... I know I am going to be shopping up a storm tomorrow! There will also be coffee and free face painting, sadly no cupcakes this time around : (

The weather is going to be lovely, but even if we get a shower do not panic, we are an indoor market!