Market merriment and strawberry jam

I really enjoyed the Hobart market yesterday. It's such a great market - lots of friendly people, all sorts of lovely and inspiring handmade products, nice music, and general good vibes. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the millymaker stall and a special thanks to Julia and her Mum - my best bag customers!

Thanks too to the very creative Noella, Shauna, Sue and Jodie for adding to the millymaker mix, to my darling husband for helping me set up and running errands during the day, to my brother Bruce for making the wooden display stand for my bags and to Noah for adding busking talent to the market.

I am excited already about my next market and just hope I get a spot in one of the upcoming pre-Christmas events. Watch this space...

And now on to important jammy matters - In the endless pursuit of finding friendly foods for my dodgy digestive system I have been making a rather nice, almost cakey pumpernickel bread using almond meal and having this with a very delicious strawberry jelly/jam. The jelly tastes so wondrous it's hard to believe it is sugar free. Here's the recipe:

Strawberry jelly/jam
Makes about 2 cups

375 g (2 and a half cups) fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered (I used two punnets)
250 ml (1 cup) water
2 tbs fresh lemon juice
150 g (1/2 cup) honey
1 tbs gelatin (I used one sachet)
100 ml warm water

Place the strawberries, water, lemon juice and honey in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil, then cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and strain through a sieve, gently squeezing out as much juice as possible. Dissolve the gelatin in 100 ml of water and stir into hot juice. Pour into glass jar/s, tighten lid and refrigerate overnight to set.

This is so yummy - it's hard to resist eating it by the spoonful rather than just spreading it on your toast!

Come and visit me at the Hobart Designers Market this Father's Day

I am really looking forward to the market on Sunday. I have my lovely sister Shauna's cards and jewellery to add to my bags and purses, rings from Noella, groovy oven gloves by Sue and coat hangers by Jodie. An eclectic millymaker mix!

You can find out more about the market at:

http://themarkethobart.blogspot.com/

The photograph above is of two of Shauna's beautiful hand-painted, hand-printed lino cut cards. They are little works of art in themselves and worth framing. While Shauna was staying with me over the last few days she also started a blogsite where you can see more of her cards and jewellery and hopefully she'll add some of her art soon too.

http://shaunadesigns.blogspot.com/

Only ten days until market day

Not long to go!

You can find out more about the market at
http://themarkethobart.blogspot.com/

PS - I made this sign on the cool website
http://www.signgenerator.org/

Tra la...

Playing shop

Esther came around today. Long time no see - it was great to catch up with her. She helped me work out some display ideas for my market stall in a couple of weeks from her experience working at Reminiscence. Noella had cut down some lovely branches for me to use to hang bags from (not that you can see this in the pic) and we played around with where to place this on a table of the same width as my stall will be. Also going to use Alan's wooden mannequin from Ikea to display some of the knitted rings. What fun it was - like being little girls again.

Other news - Izzie started walking on Thursday. I was able to see one of her first tentative walks across Lilli and Matt's lounge room on my mobile phone via a video sent to me. Isn't technology wonderful!