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Wisteria's Stall

We have a competition this month! Sign up for the The Olive Tree Market Newsletter Trish Stenzel from Wanderlust Clothing has generously donated a beautiful Vintage Kimono Top as a prize for one lucky person who signs up to the Newsletter this month-http://www.wanderlustclothing.com

Wanderlust Clothing

Its a long break between markets this time, a five week break, which I’m sure will mean that the Olive Tree Stallholders will have lots of great new work!!
 

The Sweet Boutique Stall

If you came to Junes Market you would have noticed the New Gourmet Food area!! The feedback from the stallholders was fantastic and our new cheese stall Cheese & Co sold out of their cheeses and breads! The new gourmet food stalls include: Hunter Belle Cheese, Cheese & Co, A Taste of the Bush, Pureblends, Arolyn Grove, Tea by Grete, Bon Chai, Little Cossack Kefir, Hunter Heritage Gourmet Foods, Aunty Evas Jams, River Flats and The Sweet Boutique!! 

Remember to let us know if you have a gourmet food product and/or produce and are interested in having a stall please get in contact!  

 

 

If you have sampled the goodies from Wozz! Kitchen Creations over the last few months, and you love their delicious products, then you need to come and stock up at July’s Olive Tree as the owner Warrick is moving to the U.S!! We will miss Warrick’s smiling face at Olive Tree!! 

I must say that Anna Farthing, the owner and creator of The Sweet Boutique, has been getting some fabulous press of late with articles in The Newcastle Herald http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/petite-sweets-offer-a-treat/2588224.aspx and a great blog article on the Aloud http://interviewsaloud.com

So! you must come and sample Anna’s delicious cupcakes! Be warned The Sweet Boutique and Sugarlicious’s macaroons sell out very early- both stalls have very dedicated followers who are serious about getting their monthly fix!

 

KW Creations Stall

We will have some really great new art & design stalls at July’s market! Including: surface design & screen-printed home wares from Michaela Siewert, Wisteria who design and create really beautiful cards & prints with a little bit of vintage to spice up their stall, KW Creations make gorgeous scented candles in vintage cups and festive hanging candles which can be used inside or outside  & in your garden or for parties, Rochelle Cooper Handmade who create gorgeous crocheted blankets and handmade 'goodness' in the form of funky beanies and more! You will see additional new stalls at the July Market!

Georgie- Rose Kefecek & Friend

So! We really are going through an exciting growth phase at Olive Tree! If you haven’t visited us for a while you must!! There is a lot to see and of course to hear with our partnership with Lizottes Newcastle who provide a great lineup of local and emerging artists at each market. The play list for the day will be posted on Facebook the week of the market.

We will also be starting a new monthly focus on The Olive Tree Market Blog which will tell you more about our individual stallholders. The first post will be published on June 25th on the blog- http://theolivetreemarket.blogspot.com.au. 

The first focus will be on Zoe T from Oscar & Matila- http://www.oscarandmatilda.com

 

If you need a little blogging help!!

If you are like me and you are a bit of a blogging simpleton then there is a workshop on June 30th that may me just what you need! Simone Madigan from States Of Nature has moved back to Newcastle from Melbourne and is running a series of workshops on blogging & focusing on Photoshop and Illustrator. So you should get in quick as there are limited spaces! You should also check out Simone's gorgeous work she makes gorgeous wearable art out of sustainable timbers and screen printed home wares.

Best New Product Winner!

Just to let you all know that the winner of the Best New Product Competition, that Olive Tree had on Facebook leading up to the June 2nd Market, was won by Paisleys on Harrison/ Ceramics by Sandra. That means that the stallholder Sandra will have a free stall at the July Market and that one of the voters Emma Guy will win a $50 Olive Tree Voucher to spend at the July 7th Olive Tree!

Seeing we are on the topic of Sandra here is the product that was submitted plus a little more of her work. If you are looking for Sandra's work at The Olive Tree Market she is situated under the big Figtree near the first Union St Entrance. Sandra has also opened a gallery in Cardiff.

Market week!! That crazy time of the month!

We have a little Competition this week! I've asked our stallholders to submit images of their New Products for this Saturdays Olive Tree. So!! I will post the images on  Olive Tree Facebook Page for you to have a look see!

Then you can come to the Organisers Table on Saturday and Vote for your Favourite Product!! One Lucky Person will then WIN a $50 Olive Tree Voucher!!

The Stallholder with the Most Votes will then Win their Stall at the Next Market Free!!

I'll put up some more information about Saturday's Market mid week! Including music etc etc

Here are a few of the submissions so far!!

Vintage Rings by Blossom & Cat

Coconut Body Oil by Lhami

Vintage Kimono's by Wanderlust Clothin

Back on deck! I think! And new stuff!

It's been a really busy few months and my blogging has gone out the window!! Sometimes family life takes precedence and it seems the blog is the space that suffers in my life anyway. Perhaps because I'm still trying to find my blogging voice for Olive Tree. Do I talk only about the market, focusing on stalls and all thing Olive Tree or do other aspects of life come into the mix that are connected to the spirit of the market but a little left of field?! Haven't really worked that out as yet!! If you have a view on that let me know. To start things off here is some new stuff from this months market that I loved!!

Etched Glassware

Very cool earrings!

Shiny Bag

I want to ride my bicycle

Unbelievably its mid May and June's market is on the horizon!! The last few markets have seen lots of new things happening at Olive Tree! New stalls, a bigger food section and a new partnership with Lizottes who have started organising the music each month with acts that will play at Lizottes Newcastle Venue and also emerging artists. To add to this we will continue to have our drumming from local groups like the fabulous Earthen Rhythms & young ensembles like Sorella Strings and our talented little trio of harpists.

Its great having the new gourmet food stalls but I'm still trying to source a great bread and pastry stall!! I want something really special with delicious bread and goodies made from high quality, and if possible, organic produce. So if you are reading this and have an idea or know of such a stallholder please let me know. For all of your food lovers we now have lots of delicious take home food products/stallholders: Little Cossack Kefir who make a totally amazing drink think Ginger Beer full of spices, Wozz! Kitchen Creations, Pureblends, Arolyn Grove, Wattlecreek, Bon Chai, Tea by Grete, Riverflats plus all our regular food stalls.

I went on a little twenty four hour trip to Melbourne before the May Market and was lucky enough to visit the Finders Keepers Market which has found a new home in Melbourne at the absolutely beautiful Melbourne Exhibition Building. Talk about the perfect location for a indoor market! If only I could wish such a place into being in Newcastle. We have some wonderful old spaces in Newcastle that could be fantastic if some major money was put into making them safe spaces to use but money is always the issue..  Places like this!

Anyway! It was my first visit to Finders Keepers and it was totally fantastic. Great Stalls, wonderful atmosphere and interesting people to speak with. As happens within the first few minutes I ran into some Olive Tree Stallholders! Jo Dyer from Happily Ever Afternoon, Robyn McPherson from Miss Print and Helen from Blossom & Cat!! Collective consciousness is a funny thing! We are having a bit of a 'creative' migration from Olive Tree to Melbourne at the moment, as happens when young artists need to spread their wings, but this always makes room for other upcoming artists so things do go full circle...

I'll make sure I blog a little more this month and let you know what will be happening at Junes market. I had a meeting with Di Jones from Sketch & Jones, Zoe Tjanavaras from Oscar & Matilda and Bec Carver from  Frankie Small last week and we brained stormed about the market and what we can do better and how we can make it more interesting. Trish from Miss Fancypants and Wanderlust Clothing was there in spirit and sent notes! It was a fun meeting and some great ideas were discussed so stay tuned on that front!! Anyway! We met at Bank Corner Cafe and if you haven't been there yet you should check it out. It's a very cute little hole in the wall cafe started by the original creator of Golbergs in Cooks Hill. Great coffee, food and good music to be had. Don't leave it to long as its becoming very popular.

Thats it for tonight...

Olive Tree has had a great start to 2012 with our first market for the year on February 4th. As usual the weather gods kept us guessing but it turned into a gorgeous day with a big audience visiting us throughout the day- which is always great!! The Olive Tree Stallholders had been making lots of lovely new work and I think 2012 will be really exciting year at Olive Tree. Stay tuned for more announcements very soon!

We had lots of new stallholders in February and it's always exciting to see what their stalls are be like in the 'flesh'!! We have an application process at Olive Tree but much of this happens online these days so often  we only meet our new stallholders for the first time on market day. One of our new stallholders is the lovely Ms Shana Dennis or 'Doll Eyes'!!

Shana makes very cute tea light candles and sells her photographic work and original illustrations. Shana was also responsible for running Newcastle's Silent Film Festival last year. If you can't wait until the next Olive Tree Market on March 3rd you can buy Shana's Tea-lights from one of Newcastle's most original shops Blackbird Corner here If you haven't been there before you should!!

We had a 'guest' appearance from Sydney Illustrator Nicholas Beckett whose black sense of humour caught my eye last year when I ran the This is Not Art Zine & Artists Market. Anyway, Nicholas has visited Olive Tree twice now and you should have a look at his work here!! I'm hoping he will hop on the train from Central with his suitcase full of zines and illustrations sometime soon!!

I'm also loving the work by illustrator and jeweler Angie Goto. She doesn't have a website or Facebook Page at the moment but you can meet her at the next Olive Tree on March 3rd. She makes funky wearable art and I really like the quirky characters she creates!!

Nick and Liesl played throughout the day on February 3rd. They always bring a strong central Coast following with them and its great to have so many people coming to the market from other areas. We are always so lucky to have Nick & Liesl at Olive Tree. As well as being wonderful performers they are always so generous with how many sets they perform at the market and create a really fantastic vibe. You should check out their Albums here if you don't have them already!!

Last Market for 2011 this December 17th!!!

Well its been a big year at The Olive Tree Market!! My partners Bec & Ally moved onto their new project One Penny Black Cafehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Penny-Black-Espresso-Bar/144805218888240 which has been doing amazingly well! I miss them but am proud of them for following their dream. You should check out One Penny if you haven't!!

Olive Tree has been growing and we have had some amazing new stallholders join the market. Frankie & Frida who make gorgeous cedar jewelry, graphic designer and artists Angie Goto, The Hare and the Tortoise who make very funky kids toys, Elkhorne with beautifully hand screen-printed home-wares and handmade cards from Blueberry Paper to name a few.

We have had great music at every market from Grace Turner, Sorella Strings, Earthen Rhythms, Jack Dawson, Scott Gelzinnis, Zoe Klemenczuk, The Do Riders and more!!! At the last market we some great backpackers from Germany the Jammin' Johnny's and I really wished you had all seen them as they rocked the house with the amazing energy!! It was the end of the day so not as many people were at the market which was a pity!!

We will have some of our favourite stallholders move onto new things after our last market of the year! Julia from Frejj is off to have her second child, printmaker Robyn Mcpherson will move to Melbourne to attend Victorian College of the Arts and Emily Rose will move to Sydney to study. It sad to see them go but it also means we will have some great new stallholders in the new year. So you really should come to Olive Tree next week on December 17th and snap up some of their amazing work!!!

Make sure you come to Olive Tree on December 17th and support your local Handmade Community!! There will be lots of lovely work on offer and beautiful work from the hands of the people who make them for you to give to the people you love this Christmas!! 

Hope to see you there!! Make sure you tell all your family and friends and come and enjoy the extended hours from 9am-6pm and take in the atmosphere of people who love what they do!!