The Handmade Expo at the Ipswich Show

Hi Everyone

We just wanted to let you know of a great opportunity that has come up under The Handmade Expo banner...

The Handmade Expo is taking out a 9m x 3m site at the Ipswich Show in May (13th, 14th & 15th)...
The Ipswich Show is a massive 3 day event with approx 25,000 potential customers looking and potentially purchasing your items.
We did this event back in 2009 and found it to be a successful day for 90% of people involved.

We have made 2 packages available...

Package #1
$170
Selling and promoting your product and business...Now, you don't need to be there to sell your product, we will do this on your behalf. If you take us up on this offer, we will require your items to be either dropped off at the showgrounds on the Thursday 12th or if you were to send your product, we will need to receive it on or before the Wednesday 11th May. We are not taking a commission on sales...everything you sell, you get back..We will require you to price your items (perhaps with your business card attached).
We would require approx $500 worth of stock from you to make it worth your while. This will give us stock to "restock" with all the time.

Package #2
$50
This package is promotion only. So a whole stack of your business cards or flyers which we will place on a promotions table for potentially 25,000 customers to take..Once again, if you would like to do this offer, we will require your promotional material to be dropped off at the showgrounds on the Thursday 12th or if you were to send your promo material, we will require it in our hot little hands on or before Wednesday 11th May...

We believe that this is a great opportunity to sell and promote yourselves and would love to help you....

If you are interested in either of these, we will require your payment on or before the 22nd April (we have extended payment date)

You can direct deposit into

GIFFORD, BAIN, HASTED
BSB: 064417
ACC: 10651469
Please use your name and show as a reference...

We hope that you are keen to be involved.

From
Liesa
xox

Mothers Day Market

Hi Everyone

We hope to see all your smiling faces at the market on Saturday at the Ipswich Turf Club, Brisbane Road, Bundamba from 8am-2pm. There is Free Entry and Free Parking into our markets...

This month, we have up to 100 stalls of handmade, handbaked and handgrown.

What a perfect opportunity to buy your wonderful Mum something handmade with love. This will be your last opportunity before Mothers Day....

We have also had confirmation that a FARMER will be attending. FARMER IAN to be exact. He will have over 25 lines of fresh fruit and vegetables available. So, make sure you bring your shopping bags...Deeeelicious.

The Swanbank Steam Train will be up and running again with approx 4 trips made throughout the day with a discounted rate for our very special customers and stallholders. A great day out for all the FAMILY.

We would like to thank a few of our sponsers...The Coffee Club (for providing us all with awesome coffee), we would also like to thank Handmade Heaven, Mimmis, Market Me Marketing, MB Boats Queensland, Cute as Buttons, Lilly Cottage, The Coffee Club, Revamped by Steve Curnow, In.cube8r and Paper Divas for being our brochure sponsers...YOU GUYS ROCK...

We look forward to seeing you all, rain, hail or shine THIS SATURDAY.

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam

March Market Wrap Up...

Although the rain shortened the market, it didn't dampen the spirits of 74 stallholders and all their fans who came along on Saturday.

We are so proud of our wonderful stallholders who set up as if the sun was shining !

We had so many customers through the gate too, which was awe inspiring to know we have so many followers.

It seems rain hail or shine The Handmade Expo fans are still going to come to get their fix of all things handmade.

Here's a sample of the market and a snippet of what to expect on 16th April !

Thanks again everyone.

Tempted ?

See you tomorrow at The Handmade Expo - Market :)

Hi Everyone.

Just a short and sweet post.
We hope to see you all tomorrow at the Ipswich Turf Club, Brisbane Road, Bundamba from 8am-2pm for The Handmade Expo - Market.
We have up to 100 stalls of handmade, handbaked and handgrown.
The Swanbank Steam Train ride will also be operating...

FREE ENTRY and FREE PARKING....

A great day out for the family...

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam
xo

Long overdue Post

Hi Everyone....

Yes, we have been overdue for a recent post. With the recent devastation around Ipswich and the Lockyer Valley, we have been a little sidetracked...

We had our first market back for 2011 back on the 19th Feb...It was an amazing day. We had a few things going on with the Re-Stash Craft Appeal which went amazingly. The donations were huge and the crafters who rummaged through all the donations were very appreciative to all of you...We also raised around $300 for the Ipswich Mayors Community Fund as well which has gone to Flood effected families in the region...So, a big thanks to everyone who donated....

Our next market is on Saturday 19th March. We have around the 80 stalls booked in for this market (and will probably increase over the next week). Our Gourmet Fresh section is growing which is lovely so soon you will be able to get EVERYTHING you need at the market...including Fresh Produce, etc...

The Handmade Expo will also be having a site at the Ipswich Show in May to sell and promote handmade as well as The Handmade Expo. We did this event back in 2009 and it was a huge success...talking to thousands and thousands of people and handing our thousands and thousands of brochures...We are looking for "handmadies" that would like to be involved with this event, so if you are interested, scoot us an email to thehandmadeexpo@optusnet.com.au.

So, thanks heaps for your patience in blogland and we hope to keep our blog updated more often.

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam

See you tomorrow :)

Hi Everyone

We are so excited about our first market for 2011...
We are back tomorrow at the Ipswich Turf Club, Brisbane Road, Bundamba from 8am-2pm. There is free parking and free entry.

There are a few things going on that we would like to tell you about.

We have around the 80 stalls this month of handmade, handgrown and handbaked...
The Swanbank Steam Train is running a few times through the market day....
We are taking gold coin donations at the front gate which will go direct to the Ipswich Mayor's Community Fund
We are also taking donations for the Re-Stash Craft Appeal. Fellow crafters can donate their unwanted/unused craft supplies for other fellow crafters who lost a little or a lot in the recent floods....

WOW....we are so excited.
So, we hope to see you all there between 8am-2pm..and we hope that you will spread the word and tell all of your friends.

From
The Handmade Expo Team
Liesa, Micky & Miriam
xox

Donations starting to come in

Hi Everyone

Wow, the response for the Re-Stash Craft Appeal @ The Handmade Expo has been amazing. We already have 2 very large donations in Handmade Heaven. A big thanks to Giggle Fairy Designs and Angelic Aspirations for their generosity.




These donations are available to rummage through in Handmade Heaven now...Do you know a "handmadie" that lost a little or a lot in the recent floods and needs these items to get them back to their creative space? Please let them know that we have a huge range of scrapbooking supplies in Handmade Heaven for them to rummage through...

We are also stoked to be in the Queensland Times today (page 7) promoting this wonderful initiative....

We look forward to seeing you all at our next market on Saturday 19th Feb at the Ipswich Turf Club from 8am-2pm

From
Liesa, Micky & Miriam