We will be going pink for our June Market

So spread the word as it's an important cause : )

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

Click on apply now for details about our June Market. We had such a great turn out on Saturday and so much fun. A huge well done to Fabienne who won our basket of goodies from our stall holders. It has some lovely items in it. We hope you really enjoy it Fabienne. Lets see what exciting prize we can come up with for the next market. And don't forget we will be giving away Crafternoon Tea Cash again before our market so keep an eye out on Facebook for details.

Art by Ellaquaint 

Happy Monday everyone : ) Lisa

Market day tomorrow

And we have a winner for our plate competition. Well done to Tracy Allan. Thank you Tracy for helping us finish our plate. I will post a photo of the finish product for you all to see. Keep it crafty and see you all tomorrow.

You won't want to miss out...

Make sure you head over to our facebook page tonight at 8pm on the dot.... if you attending the market on Saturday it will come in very useful. I won't say much more. hehe
Keep the entries coming in for our caption competition.  Check the below post for details. It's a fun one.

Don't forget the market is on SATURDAY 10am  - 2pm x

Competition Time!!!

Ooooh we have such a fun competition for you guys this week!  Niki from Odd One Out has agreed to paint us our very own Crafternoon Tea custom plate - wahoo! (and about time hehe)

She has nearly completed it but needs your help with the finishing touches - and this is where it gets fun.....

Come up with cute, funny or completely random quote for the wee people on this fab vintage plate.  The lucky person who writes our favourite caption will win their choice of plate from the Odd One Out range!  So get thinking…..

You have until Friday 8pm to get those entries in – we will announce the winner and the plate will be revealed at the next market on the 19^th of May.

To enter simply like both Facebook pages here & here and post a comment with your captions below – can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!

Mothers day is near....

Why not jump over to our Facebook page for some great Mothers day gift ideas. We will be adding new idea's each day. Enjoy your Monday

After all that excitiment

it's another day. Now some of you will know that we have done up the odd house or two ( we are infact on our 7 in a 8 year space ) we did a great Vernon Brown house a few years ago and had so much fun with it. Safe to say that the house was rather full of "stuff" the day we viewed it and fell in love. I guess some people find it hard to see past the "stuff" that people collect over the years. Which I can totally understand as it just takes over a house sometimes. And to be totally honest you can't take with you when you go can you... ( and I don't mean move house )  So just the other day we had the pleasure of having our lawn mower stolen ( it's was rather nice and kind of new so a little upsetting ) We came across a competition on facebook ( everyone loves something free!!! ) to win Mitre 10 vouchers and thought wow nows our chance. So if you have a few seconds on this lovely day please head over to their page  CLICK HERE and like our house for a chance to win.

Happy Sunday everyone : )

Hearts in Crafts

For those of you who just missed it Crafternoon Tea was just on the series Hearts in Crafts.
It's very exciting for all our stall holders. And I feel so proud to run such an amazing market.

Keep it crafty

Hearts in Crafts

I love white

I have to say that I really love white. It's very calming and almost like a blank canvas to add your work too.

I love you more than cupcakes. What more can I say....

It's clean,,,it's crisp.......

Even the kids can enjoy it ( not sure how long it would stay white for!!!! )

Just one simple flower is all it takes........

I love white : )

Applications are now closed

Wow this would have to be one of our biggest months for applications. It's going to be a hard one. Confirmations will be sent out later today. Keep warm and keep it crafty.

It's flyer time : )

Happy Sunday everyone

Wow the sun sure did shine yesterday for us. What a great day it was. I had so much fun looking at all the amazing stall holders. Picking up some lovely treats and just enjoying the crowd of people we had. We had our lucky facebook winner Carley pop in to collect her lovely prize and we also had another competition running if you signed up for our newsletter. Which we will draw tomorrow. Always something exciting happing in Crafternoon Tea land. I look forward to sharing some photos in the next few days taken by Bronwyn from People Puppies of the market.

I just wanted to share with you what I have been up to over the last few months. Now I'm a sewer as most of you know. I run monkeej with my lovely mum who is in Blenheim......Now she has shown me how to crochet in the past but it's very hard to teach if your living in another town. So I've been running Crafternoon Tea for a whole year now. This time last year I had the pleasure of meeting a lovely girl ( I like to say girl because it makes her sound young and beautiful which she is ) at our market called Natalie from Poppy&Bee. Who has infact joined us every month since.

Now I've always rather liked the idea of learning a little more about this whole crochet thing but to be honest with three small children, a few markets and now a store which I run with my lovely husband  ( Love Vintage & Retro ) crochet really was in the back on my mind. So to cut a long story short. I brought a hook about 4 months ago......and finally about a month ago I did some lessons with Natalie.

WOW Natalie is an amazing teacher ( being a teacher helps I guess ). I'm very much a visual person more than a follow the rules person. ( as Natalie was about to find out ) So 4 lessons later and I'm into it.
A huge blanket in the works, 3 hats for my kids and another order or wool just dropped off this morning.....Now I can't stop. I even made a little crochet hat for our new toys.

 Hat by ME!!!

Now don't get me wrong I love my sewing. But crochet you can take anywhere. I think I have a new found love for this skill and I hope keep it up.

Hat by Poppy&Bee

If this is something you have wanted to learn or like the sounds of. I can give Poppy&Bee top marks.
Natalie is a great teacher and I'm so shocked I learnt to make a number of things in just 4 lessons. Including a hat. Which I never thought I could do. I have infact just booked more one on one lessons with her to master a few more things.

You will find Poppy&Bee at Crafternoon Tea so why not have a chat about getting a group together for a lesson. It really was so much fun and it's always nice to learn a new crafty skill : )

Enjoy your Sunday night everyone. Applications will open tomorrow for our May market.

Keep it crafty. x