Coco...The Movie

If you are looking for a good movie to watch, can I suggest that you watch Coco Avant Chanel? It's a movie about style icon Coco Chanel. Everyone in the fashion world should and would know who Coco Chanel is.

Those of you in Perth, I went to watch it at the Windsor in Nedlands. It was cheap Tuesday day so my best friend and I went to watch it for $9.50 not bad not bad.

In this film Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is played by French Actress Audrey Tautou. Her performance was alluring. I think she played the part well.

The movie was heartbreaking, funny and entertaining at the same time and at the end, you can see her signature Pink (?) Chanel Suit. My best friend and I were elbowing each other when we saw her rolling the fabric out.

I will not say more about the movie just in case you may have not seen it, but if you have nothing to do on a Tuesday night, head down to the Windsor in Nedlands and see it.

Made on the Left Market July 2009

I went to the Made on the Left Markets on both days and was excited to see all the vendors. Some of them I know and some of them I have read in interviews on other blogs. I thought it was a great idea for the Made on the Left team to have it over 2 days so that they could let more people in.

Photos above were taken by me and you can see more of them on my flickr album. Please send any photos of the Market that you have to the girls of Made on the Left I think they would appreciate it a whole lot because they were so busy on the day that they couldn't find time to take some.

Markets @ The Cultural Centre

Hello to The Creative Talent of Western Australia

September 5 and 6 sees the Perth Fashion Festival hit the streets of our glorious city. On Saturday 5 September The Markets @ Perth Cultural Centre is hosting 12 of the 40 stalls involved in ‘Outskirts’ – an initiative of the William Street Collective to support local designers and artists. The Markets will specifically platform:
Mollipop
William Topp
Ali J Art & Illustration
Ignite Gear & Redskull Enterprise Accessories
Dotdotdash
A=mc2
X Marks The Spot
Life Editions
Martha and Lilly
Together with ...
OUTFashion
SpaceShipNews.com.au

And on Sunday 6 September Unwrapped will ‘neighbour’ The Markets in the Cultural Centre Precinct.

In addition to these 2 event full days our very own on site Tango dance club will be making its impromptu debut on the Saturday while emerging Design students from Central College of TAFE will make their second appearance over the weekend. We are also in discussions with another dance troupe for Sunday. This weekend promises to be a big one.

As part of the Perth Fashion Festival, The Markets @ Perth Cultural Centre is launching their niche ‘market bazaar’ sites together with themed weekends for new and emerging designers and artists to retail their creative talents in a prestigious environment at a low cost.

Each weekend 7 separate marquees will be erected individually in the main walkway centre of The Markets with three sides available in each for rental at $25 per side. Each side will accommodate one 2.5 metre table or two smaller 1.2 m tables generally retailing at just under $50 each.

Each marquee will therefore accommodate 3 small designer businesses with a total of 21 centralised ‘Market Bazaar’ sites available in the main ‘Triazza’ between the Art Gallery, the State Library and the Museum, commencing on the weekend of The Perth Fashion Festival. Pedestrians and shoppers will find themselves drawn into The Market’s Bazaar alleyways to find Perth’s designer and creative gems. These sites are only available to retailers of locally designed and made creative items.

And on the 3rd weekend of every month The Markets will feature handmade artisan and designer wares , with promotion targeted to the exclusive shopper and tourists in Perth, whilst the 1st weekend of every month has been earmarked for handmade clothes, toys, books and entertainment for the ‘Young at Heart’.

Every weekend our Market Bazaar alleyways will form the centrepiece for handmade uniquely designed time intensive fashion, arts, jewellery, giftware, bags, makeup, and more. Multicultural Fun and Living the Green Life feature as our themes for the 2nd and 4th weekends respectively. Delicious foods, Bollywood dancing, environmental products, are just part of what will be appearing and expanding as Spring springs into our lives.

If you are interested in exploring our emerging platform for the promotion and retail of Perth’s creative talent from our city’s cultural precinct then please contact me at manager@theperthmarkets.com.au or on 0405 900 162.


Georgina Mavor
Manager
The Markets @ Perth Cultural Centre
0405 900 162

Press - Style Discovery

We've had a great writeup on Style Discovery from the amazing Sonji who visited the Made On The Left markets this past weekend. Thanks for your support Sonji!

Hello...Hello...

Hi. My name is Felicia but you can call me Feli. I will be your guest blogger this week. Just a few things about me in point forms :-

• I was born and raised in Sarawak, the largest state in Malaysia and I am of Iban also known as the head hunters of Borneo, decent.
• English is not my first language so I apologise if I make any spelling and grammatical mistakes.
  
• I am 29 going on 80 years old. I suspect that I have an old soul living in me. I call her "Ruby".
• I live South of the River with my partner, 2 kitties, Toby and Missy and a Greyhound named Walter.
• I work full time as a PA to 3 Lawyers. A hard job, but I love it.
  
• When I am not busy Assisting, I craft. I know how to bead, crochet, knit and sew. I am not an expert in any of these craft but I have enough knowledge to successfully make something basic.
• I use to have an Etsy store selling simple jewellery but it's on a break at the moment due to the work load that I have at the moment.
  
• I also love photography, fashion, reading,watching Gilmore Girls, Friends, Will and Grace and Sex and the City over and over again, hiking and playing netball.
  
• I enjoy going to designer's markets with my best friend, Tiff.
  
• I also do a lot of volunteer work with the Greyhound adoption program and also helping out the people in need in Nepal, my partner is Nepalese.
  
• My favourite colours are Red and Mustard Yellow.

I hope you enjoy my up coming posts as it will range from Photography to Fashion and other random things. My best friend once told me that I am very random and I have to agree with her because my head is filled with random and sometimes useless stuff. You can read all about it on my Blog.

So sit back, have a cuppa and prop your feet up and relax.

xoxo,

Feli

Blog: Life in Mono...
Twitter: absolutfeli
Flickr: absolut_feli

Cool and Quirky !

It's Liza again, back here on my final post for MOTL guest blogger,

today's post is about some fun and interesting gadgets and gizmos I have seen while browsing on the internet. My favourite is the Glove and Boot Drier,

I am sure every home needs one !!

Pimp your garage.
If you’re tired out vehicle is lowering the character of your home, why not pretend it’s actually a swish, supersonic jet? Thanks to a German firm, you can now “pimp your garage” with one of their life-like 3D door designs. From a distance, the illusions, printed on tarpaulin, might even fool the neighbors into thinking you’ve traded in your motor for a FI racer, a yacht – or even an elephant.

R2-D2 Fish Tank

Modeled after the most well-known astromech droid in the galaxy, this R2-D2 holds a 1 3/4-gallon aquarium tank in his central compartment, ideal for a small freshwater family of goldfish, gouramis, or tetras. The domed head rotates with any vocal command you issue and he utters his familiar “bleeps” from the Star Wars movies. His radar eye houses the eyepiece to a built-in periscope that provides an intimate view of the aquatic activity below, allowing you to watch your charges swim towards the food you’ve dropped in from the dome’s

Mirror Rubiks Cube

Silver and weird. While it functions just like a regular Rubik's Cube, the Rubik's Mirror Blocks Cube has different sized blocks - which means it gets very distorted very fast. Instead of puzzling out simple colors, you'll be trying to fight with geometric space, which is great fun. What is also great fun is seeing the look on the faces of others as they fiddle with your cube.

Monkey Picked Tea
The wind blows the blossoms in the garden. The monk breathes in. The air is crisp; the world is good. The only thing missing is some tea. Alas, the tea tree branches are too high and the mountain face is too steep. He stops in thought. His monkey, however, knowing his master wants tea, climbs the mountain face, picks the leaves, and brings them to the monk. And the tea was so delicious, other people began training their monkeys to pick it. So the legend goes.

Nowadays the practice of monkeys picking tea has all but died out, except in one small remote village where they still continue this remarkable tradition. No monkeys are harmed or mistreated in order for us to bring this rare brew to you!

The Glove and Boot Drier
The Glove and Boot dryer will accommodate most boots, shoes, gloves and skates, has four drying posts for drying two pairs simultaneously, and uses convection to dry safely and thoroughly without the worry of damaging items or setting them on fire. Its dual illuminated on/off switches allow to focus on one post set or the other – either front or rear, or run all four posts in concert. It also has a compact, folding design to allow for easy storage.

Press - Joondalup Weekender

Sharing supply secrets with Liza

Hello all, its Liza, of Letters4lilly and Lillybuds your guest blogger, I have pondered long and hard about what to blog about today and have decided I am going to share with you where I like to shop for supplies and other goodies.

I love online shopping for supplies, usually for the convenience of it and i especially love it if the online shop takes Paypal.

Here are some of my favourites - enjoy !!

Sunrise Imports - a one stop shop for the market stall holder
art supplies, scrapbooking, kids crafts, wool, beads, great array of display items for markets, and many many more items.

Feathers Fashion Fantasy - this online store stocks the largest variety of feathers in Australia for fly-fishing, millinery, weddings, fashion and the entertainment industry, huge array of different feathers in every colour imaginable, look out for the Showgirl Headpiece !

Julie Fleming Melbourne - Melbourne's Leading Milliner established 1989
Julie is Australia’s leading Milliner and she trained in London with Philip Somerville, whose client list includes the Queen, The Late Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Kent as well as many stars of stage and screen. Julies online shop offers headbands, jewellery, hats, bags, vintage items and silk flowers.

Chinatown - so much more than a online shop, like a physical Chinatown, this site is a virtual, interactive Chinese community in Australia. More than just a source of the latest news, finance and entertainment, Chinatown's lifestyle-oriented content is unique in Australia. Chinatowns online shopping section is large colourful and very exotic, paper lanterns, paper fans, parasols, home decor, candles, boxes, bags and lots more.

Embellish Direct - your one stop online accessories shop for embellishments!
EMBELLISH DIRECT provide secure, online shopping for embellishments and more from the comfort of your home or office - shopping couldn't be easier!
Feathers, brooches, floral supplies, rhinestones, powder puffs, feather boas, and crystals.

Closer to home...

Homecraft Textiles - 1039 Albany H'way St James. A incredible store, filled with unusual fabrics, indian saris, notions, trims, ribbons, beads, buttons, rugs, well worth the visit, they have a sister store in Mirrabooka. Once a year they do a 50% off sale, usually early in the year, huge crowds swarm through the door for amazing savings. Take your husband, but only to help carry everything.

The Bead Company - based in Osborne Park, this family run business is well known for a great variety of beading items, I think its Perth's best bead shop, definitely my most favourite. Lots of parking and a kiddies play area.

Scrapbook Secrets - paper, ribbons, stamping, invitations, card making, a large shop in Maddington, they have an extensive range of products and very friendly staff. Open everyday except Saturday. A great way to spend Sunday afternoon, browsing their aisles.

Spotlight - of course !

Flowerpack - East Perth, Flowerpack is an importer and wholesaler for products used by Florists and gift packaging professionals. With fashions constantly changing, they are regularly introducing new products to keep our customers at the forefront of current trends.

Being enviro-friendly at MOTL

Have you ever gone to a market and you've purchased some lovely things only to realise that the store holder doesn't have any big bags and your personal bag isn't quite big enough to fit it all in? Well don't make the same mistake when you come to the next Made on the Left. Remember to bring along an enviro-bag, or any old bag big enough to fit all the goodies you didn't intend to buy, but couldn't resist! By doing so you're being kind to the environment and saving us store holders from the stress of not having any bags for your purchases :)

Here's a few to drool over that I found off etsy.


Clockwise from top left: Happy family, Deadworry, Tinymonster (she'll be at MOTL on Saturday!), Pussyfoots.

Made on the Left Press Article

Another feature in a local paper! This time the Guardian Express.

The beautiful feature photo is of the work Cheryl from Wire & Paper. She will be selling at this Sunday's MOTL and has a giveaway for the day.

Visit her blog for details.