Frodo and Friends
But my camera battery went flat, so I got out my purse instead, and came home with a darning mushroom, a potato peeler, a set of jumper cables, bags of nuts and a stack of vintage crochet patterns. I love that market, I do.
Check out some of my favourite market finds on a tshirt Paul and I made last year.
HandMade Now!
When we do markets together, Jesse and I work as the Hand Made Now! team. Here's our stall at Friday's Night Market at the Old Biscuit Mill.
Jesse's beasties got their own little cave...
... and we sold teatowels and wallets and beasties and badges like crazy, especially after the first few pints of local brew Boston had been sunk!
I scouted around the market for interesting stalls to show you. Scroll down for more...
More about the market
We'll all be back at the Neighbourgoods Night Market at the Old Biscuit Mill again next Friday. In the meantime, NAB gets to have the last word:
On Saturday, Jesse and I were selling our wares at the new extension of the Neighbourgoods Market. It worked a treat: no more food queues blocking our stall. Yay!
Those clever What if the World boys created a glorious Spring vibe by filling the place with branches of cherry blossoms. 
See more market pics here.
Saturday was a very, very cold and rainy day, and it was the day that Jesse and I had our stall at the NeighbourGoods Market. Most sensible people were still warm in bed long after we'd set up shop, which was great, because I had lots of room to take plenty of pics.
First, our stall. We didn't have Liesel's beautiful porcelain, as she's on a break in Amsterdam, so we filled up the table with lots of my Eep! and Summer Weeds teatowels and cushions...
...and a pile of Jesse's gloves, which were soon snapped up by icy-fingered people with just enough movement left in their digits to extract the necessary dosh from their wallets.
At her stall, Alex was also selling these beautiful bead purses, earrings and belts. Very stylish.
Next month, the market will have expanded into a brand new rear section which will allow more design type things to be sold. There'll be a bandstand too. See you there!The last Saturday of each month is the day Jesse, Liesel and I set up our stall at the NeighbourGoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill in Salt River. The rain didn't keep anyone away this weekend (except Jesse, who took a well-earned break from stallholding, to work hard at her comic).
I had a couple of new things on our stall, including a red version of Eep! teatowel (to appear in my Etsy shop soon)...
... some new badges (bad pic, sorry)... 
...and is this not too, too lovely? Sheesh, that girl's good.
After the rain set in (and the rugby too), numbers dwindled a little, so I amused myself with attempting to be The Sartorialist.
First up, Alexandra Höjer. This Swedish/French designer is now living in South Africa, making such beautiful dresses, coats and twinsets - all so simple yet sophisticated, in lovely fabrics and colours. I bought a little gilet in the same fabric as this dress, but I could have bought it all.
Her website is still under construction, but Alexandra's clothes can be found for sale at MeMeMe in Wembley Square, Cape Town.
Next, Marietjie Beeslaar, who makes very lovely jewellery under the label Skermunkil. In this image, you can see Marietjie's reflection alongside some of her enamelled bird pendants...
...and here's one of her silver rings inset with tiny bits of broken crockery, and an exquisite pendant cut from an old spoon.
Finally, this is one of Chloe's pendants made from old coins. It belongs to me now! I couldn't manage a decent snap of the rest of her wares, and now I can't remember her surname, so perhaps I'll get a proper posting about her work together for next time.
There are so many talented people here, and as our broadband costs begin to drop, I'm determined to get more of them selling online.
Jesse and I are planning on hosting a workshop on blogging and Etsy selling at What if the World soon. So if all goes well, Marietjie and Alexandra will soon join me and Jesse as local Etsy sellers, along with heaps of other talented Capetonians.
I'll keep you posted.
I knew my archive couldn't have run totally dry!
I sold this cushion from the HandMade Now! stall at the Neighbour Goods Market a few months ago.
I cut paper stencils and silkscreened the colours, and stitched the stems and outlines with my sewing machine.
I want to make more of these!
I haven't posted about our monthly stall at the Neighbour Goods Market for a while, so this is going to be a biggie.
It was an interesting market, because there were loads of international visitors, probably here because of the Design Indaba and Expo. Lots of Dutch and American visitors, some from Hong Kong, and others I'm sure we missed. Good responses to our work, which was encouraging.
Our stall looked very "together" this time, partly thanks to...
... the new addition to our stall: Liesel Trautman and her beautiful ceramics. Check them out below.
Liesel has recently opened her own shop and workshop in Lower Main Road, Observatory. We hope she'll be back every month.
Apart from that...
...my trays and Jesse's brilliant crochet badges (wish I'd taken a better pic of these)...
...my little purses, made from bits of misprinted teatowel fabric....
... a new baby t-shirt design...
... lots of new badges from Jesse and me...
Lots more I didn't snap, like Jesse's dolls and all my t-shirts, but I was getting in the way of the shopping hungry crowds!
The market's great fun. What a good way to make my studio rent each month.
Jesse 
