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last day at Magnolia Square St Kilda

These wooden magnets, one of our new products, have proved popular with the kids.

I can't sleep (maybe its the excitement and adrenaline of Magnolia Square?) so I thought I'd tell you about the past three days at Magnolia Square.

We've been crazy busy with great sales, so the days have gone past really fast. Our stand location is fantastic and we've been able to spread out a bit. And for once Miss-I'm-never-quite-happy-with-our-stand-layout is very happy, I think its our best stand yet. I'll take some photos today so you can see for yourself.

I've been watching the evolving installation up on the stage, its inspired by paper and thread (two of my favourite materials) and Nic and the Mag Square team have been cutting, folding, sewing and sculpting up a storm using materials such a thick brown paper, old pages, and string. It will be a shame to see it dismantled and packed away at the end of today.

(Images from Magnolia Square snippets blog)

Our neighbour is Manita from Earth Tribe, and I've already bought some of her hand carved wooden stamps (they look like chocolate truffles!) and have my eye on a few of the fair-trade wooden toys she sells. Great design and colours – I love the racing car and abacus.

And the food is just as yummy as ever, those Belgium chocolate brownies from Ed Dixon Food Design are to die for! 

folded books, check

It seems Drew has a real affinity with paper and folding. He's good at folding, but more importantly he enjoys it. 

What started out a display idea – for holding business cards and our selection of handmade envelopes – soon turned into a new product. Once we sold our display book at a market and received a request for a custom folded book, we realised we were onto something.

Ta da! Folded book art.

Lucky we have a stash of old books lying around the place, all ready for Drew to fold into some new creation.

His latest design is the book sculpture, two folded books stacked in a tower – its looks a bit like a retro lamp. One of them now adorns the bar at Rose Street market. 

If you're keen to see them, we'll have them for sale at Magnolia Square this week. Ooops, I mean tomorrow!