Robyn Stewardson makes quirky, assemblage sculpture owls from found metal objects… “They are one-offs, handmade from items that I buy from op shops, trash and treasure markets, scrounge from dumpsters, pick up from around picnic tables in parks, collect from friends. I use the occasional new metal washer but my creations evolve almost 100% from other people’s rejects. My owl making manages to fulfil a number of needs that I have: a creative urge and something to do for ME (I’m a stay at home mum of two gorgeous girls) as well as providing a new lease on life for numerous metal objects that have outlived their original purpose. I LOVE saving things from landfill!”

Catch her in the coming weeks at the Kris Kringle Night Market (Northcote), the Rose St Artists’ Market (Fitzroy), or the Abbotsford Convent Makers’ Market.

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Harvest Textiles is a team of three women who share a passion for quality handmade textiles, the joy of learning, community and sustainability. They’ll be at Melbourne’s first Finders Keepers market on October 9th & 10th.
Finders Keepers support emerging designers, artists and musicians and focus on bringing new contemporary design to the forefront in Australia.

We have an eclectic array of stalls attending the market. There will be beautiful food, interesting stalls, live music, performances and a celebrity chef Noah Rose from My Kitchen Rules doing a cooking demonstration.

It’s in the spirit of community and sustainability that Bondi Resident, Creative and sustainability Maven, Ben Peacock is curating the Garage Sale Trail as part of the Bondi Sizzle Community Festival. Bondi residents – fashionistas, creatives, travellers and riff-raff alike – are encouraged to participate in a suburb-wide garage sale.

While the iconic Australian garage sale may seem quite humble amid all the broader talk of sustainability, it remains a highly relevant way of consuming and creating responsibly to reduce the 3.2 million tonnes of solid waste sent to landfill each year.

There will also be a special artistic component to festival where artists can put their garage art on display.

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Junk sale, car boot sale, white elephant sale – garage sale. Take a stroll on a sunny suburban weekend and you’re bound to encounter amateur retailers purging their wardrobes, shelves and sheds of all manner of kitchen goods, books, tapes, TVs, furniture and bric-a-brac, the sensory overload can be enough to make a designer/creative weak at the knees.

Celebrity judges will be roaming the sales and awarding prizes to the best-themed garage sale and best-dressed hosts. Already registered are the ‘The Inconvenience Store’, ‘The Bring it Back Shack’, the ‘2 Shopaholics Detox Sale’ and ‘Berties Foamies (foam surfboards) for Homies’. The first 50 garage sales to register will get a special goody bag .

If you don’t live in Bondi, mosey on down and spend the day soaking up the atmosphere and pick-up a bargain or two. A Garage Sale Trail map will be available for download a few days prior to the sale for download at www.sizzlefestival.com.au

“The whole festival and the Garage Sale Trail is all about getting people on board with recycling and out of a throw-away mindset without them even knowing it – it’s a great example of using creativity and ‘cool’ alongside sustainability principles” says Curator Ben Peacock.

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