cambylicious

The first place locals in Melbourne suggest to visiting friends or relatives would be Camberwell Market, a flea market of sorts that fills out all 70-odd open carpark lots at Camberwell, from 7am to12pm every Sunday. It's a hustling, bustling, grab-before-you-think, buy-before-you-try kind of market and we LIKE IT IMMENSELY. It is a truth universally known that shopping is therapeutic, but cheap shopping? On a weekly basis? Yeah, we're in love too.

So after 2 years of shopping at Camby, the ultra-hip blogger-sisters Rachel and Rebekah asked us to join them as sellers at Camberwell! For the first time, See-Ann and I (well, possibly just me, because I think See-Ann has done this before haha) decided to overhaul our wardrobes and get some extra moolah out of it. It took us a whole weekend and a bit to finally get down to dissecting our wardrobes, and by the end of it... we had enough to clothe a small village.

But enough of the idle chatter!

We arrived at Camby at 7: 10am (lugging about 5 kilos of clothes, and portable tables and a clothes rack... not a pretty sight), and got busy setting up store. Then we got cracking!

As mentioned, the lovely sisters from The Iron, The Stitch and the Wardrobe. Why are they so hip? Sometimes it hurts to be their friends.

See-Ann working hard.

 Writing up tags for promotion.

 People were already beginning to browse at 7: 30!

The sisters' dresses, which they sold at ridiculously affordable prices. Now if only they weren't so petite!

They also hand-made EVERY ONE of these beautiful little gems! Peg-earrings, toy car necklaces, hand-made tea-stained notebooks and more... so talented (:

Eating the famous jam donuts...om nom nom

Keeping guard (:

Camby was fantastic (: And the weather really held up, which was surprising, given this time of the year. It didn't rain, which was great, and the sun came out halfway so it was truly a promising start to future sales here at Camberwell. If you're in Melbourne, and you haven't yet been - this is the site for bookings, times, maps, etc. One setback is the strict 2-hour parking lots. But that's a small price to pay for an awesome time. If you don't drive and would still love to go, the Camberwell train station is only a five minute walking distance away. 

Stay tuned for more exciting posts!

Love,

Hannah