Sadness and stripes...

These past few days have been a bit all over the place at gran's loose change headquarters. My other half had some tragic news in the weekend so my heart and head have been with him. My dear friends Kaz and Jess will be manning my stall at The Little Big Markets this week (be sure to stop by) and we will be back into it on Monday with hats and shoes ready to be uploaded!

Because my head has been so fuzzy I thought a little bit of stripy inspiration was fitting. Happy Thursday, see you Monday...

Images from Lookbook

Sabine Taylor Attrill...

I just had to share this beauty of a shot of my precious 'niece'. Sabine is my best friend's three year old and she had a helluva time at The Little Big Markets. She got her face painted, ate carrot cake and caused general three year old havoc. I love this pic that Nat snapped of her and was told that on Sunday AND Monday Sabi asked her Mummy: 'We're going to Aunty Kelly's markets again aye Mum?'. Two weeks to go Sabi! See you then xxx

Latest lady love...

The night before The Little Big Markets I moved house - to a sweet little townhouse down Pilot Bay in the Mount. Hellllooo summer. It feels like we are constantly on holiday! I finally got to sit down and enjoy the new pad after all the weekend's madness late Sunday arvo and during my usual hour of trawling my fave blogs, my flatmate introduced me to the beauty that is Clemence Poesy. (Thanks Julia!) Best known for her role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I think French actress Poesy has gone unnoticed for far too long. Check her out, what do you think? Do you love her? Tell me, I won't mind. Promise I won't be offended if you say you don't.

(I might just erase you from the Christmas card list!)

Success!

The launch of the Little Big Markets happened this past Saturday and so I apologise to all of you out of town (meaning not living in the Mount) fans for the tardiness of new product uploads. However, now that the first day is over, I have a plan of attack and can now manage both the markets and the store a lot more concisely. Thank you for your patience!

A lot of hard work went into the prep - not just for the gran's loose change stall, but into the entire planning of the market day - and we were rapt with the results. Because I moved house the day/night before I was therefore lagging a bit in organisation for the gran's loose change stall, but we did ok. Look out next time though, we are going to create stall envy!

The day was beautiful, the sun was shining, people were excited, people were EVERYWHERE!

We met new friends and had current friends stop by all day, even our favourite little family, the Mathiesons.

And the drummer from the Dan Libres.


And the singer slash guitarist from the Port Royals.


The markets were consistently busy from 9am til about lunchtime, with pack down starting about quarter to 2. Feedback from other stallholders was positive and Rachelle, from Idiom Boutique and I were proud to have brought such a successful day to the mount, and the Bay. The next one will be bigger and better! Bring on November 20th!

The gran's loose change success couldn't have happened without the support and help from a handful of wonderful people, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you. A huge thank you to JM for being on the answering end of my freak outs, demands and tantrums, and still helping me out for the entire day... I can't thank you enough.

Hope to see you all at the next Little Big Markets, and remember, if you'd like a stall, email me at hello@gransloosechange.co.nz for more information.

Holy moly me oh my, hot & heavy, pumpkin pie...

Please please please when I wake up tomorrow can I look like Lily Aldridge?!

Imagine our delight...

One of our favourite interior, design and inspiration blogs has relaunched it's site and wowser does it look good! Well done Julia! Better yet, she posted about one of our fave jewellery brands, Neverland, (buy it on gran's loose change here) AND gave us a mention too! Read the blog post here. Happy Thursday Julia and Studio Home, you made our day xx

A returning customer...

So we set up our own integrated email system yesterday and we suggested fans send us an email just to say hi. Well, imagine my delight when this little number landed in my inbox:

gran's loose change how can I explain this thought train, without spraining my brain
or refraining from putting the blame
of my fashion choices when a 1168 voices cry out in harmony
making me see, what should have been plain as my little goatee
that shopping online is a my favorite way, I do agree.Your sense of
style is truly divine, its like you have delved into my mind, taken these thoughts unrefined
and molded them into a shape I can see, garments for you and me, I need to step outside
so I can breath, to much deals, not enough fees

I get my clothing fix at a decent price,
saves countless hours searching for that something nice,
I turn to your site for a little advice, and every time
it blows my mind like chicken fried rice.

Thanks so much Nick!! You made my day!

If you do want to stop by just to say hi, shoot me an email at kelly@gransloosechange.co.nz