Mayumi comes from Japan and has been living in beautiful Cairns, Far North Queensland for 20 years. Through tough experiences over the years such as infertility, a broken marriage and depression, Mayumi was always seeking for some strategies to be ome more resilient with obstacles in life. We can’t stop everything that’s coming, right? Then Mayumi met Naturopathy, Meditation, Reiki, and Ayurvedic philosophy. Learn more about what Mayumi offers on her website, Facebook or Instagram.
LaToya is a creative working in a variety of mediums - exploring concepts of Interior Alchemy through the lens of interiors, imagination + inspiration.
The past few years she has focused on creating space for her family and herself and exploring self-discovery. Now she is tapping into her background in Interior Design of public spaces and delving back into sharing her love of creativity and interiors with a community of heartfelt change-makers who are transitioning from desire into the beautiful unknown and need a home base to launch from.
Space is her medium; she explores the realms of both physical and inner space. She sees each room as a collage – she believes in providing the right combination of space planning, energy, and materials to create spaces with personality, creativity, and a strong sense of belonging.
Latoya is a guide, for your journey to create space for discovery + expression + creative living.
Latoya’s focus is to work closely with you to develop creative solutions that meet your everyday needs – She will help you to tell your unique story in a creative way.
She shares insights + exercises to enhance your lifestyle. Guiding you in creating a space that nourishes your dreams + celebrates your highest story; a place you love to be! Resulting in a beautiful home (inner + outer) that tells your unique story and supports you!
Each session is created to help you with your design + decor needs. She provides you with the building blocks, professional guidance and prompts needed to make informed decisions about your space. Whether you are looking for a redesign, using pieces you already have or a fresh start - working from scratch, she is here as your guide - think design coach.
Tidda Talz Creates Progress Over Perfection Pieces is Talicia AKA TIDDA TALZ!
TTPOPP is 100% Indigenous owned & operated & it was born out of her love for her daughter, her family, her love for fashion & accessories & her love for her people & culture.
TTPOPP consists of jewellery & accessories that POP WITH PURPOSE & are for people who desire to live life OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, people that are in search for their God given PURPOSE on this earth our pieces POP with purpose you can't help but notice them.
TTPOPP has also been created to inspire people on the path of "Progress over Perfection".
Their hope is that they can be Culture Carriers who preserve, carry & pass on our culture to the future generations. They exist for the people who want to leave a mark on this world & more importantly leave a legacy that will be passed on for generations.
This is their birthing story & they pray that our stories of hope & resilience inspire you to go & shock the world with your greatness & leave your mark here too.
It is Talicia’s prayer that through this creative outlet people’s lives are changed, transformed, empowered, inspired, equipped & mobilised to pursue the purpose & destiny that we have all been created for.
No-one expects you to become a recycling pro or an environmentalist over night, but together we can move towards a lifestyle that will protect our environment and reduce the carbon footprint we leave behind.
Step by step, Birds & Bee Creations have been trying to reduce the impact her family makes on the environment.
Wanting to take a greater part in the war on climate change, she was looking to take the next step in the campaign. Being a fairly new Mum and wanting to spend time at home with her child, she came upon an idea to help decrease the use of plastic produce bags in the supermarkets. So she started her own business ‘Bird & Bee’ and handmake reusable produce bags from home.
The produce bags are not only fun and stylish but also reusable, washable, durable and most of all functional.
Fruit will keep longer and the best thing is, you won’t have to use single use plastic bags for your produce ever again.
Just one reusable produce bag can keep hundreds of single use plastic bags from ending up in landfill or our oceans. And let’s be honest, you are already taking your own shopping bags, so it will be easy to remember to take your produce bags as well.
Australia has cut plastic bag use by 80% in 3 months since the plastic bag ban, which is great news, but we can do more.
Currently with 14 stylish designs to choose from, you can look great and set a good example to your fellow shoppers.
You alone can keep over 200 plastic bags a year out of landfill and oceans. Join the movement on climate change and take action towards a cleaner future.
Keep checking back for new designs and new materials. Birds & Bee Creations are always striving to make their product even better.
We love Australia and the fact that most Australians love good outdoor dining anytime of the year! Australians love to enjoy great food and have a beautiful sense of adventure.We appreciate the love Aussies have for cooking, the outdoors, and gathering with family and friends. This has contributed to the rising popularity of having an outdoor kitchen. This is where our Authentic Pizza Ovens come in. When you combine the weather of Australia, with the culture of food and friends, a pizza oven is a no brainer. We have brought to Australia hand-crafted authentic wood fired ovens so you will have the opportunity to discover the authentic old-world traditional wood-fired cooking in your own backyard!
A Perfect Day Picnics have something special to offer. Beautiful, hand crafted rugs by three sisters, they are made as a labour of love and versatile for many an occasion. Sewn from a range of sustainably sourced, repurposed fabrics, these ladies create the perfect rug for your baby, your favourite pet, a one-of-a-kind couch throw, or a rug for a gorgeous picnic in the great outdoors.
This Queensland picnic rug company design each of these beauties with a unique look, which brings colour and a touch of quirkiness to any setting.
PLOYS are Creative Concepts in Disguise. PLOYS idea started from having discarded pooltoys and pool inflatables, that were either punctured or “just not played with anymore” on the side of the pool at home. They just couldn’t throw away all this plastic, knowing that PVC is one of the worst products to decompose; taking up to a 1000 years to disintegrate. Which in return also tells us that PVC is a sturdy and durable material to repurpose and transform into something unique and functional!
Wife & husband team Carin and Gerhard use PVC from pool inflatables, rubber boats, air mattresses, yet also broken umbrellas and shower curtains! Their biggest project was taking on the challenge of repurposing a Great Barrier Reef marine rescue Life Raft and a huge Blunch castle! You can check out their products and read their story on their website or Instagram.
By day, Bec Fing is a Business, HR and WHS consultant living in Goondiwindi, QLD. By night, she is a side hustling artist who loves colour, feminine designs and all things beautiful. Bec has always enjoyed being creative and loves the medium of fabric and paint! She delights in seeing her hand painted homewares in beautiful homes across Australia!
Her original designs are hand-painted or digitally printed. Check out her range of fabric, lamps, cushions, napery, and hanging art on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
The Two Mad Hatters began in 1996 with two girls from the bush of outback Queensland whose passion for colour, fabrics and style developed one of the first fabric hats for the harsh Australian climate.
With a need to look good but ever so practical at all kinds of events like cattle, sheep and horse sales or sporting events. Worn at picnics on the river, garden party’s, social gatherings the fabric hat has become essential.
Robin Strang and Kathy Moloney developed their own special style and fun as they become know around Qld and NSW field days as ‘The Two Madhatters of Longreach”. The name came about with the help of slightly mad brother of Robin’s and a bottle or two of good red wine!!
The range of hats have grown to incorporate race hats and, fascinators learning the age old art of blocking. Working with sinamay, felt and straw and including beautiful fabrics, leathers, pearl bling and of course gorgeous feathers.
Although the original much loved fabric hats are still the mainstay the girls are always playing with ideas and have designed many more styles to their repertoire.
Check out their current range on their website, or follow them on Facebook.
Leanne’s Letters specialises in handmade kitchenwares which includes a self-published cookbook range called ‘Recipes from the Bush!’, handmade recipe fridge magnets, hand painted resin kitchenwares, kitchen accessories, resin cheeseboards and clocks. Leanne’s Letters is passionate about helping women to add some fun and colour into their kitchen whilst preparing easy, delicious, and budget friendly meals and snacks for their families.
Leanne also offers workshops to create resin cheeseboards and clocks. Her workshops are a fun, social events that teaches participants about resin art and allows them to be creative while enjoying a day out.
Leanne is the owner and operator of Leanne’s Letters, a handmade business that is located in Cunnamulla, a small town in remote Queensland. Leanne is a wife and busy mum of 4 children aged 10, 8, 4 and 2 years.
Head to her website and Facebook to grab some beautiful homewares.
Fun and colourful resin earrings. Tamara created Bush Blossoms in 2018. She has always had a love for all things craft, and found herself making fabric studs for family and friends using left over fabric scraps. She believes we shouldn't have to break the bank to have nice earrings. At Bush Blossoms, they aim for high quality, but also affordable!
All earrings have hypoallergenic surgical steel posts, perfect for sensitive ears.
Bush Blossoms Natural Skincare is a skin loving range of soaps, moisturiser, and all things skincare. Hemp seed oil is the main focus in all of the skincare range, alongside Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, and Shea Butter.
Black Cockatoo Textiles is a result of much travel, and meeting creative people who are striving to keep their traditional crafts alive in a fast changing world. Buying directly from Artisans is one of the joys of founder Lyn Streader. She loves to support and buy directly from craftsmen and women as much as possible, always looking for great designs and quality workmanship.
The textiles sourced represent a long history of skills in block printing, hand weaving, natural dyes, appliqué cut work and embroidery. These are pieces made with pride and a shared inter-generational skill set that is at risk of disappearing as the lure of higher paid jobs is a necessity for many.
Check out the Black Cockatoo Textiles website, Facebook or Instagram.
Established in 1992, Sisters Inside is an independent community organisation based in Queensland, which advocates for the collective human rights of women and girls in prison, and their families, and provides services to address their individual needs. At Sisters Inside, we believe that no one is better than anyone else. People are neither “good” nor “bad” – our environment and life circumstances play a major role in how we behave. Improved opportunities can lead to a major transformation in criminalised women’s lives. Complex factors lead to women and girls’ entering and returning to prison. Criminalisation is usually the outcome of repeated and intergenerational experiences of violence, poverty, homelessness, child removal and unemployment, resulting in complex health issues and substance use. First Nations women and girls are massively over-represented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of social control...
You can show your support for women in prison and their families by purchasing their t-shirts and resources. All profits go to continuing Sisters Inside’s work.
Here to their Facebook and Instagram
Check their all-range ladies puzzle on the website
Sunday’s Belle is a range of vintage inspired handmade children’s clothing featuring timeless and classic styles that are comfortable and practical to wear, and modern enough for today’s children.
Handmade by the owner, each piece is one of a kind and features vintage fabrics and embellishments where possible.
Gidgee Smith Bags manufactures heavy duty pvc bags in a wide range of sizes, designs and colours for many different purposes, which are all available online on their website. They are situated in southwest Queensland where they operate our business by providing employment for country women and we have an extremely strong focus on community engagement.
While there are many imitators, they fail to provide the quality with which Gidgee make their bags, the attention to customer service and the 1-to-3 day turn around for online orders. With over a hundred online products, choose from a wide range of individual pieces or check out the promotional bags for the business and company sector. Clients can choose their own colour combinations and add personalised names or business logos embroidered on their selection of bags. This aspect of the business has developed and grown due to a need to diversify due to the ongoing drought and impact of Covid.
Gidgee Smith Bags is a proud Australian made product which is manufactured and dispatched from a small rural town where they provide employment and economical support to the community.
Ngarru Miimi is a slow ethical fashion label handprinted, designed and constructed on unceded Wiradjuri country by Lillardia Briggs-Houston.
Lillardia aims to create change by using fashion and textiles to challenge perspectives of Aboriginal peoples and culture.
Through each sustainable and ethical garment, Lillardia respectfully highlights the strength, pride and connection as Aboriginal people and collectively showcase Aboriginal culture as a daily reminder that Aboriginal people are, and always will, stand strong on their traditional lands.
Lubajo Apparel is a Brisbane based clothing company, founded by Sanyu, a fun, vibrant woman from South Sudan who loves all things colourful.
Lubajo believes wearing colourful pieces is a way of expressing yourself and celebrating life. Lubajo Apparel source their materials and make those pieces within Australia.
They have a zero waste policy meaning they endeavour to utilise every piece of material. They fuse African prints with the current trends in the western world to bring people colourful unique pieces of clothing.
Get yourself Lubajo’s collection on their Instagram and Website
Juddarnje Natural Skincare is 100% Australian Made Skincare and Indigenous Owned.
Draw on the botanical's unique benefits, they inspired to create natural and safe skin care products, instead of the synthetic and chemically based ones so readily available on the market. They set out to showcase what the Australian Indigenous people already knew. Knowing that they working with the nature, they highlight the importance of respecting the mother earth and treat it gently .
Their journey started with a batch of original hand-made soap, and has since expanded to include creams, lotions and balms, all created with the same philosophy; 'keep it natural'.
A showcase of beautiful things to buy from rural communities across Australia. Shop. Invest in the bush!
Buy From The Bush is a marketplace for Australian bush business. Think of it as your gateway to rural and regional Australia.
They bring together the butchers, the bakers and the candlestick makers (of which there may not be thaaaat many) in small rural communities across Australia. They make it easy for small businesses to sell their products and for consumers to shop with purpose.
Lolli & Pop creation born from the love of watercolour painting.
Lolli & Pop is a way of expressing their passion for creating art. Hand-painted watercolour designs printed vibrantly on canvas shoes & bags, each with a unique story to tell.
They proudly donate 5% profit from each pair of shoes sold to the Australian Wildlife conservancy, because giving back is what they do!
Visit their Website and Instagram for the original artworks and fabrics
The Greenwood Designs is based in the country town of Molong in Central West NSW.
Greenwood Designs specialises in mixing bright, fun and functional accessories with a wearability and style. The creativity is in their blood and they have always loved expressing that side through various art and craft projects.
Their collection of handmade earrings, bangles and necklaces, as well as scarves and leather clutches has been tailored to offer pieces that bring sophistication to every outfit.
Get yourself the newest collection on their Instagram
Salisbury Grange is all about making it easy for everyone to grow amazing organic flowers and vegetables at home and to take care of the environment at the same time.
Phoebe Greally, women behind Salisbury Grange created the company based on her own experiences that this was what she need when she starts growing plants. It is meant to be EASY and FUN! She hopes that people enjoy growing at home, from a pot of basil, to a row of lettuce, to a field of sunflowers.
Head to their Instagram!
Anna Sutherland is an Australian textile designer passionate about creating colourful and unique designs, screen printing intricate patterned fabric and tea-towels.
A variety of textile techniques are used to create her vibrant and heavily patterned product range. All fabric designs are initially hand drawn before being transformed and put into repeats on the computer ready for multiple textile applications.
Run by mother and daughter team, Deb and Danni, Meeraboo is a lovingly family run bussiness from thier family home. Handcrafted in the heart of Central West NSW, Meeraboo creating candles with the most purest form of soy wax on the market. This ensures they are delivering an eco friendly candle of the highest quality. Thier aesthetic is minimalist and classic, working in a palette of matte white, gold and natural hues to complement the style of every home.
Check them out on their Instagram
Merino knitwear born and bred in regional Australia, Narrabri in rural NSW. Their aim is to make people fall in love with Australian Merino wool, a natural, renewable fibre that feels luxuriously soft and warm.
Their designs are inspired by rural Australia and made from 100% Australian Merino that carries the Woolmark as a guarantee of quality and provenance. In short, it feels as good as it looks.
Riverbend Books is one of Australia’s best independent bookshops, located in lovely Bulimba, a short drive, bus ride or CityCat trip from Brisbane city. They have a wide-ranging selection of books including many independent publishers.
Owner, Suzy Wilson, opened the shop in 1998, after quitting her day job and following her dream and love for books.
“It’s just really special to be able to share our love for books with people around the community, it’s a special bond that we share with our customers,” says Suzy.
They offer a range of Book Hampers for all occasions, whether it be a newborn baby, a graduation, a housewarming present, a birthday, or an engagement — whatever the occasion is, they can make a perfect hamper. You can also make your own, choosing from all of the stock in the store.
Check them out here on their website.
‘This Bush Medijina, it did not start yesterday, or last year, or even the year before that. It has always been here. Always. Our recipes have been here for generations.” Gayangwa Lalara OAM
Bush Midijina is a social enterprise that harvest local bush produce and combines it with natural and sustainable ingredients to create a range of exquisite botanical products. Created by Warningakalina women, to share their culture with others, and to preserve their traditions and knowledge for future generations.
Born from the red sandhills of central western Queensland, Australia, Red Ridge the Label shines a spotlight on central western Queensland Aboriginal artists by expressing their work in beautiful fashion.
The debut collection, Diamantina, highlights artwork from Wangkangurru and Yarluyandi women Aulpunda ‘Jean’ Barr-Crombie and Anpanuwa ‘Joyce’ Crombie from Birdsville, Queensland.
The artists, also known as Two Sisters Talking, bring the culture of their country alive in their art, painting a deep love of the country from river to desert.
A social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, Tjanpi Desert Weavers work with women in the remote Central and Western deserts who earn an income from contemporary fibre art.
Purchase unique, stunning, baskets, beads, jewellery and sculpture. They also have a Weaving Kit with an accompanying video tutorial, so you too can make beautiful pieces of usable art.
A beautifully crafted handmade umbrella is an accessory like no other. Mora Igra Umbrellas were born in the heart of Europe at the beginning of the century. Their design, quality and beauty captured the world as they spread to Canada, Sweden and Australia.
Alicia Mora-Hyde was born on a farm in Chile, who emigrated to Australia as a very young woman. After landing a job as a nanny to two young boys whose father owned a successful umbrella factory, Alicia learnt every facet of the umbrella trade and believes she is the only woman in the world that can make an umbrella from start to finish.
Mora-Igra umbrellas are hand-crafted with individual selections of cloth, frame and handles available to the customer. Mora-Igra Umbrellas are only available at the factory in Brendale on the Northside of Brisbane and are truely a unique fashion accessory, hand-crafted to the customers request.
Check out their website here
