art and design

Portabello Bride Boutique Wedding Market giveaway

March 21, 2011 ⋅ 11 comments

Happy Monday! What did you get up to on the weekend? My weekend was full of weddings. On Sunday it was my one year wedding anniversary and RM and I had our first baby-free evening out, although we still had dinner at the parent-friendly hour of 6:30pm. Thank you Kat’s Cakes for our unexpectedly large one year [...]

HOT: Studio Ink, Hogan Gallery, 310 Smith St, Collingwood

March 16, 2011 ⋅ One comment

My last event of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival for this year was to support a friend’s winery, Pyren Vineyard. Pyren Vineyard is a small scale producer of cool climate wines in the Pyrenees. For their newest wine, a Shiraz/Cabernet blend, they invited twelve artists to produce an original piece of art under the theme ”Combinations of [...]

HOT: Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition, Nelson Bros Funeral Services, 81 Kororoit Creek Rd, Williamstown

March 15, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

http://www.melhotornot.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=9872&message=10 Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition is definitely the winner of Most Intriguing Event during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (though technically it’s not part of the festival’s official program). Nelson Bros is Australia’s oldest family owned funeral company and at their historic Williamstown funeral home they hosted an afternoon of panelists exploring [...]

HOT: Smith Street Bazaar, 305-307 Smith St, Fitzroy

February 10, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Smith Street, along with the perpendicular Gertrude Street, is fast becoming Melbourne’s main destination for good quality vintage clothing and furniture. Starting from Victoria Parade, your first stop is Lost and Found Market, then keep heading north to check out 84 Smith Street, Angelucci, with your final destination being Smith Street Bazaar. Not to mention [...]

HOT: Thread Den, 422 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

February 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ages ago I enrolled into two beginners sewing classes at Thread Den (you can read about my experiences here and here). With each sewing class comes 2 free hours of machine use in the sewing lounge, but until now I’ve not had a reason to use them. Now that Thread Den have decamped from North [...]

HOT: Little Salon, 71 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

January 25, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Little Salon is a cute shop in Fitzroy (and the CBD) which stocks a curated a selection of lovely designer things for you and your house. There’s a little range of sweet, muted and draped womens clothing, a little bit handmade jewellery, a little table filled with pretty stationery and a little sprinkle of quirky [...]

HOT: make Designed Objects, 194 Elgin St, Carlton

January 19, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Even though Christmas is over, there are another eleven months of the year where you might have a need to buy nifty, gifty things. If that’s the case, drop into make Designed Objects. This two-storey converted cottage in Carlton is a treasure-trove of great design gadgets, ornaments and useful doodads from all over the world, [...]

HOT: Brickvention 2011, Melbourne Town Hall, Collins St, Melbourne

January 17, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Sunday morning. 9:45am. The line was longer than anything I’d ever seen for the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra or any other event held at the Melbourne Town Hall. My friend said that the patient queue that snaked up Collins Street, Russell Street and looped around the building completely reminded him [...]

HOT Chat: Alyssa Milton of Lyssy May

December 10, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

I recently received a wallet made from an old Melways map (it covers the area of the CBD) and I was so thrilled with it that I contacted the maker, Alyssa Milton. Alyssa runs a craft label called Lyssy May from a studio in Kensington and today’s HOT chat is with her. Thanks Alyssa! Alyssa, [...]

HOT: Scandinavian Christmas Bazaar, Swedish Church, 21 St Georges Rd, Toorak

December 8, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Even though I’ve spent most of my Christmases in the Australian summer, I have to admit that I don’t think I’ve ever felt more Christmassy than my time spent in the Northern Hemisphere. Maybe I’ve been indoctrinated by Christmas cards featuring reindeer in snow and songs about a white Christmas, but it just feels more [...]