The Fairy Shop owner Amanda (pictured left) started up the business in 2021 as an online shop, inspired by her three children (now grown up) who – when they were younger – loved the magical stores they visited around Australia filled with dresses, dolls and toys.

After two years as an online only business, last year she made the leap to a bricks and mortar retail shop in Wynnum, filling it to the brim with all sorts of fairy themed items for the (much) younger crowd. Although you may think this is ‘young girl thing’ they do have dressups for young boys too, such as capes and dragons, and even some adults, who are mainly interested in the fairy houses for their gardens!

Nearly all of the items that Amanda stocks are Australia made as well, plus, where an item is a gift The Fairy Shop offers a gift wrapping service.

You can find The Fairy Shop at Shop 2 138 Bay Terrace, open Tuesday-Friday 9am-3pm and 9am-1.30pm on Saturdays. You can of course also find them at https://www.thefairyshop.com.au/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ThefairyshopAustralia.

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• oil pastel and watercolour crayon sets from Gallery Mungyo
• aqua and pigmented Pitt India ink dual pens from Faber Castell
• watercolour paper, 100% cotton 300g and 640g from Magnani
• watercolour pan sets in Opal, Starry, Gem and Pearl from Gansai Tambi

You can visit Bayside Art Supplies at the new address 32 Pinewood Street Wynnum West – just look out for the colourful letterbox and the footpath sign! You can also contact them via email on baysideartsupplies@gmail.com or on the phone – 0402 003282.

They are open Wednesday – Friday 9am-4pm and by appointment on Saturdays.

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Even though you might be forgiven for thinking that it’s a bit of a niche area, around 14% of Australians avoid gluten* either due to being diagnosed with Coeliac disease or other wheat sensitivity, or simply because they feel better without it. Other very commonly avoided food groups are dairy, with anything up to 12% of Australians** not consuming dairy, for health and other reasons, and eggs.

As business owner Catherine (pictured left) explains, “Although we run a gluten free and plant-based foods business, where all foods we produce are both of these – and so therefore also vegan – we have a lot of regular customers who buy our food who are not avoiding anything at all – they just love our food! However, for people who are gluten free and perhaps have one other thing they avoid, like dairy or egg, we are one of the few places where they can walk in and know that they can eat everything on the menu.”

And that menu has grown quite a lot since WynnumCentral last spoke with Catherine – now embracing a range of hot and cold savoury foods, a range of sweet tarts, bread, pizza and even a plant-based ‘cheese’.

Their latest addition is a range of family-sized versions of their takeaway foods, such as risottos, lasagne and pizza, which can be either collected at their factory or delivered in the local area. And ‘local’ covers quite a few suburbs in the Bayside area!

“The next thing on our agenda will be extending our opening hours to offer hot and cold dinner options for people either for pickup or via food delivery services like Uber and Menulog. Watch this space!” said Catherine.

As a little bit of fun for school age children during what’s left of the school holidays, Catherine is also running a pizza making and cupcake decorating workshop for 5-12 year olds this coming Sunday – all gluten free and plant-based, of course! Details here… https://events.humanitix.com/pizza-making-and-cupcake-decorating-workshop

Mandala VGF 5/124 Florence Street Wynnum
https://mandalavgf.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/mandalavgf

Mandala VGF is open 9am-2pm Mon/Tue, 9am-6pm Wed/Thu/Fri and 9am-2pm Sat.

Mandala VGF is a member of Brisbane Business Bayside and a supporter of WynnumCentral.

*https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/3/incidence-and-prevalence-self-reported-non-coeliac-wheat-sensitivity-and-gluten
**https://dairyfreedownunder.com.au/thinking-of-adopting-a-dairy-free-diet-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Main photo: Spinach and (not) Ricotta Lasagne

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