We have an assortment of handcrafted teacups with ribbons, drawings, paint splatters and paper collages of all shapes and colours. Look in our window and you’ll also see beautiful paper flowers, mini toadstools, a bright pink flamingo, vertical hanging gardens, a quirky blue teapot and the famous white rabbit with his gold pocket watch – bringing all the elements together to create the magical Alice inspired display
for our final window installation!

A huge thank you goes out to our wonderful crafty volunteers :

Mary May – Samantha Fletcher  – Jessica Yim – Morgan Liu – Morgan & Ciarn – Oliver Nihot – Kaz Vick -
Margaret Sykes – Rhonalyn Orriss – Gail Lobo – Carmen Malss – Sarah, Lily & Molly Harris -
Carly, Leila & Coen Modlich – Angela Jordan – Kidnee (Kate) Soden – Robyn & Liva (Olivia) Sergi -
Kaye Clark – Ali Curtis - Parris Tiers - Christine Groux – Oliver Williams – Natalie Cochrane -
Michelle Dytor – Miu Fujii – Charlotte Byrne – Annabelle Chase-Smith – Eun-Hyang Cheon -
The Southport Primary School (2014 Prep Class)

- click through the album above to see more photos -

Thank you everyone for your support and for helping us put together this masterpiece! You all have such great talent and it was a pleasure working with you. If you didn’t get a chance to decorate and make teacups for the window, but love the idea, please follow this link to download the free printable template (bases for the teacups are available in store).

“… Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit
with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity,
she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down
a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.”

- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll -

We’re off to follow the white rabbit, but remember our little Southport shop is still open until the 10th of May, and we will continue after this date with our online store and blog to inspire you in your creative adventures!

We wish you all a safe and happy Easter!

PS. We will be closed on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday and Anzac Day.

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This year’s Easter window, “Follow the White Rabbit…”, will be the last window to be created here at sarbe. After 8 and a half years, we will be closing sarbe’s shop-front to focus on other exciting ventures we have been working on. Don’t fret we will still have our online store, so please continue to follow and share with us!  You can read more about it in Sarah’s blog post here, but now back to the amazing window we have planned…

The sarbe window has been by far one of our favourite projects to tackle each month, and looking back at the past displays brings back fond memories of endless ideas being bounced back and forth, colour choices, technical problems and meeting deadlines. So, in celebration of the new changes as well as the many wonderful people we have befriended over the years, we thought it fitting to invite you, our community, to help us with our final window.

Our inspiration comes from Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, and who could have a tea party without teacups? We have hundreds of teacups we need to decorate and assemble so we’re calling on craft volunteers to help us decorate as many teacups as possible!  You have the option to come and craft in store or you can also craft at home.  Here’s an example of what we’ll be creating…

- Crafting in Store -

We will be hosting volunteer crafting sessions at sarbe from 10am – 2pm every Saturday in March:

Saturday 8th March: 10am – 2pm
Saturday 15th March: 10am – 2pm
Saturday 22nd March: 10am – 2pm
Saturday 29th March: 10am – 2pm

You’re welcome to come craft with us on any of these days, and you can come and go at any time (no need to stay for the entire session).  Please send an email to mail@sarbe.com.au if you are interested in joining one (or more!) of these sessions, then we can make sure we have enough space and supplies for everyone.

- Crafting at Home -

Can’t make it down to the store? No worries! Download the Teacup Template to print at home, then cut out and decorate however you wish! All we ask is that you stick to the colours in the palette below. We’ll be adding the handles and bases in store, so all you need to worry about is decorating the cup itself.  If you can drop your decorated teacups in store then you can glue the cup together, otherwise if you are posting them it will probably be easiest to keep them flat to send to us. Decorated teacups need to be received in store by Friday 28th March.
For those sending them in, please post the flat decorated teacups to:

sarbe invitations + papers
Shop 3.03, The Brickworks
107 Ferry Road, Southport QLD 4215

- The Colour Palette -

- Sign Me Up! -

Send us an email at mail@sarbe.com.au to join in the crafting fun.
In advance we give you our sincere thanks and appreciation for volunteering your time and creativity towards our epic final Easter window!

A big thank you to Lovestruck Weddings and Events for supplying the gorgeous curtain backdrop.

Come on over and check out our display and grab a popsicle card for your sweet heart – they’re selling fast! Happy Valentines Day – love from sarbe! xx

This month our window has been inspired by the exciting new products from Dailylike, including fabric tapes, stickers, wraps and fabrics. All of which can be found here at Sarbe this weekend! Dailylike will have their very own pop-up shop where you can stock up on all the materials you will need and even participate in one of the very inspiring workshops that will teach you everything you need to know about using their products.

Here are just a few of the books and other supplies we have had a little fun with:

It was so much fun decorating books for the window. If you love what you see and would like to decorate a few books of your own, click here to sign up for the Brilliant Books Workshop this coming Sunday, 12th of January!

Did you see our super cute bunting? Custom sewn bunting is available here in store for $29.95. Simply pick your design from Dailylike’s awesome range of quarter fabric packs with a ribbon to match and you can have your very own 4m length of bunting to use as a decoration around the home or for any party or event!

Dailylike have also created their own water resistant Laminated Fabrics which can be used to make bags, pencil and makeup cases, raincoats, tablecloths, coasters, and anything else your heart desires! Visit this link to learn how to make your own drawstring library bag. It will definitely come in handy with the new school year that is about to begin.

So many new and exciting products! Make sure you pop in some time soon to see the whole range!

The Brickworks is holding a competition for the best window display!

Vote for our window from now until Christmas Eve (24th December) and you can go in the draw
to win a $500 Gift Voucher to spend at the Brickworks!
(Entry forms available in-store)

We would also like to send a massive THANK YOU to everyone
who helped us decorate the tiles  for our delicious paper gingerbread house!
We have had great feedback and if you love it as much as we do, please vote for us!

A special thanks to:
Alison Curtis – Renee Jackson – Parris Tiers – Alexander Night
Michelle Dytor – Tee McIntosh – Kassarne Bentley & Kiara – Kaz & Stevie

If you’re creative and would love to help us put together our next window display,
we want to hear from you!
Please register your interest here!

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>>> CALLING ALL LITTLE HELPERS <<<

Our Christmas window is going up in less than 2 weeks and we would love for you to help us out!
This year we are building a gingerbread house and we need your creative talents
to help decorate tiles for the roof.

We’ll provide all the materials, just bring yourself, your creative imagination and your Christmas spirit!

The Atelier (workshop space) will be open from 10am-2pm on:
Fri 15th, Sat 16th,
Wed 20th, Thurs 21st and Fri 22nd of November

Please contact us via email mail@sarbe.com.au
or call us on (07) 5528 0330 if you would like to take part!

Thank you so much to all who came down and attended our workshops, volunteered for the secret challenge (everyone had a ball!) and entered in our hide and seek competition. Here are some photos of the night taken by the gorgeous Tayla from Tayla-lee Photography. Make sure you come and have a look at our October Window before it’s gone!

Come down to sarbe on Saturday 3 August and join in our super exciting 8th Birthday celebrations!!

All day we’ll have our Birthday Wheel spinning up prizes just for you!  If you come down between 9am - 1pm you can get crazy in our Photobooth, and between 1pm – 3pm we’ll have free Craft Workshops for kids and adults.  Then make sure you don’t miss out on our spectacular Birthday Cake at 11.30am!

Plus we will be officially launching our new Design Spaces – an awesome showcase of local hand made products.  And check out our Notebook Sale for beautiful notebooks of all shapes and sizes.

To get in the birthday spirit we have been busy little bees putting together our new birthday window installation – you should see the gold tassels catching the afternoon sun! So amazing!

Feeling inspired? Have a read of some of our posts on macramé, tassels, ribbons and papier-mâché - all the elements we have used to create our window.  Here’s a close-up pic of our ribbon curtain…

And here’s a glimpse of our papier-mâché + macramé hot air balloons and tassel garlands…

We’re looking forward to lots of birthday fun with you all.

We hope you can come and celebrate our 8th Birthday with us!

Remember: Saturday 3 August, mark it on your calendar!

The installation has been designed to promote our Paper Peonies Workshop in July where you’ll learn how to make these beautiful flowers yourself.

The Workshop is on Saturday 13 July, 11.15 – 1.15pm and is $35 per person.  Bookings can be made online at www.sarbe.com.au/school

We have limited places so make sure you book in early to avoid disappointment!

*** WORKSHOP UPDATE ***

The Paper Peonies Workshop has sold out!  But don’t worry we have scheduled another so get in quick and book for this one!

If you missed out on the first one, you can book in for the second Workshop on Saturday 20 July, 2.00 – 4.00pm.

Book online at www.sarbe.com.au/school

We hope to see you at the workshops!

We are absolutely delighted with the beautiful paper masterpiece that resides in our window for the month of May, and we urge everyone to come down and see her if you can!

A huge massive thank you to all of our volunteers for their time and creativeness. We had helpers from near and far join us for this paper adventure and we have met some wonderful people along the way.

Below you will see the diverse mix of designs and ideas that our volunteers created for The Last Days of Autumn, and you can also watch our little tribute video to see how she came together.

Video // The Last Days of Autumn

Photos // The Last Days of Autumn

If you love what you see and would like to help with future paper projects please sign up to our mailing list (scroll all the way back to the top and it’s on the right!) so we can keep you updated with what we’re working on.

Thank you again to our dedicated team of volunteers! We look forward to making our next paper creation with you!