tea & toast & tapas

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  • The Pop-Up Artisan Market
  • blog
  • design
    • Artisan Craft Design
    • Digital Design
    • Interior Design
  • El Raco
  • Events
    • British Benevolent Association
    • Christmas Fairs – Anglican Church in the Costa Brava
    • Christmas Urban Market – Jardins de la Merce
    • Girona Wedding Room
    • Verges Brocanters
  • inspiration
    • artisan craft
      • Christmas
      • colour
      • crochet and knit
      • Easter
      • form
      • Halloween
      • paper
      • textile
      • texture
      • upcycling and renovating
    • Casa
      • balconies
      • bathrooms
      • bedrooms
      • garden
      • Hallways
      • kitchens
      • living rooms
      • terraces
    • food
      • breakfast
      • soups and starters
      • puddings
      • baking
      • chocolate
      • Christmas
      • dinners
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • lunches
      • pickles, preserves and sauces
      • Veggies
      • drink
    • Lifestyle
      • clothe
        • accessories
        • bags
        • clothes
        • shoes
    • Weddings
      • bouquets
  • Contact
  • The Pop-Up Artisan Market

I’m Anne-Marie Smith – my passion is recycling, upcycling, design and craft. I have a studio (garage) full of vintage (or junk as my husband likes to call it). I’m a whizz at organising events (bossy). Oh and I love food whether that’s cooking, bottling, baking or eating it!

tea & toast & tapas is a lifestyle blog and online shop stuffed full of ideas, inspirations and handmade loveliness.

 

No 14 is the biggest upcycling and design project I’ve undertaken here. An original wooden chalet restored and updated but still retaining that seaside chalet feel with lots of vintage touches. Available to rent from Easter 2021 subject to campsite opening dates and Covid 19 restrictions (Contact for Details on Bookings)

The Pop-Up Artisan Market is a whole new venture. An online space for creative businesses based here in the Costa Brava to promote and sell their work to a wider audience. Particularly during these difficult times when the usual places like Arts and Crafts Markets and Events are cancelled and people who would normally buy their unique and original pieces for themselves, their friends and their families from independent traders have few means of seeking them out. Its been running since November last year and we are gradually building a following and adding to our traders all the time. Do get in touch if you think this is for you!

Recent Posts

  • Cakery
  • Maximising Sales at Artisan Markets
  • Going out out
  • TopCat Radio Christmas Fair – Tortosa
  • The Pop-Up Artisan Market – in the Ebro
  • Oh boy it’s been hot!
  • Salmon en Croute – cheats version
  • Christmas Fair – Posters
  • Souvlaki with oven roasted sweet potato and homemade hummus
  • Wildfire and lunch
  • The temperatures fallen – just a tad
  • 2025
  • La Botiga del Riu Amposta
  • Getting to grips with well water – campo living
  • Making an entrance
  • Jewelry Design
  • Moody Blues
  • El Raco
  • Spring Cleaning
  • Renovating The Van
  • blog,  cakes,  food

    Cakery

    September 6, 2025 /

    Four different tray bake cakes for you to choose from, or, bake them all!

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    Maximising Sales at Artisan Markets

    September 2, 2025 /

    The first in a series of top tips for setting out your stall at an Artisan market and maximising your sales

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  • artisan craft design,  blog,  dinners,  events,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    Going out out

    August 31, 2025 /

    Out out with music, craft, burgers and veggie wraps on the riverside

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  • artisan craft design,  blog,  Christmas Fair - Tortosa TopCat Radio,  events,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    TopCat Radio Christmas Fair – Tortosa

    August 28, 2025 /

    I am supporting, recruitment and marketing for this event to take place in December 2025 and I know it seems early to be talking Christmas but these things take time! Read more to find out how you can be involved and what to expect from this new kid on the block for the social calendar featuring creatives, artists and artisans and small businesses from the Ebro region.

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  • blog,  events,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    The Pop-Up Artisan Market – in the Ebro

    August 26, 2025 /

    We are opening in the Ebro region - come and find out more and how you can get involved

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  • blog,  clothes,  dinners,  El Raco,  food

    Oh boy it’s been hot!

    August 19, 2025 /

    This is how you cope in 40+ heat, be a cat

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  • blog,  dinners,  El Raco

    Salmon en Croute – cheats version

    August 18, 2025 /

    The flavour's speak for themselves in this simple and quick to prepare dish that practically cooks itself whether you are short on time or, in my case, too hot to slave in the kitchen. All the ingredients are in my freezer or storecupboard so it is also an easy one to rustle up. If I was doing posh I would use fresh veg and fancy up the spuds with a herb butter maybe rustle up a lemon sauce as a side but the basics stay the same

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    Christmas Fair – Posters

    August 12, 2025 /

    Christmas Fairs I have been involved in over the last few years here in Catalunya

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  • blog,  El Raco,  lunches

    Souvlaki with oven roasted sweet potato and homemade hummus

    July 13, 2025 /

    The most cooking for this dish is roasting a sweet potato in the oven everything else under ten minutes and suddenly you are transported to a greek taverna

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  • blog,  El Raco,  lunches

    Wildfire and lunch

    July 7, 2025 /

    Living with wildfires and making lunch, not that we are blase, far from it, one sleepless night too many for me!

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