tea & toast & tapas

  • 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
  • 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
  • baking,  blog,  breakfast,  cakes,  Christmas,  puddings,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    December

    January 4, 2022 /

    Sunshine and frosty mornings, Christmas Fairs and Christmas cakes, a little snapshot of life in Catalunya in December

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  • baking,  blog,  Christmas,  food,  interiors,  soups and starters

    Are we ready yet?

    December 22, 2021 /

    Trees up, decorating done, christmas cake baked and waiting for dressing - plus a yummy christmas soup you might like to try

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  • blog,  Christmas,  crochet and knit,  food,  kitchens,  shoes,  textile,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    November

    December 20, 2021 /

    November a month of comfort - food, sunshine and Christmas prep - and naughty cat!

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  • baking,  blog,  cakes,  crochet and knit,  interior design,  terraces,  upcycling and renovating

    October

    October 30, 2021 /

    "I'm so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers" Anne of Green Gables

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

    The Pop-Up is back!

    September 25, 2021 /

    Here we are the end of summer and the Pop-Up Artisans are back. Our focus through these lovely months of autumn is to get hygge with it! If you've not come across this expression before it simply means in Danish "to give courage, comfort and joy" and is synonymous with warmth, cosyness, hugs and love.

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  • baking,  blog,  Lifestyle,  terraces

    Hello September!

    September 14, 2021 /

    After a whole month off I had an action packed August and am more than ready for a chilled and mellow September!

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  • blog,  colour,  garden,  interior design,  terraces,  upcycling and renovating

    Rain stopped play

    August 4, 2021 /

    This week has been a real mixed bag of weather, one minute boiling hot, aircon going ten to the dozen, the next thunder and lightening and torrential rain. Hello August!

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  • blog,  interior design,  terraces,  upcycling and renovating

    Table tops

    July 27, 2021 /

    In between the ridiculously hot scorching weather making it virtually impossible to do anything outside after 10am and my handyman Mick being otherwise engaged literally only started putting the table renovations together today.

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  • balconies,  blog,  interior design,  terraces,  textile,  upcycling and renovating

    Deck Renovations Part 2

    July 17, 2021 /

    We have two outside seating areas one on the lower deck and one off the lounge terrace, both have comfy sofas and chairs and both need a revamp and some TLC, come have a peek at what I'm planning....

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  • blog,  interior design,  terraces,  upcycling and renovating

    Renovating my outdoor table

    July 15, 2021 /

    After successfully renovating the outdoor table at my chalet am itching to get started on my large ten seater on the downstairs deck.

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