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,  El Raco,  lunches

    The temperatures fallen – just a tad

    July 5, 2025 /

    One pan lunch with juicy veg, tomato, chicken and chorizo and some funky seasoning plus enough left over for tomorrow.

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    2025

    January 3, 2025 /

    A very quick overview of the last six months and where we are now.

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  • blog,  El Raco,  lunches

    La Botiga del Riu Amposta

    October 11, 2024 /

    This little botiga has a small but perfectly formed menu and it has a charming little deli with local produce to boot a shop and lunch in one by the river

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    Getting to grips with well water – campo living

    October 9, 2024 /

    Dry gardening and conserving water, dodgy electrics and getting used to being semi off grid.

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  • blog,  El Raco,  Hallways,  interior design,  interiors

    Making an entrance

    September 12, 2024 /

    From a dark and narrow hallway with a rickety upvc door to a light and bright entrance with solid wood oak finish doors for us and the mogsters!

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    Jewelry Design

    July 24, 2024 /

    A glimpse into my jewelry designs for last summers collection using seaglass, beads, cowrie shell and abalone with silver wire

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  • accessories,  bags,  blog,  clothes,  shoes

    Moody Blues

    July 7, 2024 /

    Textures, layers and moody blues

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    El Raco

    May 20, 2024 /

    Our renovation project

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  • accessories,  bags,  blog,  clothes,  shoes

    Spring Cleaning

    February 6, 2024 /

    These in-between seasons and the vagaries of weather in these times calls for some canny mixing and matching these are my tips for getting the most from your wardrobe

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  • blog,  interior design,  interiors,  kitchens,  living rooms,  spaces,  terraces,  upcycling and renovating

    Renovating The Van

    November 17, 2023 /

    After a brief site visit was able to get lots of photos of the house, grounds and the van. Today am sharing my plans for the van, probably won't get round to the renovations until late spring as we have to get the house habitable first but we have lots of storage so we can start to collect the materials in readiness. Come on in and see the before photos and some ideas for how I hope it will look.

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