00:00Bristol Christmas Market has officially opened its doors today.
00:04Let's find out what the market has to offer this year.
00:07My work is based on the idea of making really slick,
00:11really kind of like simple, sort of high design
00:14products that are made as responsibly and consciously as possible.
00:17So I have a range of mini geovessels, which I'll just show here,
00:22which are great little Christmas presents. You get the plant, the real plant
00:25included in a gift box and there's the bigger version here
00:30Then I've got a range of lamps over here which is like all customisable.
00:35So you choose your base, you choose your cable
00:38and then you come back and collect it in a week's time or I post it to you for free.
00:42We do all crystal ornaments ranging from little teddy bears, swans,
00:46candle holders, anything really that's crystal we got it on this stand for you.
00:51This is my 14th year here, been in the same position every year.
00:55All my customers are regular customers come back every year
00:58because we keep the price the same price, £5 every year.
01:01Just trading here for the second year now, selling my
01:05earmuffs and furs and gloves and hats, scarves obviously.
01:12And what products would you recommend for those who are shopping for the
01:16Christmas gifts this year at the market?
01:18Mainly the furs with the fur ponchos go really well,
01:22they're very good gifts and I've got the earmuffs which is very good and
01:26I don't want for the kids as well.
01:28I've been market trading or trading in some way for nearly 20 years.
01:34We have mostly jewellery, predominantly silver jewellery but there is some brass as well
01:39and we also have tin ornamentation, dream catchers,
01:43some signs and yeah.
01:47The guy who owns the company was actually on Dragon's Den a few years ago
01:51and he didn't actually get anywhere but he's now got distillery in Manchester,
01:54he's got a shop in Birmingham and there's actually a pop-up shop
01:57we now have for the Christmas period in Cabot Circus and we're here.
02:02It is a liqueur, it's very tasty, very sweet, very easy to drink, very popular.
02:10Yeah it's all handmade, olive wood.
02:13We have so many products, most of it like kitchen stuff,
02:17things like ladle, spoon, goblets.
02:22Also we have like games, like chess games, four games.
02:27Yeah we have almost 100 different products.
02:31I make a big range of different stuff.
02:35I'm a silversmith but I work with metals and porcelain, wood.
02:42My brother and I make mead so this is a lovely ancient drink
02:46but we're making it a contemporary alternative to wine and cider
02:51so we do a range of sparkling mead and honey beer
02:55and then yeah and this is a lovely traditional wine style mead.
02:59But yeah, setting up today, not quite finished as you can see
03:02but come back and it'll be beautiful.
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