‘You get people from all over the world’: Cardiff’s incredible Christmas market

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We’re taking a look around Cardiff’s Christmas market. It’s entirely handmade and locally sourced, so we’re finding out just how much hard work goes into some of the crafts.

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00:01Well then you find that people from every corner of the world will buy

00:05something from you. I like to ask them where they're from you know and and you

00:09get to find some stories about why they're buying it and very often they

00:13have a Welsh connection if they're buying a dragon but yeah people from all over

00:17the world will buy these these items from us. It might be a bit on the cold

00:23side but the Sun is shining so where better to come than Cardiff's famous

00:26Christmas market. There are stalls from all across Wales selling their

00:29wares here in time for Christmas from jewellery to jam and cushions to cakes

00:33and we're taking a tour around as many of the stalls as we can this Christmas.

00:37We're looking at just a few of those craftier stalls today who say being a

00:41part of this entirely handmade market is a massive part of their year and they keep

00:46coming back. Fantastic yeah people like it people like stuff that's you know locally

00:52produced they like to know where it's come from and the fact that we are small

00:57businesses. Yeah it's an eclectic mix in Cardiff really

01:01is and you just see the best of people because you know people who do what we do

01:05believe me we work hard at it. Yeah it doesn't happen overnight so there's a

01:09lot of stuff goes on in the background before we get to the stage. The criteria to be on the

01:14Cardiff Christmas market is really stringent. You know it has to be used of your own work

01:20handmade you know and it's all quality work they don't accept to do bought in

01:27mass-produced warehouse stuff it's all small businesses that you do your own

01:31work and there are some very talented crafters here. Yeah they are we do a few

01:38summer ones and spring and summer fairs but Cardiff Christmas is a big one and you

01:45know it means that the work you do for months before then all pays off at

01:50Christmas hopefully with the weather yeah. The market has everything and these

01:54stalls offer those handy gifts for people that are completely unique and you

01:58won't find anywhere else. Right basically we have a mixture of crafts here so we do

02:03the ceramics which are slip cast ceramics fired ones then painted with acrylics

02:08and then given the gloss coat and then my wife makes the gonks and gonky gnomes she

02:14calls them because some people say they're gonks some say they're gnomes so gonky

02:17gnomes will do as long as they buy one and then she also does the pebble art which is

02:20on that side there which is a bit more fine stuff which my eyes won't allow me to do

02:25and she is quite talented on that so three different things we've got ceramics we've

02:30got the gonks and we've got the pebble art. Right it's a small business husband and

02:34wife but my husband is the designing and creating he makes it all and I come out

02:39and smile and sell it so it's all I mean the fretwork is the most that the bread and

02:47butter the main part of it but the woodturning which he loves we use reclaimed

02:51wood where we can get it and seems to go well yes it's our 12th year here.

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