We love cats, yes we do!

It’s beginning to feel like Christmas, and we absolutely love it! Last Saturday we attended the first of the (quite- although-never-ever-enough) many craft markets that are held in Barcelona during late November/December: the We Love Cats market; with this name we had to be there, of course, to tell you everything about it.

I think it’s the best sign for our city to see that smaller, middle and larger markets with very beautiful curated illustrators and handmade designers are blooming and grabbing lot of attention from local people of all ages. I specially loved the idea behind this one, as not only it’s a place to showcase talent but also the benefits of the market are donated to a good cause related with cats. This year they are going to help a cat shelter called Universigats which finds new homes for abandoned cats. As there is free entrance they raise the money with the booth’s rate plus other things like selling tote bags with the poster image, which gives attendants a perfect way to help the market’s organization and their cat good cause too.

The market took place at Poble Sec, a neighborhood that is slowly becoming one of the trendiest in the city, mainly for the food scenario. Since we wanted to get to the market early to have better access to every booth we got up quite early and planned a “fancy” date (eating breakfast outside makes me feel extra fancy no matter what place is it, hope I’m not alone on this one) at the Café Cometa, a coffe shop we had our eye on for quite a while for its cute interior design.

Unsurprisingly we heard this year about We love cats market thanks to Luis from rronrron whom was selling there during these two days their nice felt houses, although it is in fact the third edition of this cats (and non-cats) fans delight crafts/handmade/illustration market. During the We love cats we got the chance to see again a few favorite stores like Fauna y Flora but also got to meet new faces and sweet people like Eva Carot, Kishboo or Georgina Armadas (among many many more!), don’t forget to check the links if pretty things are your thing.

A little peek of the tote bag with this edition poster, which now is in my tote collection ;)

This “oh gosh” cat mug is adorable. We loved the Polarité pieces.

Moms & dads can score pretty things for the little ones just in time for Christmas as well. She asked if we had a blog as soon as she saw us acting like crazy with the camera, we are too obvious I guess ;)

Cute cute cute bags from TremendaMiranda, I wouldn’t mind owning either the color block or the stripey ones.

Julie & Jane had these “cat lovers special” portable blackboards, what a sweet idea for kids!

Vendors wearing cat inspired outfits, good touch. Entreplanta, well played! :) She told us she lives with a cat called Dumas.

Very rad cactus pouches and jewellery creations by Kishboo, I was impressed with her wood craftiness.

Mr and Mrs Eva Carot were the sweetest couple around, they were all smiles and so nice with everyone stopping by. Her happiness was contagious!

Look, this is our pal Luis from rronrron looking dapper!

Sloth!!!! No-need-to-add-more, well maybe I should, this is Georgina Armadas on the picture below who had the brilliant idea of having a sloth in a pink plate.

Do you remember our Biel? That weird Catalan Christmas tradition were we feed a log in the hope of getting presents from him? The We love markets was dominated by a giant kitty-“tió de Nadal”, no wonder this was the perfect photo spot.

We love cats, but also doggies!

How was your weekend? Tell us all about it, we love to virtually catch up with everyone! We also had magnificent food outings and a very dear friend visiting, but that will be Thursday’s story. We are coming again tomorrow with the reveal of the giveaway winner, we are biting our nails with excitement and suspense!