Above right: Claire Sunderland paints Cortney Jones’ face with a butterfly at Clarendon Street Preschool’s twilight market night last week. A TWILIGHT market night at Cranbourne’s Clarendon Street Preschool on Friday attracted more than 300 people to stop in, despite the rain and a rival market on the same night.
Organisers declared the market a big success with more than $700 raised after expenses.
Visitors were treated to 24 market stalls, face painting, a sausage sizzle, door prizes and raffles every half-hour.
Clarendon Street Preschool Committee secretary and treasurer Karren Dennis said the night had gone well, with queues forming at one stage to get inside.
Ms Dennis said an announcement on the radio and in newspapers, fliers and letterbox drops had helped to make it a success.
She said people had been phoning up until the day of the market to get their stall at the preschool.
The committee charged $15 a stall and asked stallholders if they could donate an item for the raffles.
Fashion, jewellery, Tupperware, lollies, recipe books, tarot reading, waxing, haircuts, chocolate Christmas houses and cakes donated by parents were all on offer at the market.
Ms Dennis said they had already pre-booked some stalls if another market was to go ahead next year.
The preschool has managed to raise $3800 to date this year but Ms Dennis said with the Christmas raffle coming up, they hoped to increase that figure.
