Jolly Good Emporium

17/10/2026

What an absolutely wonderful night in Armidale! 🎶✨

What a fabulous way to kick off the Creative Streets Festival!

We wanted to share this beautiful performance by Bitz of Buzz, who treated us to some truly wonderful music at Jolly Good Emporium tonight. This special piece written just for tonight. ❤️

A huge thank you also to the Barney Street Band, who helped make the evening so memorable. Having live music filling the Emporium was something rather special!

With thousands of people out enjoying the festivities, the town was absolutely buzzing. The weather was kind to us, the atmosphere was fantastic, and it was wonderful to see so many people supporting this fabulous community event.

After all the hard work preparing our new shopfront display, tonight made it all worthwhile!

A heartfelt thank you to the musicians, organisers, volunteers and everyone who came along. What a wonderful reminder of just how special Armidale can be when our community comes together.

Here's a little musical moment from the evening. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! 🎵

Mr Good, Mr Jolly & the Jolly Good Emporium team 🐸💚

14/10/2026

🎩 **TWO YEARS AGO TODAY… HOW TIME FLIES!** 🐸❤️

On 15 October 2024, we opened the doors to our little antique shop in Uralla, full of enthusiasm, big ideas and absolutely no idea where this adventure would take us!

Looking back at these photographs, it's hard to believe just how much has changed in two short years.

Who would have thought that our little venture in Uralla would grow into **Jolly Good Emporium**, with a wonderful new home in the heart of Armidale, in a historic building with so many stories of its own?

What started as a love of antiques, curiosities and all things unusual has become so much more. We've discovered extraordinary treasures, heard fascinating stories, made wonderful friendships and met some truly unforgettable characters along the way.

There have been challenges, plenty of hard work, a few surprises and more than a little madness! But we wouldn't have it any other way.

And the best part? We're still only getting started!

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way — our customers, consignors, friends, family and fellow lovers of all things old and curious. You've all helped make this adventure what it is today.

**Two years, two towns, countless treasures and a lifetime of stories still waiting to be discovered.**

Who knows where we'll be in another two years? 😁

Here's to many more Jolly Good adventures!

With love and thanks,
**Mr Good, Jakob & Jolly** 🎩🐸

*Jolly Good Emporium — Curators of Curiosity*


Mark Jolly Boyle

13/10/2026

🎉🐻 WINNIE THE POOH IS TURNING 100! 🎂🍯

And you're all invited to his birthday party!

Tomorrow, Wednesday 14 October, we're celebrating Winnie's 100th birthday at the Jolly Good Emporium, and we'd love you to join us at lunchtime! 🎈

After his rather unexpected adventure around Armidale recently, Winnie has become something of a local celebrity. He's promised to behave himself for his big day, although we're not taking any chances! 😂

We'll have Winnie out the front of the Emporium for photographs, under close supervision, of course. We can't have the birthday boy wandering off on another unscheduled sightseeing tour!

Come along, wish Winnie a happy birthday, have a photo with our much-loved bear and help us celebrate a very special milestone.

🎂 When: Wednesday 14 October, lunchtime

📍 Where: Jolly Good Emporium, 168–170 Beardy Street, Armidale

❤️ Everyone is welcome — young, old and young at heart!

After all, it's not every day a bear turns 100!

🐻🍯 JOLLY GOOD EMPORIUM
Curators of Curiosity

09/10/2026

Richard has a wonderful talent for turning the most unexpected found objects into wearable works of art.
We're talking prosthetic eyes, broken dolls, Monopoly pieces, jigsaw puzzles, vintage lino, copper fragments and all sorts of other curious bits and pieces that most people wouldn't dream of turning into jewellery!
The results are imaginative, eccentric, sometimes slightly unsettling — and absolutely marvellous! 😍
Naturally, we think Richard's creations fit right in amongst our own collection of curiosities and oddities.
After all, where else would a prosthetic eye and a broken doll find themselves perfectly at home? 👁️
A big thank you to Richard for bringing his wonderfully peculiar creations to our little corner of Armidale.
Pop in, have a browse and discover something delightfully different!
📍 Jolly Good Emporium
168–170 Beardy Street Mall, Armidale
Open seven days, 9 am–5 pm
🐸 Curators of Curiosity


Richard Moon Wearable Silver & Silverware

There’s a new cabinet of my more quirky pieces just installed at the Jolly Good Emporium in The Armidale Mall🤗 it fits right in with the collection of antiquities the gentleman have assembled for sale on their fabulous store!
Be sure to drop in and peruse when you’re next in town.

08/10/2026

We're so excited to welcome the Barney Street Band to the Jolly Good Emporium! 🎶🎩

What a fabulous way to kick off the Creative Streets Festival on Saturday, 17th October!

We'll be celebrating from 4 pm to 9 pm, with great music, plenty of atmosphere and a few surprises of our own — including the unveiling of our brand-new shopfront display at 4 pm!

Come along, join the festivities and have a jolly good time! We can't wait! 💚✨

08/10/2026

📰 **BREAKING NEWS FROM THE JOLLY GOOD EMPORIUM!** 🎩🐸

**NO, WE’RE NOT SELLING NEWSPAPERS!**

**NO, WE’RE NOT CLOSING DOWN!**

And no, Mr Good hasn't completely lost the plot… well, not quite! 😂

You may have noticed that half our shopfront windows have mysteriously disappeared behind sheets of newspaper.

Rest assured, there's a very good reason!

Behind those newspaper-covered windows, we've been busy working on something rather special — a brand-new, wonderfully eccentric **Jolly Good Emporium shopfront display!**

And we're keeping it all under wraps until the grand unveiling!

🎭 **SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER — 4 PM**

✨ **CREATIVE STREETS FESTIVAL** ✨

That's when all will be revealed, as we unveil our latest creation to celebrate the festival's kickoff!

Until then, you'll just have to wonder what's going on behind those windows. 👀

**And don't worry — we're OPEN AS USUAL, seven days a week, 9 am–5 pm!**

The mysteries are multiplying, the curiosity is building, and there's never a dull moment at the Emporium!

🎩 **JOLLY GOOD EMPORIUM**
*Curators of Curiosity*
📍 168–170 Beardy Street Mall, Armidale

27/09/2026

🚨 HAS ANYONE SEEN WINNIE? 🚨

We’re very sad to report that Winnie the Pooh was stolen from outside Jolly Good Emporium this afternoon.

A group of young people were seen running off with him down the East Mall, and he was later reportedly spotted near the park. We searched the area but unfortunately couldn’t find him.

The matter has been reported to Armidale Police.

Winnie isn’t just something we had for sale. He’s become a bit of a character at the Emporium — sitting out the front, making people smile, posing for photos and generally being part of the madness that is Jolly Good.

We’d really just like him back.

If you’ve seen Winnie this afternoon, know where he might be, or happen to see an enormous yellow bear wandering around Armidale looking rather lost, please send us a private message or contact Armidale Police.

And if whoever has him happens to read this: please just bring him back. No grand speeches required. Winnie can come home and we can get on with things.

Please share — he’s rather difficult to hide. ❤️

Update: see comment below.

Mr Good & Mr Jolly
Jolly Good Emporium
170 Beardy Street, Armidale

11/09/2026

NO BLOODY ROAD! 🇩🇪🪗🎺
We may have got a little carried away with this one…
When the proposal came along to put a road through our beloved Beardy Street Mall, Mr Good and Mr Jolly did what responsible businessmen should do: we read the plans, considered the arguments and made a lengthy, sensible submission to Council.
That was then.
This is our less sensible submission. 😂
We’ve turned the whole saga into a ridiculous German theatrical cabaret — complete with pompous bureaucrats, accordion, booming tuba, PowerPoints, roadworks, a ceramic duck and two antique dealers becoming increasingly agitated.
Beneath all the silliness, though, we really do love our Mall. We want it full of people, music, markets, trees, conversation, businesses and life.
Revitalise it. Beautify it. Celebrate it.
Just don’t put a bloody road through it.
NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!
Turn it up and enjoy. 😂
PARP. 🎺
— Mr Good & Mr Jolly
Jolly Good Emporium — Curators of Curiosity

Listen and make your own on Suno.

03/09/2026

🎩🐸 DON’T JUST STAND THERE — COME INSIDE! 🎶⚡

Well… things have escalated.

What started as a little experiment creating our own music for Jolly Good Emporium has somehow turned into…

JOLLY GOOD — THE MUSICAL. 😂

And this may be our most gloriously ridiculous creation yet.

There are frogs in top hats.
Clocks that don't tick.
Things we can't identify.
Uranium glass.
Blue and white.
Mr Good. Mr Jolly.
Far too many cabinets.

And, naturally, somebody who walks in for a teacup and somehow leaves with a chair.

But underneath all the madness is something we genuinely believe:

❤️ The old, the broken, the strange and the forgotten still have stories worth hearing.

So turn it up.

Leave your good sense at the door.

And whatever you do…

DON’T JUST STAND THERE — COME INSIDE!

🎩🐸✨
Jolly Good Emporium
Curators of Curiosity

P.S. There genuinely isn't room for another grandfather clock.

…bring it in.

Listen and make your own on Suno.