A Mogo family that lost their leather goods business and home to bushfire have set up a market outside the burnt rubble.
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Gaspar Roman and Lorena Granados, of Roman Leathergoods and Repair, are open for business everyday with stock to sell and an anvil.
They are hoping visitors will drop by on the Princes Highway and help small businesses start to get back on their feet.
Ms Granados said the business started off as a market stall, so "it only made perfect sense to do what we know".
The couple, and daughter Aisha Roman, who also works in the business, continued to be overwhelmed by the devastation on Wednesday, January 23.
The business had only just relocated the shop further along the Princes Highway in Mogo.
Ms Granados said they faced a curtain of fire and raining embers on New Year's Eve. About two million products were gone. She said "we would've collapsed" from the smoke and heat if they tried to save it.
