Is there a better way to ring in the holiday season than to celebrate the creative folks who make our communities thrive? Unlikely! Mark your calendars and join usย ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ 5๐๐ต, ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฎ๐บโ๐ฏ๐ฝ๐บ for a day of shopping small and celebrating the makers, dreamers, and doers who make Maine so special.
This year, weโre bringing together a (mostly) fresh lineup of Maine vendors, each with their own unique take on creativity, craft, and community! Expect fresh pastries and bread, coffee, botanical spirits and skincare, jams and pantry goods, handmade ceramics, textiles, jewelry, prints, weird little rugs, one-of-a-kind art, vintage-inspired wearables, and all sorts of thoughtful gifts and delightful oddities.
See you at the Bazaar! โจ
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Bazaar vendors:
DOUBLE GRAZIE ย Cafe Grazie is a woman & friend-owned restaurant and bakery in Rockland, Maine. We specialize in seasonal, Italian-influenced offerings, both sweet and savory, mystical and mundane.ย
LUCE SPIRITSย is a distillery, tasting room and bottle shop focusing on herbal spirits. Inspired by the flora and culture of Mid-Coast Maine, they use wild-foraged, locally grown, and organic ingredients to make delicious stuff: sometimes traditional, sometimes less so.
HOLEY WELL WREATHS Wreaths and greens for the festive home, celebrating the dark and cold time of the year. Harvested sustainably and woven in Brooks, ME.
MEGAN WOOD Highfire, functional ceramics. We all crave a little centering, soft quiet in our lives so that we can go out and ride this wild world. Here are simply the tools I have found, dreamed of and made to ground myself and you.
MORNING DEW FARM PAPRIKA Farm grown heritage single origin paprikas and other culinary Chile flakes
EMMA MARY MURRAYย Emma Mary Murray is a Mount Desert Island-based embroiderer and illustrator depicting the light and topography of home. She makes things and up-cycles existing things to combine a love of stitching and drawing with a desire to work toward sustainability for people + planet.
FINN GARDNER WALSHย Finn Gardner Walsh is a space maker. Their work explores the domestic through both craft and fine art, but primarily through a combination of the two. They are deeply influenced by the seafaring and woodworking craft traditions of Midcoast Maine, where they grew up and have recently returned.
FLORA EX MACHINA ย is a wellness hub merging ancient wisdom for modern living, offering a spectrum of natural healing protocols, holistic skincare services, nutritional counseling, educational courses and workshops, reiki, an apothecary of natural and organic skincare, and decadent line of Royal Ghee โ honey buttery botanical spreads to support your whole being.
GOOD OMEN STUDIO Good Omen Studio is a micro textile studio focused primarily on hand-quilting using natural dyes and fibers. They blend traditional folk design and technique with playful and pared down elements of color, shape, & texture to make beautiful and hearty functional objects for daily use.
SUNROOM COFFEE Sunroom Coffee makes decaf and half-caff coffee that tastes great. Sourced from small farms producing the best in the world, our coffee is gently decaffeinated without chemicals, putting flavour and health at the forefront. Always freshly roasted, and best enjoyed all day (and night).
BABBโS CERAMICS Beatrice makes handbuilt, one of a kind ceramics. She lives and works in Portland, ME.
ROOM TONE TEXTILES Room Tone Textiles is a woman owned home goods shop specializing in handmade rugs and pillows.
SMITHEREEN FARM A super diverse, salt water farm in rural Washington County, Maine. We produce pure ingredients, beautifully preserved foods that transmit the unique flavors of our wild seaweeds, herbs, fruits, flowers and produce for you, our eater. We also host educational events, festivals dinners, spa days and miscellaneous programming in partnership with our sister organization Greenhorns.
TEMPERED EAST Tempered East is a small-batch, hand-marbling studio, owned and operated by Claire Reynes, that offers marbling design services, workshops, and one-of-a-kind products. Marbling is a process where pigments are floated on a liquid surface and worked into different patterns that are then printed onto paper, fabric, or object. Tempered East is dedicated to celebrating color, pattern, and the spontaneous in their products, each one being marbled and dipped by hand.
WILD SOL JEWELRY Handcrafted jewelry that begins with a feeling, a memory, or a moment of wonder. Wild Sol translates these impressions into elemental and playful forms. Rooted in presence and curiosity, the collection celebrates the beauty of noticing and is a reminder to return to center and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world.
YONSEI FIELDS Yonsei Fields is a queer and trans owned sustainable farm, growing predominantly Asian vegetables and selling Asian ferments and herbs inspired by my experience growing up as yonsei, the fourth generation in the Japanese diaspora. Whether youโre trying something new or looking for a taste of home, we hope to add something special to your favorite dish!
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