Working Loose is turning TWO — and we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a vibrant, weird, and wonderful BIZARRE BAZAAR on Sunday, June 14th from 11am–4pm!
Join us for a lively community gathering and market featuring an incredible lineup of creative people, curious collections, and wildly wonderful endeavors. We’ve gathered a dynamic mix of vendors overflowing with inspiration and delight.
Expect vintage and small-batch clothing, handmade paper goods, antique homewares and art, mouthwatering granola, culinary mushrooms, distilled spirits, artisanal cheese, hand-dipped beeswax candles, cozy tarot readings, custom chain stitching on the spot, popsicles, magazines, wild-harvested salt, botanical sodas and topicals, rugs, heirloom seeds, ceramics, and so much more!
And come hungry — because Milk + Honey Kitchen from NEH will be serving up sandwiches and treats all day long.
This year, we’re getting the whole block involved! Our wonderful neighbors at Juniper are also turning two, and we’re joining forces to expand the market into a full-on neighborhood celebration, complete with surprise guests, sidewalk happenings, and festive chaos spilling onto the stoop.
It’s going to be joyful, bustling, a little bizarre, and a very good time.
Bazaar vendors:
Alchemical Rounds - A Painter's Cheese - The Blue Chill - Bold Magazine Shop - Cozy Tarot - Downeast Mushrooms - Elda Bags - Fairydog - Giantdaughter - Juniper - Luce Spirits - Luddite Antiques - Matinicus Salt Farm - Milk & Honey - Overmorrow Homestead - Pastoral Picks - Room Tone Textiles - Salve-ation - SHare studios - Threshold Farm Seeds & Studio - Treehouse - Wet Day Fire - Zaftig Yenta Ceramics + MORE!
Alchemical Rounds Apothecary is a Hudson Valley-based apothecary offering simple, intuitive plant-based remedies — including potions, oils, teas, deodorants, flower essences, and more — crafted with organic and ethically sourced herbs. Founder Brittany works closely with small organic farms and wild-harvests some materials herself, ensuring quality and integrity at every step.
A Painter's Cheese - Local Artist and cheese maker Susie Tarnowicz will be bringing her delicious and delightful soft and hard cheeses… you will soon fall in love with her ricotta like we did! Nutso good! Check her Ricotta on the Tinderhearth menu as of late...
The Blue Chill - The Blue Chill is a family-focused hangout serving handmade popsicles. Located in downtown Blue Hill.
Bold Magazine Shop - BOLD is an independent magazine shop based in the heart of Portland’s Arts District, curating beautiful and thoughtful titles from around the world spanning art, nature, design, culture, food, and more. For this event, they will be set up as a traveling newsstand!
cozy tarot is a gentle reading in a comfortable space for reflecting on what the cards have to say
Downeast Mushrooms - An organic, specialty mushroom farm located on Deer Isle. Known for fresh mushrooms across the island and peninsula & now sharing a line of dehydrated mushroom products so you can enjoy mushrooms year-round — and in ways that might surprise you!
Elda Bags - A leather goods brand focused on thoughtful production for thoughtful consumption. Britta McCarthy hand-sews every item in Portland, Maine, using vegetable-tanned leather and linen thread.
Fairydog - Adornment magic for the house and body. Upcycled fashions and screenprinted clothing with imagery inspired by medieval creatures, fairylands, and nature spells.
Giantdaughter is the creative projhect on wild foraging and understanding landscape via the brain of Artist and Botanical Cook Rachel Alexandrou. Expect Prepared and freshly harvested wild foods, woodblock prints or book a plant walk!
JUNIPER - Vintage (and new) Clothes, owner Amanda Woog is our dear neighbor, and opened her shop just one month after WL! Also turning TWO! Juniper will be extending the party and bazaar with vendors and suprises down on their deck at the Pendelton Building!
Luce Spirits - Luce Spirits 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; )
Luddite Antiques - Buddy Luke of Germantown, NY will be brining a collection of his wonderful finds. Expect old and beautiful art, objects, furniture, and things that will make you ooh and aah.
Matinicus Salt Farm - Hand-harvested in small batches, and Committed to traditional methods, we harness the sun's energy to responsibly evaporate the clean, cold waters surrounding Matinicus Island, crafting pure, all-natural sea salt.
Milk & Honey Kitchen - a little cafe in Northeast Harbor (MDI), we make sandwiches and baked goods, and we fry chicken Thursday nights in the summer. We use good ingredients, we make everything the hard way, and we have a nice time at work. expect PARTY subs and sweet Treats!
Overmorrow Homestead -hand dipped and woven beeswax candles, hand tanned sheepskin collars, woodblock prints, sewn clothing
Pastoral Picks - a vintage clothing and book dealer based in rockland.
Room Tone Textiles - one of a kind handmade rugs, pillows, and home goods using locally sourced hand dyed materials in Portland, Maine.
Salve-ation - Low dose Treats for sensitive angels who like to flutter not fly
+ organic topicals for all your achey breakies - IFKYK
SHare studios - Share Studios is a one woman papermaking practice currently exploring the endless possibilities of handmade paper, while also producing a unique line of papermaking tools for fellow artisans.
Threshold Farm Seeds & Studio - a land-based project working to preserve and protect culturally sacred heirloom seeds. rooted in reverence for traditional food ways, a deep love of land, and a commitment to all people who have been forcibly severed from their food systems.
Treehouse - Treehouse is a free weekly newsletter and paid monthly print zine, exploring themes of home using art, essays, photography, interviews, projects—everything and anything!
Wet Day Fire - Making all your custom embroidery dreams come true Using A traditional hand-cranked chainstitch embroidery machine, liana will be on-site doing custom chain-stitching and can make your favorite pieces even more special…
Zaftig Yenta Ceramics - Porcelain ceramics that resonate broadly and encourage reflection. made by hand in Harpswell, Maine. Zaftig is yiddish for voluptuous, thicc, literally 'juicy' - and yenta is yiddish for a gossip, or someone who is overly involved in the sentimental lives of others.
