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Urban Epicurean Festival this weekend in SF!

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The Urban Epicurean Festival (Urban Epic Fest) is a modern marketplace where craft, food, and drink converge. It is a celebration of local makers and the bounty of the season. Brought to you by the team that produces the popular San Francisco Bazaar craft festivals. Urban Epic Fest will be the first of it’s kind to land at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Attendees can purchase unique art, handmade goods, artisanal food, and local wine and beer while attending workshops on an array of topics from home brewing, flower arranging to urban beekeeping! The Urban Epic Fest is a free, family-friendly event perfect for all ages. There’s no better way to kick-off the fall season in San Francisco.

The Urban Epicurean Festival
November 7 & 8th 2015
11:30 – 6:30 AM each day
Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion – San Francisco, CA
Free to attend

Art & Craft
The core of San Francisco Bazaar shows has always been our quality handmade marketplace. The Urban Epic Fest will continue to curate a quality market focused on local made and independently designed goods. Expect to find crafts, art, housewares, jewelry and apparel with a sustainable twist. Gifts range in prices and will be sure to offer something for everyone on your list this upcoming holiday season.

Food & Farm
This year we bring back our local food makers, and expand our offerings to hot food vendors inside the Festival Pavilion alongside our much-anticipated line up of gourmet food trucks. Customers can also shop for local made baked goods, chocolates, jams, and pickles! The Urban Epic Fest will satisfy your inner foodie and help you find the perfect hostess gift or unique food item for Thanksgiving dinner.

Beer & Wine
Attendees will be able to sample and purchase quality libations in our exclusive Beer and Wine market on the spacious mezzanine overlooking the main floor. Customers can sip while they shop, but also bring home quality wine to serve family and friends over the holiday season.

DIY, Home, & Garden
Learn new skills at our three workshop stations. Leaders in the floral, craft, and food industries will be offering up tips on how to make your holiday season more sustainable and homemade. Set the table with your own floral arrangements, sew custom table linens, whip up a vegan feast, grow organic vegetables, pickle, brew, and more!

Contact us at info (at) urbanepicfest.com

Find me at BOOTH # 86!

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Healdsburg Center for the Arts – Art for the Holidays

Art for the Holidays 2014
Nov. 13 – Dec. 31

Annual Juried show of Art for Holiday Giving
Sponsored by Simi Winery

 

Each Holiday season Healdsburg Center for the Arts turns into a boutique gallery full of fine art and craft pieces perfect for gift giving. The Art for the Holidays show is held at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, a non-profit art center located in the wine country destination of Healdsburg, California.

 

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Napa Gifts N Tyme Holiday Faire This Weekend

42nd Annual Gifts ‘n Tyme Holiday Faire
Dates: Friday, November 21, 2014 – Sunday, November 23, 2014
Time
: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Event Location
:
Napa Valley Expo
575 Third Street
Napa, CA 94559
Admission
: free
Phone
: (925) 372-8961
Website
:
http://www.afterthegoldrushfestivals.com/

Celebrate a Napa holiday tradition! Highlighting 85 booths of fine crafts, artwork, & gourmet foods to sample all made by the artists present. The Napa Valley Lion’s Club holds their annual home baked goodies sale, and our kitchen serves delicious homemade lunches & dinners. This is a great time to get your Christmas shopping done early, and with a personal touch. Traditions and holidays go together, so come celebrate the season with us!

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Felted Soaps Galore!

I have been madly making enough felted soaps to get me thru my upcoming season of craft fairs.  Next weekend, Labor Day, kicks off my very full fair season with the Paul Bunyan Days in Fort Bragg.  I have 14 fairs packed between Labor Day and mid-December; this my busiest year yet!

I won’t have time to felt much in between fairs and the rest of my life/farm obligations during the fall so I’ve had to get all my stock ready this summer.  I have amassed about 1400 felted soaps that I’m hoping I will sell during this busy holiday season.  This will be my last week of felting and I think I will be ready and set to sell, sell, sell.

I am amazed that at this point I’m not sick of the process or of the scents but I guess that is a testament to how much I love this work.  Even the bad days creating are really pretty good.  Now that does not ring true for fairs exactly. A bad fair can be really bad depending on weather, people, sales, etc and can be pretty discouraging.  Even then though, I am living my dream so it is rewarding in a way as well. At least I am living my life the way I want to.

Maybe I won’t have any bad shows this season and all my hard work will be snatched up and taken away by happy customers.  Ah, one can hope at least. 🙂 Wish me luck!

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Ornament Season

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With the change of seasons comes crafters preparing for the Holidays.  Many businesses do a majority of their sales during and leading up to the Christmas season.  Since I am a late shopper it always amazes me when customers come into my booth at a September fair and load up with holiday gifts.  These people are ahead of the game!

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To do my part to prepare for the holiday gift giving season I have made a new line of wool ornaments.  I needle felted each one with care and because of this each one is unique and slightly different.

They bring comfort and joy to the cold winter ahead and make festive any lit Christmas tree.

You can email me to order one of these creations for $15.00 plus shipping or find them listed individually on my etsy page.

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