Get your shopping totes ready for the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade!

After bursting onto the scene last year with the inaugural event, the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade is back with even more handmade shopping for all. This year, we've moved out of the Knitting Factory and into Openhouse Gallery, a gorgeous, modern space in NoLita that will highlight our most talented local makers and their lovely wares.

Due to your suggestions, we've also extended our shopping hours this year. We will be open from 11am until 8pm, letting you shop early or late during the busy holiday season.

But you'll want to come early if you've RSVPed for a free goody bag because those puppies got snatched up within the first 24 hours of online registration! The limited-edition silk-screened totes, (filled with fun stuff), will be on hold for confirmed registrants until 2pm. After that, it will be released for sale to the public. Next week when all the goodies have been sorted through, we'll let you know some of the stuff that's in it!

So mark your calendars and visit our vendors page to make your shopping list. Remember many of them welcome custom orders, so if you act now, they can have your unique, handmade gifts ready to pick up by the big day!

-Lisa {Pretty Stationery for Beautiful Souls}
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Weekend Events: Last Minute Handmade Holiday Shopping Trail


Did you miss the boat for online shopping, yet still want interesting gifts just in time for the Holidays? If you're in the New York City area this weekend you're in luck. Get on the the "Last Minute Handmade Holiday Shopping Trail," where you can find fabulous handmade gifts from Etsy sellers and meet the makers too! It's like getting a two for one. And all three holiday fairs are within a 2 mile radius.

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Chapeau Rouge, 1920

First stop is NYCreates, at the Brooklyn Historical Society. NYCreates runs from Thursday December 18 to Tuesday December 23. Among the the 30 plus vendors you will find 1920 who makes beautiful 1920's inspired hats, bags and accessories from TESAGE by Yukiko Sato of Long Island City Gifts, and whimsical earrings by Milkmade.

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Poppy Earrings on Dimes, Wabi Sabi Brooklyn

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Mimi Stoneware Dinner Plate, Take Me Homeware

The second stop on the trail is the Brooklyn Indie Market on Smith Street, run by fashion designer and Etsy seller Kathy Malone, aka Fofolle. This weekend BIM partners with St. John's Bread & Life, "Brooklyn's largest emergency food provider." A percentage of market sales will benefit the charity. Here you can find decoupage jewelry by Wabi Sabi Brooklyn as well as beautiful hand decorated ceramics of Take Me Homeware.

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Oh what a man Soap, Nordea's Soaperie
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Moleskin Screen Printed Notebook Journals, Fisk & Fern

A ten minute walk southeast on Union Street will lead you to the third and final stop, the Brooklyn Lyceum's Holiday Craft Market. There will be over 50 local area vendors, including the lovely knitted wares of KnitKnit, yummy soaps of Nordea's Soaperie and nature inspired journals and scarves of Fisk & Fern.

So don't despair, there's still time to find plenty of unique handmade gifts this weekend. Bundle up, put on your walking shoes, grab your metro card, and hit the "Last Minute Handmade Holiday Shopping Trail."

December 18-December 23
NYCreates @Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn Heights, Bklyn
2,3,4,5,R trains to Court Street

December 20& 21
Brooklyn Indie Market
Red & White Tent on Smith Street @ Union Street
Carroll Gardens, Bklyn
F or G trains to Carroll Street

Holiday Craft Market @ The Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue, between Union and President Streets
Park Slope, Bklyn
R train Union Street

Where to find The {NewNew} at Bust Craftacular tomorrow!


Click map to view larger. Print & bring to BUST with you!

14- Hand Of Fatima Design: Urban Jewelery Designed from Antique and Vintage Wears- Handmade in NYC.

25- Dirty Loves Clean: Vegan bath & body products including: holiday themed handmade soaps, lip balms, cameo-shaped soaps & gift sets.
25- Peppersprouts: New York themed shadow boxes and other hand-cut art

77- Red Bridge Studio: silk screened home & personal accessories, t-shirts

86- KimmChi: bold, abstract silkscreened women's shirts
86- wabisabi brooklyn: decoupage jewelry. handmade in the county of kings.

89- Charlie and Sarah
89- Chestnut Farmer

90- Cakehouse: Handmade Refashioned Home Accessories
90- Take Me Homeware: Handmade ceramics by May Luk

94- Lingua Nigra: Jewelry.

102- Metal Sugar: Deliciously Original Jewelry

119- Jill K Davis Jewelry: Sterling silver, brass and gold plated jewelry. Houses, trees and "Hi" and "Bye" earrings, necklaces, bracelets and charms.

166- Nordea's Soaperie: Handmade soap, whipped body butter, lip balms, & perfumes

178- Beacon Bookmarks: Wooden Bookmarks
178- Blue Stitch Books: Vintage inspired paper goods, journals and sewn accessories