Hundreds of people poured into the Cyclorama Building at Boston’s Center for the Arts on Tremont Street Sunday, Dec. 16, for the annual Bazaar Bizarre.
Bazaar Bizarre 2012
Hundreds of people poured into the Cyclorama Building at Boston’s Center for the Arts on Tremont Street Sunday, Dec. 16, for the annual Bazaar Bizarre.
The event featured more than 100 artists selling handmade goods, including candles, lights, kitchenware, jewelry, and clothes.
Christine Guanipa, of Whitinsville, MA, manned the table for her business, Little Man. She and her staff of three created accessories ranging from large totes to cell phone and camera cases that customers can mix and match.
Meghan Bergstrom passed a bag to a customer for their purchase at the Baazar Bizarre. Her company, Edie & Fin, produces handmade baby shoes.
Kerrie Beck, of Natick, posed behind her table, where she is selling dog and cat collars, harnesses, leashes, and other products that she made by hand. She said Baazar Bizarre is one of her favorite events to go to because people will come back and remember her business, Cody’s Creations, year after year. It’s also when she gets her holiday shopping done. “I set up real quick and then I do my Christmas shopping,” she said.
From left: Brian Gregory, of East Boston, Nicole Nordeste, of Malden, Daniel and Jesse Moskowitz, of Roxbury, and Mike Croning, of Christchurch, New Zealand. The group said they attend the event almost ever year and are excited that there has been such an increase in the number of vendors.
Crystal Popko and her husband, John McCarthy, of Ludlow, helped customers at their table. Popko sells jewelry that is made from butterfly wings. Popko said she gets the butterfly wings from butterfly conservatories, which raise them to sustain different species. She added that they died of natural causes since their lifespan only lasts a few weeks.
Laura Collins, of Medford, sold cruelty-free bags and accessories at her booth. She said she substitutes waxes canvas for leather and also uses recycled nylon and plastic bottles instead of regular fabric. Her business is called Pansy Maiden in honor of her grandmother.
William Pebbles, of Norwell, started Huntington Base Ball Co. after he got laid off in 2009, he said. He makes vintage baseballs, bats, hats, and several other products. His wife Jill helped him at their table.
Akshata Nayak’s skin care products are all chemical free and vegan and of course she makes them herself. “I haven’t stopped since I started at 10:45” she said in the afternoon when asked if it has been busy. She started her business, Orange Owl, about two years ago and runs it out of her home in Essex Junction, Vt.
Sandra Bonazoli held up a bottle opener she made. She said the product has been flying off the shelves at her booth. Her company, Beehive Kitchenware, makes housewares and gifts ranging from $18 to $100.
Although it’s a dying art that she said only a handful of people in the country know how to do it, Crystal Sloane makes spun cotton ornaments. She said it is an old German technique that is difficult to master. When shopping for an ornament about a decade ago, she found they cost about $200. She didn’t want to spend that much so she just made her own and has since perfected her technique and started her business, Vintage by Crystal.
Meera Lee Patel held up one of her original water color paintings. She sold $3 postcards of her prints and also had original paintings for sale, ranging between $300 and $400, she said.
Liz Frazier, of Salem, was selling her all-natural soy candles at Baazar Bizarre. It is her first time at the event, she said, and it “lived up to all expectations.”
Sara Barrett, of Amesbury, held up one of her favorite products at the Bark Decor booth. All the prints are her own illustration. She said that when she started the business she couldn’t afford an electrical unit to expose the screens so she started doing them in the sun and now it has turned into a way she differentiates her business as being more eco-friendly.
A table set up at the event.
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