Tag: shop locally

Local is for Lovers – Valentine’s Market – Sunday Feb 7th 10am-3pm

Come join me and a whole bunch of great vendors at the market from which LIFL gets their name.  The Local is for Lovers Valentine’s Day market at Arts at the Armory in Somerville on Sunday, Feb 7th from 10:00am – 3:00pm.  Somerville Local First does great work getting local artisans and small businesses in front of local folks.  Come join us on Sunday and Shop Local!

As always, kids are welcome because Knucklebones is in the house.

Confirmed Vendor List:

Alex’s Ugly Sauce
Apotheker’s Kitchen
BabyBird Craft
Beadkreative
Burrow
Chalk Concrete
Cinderloop
DKDKnit
DylaniumKnits
Faburiq
High Stitch
Jam Sessions
Just Enough Nonsense
Kittredge Candles
Lindsay Blevins Illustration
Loyal Supply Co.
Patricia Wellenkamp Jewelry
Porcelain and Stone
Revel Revel
Sarah Kelly Ceramics
Sasha Walsh Designs
Shop Luke Aaron
Singing Stones Jewelry
Somerville Soap Works
Tapwater Designs
The Bead Lady
The Last Draw
The Sneaky Penguin
Thorn & Bloom Perfume
Yennygrams, Calligraphy + Design Services

See you on Sunday!

~Kelly

Antiques & Art – living side by side

I promised the other day that our next post would be about the awesome things that we saw at the antique show we went to.  I might have overstated that a bit.  There was a lot of great stuff.  Then there was this.

It's a door. It was for sale.
It’s a door.  Yeah.

Thankfully I didn’t see it, Geoff did.  What Geoff and I spent a lot of time looking at though was this amazing marriage of art and antiques that was in a booth at the back.  The work that this guy does is truly one of a kind.  Check it out.

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Shop Local- your holiday shopping calendar

As much as I try to pretend otherwise, it is November.  And while this does mean that there is a lot of really good music happening this month, it also means that it’s time for Holiday Craft Show Season to really get underway.  My schedule is packed with great shows.  If you need gifts for people who are interesting, quirky, hard to shop for, or just want something one of a kind, look no further.

Seriously, click on that link below.  It’s right down there.

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Cappella Clausura & Back Bay Night Out – 9/10/15 – 5:00pm-8:00pm

Come join Cappella Clausura and Emmanuel Church and we participate in the 3rd annual Back Bay Night Out.  Retail stores, restaurants, and all sorts of other organizations will be participating in an event that will stretch from the Public Garden, down Newbury St. and throughout Copley Square and the Prudential Center.

Stores are offering everything from discounted shopping to free beauty consultations, gifts with purchase, and more.  Check out the schedule of events for the Prudential Center here.  The Back Bay Association lists some of the other participating retailers here.

With the warm weather it’s the last gasp of summer so don’t miss your chance for some amazing fun!

~Kelly

P.S.  And if you like keeping your dollars local, there’s still time to advertise with Cappella Clausura for the upcoming season.  Click here to check it out!

Newton, Brookline, Boston, and local businesses!

If you want to appeal to a local audience and support the arts, check this out.

Regular readers of this space know that I’m the General Manager for Cappella Clausura.  Aside from looking for volunteers for our group, running front of house, and doing all the other things I do, one of my other responsibilities is to find advertisers who’ll help defray the costs of keeping the doors open and the lights on.

That’s where you come in, dear readers.  Do you own a small business that would benefit from advertising in Cappella Clausura’s programs?  Would you benefit from buying linkspace on our website?  If the answer is yes, (or even maybe) then I have all of the details below to help you contribute the arts and drive customers to your door at the same time.

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Support Cambridge Local Businesses and Win Great Prizes!

I received this email from Cambridge Local First and I think it’s GREAT idea.  Certainly this winter weather, now record breaking, has been hard on all of us.  But it has been especially hard on local business who don’t have a national or international infrastructure over which they can spread the cost and losses.

Join Cambridge Local First in this innovative and fun way to bring some of the lost revenue back into our local community.  And, if you’re one of our readers who isn’t local to the greater Boston area, give your own local businesses some love.  Shop, eat, bank, and do business locally!

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Cappella Clausura BEAUTIFUL AS A DOVE 3/14 & 3/15 *special offer*

Calling all blog readers! Cappella Clausura is having two concerts in March and because we’re celebrating surviving all of this snow, YOU get a discount.  Check it out:

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Somerville Local is for Lovers Valentine Market

After a small break in January, we’re back at it, this time in time for Valentine’s Day.  Geoff and I will be vending at the Somerville Local First Local is for Lovers Market at the Armory in Somerville on Sunday February 8th from 10:00am – 3:00pm.  (For those of you scurrying to check your calendars, this is the Sunday after the Superbowl.)

This will be our first market with SLF since Singing Stones Jewelry became a part of Cambridge Local First.  I, for one, am really excited.

We’re also going to be back showing with the ever fantastic Gravestone Girls, Erica from Esoterica and Smiley Baby Hats, Q’s Nuts, and the good folks at Next Step Living.  This is, as always, a full on family event with Knucklebones there to entertain and enlighten the kids while the adults shop, listen to great music, and check out the hard cider vendor Far From the Tree Craft Hard Cider.

We really hope to see you there!

~Kelly

 

Miracles can happen

With Christmas a week away there is a lot of talk of Santa, wishes, and miracles happening.  This time of year can be tough for people who don’t have a lot or who want something special for someone else in their lives.  I feel lucky to have witnessed two really interesting and spontaneous acts of miracle making on the internet lately that have helped me to remember that there are truly good strangers out there in the world.  That’s the easiest thing to forget during this time of hustle, bustle, insanity, and chaos.

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@amandapalmer, @neilhimself, & @GeorgeWBush walk into a bar…

Neil & Amanda sit down and have a drink.  George says OW.

Ok, bad joke.  But it was inspired by this tweet from Goodreads this afternoon.

11.6.14 Goodreads Twitter

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