By Ashlyn Henderson
Motlow Buzz Contributing Writer
BELLEVUE, Tenn. – Several Nashville
artists organized a market on Nov. 24 that featured booths with local handmade
items and food trucks at the Red Caboose Park off Highway 70 in Bellevue.
The “Nashville Handmade Market,”
which occurred from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., was opened three years ago by artists Jennifer
Carter, Michelle Irwin, Chandler Cartozzo, Amanda Marry, and Rebekka Janssen.
The goal of the market was to support local small businesses around the
Nashville area.
“That is why we decided to have it
on Small Business Saturday,” said Carter.
The Handmade Market featured handmade
items, as well as food trucks, face painting, bouncy houses, and trampolines,
so kids were entertained as well.
Carter was the event coordinator
for this year’s event. She also sold handmade items at her own booth called J.
Carter Shop. Carter sold a variety of items, including handmade buttons,
customized cloth fabrics, and bangled charm earrings.
"My overall goal here at the market would
be to grow my own business and support other local shops," said Carter.
Another local artist, Mallory Smith,
had a holistic shop at the market. Smith is a self-taught herbalist from Los
Angeles but moved to Nashville years ago. She sold handmade herbal teas,
perfumes and candles.
Smith grows all but two of her
herbs locally. Two strands of sage and lotus are grown in California, then
shipped to Nashville because they cannot grow in Tennessee’s climate, according
to Smith. She also sells Dragon's Blood made by a friend who buys the
ingredients from Africa.
Smith’s favorite thing to make is
her perfume.
"It is distilled in 90 proof alcohol,
mixed with a variety of different herbs, aged for about a year, and filtered
three times," said Smith.
Second-year local handmade artists Matthew
Fite and Alyssa Strickland sold a plethora of taxidermy items such as bone art,
bone jewelry, mummified critters, morbid curiosities, and specimens. The
general love for nature inspired these two artists.
Their goal at the market was to
educate people on taxidermy, the meaning behind it, and showing it in a public
eye.
There was a diversity of handmade
pieces at the Nashville Handmade Market aside from those three. Overall, the
market supported locally handmade artists and sold unique gifts for all ages.
Upcoming holiday events in Nashville
include “Jingle Boot Rock” at 2600 8th Ave. S. on Dec. 31, “Mundy
Christmas Party” at 2500 West End Ave. on Dec. 21, and the “New Year’s Eve Bash”
at 65 Merrick Road on Dec. 31.
For more information on the
Nashville Holiday Handmade Market, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2036797123206417/.
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| Event photos by Rebecca Janssen |
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