Fall Market: Interactive Booths!

We are just days away from our Fall Horseshoe Craft & Flea Market happening this Saturday, October 1st at 46th & Tennyson in NW Denver (9am-4pm).  Along with all the wonderful shopping at our 100+ vendors, we'll have some great booths dedicated to creating!  Here's a sneak peek at these great booths that will offer an interactive opportunity for the whole family!

  

First up, Denver Handmade Alliance and The Makerie are teaming up to bring you an interactive crafty booth where you can bring your own projects and spend some time working on them as you break from shopping.  Also, we'll have a knitter-expert-in-residence while you're here to help you with any of your knitting needs!  You definitely don't want to miss this booth!

The Highland's Mommies Craft & Garden Group will be representing the Highlands neighborhood group with a fun, interactive, and educational booth.  Their booth will be all about their purpose: To provide our community with opportunities to learn, make, and share craft skills.  They will be offering a craft activity with the theme of macrame! There will have a few projects for children and adults to practice the skills of macrame. For kids, we will have a friendship bracelet station. For adults, they will have 3 or 4 different projects to allow for variety within the same skill. There will be a small charge for materials.  Be sure to stop by the Highland's Mommies booth to get your macrame on!

 

The Other Side Arts (TOSA) will be featuring their Art Outreach Program, which focuses on Art Therapy or art as therapy.  At TOSA's booth they will be making and decorating small origami crowns. They will also be making and decorating artist trading cards.  TOSA will have little grab bags with the materials and instructions for the paper crowns and the trading cards if people would like to take them away. The Other Side Arts (TOSA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower emerging artists and underserved populations through visual arts programming, artist development opportunities and art therapy.  With locations in Denver and Aurora, TOSA provided services to over 9,500 artists and community members in 2010.

Fall Market Special: THE BOOTH!

We are excited to have The Booth at the Fall Horseshoe Market and for shoppers to take advantage of this unique feature so that you'll have a little memento to take home with you!

So, what is The Booth?

The Booth is not your typical photo booth. It's a self portrait station with a modern twist! Who wants to be crammed into a tiny booth that smells funny? The Booth gives you all the space you need in front of a custom back drop for whatever event you're planning.

The Booth is a high end self portrait station, that adds a fresh new look to the old 'photo booth'.  The charge for a photo at The Booth will only be $1!  Also, The Booth is offering $100 off a Booth Package if you book The Booth while at the market!

New website and applications are open!

It's an exciting day over here! We are just launching our new and improved website courtesy of the ever-amazing Lisa Rundall Creative, and we've just opened our 2011 vendor applications! We thought we'd give you a run down of the website changes, and also talk about our 2011 vendor applications.

The new website now has a "main" homepage, and then each market has its own page--Spring Market (May 7), Summer Market (August 6) and Fall Market (October 1). However, you can apply for one, two or all three markets on any vendor application.

In terms of vendor applications, we are having early bird discount prices from today until February 14th. If you apply to any market between now and Feb. 14th, and get accepted into the market (we are juried), your booth price will be $75 for one 10X10 booth ($60 for DHA members) per market. If you apply after February 14th, booth prices will be $100 for one 10X10 booth space ($80 for DHA members) per market.

Please note--you can apply to one, two or all three markets! If you apply to all three, we cannot guarantee that you will be accepted into all three. This is due to the high volume of applications we get, and that we want a great variety of products and vendors at each market. In terms of sharing booths, you may--but both parties must apply. No more than two can share a booth!

Additionally, we want to encourage lots of folks to apply! Are you an artist, crafter or estate sale junkie? Do you dream about selling your wares and having your own business? Maybe you have an Etsy shop, and you've always wanted to do a "live" market. Well, why not give it a go? Check out this page for detailed information on what kinds of vendors we are seeking.

We are so excited about this upcoming market season. Our seasonal markets will each be unique, collaborative, and super fun community events! We will feature kids activities, local food and a few local non profits at each of our markets. Additionally, we are seeking sponsors! Please email horseshoemarket@gmail.com for information on sponsorship opportunities.

Let the fun begin! Go to our website, check things out, and fill out an application! Also, leave a comment below for any feedback or suggestions you may have about our website. See you all soon!