crafty supermarket!

Nov 20

make something cool at our holiday show!

The awesome folks at Kiki Magazine are creating a room of craft activities at our big holiday show next Saturday, Nov. 28! Kiki is a locally produced independent magazine for girls who love life, appreciate creativity, and recognize good ideas. When you come into the Music Hall Ballroom, the Kiki craft room will be towards the corner to your right. There you’ll find:

A free make-and-take activity: You can create your own puzzle piece earrings. Keep them for yourself or give them as a gift!

Ever want to be on the cover of a magazine? You can get your picture taken in a giant Kiki cover! They will have a professional photographer there to take photos who can email the photos to you after the event. You’re also welcome to take photos with your phone!

You’ll also find handmade crafts for sale that have been featured in Kiki magazine, as well as handy maker kits that make great gifts — they contain everything you need to make LED greeting cards and a DIY runway skirt inspired by Michael Kors.

Nov 10

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awesome eats at our holiday craft show

Shopping can really work up an appetite, so we are bringing in a bunch of great food vendors to our big holiday show on Nov. 28! We've got sweet and savory, familiar favorites and new eats! Plus, the bar at the Music Hall Ballroom will be open all day so you can grab a mimosa or a locally brewed beer or a soda!

Nov 1

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november art, craft and design events in cincinnati

We have so many things to do in Cincinnati in November, it’s borderline ridiculous. Aside from our huge holiday craft show, there are plenty of events to keep you busy, both in town and within a few hours’ drive:

Clay Alliance Empty Bowls: Buy a handmade bowl to help fight childhood hunger on Sunday, Nov. 1.
Antique Christmas Celebration: Get into the holiday spirit at the Taft Museum on Friday, Nov. 6.
Autumn Air Art Fair: Including the Tiger Lily Press sale at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, Nov. 7.
The Flea Off Market: Down in Louisville, KY, this outdoor market will be hopping Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Art on Vine: This monthly art fair moves back indoors to Rhinegeist in OTR on Sunday, Nov. 8.
Bloomington Handmade Market: If you feel like taking a road trip, head to Indiana for this indie craft show Saturday, Nov. 14.
Craftin’ Outlaws: Columbus, Ohio’s biggest indie craft show is totally worth the drive on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Maker’s Mart: And if you’re up north, check out this indie craft fair in Toledo, Ohio on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Sunset Salons: Craft ($): We’ll be part of the panel talking about craft at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
One Night One Craft: Handmade Holiday Ornaments ($): Get crafty at the Contemporary Arts Center on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Ink Your Love ($): ArtWorks Cincinnati celebrates its city tattoo project on Friday, Nov. 20.
Funke Fired Arts Holiday Bazaar: Go wild with ceramics shopping in Hyde Park on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22.
Crafty Supermarket: Cincinnati’s biggest indie craft event of the year is at the Music Hall Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 28!
The City Flea Small Mall: Shop with your favorite local stores all in one place at the 21C Museum Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 29.

Oct 27

shop crafty at Rock Paper Scissors

If you’d like to get a taste of the great work you’ll see at Crafty Supermarket next month, come to Rock Paper Scissors for Final Friday this week! The show opening on Oct. 30 features Tyler Hickey and James Billiter — James is one of the holiday show vendors at Crafty Supermarket, and he’s designing our limited edition swag bags this time around!

We’re putting together a window display at RPS of some of the local vendors you’ll find at our show — come to Final Friday to check it out! (The image above is from last year’s gorgeous window display.)

Rock Paper Scissors is at the corner of 13th and Main streets in Over-the-Rhine, and the opening is from 6 to 10 p.m. this Friday. You can RSVP and get all the details on Facebook.

Oct 5

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meet our makers!

You’ve been waiting, and here it is: Our holiday show vendor list! Our vendors represent 12 states, including locales as far away as South Carolina and Wisconsin. And a full quarter of our vendors are totally new to Crafty Supermarket, so you never know what you’ll find when you shop our show!

Here are some of the awesome makers who will be with us for the first time:

Cannonball Handmade of Cincinnati, OH:

Cincinnati Royals of Cincinnati, OH:

Liz Sabo of Lakewood, OH:

Riley Construction Toys of St. Louis, MO:

Smarty Pants Paper Co. of Knoxville, TN:

strawberryluna of Pittsburgh, PA:

Are you still accepting vendors?

Applications for the Crafty Supermarket holiday craft show closed Sept. 1. We get more applications for the show than we can accept, so we can’t allow any late applications out of fairness to crafters who applied before the deadline. If a spot opens up from a vendor being unable to attend the show, we select alternates from the people who applied before the deadline.

If you want to apply to be in our next show, be sure to follow us here on the website, on Facebook or via our e-newsletter. We broadcast our upcoming opportunities in all those places! Information about our 2016 spring show will be posted in January.

Sep 30

october art, craft and design events in cincinnati

Looking for crafty things to do in Cincinnati in October? We’ve got you covered:

Cincinnati Design Week: AIGA and Agar are bringing amazing designers to the Queen City the whole week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 2.
Essex Studios Art Walk: Explore all the artists in this studio space the evenings of Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3.
Bend in the River Festival ($): Explore Price Hill at this festival of art and music Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4.
Art on Vine: This monthly OTR art market is downtown on Fountain Square on Sunday, Oct. 4.
City Flea: And the big flea is back to Washington Square Park on Saturday, Oct. 10.
Second Sunday on Main: Everybody’s taking it to the streets for this OTR outdoor market for its foodie finale on Sunday, Oct. 11.
One Night One Craft: Explore the “binge drawing” with Lindsay from Rock Paper Scissors at the Contemporary Arts Center on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

Sep 8

Get involved with the holiday show!

Crafty Supermarket’s holiday show is huge: 100 handmade vendors come from all around the Midwest to flaunt their best work for thousands of shoppers. To help us make the craft show the best it can be, we enlist volunteers and work with sponsors — and here’s how you can get involved:

Volunteering

At our big holiday show on Nov. 28 at the Music Hall Ballroom, we have a couple of opportunities for people to help out. (And when you assist us for a couple hours, you’ll get one of our famous swag bags!) Volunteers help us out in one of four areas: helping shoppers know where everything is, assisting vendors who need a break, helping load in at the beginning of the day and cleaning up at the end of the day. You can learn more and submit your info here. We’ll get back to you a few weeks before the show with the schedule. (Note that we sometimes get more volunteer applications than we can take, but we’ll get back to you either way!)

Partnerships

We work with all kinds of local organizations who love handmade and want to help spread the word. From arts nonprofits and landmark institutions to DIY shops and enterprises, if you support the maker movement, we’d love to work with you! Learn more about partnership opportunities here and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have an idea of how we can work together!

Sep 2

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holiday show applications are now closed!

Applications for the Crafty Supermarket holiday craft show are now closed! We will let everyone who applied know about their acceptance status by Sept. 15.

Accepted crafters will have until Oct. 1 to pay their table fee. If you don’t pay your table fee by Oct. 1, we’ll offer the space to another crafter who applied before the deadline.

I missed the deadline! Can I still apply?

We get more applications for the show than we can accept, so we can’t allow any late applications out of fairness to crafters who applied before the deadline. If a spot opens up from a vendor being unable to attend the show, we select alternates from the people who applied before the deadline.