The Handmade Nashville Summer Arts & Crafts Show is May 13th at the Red Caboose Park in Bellevue. It is a great venue for families with a playground on site and it's in an easy to find, high traffic area of Bellevue with fast access to I-40, just about 20 minutes drive from downtown Nashville. Visit our event page to get updates plus driving directions.
All of our events feature only handmade items with a wide variety of locally made crafts including jewelry, natural bath and body products, clothing, bags, accessories, home decor, personalized gifts and much more!
We are excited to introduce you to some of our 60+ vendors. Read on for part one of a three part blog series to get to know some of the people and crafts that will be with us on May 13th.
Original Organics Herbals
Grown from a love of plants and herbs, Rachel’s line of small batch products feature primarily organic and wildcrafted ingredients. Raised in Nashville, she is happy to be back in the rolling hills of Tennessee after growing her love for natural living in the woods of Wisconsin for many years.
On walks through her garden, and sometimes in unexpected areas like the city or the forest, Rachel collects beneficial and healing plants, which she combines with organic essential oils, mineral-rich salts, and vegetable-based oils and butters. These mixtures eventually emerge as nutrient-dense moisturizing balms, detoxifying bath salts, non-toxic deodorants, and skin-soothing serums.
Wise Butter LLC
"Don't deny what you know to be true: everything's better with butter."
Wise Butter is small-batch, blended butter made lovingly by hand in Nashville, TN. Their butter allows you to have a spiritual experience with toast. Or it can make that sad little recipe you're working with sing. The flavors change with the seasons (and our whims) and they work meticulously to highlight local produce and other regional specialties. Their butters span the spectrum from familiar to unexpected, so both a gourmand and a 5-year-old could easily be pleased with something Wise Butter has to offer.
Wise Butter offers five flavors, two of which are seasonal and rotate often. They always stock Roasted Garlic Basil, Chipotle, and Vegan with Smoked Salt. Their current winter flavors are Pumpkin Spice and Maple Cranberry. Be sure to follow them on social media for the latest roster.
Sally Hodges Bags
Sally of Sally Hodges Bags loves color, textiles and fabric of all kinds and it shows in her work! This small sewing business is committed to repurposing, recycling and reusing; and Sally makes bags and other small items from felted sweaters, vintage fabric, home decor, used clothing and other found objects.
With sustainability in mind, each piece is made using around 90% second hand contents.
Sally has sewn for most of her life and she has been a quilter since 1974. For the past ten years she has enjoyed working with repurposed fabrics which has given her the freedom to be improvisational and creative.
Beckitybootique
Beckitybootique specializes in handmade clothing for children and dolls as well as writing services for small businesses. Although it started as a sewing hobby business and a way for a new stay-at-home-mom to make some "fun money" for the family, after a few years writing began to take a forefront, especially after a third baby came along. Beckitybootique now offers writing services on Etsy and also under the name "Beckityboo" on Fiverr.com.
Popular products include Halloween and Christmas dresses on the sewing side and Etsy "About page" biographies and product descriptions on the writing side.
Writing for small businesses helps owner Becky feel connected to the handmade world even at times when she is not able to be physically creative and she takes great pride in being able to help other small businesses be more successful.
Look out for more information on our event coming soon and don't forget to make plans to be at our May 13th Handmade Nashville Summer Arts & Crafts Show!
