And the vendors are...

Dear everyone, This was possibly the most difficult time we've ever had choosing vendors for the show--so many applicants and so much talent--wow.

As with every show we try to keep our magic ratio just right:

       50% Beehive veterans +        50% new vendors +        As little duplication as possible +        Totally handmade, unique and quality        --------------------------------------------------        = What we always hope will be the best craft show you've ever attended.

This means that even crafters we absolutely adore have to warm the bench sometimes while others get a chance to play. So, we hope those people who didn't make it in this year will be sure to apply for the next show-- don't give up!

Now, without further ado, we're pleased to announce the roster for the Holiday 2010 Beehive Bazaar:

  • Alma and Mike Loveland | Ollibird
  • Amber Perks | Nothing But Soap
  • Amy Elise Feisthamel | Amy Elise Designs
  • Amy Redden | Vintage Fern
  • Andy Chase | Blueponies
  • Angela Flicker | The Artists' House
  • Anne Scott | Annemade Jam
  • Annie Kershisnik Blake | Annilyngreen
  • Arinn Aanderud | Sewww...Snazzy
  • Ashley Giessing | Isabell's Umbrella
  • Ashley Isenhour | Wendy and Peter
  • Ashley Mae Hoiland | Birds of Ashmae
  • Beccy Bingham | Paperclip Studio
  • Bren Jackson
  • Candace J. Andersen | candacejean
  • Caroline Drake | Armelle Jewelry
  • Carrie Poulsen | The Big Brown House
  • Colett Yarro
  • Colt Bowden
  • Dallas Russell | Easily Amused
  • Dave Hamilton | Hamilton's Handmade Furniture
  • Debbie Thompson | Tom Design
  • Emily Cooper | Emily Elizabeth's Home Decor
  • Emily King | Papers' Edge
  • Eva Jorgensen | Sycamore Street Press
  • Jennifer Reed | 3 Dotters
  • Jennifer Wakeland and Heather Van Dam | Squackdoodle
  • Jessica Berrett | Urban Patchwork
  • Jessie Huish | Huish Books
  • Jill Swensen | Yarrrn
  • Julie Gillrie
  • Kanani Hayes | Vinylicious Designs
  • Keri Rainock | Crowsmack
  • Krista Schmitz & Shelly Perkins | Three Penny Market
  • Leia Bell
  • Luz E. Howse | Wee Waldorf
  • Lynlee Price | Mabel Grey
  • Mari Spiker | Autumn Dame
  • Melanie Elyse Brewster | Velvet Seahorse Jewelry
  • Michael Phipps | Scatterbrain Tees
  • Michelle Rasmussen | RedRokoKids
  • Monica Dennis |MDsparks
  • Morag Kawasaki | Cross Your T's
  • Nicole Choules | Elsa Bags
  • Nikki Jackson | Crimson Digit
  • Noelle Olpin | Noelle O Designs
  • Paula Hogan | Compelled To Craft
  • Rachel Schutz | Darlybird
  • Samantha Kelly | Can You Hear Me?
  • Sonya Evans | The Full Spectrum
  • Stacey Foster | Verla Ivans
  • Stephanie Broadbent | Unique Things
  • Steve & Michelle Hunt | Twig
  • Susan Petersen | Freshly Picked
  • Suzanne Clements | Sorry Clementine
  • Suzi Bates | Just Be
  • Tami Thornton | Beehive Soap and Body Care
  • The Estes Girls | Button Boutique
  • Tonya Vistaunet
  • Trista Millette | Cupcake Chic
  • Zoe Jacobson & Jeremy Josephson | Ruby Market

Keep checking back as well will be posting photos and bios for each of the vendors sooner than later.

See you all soon,

Molly, Duane and Noelle

PS: If you haven't heard--we're taking the show back to the Women's Center in Provo...

Vendors Have Been Chosen!

We had a larger response from potential vendors this year than ever before--more than half our vendors this year will be first timers at the Bazaar. We'll post a complete list of vendors later this week so keep checking back. We also think manyof you will be happy to hear we're bringing the Bazaar back to Provo--in response to innumberable requests from shoppers and crafters we'll be hosting the show at the Women's Center--yay!

So--mark your calendars, schedule the sitter, call your ladies and we'll plan on seeing you soon.

Molly, Duane and Noelle

Now Accepting Applications...

We've just announced the dates and times for our Winter 2010 event:

  • Thursday, December 2, 9PM – 10PM
  • Friday, December 3, 10AM – 10PM
  • Saturday, December 4, 10AM – 8PM

The location will be in Provo--we'll announce the exact spot soon.

Want to be a vendor in this season's show? Visit out application page--it's now open from September 8 - 29.

Young Crafters

Every season Beehive Bazaar supports the Young Crafter by having  a section in our show that highlights them and their work.  Here are some of this springs talent.  It is definitely something to buzz about... Bowie and Darby Hayes

Bowie Hayes  11 ~ HoOpLa!

After the success of squishy fishy at the last show, Bowie decided to start a new idea ~ HoOpLa!  Twirling a hula hoop is lots of fun, so grab a hoop get out in the sun and let your hips twist away and find out what all the HoOpLa is about!

Darby Hayes 9 ~ squishy fishy

Darby is excited to make a new batch of squishy fishy for the spring show! The great insta-pet that’s super easy to take care for and is always ready for a cuddle.  Look for the same cute fishes in fun new colors and patterns.

Taetum, Lola, Maude & Ruby Call

Like mother, like daughter...four daughters that is! These lovely little craftetes are following in the ways of their mother Molly and even taking a few creative cues from their old man, Duane. This year thay are making felt picture frames--a color to match every wall in your house!

 

Brooklyn and Bronwyn Reed

We are two sisters, and we love crafts. Here are a few things about ourselves.

Brooklyn is six years old and loves ballet and to read she also likes art and math.

Bronwyn is very crafty she collects sock monkeys. She takes after her mom and loves vintage things like hats,jewrey,etc.

Brooklyn and Bronwyn like to make bottle cap necklaces.  They usually make them for friends as gifts, but would like to sell them this year at the Beehive Bazaar.

Jade and Miah

we're best friends, that's why we decided to do this together!   jade is in 5th grade and miah is in 6th grade.   we like to hang out and have fun!  it would be really fun to make a craft together for the BEEHIVE BAZAAR:)

Carina Ream

Carina Is the oldest of 4 kids. She has always loved to sit and do crafts of different kinds. She started making bracelets when she was 9, because I gave her a bracelet kit for Christmas. By the time school started again she had done all the patterns, and were down at wallmart spending her Christmas money on more beats, wire, locks and so on. It has been fun to see her talent grow and see how she has been coming up with new designs, color combination's and styles over the years.

 

SLUG Magazine Article...

Beehive Bazaar

by: Jessica Davis (ms.lovelyq@gmail.com)

  [Noelle Olpin, Duane Call and Molly Call. Illustration: Manuel Aguilar]

Crafting. If you haven’t heard of the new generation of crafters, the word itself can conjure up images of a granny with knitting needles making pastel fuzzy sweaters. The Beehive Bazaar, produced and founded by Noelle Olpin and the husband-wife team Molly and Duane Call, is a craft fair for those trendy crafters cleverly disguised as mothers, girlies and possibly the cute boy in the freshly screen-printed tee.

The current incarnation of the Beehive Bazaar was started back in 2004. Molly Call, Noelle Oplin and Stephanie Higginbotham, three crafty moms living in Utah County, decided to come together and share their talents. Instead of trying to set aside ‘craft time’ they decided to be productive by calling it the Beehive Bazaar, in hopes a name would make it happen. Starting as a quiet event in a small rented house, it eventually grew and moved to the Women’s Council Cultural Center in Provo, turning into a bi-annual event, taking place over multiple days, that features 75 of the best new artists/crafters from around Utah. As the once-small gathering of friends casually sharing their love to craft began attracting hundreds of applicants and many more hungry buyers, a change in organization became apparent. Ultimately, it was inevitable that the Bazaar would outgrow its home in the Women’s Council Cultural Center.

At the last Beehive Bazaar, Duane Call recalls nine-and-a-half month pregnant woman standing as the last in line at 1 a.m., with two full bags of handmade goods, on the phone with her husband, “[She was] saying, no her water hadn’t broke, and yes she was checking out. We had to run each little item and it takes like 15 minutes to type in each item. At the end, we hit the wrong button and erased the whole thing.” He says, “With a check-out line wait at around two hours, it became a test of weeding out the weak.” To avoid the long-lines and stress encountered at the last Bazaar, Olpin and the Calls have decided to relocate to Thanksgiving Point for this year’s Spring Bazaar.

Although the last Beehive Bazaar was held in December, the planning to make the Spring Bazaar bigger and better keeps the organizers busy. “It’s a never ending process of preparing for the next show. It’s gone from something we had to stop to think about, to an almost full time thing,” says Oplin. With event coordinating, set-up, maintenance and check-out becoming overwhelming, Thanksgiving Point was decided as the best move, with the perks of a convention center able to handle set-up, tear-down and all customer check-out arrangements––aspects of the event that previously left Olpin and the Call’s without a lunch break.

Although there’s more space, the number of artists will stay the same, but the Beehive Bazaar will be able to provide more entertainment. Before, you mingled and ate free cupcakes while waiting in line. This year, there will be door prizes, live bands and a ‘meet and greet’ the artists—which at previous events wasn’t practical. “There’s Gentry of Frosty Darling. She plays the part so well, and now you can see the artist and get excited to know that’s what they do,” says Duane. “Making you want their creations even more,” says Oplin.

With Thanksgiving Point as a midway point, hopefully it will intrigue more people from both the Salt Lake and Provo areas to come out. Entrance to the event will stay free as before, except for opening night, which will be a VIP night. “Everyone wants to come the first night because you have first dibs,” says Molly. Most of the items being one-of-a-kind makes it understandable that patrons filled the building within the first hour last time, followed by the fire department. “So a small price will be worth not having to crawl over everyone else,” says Oplin.

From 2004 to 2010, Molly says it started out as a way to contribute to Provo. “Now we just want to make it special, to be like Christmas,” says Duane, “with the consumer ideas today of want, buy and simply going out and getting it nothing is special anymore because there’s not a wait. We want people to celebrate their brains out. When we don’t feel that anymore, we might as well find a spot at the mall.” “Though we will have a shop online for certain hand-picked items this summer,” says Molly.

From hand-sewn to recycled-vintage, grandma has been revamped. Whether you’re in need of hand-sewn dolls, Utah themed soap, or simply something new and eyebrow-raising, the Spring 2010 Beehive Bazaar is your best stop to find it.

Beehive Bazaar and Deseret Book Team Up...

If you just can't wait until May for our Spring 2010 show... be sure to stop by Deseret Bookstore University Village in Orem for the entire month of April! Beehive Bazaar will be showcasing some of our favorite artists and their crafts. To see more photos of featured goods look here.

Artists will include:

Kanani Hayes/Vinylicious

Cheryl Crockett and Rachel Jones/Provident Peacock

Gentry Blackburn/Frosty Darling

Colett Yarro

Susan Peterson/Freshly Picked

Estes Girls/Button Boutique

Nicloe Choules/Elsa Bags & Vanilla Pie Baby

Nikki Jackson/Crimson Digit

Noelle Olpin/Noello Designs

Molly Call/4 Girls

Zoe Jacobson and Jeremy Josephson/Ruby Market

Susan Garner/Persimmon and Pink

Beehive Bazaar First Ever VIP Night

Beehive Bazaar will host it's first ever VIP Night to kick off our spring 2010 show ! VIP meaning it's very important that you don't miss this event. It's for anyone and everyone who enjoys a night out,  first pick of handmade one of a kind shopping, meeting and greeting  the artists, one of the hottest bands in Utah, food, friends, photos, give-aways and oh so much more...

Come Have A Wild Time...

We are excited to announce  Utahs own Mad Max and the Wild Ones will be rockin the Beehive Bazaar VIP Party Wednesday May 5th at 9:00 PM.

Mad Max and the Wild Ones is a rockin’ family band from Springville, Utah. On lead guitar is Wyatt Maxwell, age 18. Wyatt got his first guitar when he was eight and hasn't put it down since! Wyatt is the youngest guitar player to be sponsored by Gretsch Guitars. On the skins is Cole Maxwell, age 14.When Cole was five he asked Santa for a drumset so that he could play along with his brother. Cole’s stick twirling and amazing solos have made drummers three times his age hang their heads in shame!! Nine year old Duke is on lead vocals, rhythm guitar and harmonica. He has been called such things as “Johnny Cash reincarnated”, and the “new King of Rock and Roll”! Dad was the last one to pick up an instrument. He was feeling left out so Mom bought him a double bass for Christmas and the boys taught him how to play it. Since then these boys have been delighting audiences all across the country and overseas. They have even been called “The Greatest Band In The World! (under 400 lbs)

Dallas Russell | Easily Amused

Inspired by variety, Dallas never makes the same thing twice. She loves to sew and embroider; she dabbles in crocheting, she beads and makes jewelry. So hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up and get your ticket for the imagination contortionist and all of her wonderful oddities. Easily Amused gifts are intended for the frequently exuberant, the blatantly giddy, the often nostalgic and, of course, the easily amused. If you miss the attention to detail of yesteryear Dallas is your gal; her one of a kind creations are great to have and share.

Sarah Kocsis | SeaStrands

My SeaStrands custom jewelry designs are inspired from my love of the beach and nature. I started making both classy and edgy-casual pieces that I wanted to wear and was soon making custom pieces requested by family, friends and strangers. I focus on creating distinctive bracelets, earrings and necklaces from gemstones, metal/sterling, resin, wood and pearls. My designs encompass everyday casual to custom bridal collections.

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