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Vendors We have many regular vendors that you can visit every Saturday nestled along the wooded path of the market. There are also many exciting visiting vendors that join us several times throughout the season. Our vendors are continuously producing fine new pieces of arts and crafts, which keep customers coming back. Vendors who are intersted in participating will need to complete our application and adhere to the vendor rules and regualtions. REGULAR VENDORS: Click on links for more information. Jodie Ballou "Just Call Jodie".. . hand-stitched headbands, bows, and more unique hand-lettered gift ideas. Bryant Outdoor Decor is owned by Donny & Tami Bryant. They sell Mexican Pottery and outdoor suns. They have a wide variety of shapes and sizes to fit that special place in your home or office. They also carry a large selection of Talavera pottery, which is all hand painted and very colorful. Talavera items include pots, frogs, lizards, sharks, dolphin, butterflies, turtles and many other types of animals. They also carry animal planters including turtles and frogs. The outdoor suns have been a huge success as they are hard to find. Please feel free to contact them at 252-725-1348 if there is something in particular that you are looking for and they will do their best to get it for you. Jane Becton grew up in Rocky Mount, NC and frequently vacationed at Atlantic Beach. After marrying, she moved to Kinston, NC where she lived until her retirement in l999. At that time, she and her husband moved full time to their vacation home in the Merrimon community. Jane has been crafting stained glass using the copper foil method (Tiffany style) for nine years. She also enjoys making stepping stones. Her subjects include lighthouses, marine birds, and flowers. She especially enjoys the colors of stained glass and the excitement of coordinating colors for her projects. Her work can be seen at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum Gift Shop and, on most Saturdays, at The Friendly Market in Morehead City. Joel Becton - Photography Joel has always been interested in photography, having received his first camera when he was in the sixth grade. While working with Carolina Telephone/Sprint, he entered their annual photo contest for several years and won a variety of honors from first place to honorable mention in different categories. After retiring and moving to Merrimon, Joel had plenty of time to switch over to digital photography and learned to print his own photographs. Joel recently entered the North Carolina Seafood Festival Photo Contest. In the past few years, he has won two First Place and one Second Place awards in that event. It is quite an experience to have your photograph displayed on the poster associated with the North Carolina Seafood Festival. Since joining the Arts Council of Carteret County, Joel has participated in the "Adopt An Artist" program. His work is displayed in the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum Gift Shop. His work is also at The Friendly Market in Morehead City and other local festivals. Born and raised in Kinston, North Carolina until retirement, Joel moved to Carteret County in 1999. Joel enjoys time with a camera, on the computer, and reading and learning about new things in digital photography. His subject mattera cover plants to places. Sew Cute was started by Marilyn Bernauer, who loves to sew! She carries Sassy Aprons for women, children and men and soft comfortable bath wraps with polka dot ribbons. She also has cute dish and hand towels trimmed with colorful fabrics. For babies, she makes adorable burp cloths that can be monogrammed. In addition, her husband Keith makes custom wood flagpoles with plaques to put your name or house number. He also makes custom made cornhole game sets. They are excited about theiri second year at the market. You may also contact them for special orders At 252-838-6051 or 422-4134. Andy and Orathai Bulfer - Award Winning Salsa Traci Riggsbee Carr is originally from Carrboro, N.C. and moved to the Crystal Coast in 1982. In her love for beachcombing over at "Shack" and "The Cape," she came across a huge 12' board that was naturally shaped like an alligator, after arguing with her husband and threatening to swim it accross from the Cape, they brought it home and she painted it up, embellished it with shells and glass bead eyes and hung it over the garage door. People would drive by the house really slow and just gaze at it. With the encouragement of friends and family, she decided to start making these critters to sell. Traci loves to recycle, so now she is using recycled fence pickets and has added morray eels, iguanas, and fish to the critter list. Her pieces made their debute at The Friendly Market in 2008 and that is her "home base" but they can also be found at several galleries in the surrounding area like "Over The Moon" on Ocracoke Island, Dragonflies in Wilmington, Sea Gypsy Designs in Emerald Isle and Island Furniture in Atlantic Beach. The critters are cut, sanded, stained, painted and are then embellished with inlaided shells and sliced shells as fins and glass beads for their eyes. No two critters are alike. She has also added to her collection a Toucan made from 2 crushed cans and forks for its legs and a spoon as its beak all from recycled stuff. She constantly looks at "trash" with the wonder of what critter can be made. More and more people are appreciating art made with recycled stuff. Keep checking by The Friendly Market to see what critter shows up next. Carolina Basketry Quality hand made baskets. Kits are available if you would like to try basketry. Classes will be given on Saturdays starting in July. The first class will be a rectangular or square market basket. Classy Glass by Cheri Famous for her windchimes, Cheri has been a resident of Eastern Carolina for two decades and has been creating Stained Glass since 1994. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U0_lnC-Hmw Mandy Copp Glass Sun Catchers and Wine Stoppers Katy Dunn is the creator of Sea Bling Jewelry in eastern North Carolina. Having grown up in Carteret County, she spent a great deal of her youth combing the beaches for anything she could find. Hunting for shark's teeth, shells, sea glass and driftwood just seemed natural to her. Several years ago she began designing and making sterling silver jewelry with sea glass found on the beach. It quickly became much more than a hobby! The idea of merging her passions and creating beautiful, custom jewelry from natural materials just felt right! Five years later, she is still combing the beaches and creating pieces that truly are one of a kind. Sea glass is found on shorelines worldwide and is any glass element that has been thrown or landed in the sea and then naturally tumbled by the action of the waves and currents in the sandy ocean floor. It's always fun to try to guess the origin of the glass and how it ended up there - a shipwreck, perhaps? Only authentic sea glass is used in Sea Bling jewelry, most of which is collected on the North Carolina shores of the Atlantic Ocean. She also has pieces that were given to her by family and friends from the distant shores of Mexico and Puerto Rico to the shores of Virginia and Florida. In addition to using sea glass, you will also find many types of shells, sea pottery, driftwood, pearls, mother of pearl and anything unique and interesting that might be found on the beach. Custom work is her specialty so please don't hesitate to contact her for that special piece you may have in mind. If you have a piece of sea glass or any other treasure, she will be happy to design something specifically for that. Vera & Dave Fellows, Garden Posts & Flower Pots Decorative hand painted posts and pots provide a unique, one of a kind accent for the garden, yard or patio. Equally at home in the shady or sunny garden, the original designs and dramatic color combinations add a splash of color and pizzazz wherever they are placed. Vera and Dave Fellows, creators of Garden Posts & Flower Pots, have been avid gardeners for many years. Vera has been a whimsical decorative painter for a long time as well. The original garden post was created approximately 10 years ago from the gift of a pair of "pot holders". Dave does all the prep work and Vera does the decorative painting. The posts are treated lumber, painted with exterior grade paint and sealed. The terra cotta pots are sealed, painted and sealed again. The pot holders can hold up to a 10 inch pot or 90 pounds. The toppers are available separately and look great on a mail box post, garden gate, deck or dock. (post with topper installed size approx. 60"x4"x4") Nancy Harrington of Nancy's Buoys Nancy lives in Pine Knoll Shores with her husband Bob, a contractor and electrician, and our best pal "Ben," a golden retriever. She started painting buoys for fun and gifts several years ago. They have become very popular for nautical decorations and those hard to find gifts. She has a passion for the outdoors and loves to kayak and bike. Painting the buoys outdoors is something she looks forward to everyday. She uses exterior paint so they can be used outdoors or inside. She also makes wreaths for all seasons as well as tropical, beachy and patriotic colors! They are very cheery and are a must for that nautical look! Come visit Nancy at The Friendly Market in Morehead City. Carnevale Creations Their unique jewelry designs incorporate beads from around the world; you will find Swarovski crystals, semi-precious stones, Czech & Indian glass as well as coral, shell, bone and wood beads. They challenge their creativity with every piece they design, so each creation is truly one of a kind. Carnevale Creations thinks you will agree that their pieces are unique and our prices are modest. Check out their web site at www.carnevale-creations.com. Email: kate@carnevale-creations.com. Millie Lee The orchid lady from Raleigh is now at The Friendly Market. Sue Lawrence Nester is a metalsmith and jeweler who creates one of a kind "Artful Accents" in copper, brass, and sterling silver. Sue hand forms, forges, and fabricates jewelry, wind chimes, and garden art from sheet metal and wire. She is often heard at the market to say this about her work, "If it's metal I made it, I leave the stones to Mother Nature and the glass beadwork to the lampwork artists." You can follow Sue on Facebook by becoming a fan of Elements, Artful Accents for Your Style and you can email her: suezjulz@yahoo.com. Joan Russell A fine art painter whose work expresses the beauty around us in Coastal Carolina. Joan's paintings are of ships, seashores, shore birds and other beautiful things seen in the area. She uses acrylic, Prismacolor pencil, and watercolor as her mediums. Some of her latest work is 3-D acrylics on clayboard, a must see. She is a self-taught artist. Joan has always had an interest in art and drawing but was not able to follow this dream until retirement. Her work can be seen in local galleries and online at www.joanandbillrussell.com. Nater Tater's Teeter Totters is a small family-owned and operated business that builds and sells traditional wooden teeter totters (also known as seesaws). A teeter totter is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other end goes down. The board is balanced in the exact center. A person sits on each end and they take turns pushing their feet against the ground to lift their end into the air. |
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