Pure and Noble baby bib
If you’ve been to the Wallace Spring Market, you know it’s a fun day with friends and a productive day of shopping. Unless you’re on the vendor selection committee, however, you don’t know about the creative new merchants at this year’s show.
Here’s an exclusive sneak preview.
Pure and Noble, owned by Lake Highlands resident Brooke Fish, features handmade products such as 100% cotton pillows, bags, totes and baby bibs. Her hand-stamped designs and adorable baby models keep customers coming back to her Etsy online shop.
Couture in a Can
Couture in a Can, offering hip women’s clothing, goes from show to show in an Airstream trailer. Based in Keller, their social media following may bring customers from outside LH.
I Am Clothesminded Vintage is owned by Wallace Elementary mom Jill Wood, who says she “specializes in gingerly collected and curated rare finds and appreciates high-end designer as much as thrift store finds, never taking fashion (or herself) too seriously.”
Noonday Collection
Salsa in a Snap, another newbie, sells all-natural seasoning mixes that you add to canned or fresh tomatoes to create your own salsa. Owner Karen Crow is from Combine, Texas.
Three Dogs Dancing creates unique scarves and apparel from vintage and Japanese textiles.
Beth Gillespie, another Lake Highlands resident, will bring Noonday Collections to the market. The jewelry, bags, scarves and other accessories are made by women artisans around the world based on Fair Trade principles to help them earn their way out of poverty.
Babymamasew sells purses and totes by Paula Holley and Julie Kirkpatrick from Ft. Worth. These two busy moms love to design and sew beautiful things.
Sweet Texas Olive
Sweet Texas Olive sells handmade bath and body products with a Texas flair. They also have a line of men’s skincare (gifts for the guys seem to be the holy grail at markets like these).
In addition to these new merchants, several favorites will return, including: The Archive Dallas, featuring women’s clothing and owned by Wallace PTA VP Kelli Carey, and Mabby, a craft booth run by Sarah Fifer and her daughter, Abby, and Denise Enriquez and her daughter, Maggie. Abby and Maggie attend Wallace, and Denise is the Wallace librarian.
Lunch will be a food truck lover’s delight, and entertainment will include a bunny photo booth, face painting and the Wallace Elementary Choir. You can also buy raffle tickets to win a new iPad Air.
The Wallace Spring Market, hosted by the elementary school’s PTA, will take place on school grounds Saturday, April 5 from 10-5. Proceeds go to the PTA’s Outdoor Education Fund, which will send the 5th graders to Sky Ranch in the fall and build a new community garden later this year. Wallace is located at 9921 Kirkhaven.
