Our Corner of the Brooklyn Flea
UPDATE!!! This Sunday, Oct. 25 we’ll be at the Flea in Dumbo from 11-6, with Martha Stewart, who’ll be taping an episode there! Here’s a map of our location. We’ll return on Halloween Saturday in Fort Greene! Below, the vendor descriptions for both days have been updated to reflect who’ll be where, when!
This weekend, BB is curating a corner at the Brooklyn Flea that gives props to Brooklyn designers, artists, cooks, crafters, butchers and curators we love. Each one will be selling handmade wares and treats for every size of pocket, and a portion of each vendor’s proceeds will go to Bed-Stuy soup kitchen St. John’s Bread and Life. So whatever you splurge on–$325 wallpaper, a $30 ring or a $3 muffin–your retail therapy will do someone else a lotta good.

Saturday, on our 10×20 plot of blacktop in Fort Greene, you’ll find Kristiana Parn’s whimsical prints and paintings (all the lucky kids in Brooklyn have one, and a few adults, too). Anne O’Neil of the Red Hook “tourist shop” Tiburon will be bringing the terrific dresses she fashions from men’s flannel and corduroy shirts, along with men’s ties made from dress shirts. Kheedim Oh, DJ for The Beatards and the man behind the fermented goodness that is Mama O’s Kimchee, will be serving a kimchee salsa fresca with both his daikon and regular kimchees. Bundt, aka Andrew Sessa, will be selling his mini-bundt cakes in Pumpkin, Guinness ginger spice, Chocolate chile and Caipirinha flavors, and Jessica Vander Salm will make a rare appearance outside of Prospect Park and the Slope, where she sells her Maid Marian Muffins off her blue Robin Hood bike. (We can’t wait to try her latest flavor, pear-almond-chocolate!). Circle Candy creator Elaine Tian, who makes custom hula hoops for more name musicians (Sufjan) than we can name here, will be selling her sparkly hoops for adults and kids, and Hoopilates instructor Jen Bleier will be there to offer coupons to her class.

On Sunday beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, the wish-we-had-one-of-everything gallery/shop Spring Design & Art will be selling original designs like the arrow hanger featured recently in the NY Times and Deborah Bowness’s “Genuine Fake Bookshelf” wallpaper (which we first spotted in London but later discovered at Spring–the sole New York store to carry her work). A selection of Ellie Mathias’s fabulous mixed metal costume jewelry, inspired or made from vintage materials, will share a table with our very own totes, designed by Katie Gastley, and BB contributor Alicia Kachmar’s hilarious crocheted creatures. Sweet tooths will be in seventh heaven with Anarchy in a Jar, whose Clinton Hill-made jam (with fruit the two ladies–one librarian and one in the wine industry–often pick themselves) is found on local menus like No. 7’s, and Jessica Vander Salm of Maid Marian Muffins–fresh baked muffins which she sells off her blue Robin Hood bike. Leigh Batnick of Jezebel will deliver her original letterpress cards, along with her precious ant necklaces and rings. Kenspeckle Designs will show off her nerdy, Brooklyn-inspired t-shirts for men, women, and kids, which you may want to don during your portrait by Shootbooth, who’ll be manning their large format digital camera, the Sidecar, housed in a 1909 wooden frame. Because we’ll only be at the Flea two days, but a picture is forever.
BB at the Brooklyn Flea, Saturday Oct. 31 in Fort Greene 10-5, Sunday Oct. 25 in Dumbo, 11-6. In case of rain, check our status here to see if we’ll be rainchecking. More info at brooklynflea.com.
Sent by Nicole, Chrysanthe, and Annaliese. Images courtesy of Kristiana Parn and Elaine Tian.
Published on October 13th, 2009 under Everything.


