From parking lot pop-ups to online shopping, Treasure Valley businesses are reimagining “the shopping experience” for the Holiday season. For many shoppers, the transient nature of virtual impulse buys can never replace the isle-browsing of brick-and-mortar destinations.
While we hear of market events cancelling across the nation, Handmade Idaho Holiday Market is bucking the trend and opening a storefront in The Village at Meridian.
Handmade Idaho was started by Angela Stewart, a Boise resident and owner of the Ladybug Press. The Market deputed in 2019 and this year, “we had to cancel our annual holiday event which strives to bring opportunities for Idaho artists and makers to sell their products”, Stewart explains. To Stewart, cancelling this event was not an option, and she set out to try to find options that would allow artists to safely accommodate shoppers.
While some merchants would feel the need to scale back, Stewart decided to take a risk and rent an empty space for a month at The Village. Stewart believes that shoppers this year will be moving back to more traditional gifts to create more meaningful memories as holiday get-togethers are impacted by the pandemic. For those of us who yearn for a normal semblance of a traditional shopping outing, this is very good news!
Shoppers can expect to find handmade goods from every genre including jewelry, hand screen-printed tea towels, bath and body products, hand-formed mugs, hand blown glasses, carved wooden spoons, paper goods, handbags, knitted items and curated gift boxes. Handmade Idaho also has an online market and curbside pickup. Gift boxes can be shipped with personalized cards.
Handmade Idaho's holiday marketplace will open every day from November 27th - Christmas Eve.
The Village at Meridian
3693 E Longwing Ln #120, Meridian, ID 83642
For more information, visit HandMadeIdaho.com