for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com december 19, 2013 • The queens Courier 29 LICFLEA&FOOD HOLIDAY MARKET VENDOR GUIDE BY DENISE ROMANO [email protected] The holiday season is upon us and the LIC Flea & Food Holiday Market has all of your gift-giving needs under one roof. The new holiday market opened on Saturday, December 7 and will be held every Saturday and Sunday until Sunday, December 22 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., inside the warehouse attached to the LIC Flea lot at 5-25 46th Avenue. Here’s a closer look at of some of the vendors participating. Happy Shopping! 2 Fab Chicks www.2fabchicks.etsy.com 2 Fab Chicks is an Astoria, Queens based company started by two stay at home moms with a passion for all things that sparkle and shine, in between juggling their daily mommy duties. Friends for over a decade, they decided not too long ago to finally do something that would benefit their girly girl daughters, fully intending on creating something for their baby boys as well, somewhere down the line. With that in mind, 2 Fab Chicks was born. Their necklaces reflect their love of all things joyful, sweet and playful. The mother/daughter necklaces have been really popular and in demand. Like them on Facebook.com/2FabChicks or follow them on Instagram @2FabChicks for the most up-to-date creations. They look forward to seeing their designs on your loves! FilthyFarmGirl http://shop.filthyfarmgirl.com Filthyfarmgirl makes organic all natural soap, lotions and lip balm, handcrafted in Hawaii. All of the products have a little attitude. Choose from many funny labels and themes – there are over sixty labels and fragrances. Their other product line is called Dr. Pennskin, an all-natural and organic men’s shaving cream and beard balm line, that includes produce shave creams, shave soaps, beard oil, beard balm, brushes and shaving accessories. Find them on Facebook at www. Facebook.com/filthyfarmgirl or on Twitter @FilthyFarmGirl. Infanta by Duquesa Verdi http://duquesaverdi.wix.com/infanta Infanta by Duques Verdi is a children’s footwear/ clothing online retailer that focuses on beauty and feminine aesthetics. Their selected brands resemble the originality of contemporary designers. Founder Diana M. Nunez said it is a blend of passion, love, creativity and dedication. After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Fashion Merchandising, she had the vision of bringing her dream alive. Her inner passion for fashion and aesthetics brought her back to her native Colombia, where she selectively founded her first children’s footwear line. In August, 2013, by the end of this trip, she decided to create Infanta by Duquesa Verdi and the line of vivid footwear made its first appearance in flea markets around the city. Exclusive Holiday Brands available at the LIC Flea include Right Bank Babies, Good Seeds, Tattly and Infanta Hair Accessories. Find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ pages/Infanta-by-Duquesa-Verdi/152664494933701?ref=br_rs. Kafe con Arte www.kafeconarte.com Kafe Con Arte is a company unlike others. They pride themselves with being different and developing creative ideas. Pablo, KCA’s founder, believes that stretching past comfort zones into discomfort is how real progress is made. Their goal is to bring a creative unique edge into your life. Supporting KCA is supporting an American artist and being a part of the creative adventure. Find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ KafeConArte or on Twitter @KafeConArte. Nuts & Bolts Nutsandboltsbrooklyn.com Stop by and taste their exceptionally tasty handcrafted small-batch baked goods that are 100 percent organic, vegan, gluten-free and contain no refined sugars. They are high in protein and omega-3s and packed with essential vitamins and minerals, fundamentally delicious, satisfying and nourishing and produced right here in LIC. Nuts & Bolts Brooklyn is dedicated to using the highest quality ingredients available to create clean dietary products - no compromises. We’d love to see you! Pixiwood Pixiwood.com Pixiwood.com prints your photos and designs onto wood. Using wood as a canvas allows the grain to show through and give the print a rustic and vintage look, and makes each print as unique as the image itself. Pixiwood.com has developed a knack for printing on wood using eco-friendly and fade-resistant inks. The colors come out crisp and the images sharp. Printing on wood is a cool way to display your most favorite memories and the website makes it simple order. queens77 www.q77nyc.com queens77 is an apparel company founded by artist, Christina Prudenti in 2008. After graduating from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology, with a degree in Fine Arts and Queens College, with a degree in Art Education, she pursued her passion for the arts by teaching high school students for a number of years. During that time, she also taught young artists independently. In time, Christina was in search of a new creative outlet and began to experiment with her paintings, photographs, and linoleum prints. Her work eventually evolved into t-shirt design and queens77 was born. This unique blend of art and clothing reflects where she comes from, having created a grass roots- clothing label for which she screen prints, stencils, and paints all her own designs directly onto each shirt, giving each one its own character and identity. Her designs are influenced by her surroundings and experiences that she considers to be full of color, strangeness, and noise. She lives and works out of her studio in LIC. As a note, due to an attack from a major corporation, queens77 is in the transition of changing the name to queens88. Same everything, different name! World of Hoz www.etsy.com/shop/ WonderfulWorldofHoz The Wonderful World of Hoz creates a variety of magnets, photos, stationery, and other creative hand-crafted goods. Apart from the many items in the shop, they are also always available for custom-made orders. Kate Hosmer leads the creative duo behind the LIC company and enjoys making one-of-a-kind pieces so exceptional that you’ll want to hug the artists!
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