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My Winter Market place Adventure!

 This is a month late, but I wanted to post about my little adventure last month in town.


I like looking online for events to attend. I'm very much a homebody, but I like to push myself outside my comfort zone by attending social events so I can experience new places and people.


This can be tricky in December, as I don't celebrate christmas, but almost every local event seems to be christmas-related. However, I did find one - a local Winter Market Event. I set out to attend during the afternoon, and sadly it was a rainy day. The parking downtown is a shit show, everything is paid parking which makes me anxious. I found myself a shitty parking spot, wrestling with the payment machine - while being rained on - and headed towards the event building. I'm glad the marketplace was hosted inside, so I could have some time to dry off.




The marketplace itself was pretty nice. There were a lot of folks selling clothes. The first vendor I visited was a pair of gals selling lots of LGBTQ merch. I bought a "can't pray us away" shirt for my wife and I. They've got a website here: https://ptsfeminist.com/


Next I found an gal selling her art. She has two really pretty pieces of paintings on carved wood - a fox and skunk. I bought both of them and she seemed really happy someone wanted to buy her art, so I was glad I came by. :)


Her online artist name is "Rising Goddess Art", she has an etsy page here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RisingGoddessART



Lastly, I found a fellow selling some old games. They were pretty pricey, so I just picked one out - Need for Speed Underground 2. I was later a bit troubled by this purchase, as it was about 40 bucks but came with no manual and the disc looks scratched up as hell. I hope it actually works. I am baffled by how some people  treat their game discs so horribly...

After leaving the market, I was feeling pretty hungry. There was food trucks right outside that I really wanted to get some fries from, but with it raining, I passed them up as soggy french fries didn't sound very appetizing.


I walked back toward where I parked next to one of my favorite local clothing stores "Cheap Thrills" https://www.facebook.com/Cheapthrillsnwa/ This is a very gay, colorful and good-sized clothing store with all sorts of neat vintage and used clothes. I found a nice sweatshirt and bought it before leaving. 









Lastly, I was on the hunt for some macaroon cookies. I was surprised that I hadn't been able to find any at Harps earlier, but I did find out there was a local business selling some - Alchemy Macaroons. http://www.alchemymacarons.com/ I followed the google maps directions to find the place, but kept getting lost. Did I mention that downtown Fayetteville is a mess to navigate? I ended up finding an underground tunnel with a flower shop in it, which was pretty neat (brought back memories of the old flower shop I used to work in), before coming back up to the street level and finally finding the little cookie shop.

 


 

 

 

 

 it had big glass doors and a stark white interior. Nobody was around, but there was a service bell that I rung, and  a nice lady came out to sell me  a pack of macaroons. I waited til I got home to try one, as I didn't want soggy cookies. They were quite tasty and worth the trouble.


Here's a bonus shot of all the goodies I got that day!


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