Happy Sunday everyone! I’m writing to let you know that there will be a Children’s clothing swap happening this Saturday at the Spring 2012 Flea from 10am onwards. Bring the clothes that don’t fit your kids anymore and trade them for clothes that do fit! Tell all your mom friends as well- the more the merrier!!
About the Flea
An interactive marketplace and community edu-tainment playspace, the Hill Flea is designed to be a dynamic destination for city and county residents of all ages, fusing creativity with education and experience. One part vintage flea market, one part interactive workshop, the Flea will bring traditional vendors, artisans, and entrepreneurs together to offer their talents and treasures for sale while also imparting their skills or knowledge to the visiting public. Celebrating the principles of sustainability, vendors and visitors alike will be invited to reuse, renew, recycle and rediscover their goods, services, and skills.THE FLEA BLOGGet your yoga on with CorePower Yoga at the this year’s Spring Hill Flea! They will be giving not just one but two workshops!
So, don’t miss out on these great workshops offered by CorePower this year! See you at the Flea- May 12th from 10am to 4pm
As usual, the market will be held at the intersection of 13th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue from 10am to 4pm, and will showcase some of the finest examples of resale, up-cycled, and local innovations in Boulder. In addition to being a great market place, the Flea will also have ample entertainment for both adults and children including music, performances, fun activities, and edutainment!
The Flea aims to promote a culture of reuse and creative entrepreneurship, provide a platform for the intermingling of students and local communities on the Hill, and create a more sustainable future for Boulder. Market director Hillary Griffith says that, “Americans throw some 175 million tons of trash into landfills each year and that not so far away from Boulder, the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site in Colorado is recognized as the second largest landfill in the United States (based on tons of garage received each year).” Not only does the Flea help divert waste from landfills, it also makes the process fun!
While the children are enjoying story-time, the parents can enjoy a Boot Camp Yoga and Partners Yoga workshop by Core Power Yoga at 12pm in the stage area. This will be followed by great music from local musicians at 12:45pm and an Open Mic hosted by Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café at 2pm. There will be lots of other fun activities for parents, such as sustainable infant-childcare workshop at 11 am and 1pm, and a children’s clothing swap.
The City of Boulder’s Parking Services is the major sponsor. More information about the event is available at http://www.thehillflea.com You can also follow updates by following the Hill Flea on Facebook and Twitter. The Hill Flea is back for its fourth season and promises to be even more fun, entertaining and interactive than the years before! Check us out this year Saturday, May 12th and August 18th, 2012 from 10am-4pm at 13th & Pennsylvania. Experience the exciting culture of reuse in Boulder showcased at The Hill Flea. Leading local non-profit thrift shops, such as The Hospice Care & Share Thrift Shop, Humane Society Gift & Thrift Shop, and Greenwood Wildlife Thrift Shop are joining in on the fun by bringing their treasures to the FLEA this year! Stay tuned to learn more about each thrift shop and the new ones we’ll be featuring. Don’t forget to come shop at the FLEA to contribute to the great causes they support and to find something special for Mom (its the day before Mothers Day) or the Graduate in your life. What better than something eco, artistic, and 100% Boulder. You can also have fun learning how to make adjustments to the clothing you pick out to get the perfect fit? Check out the Speedy Alterations workshop hosted by Common Threads Consignment Shop at this years Spring Flea. This workshop will teach you how to make the smallest alterations to your clothing to get that perfect fit! In addition to our line up of dynamic vendors who celebrate reusing, upcycling, creativity and sustainability, we also have many interactive activities that will keep you and your family entertained. Your children will be delighted to hear that Lesley Kernochan is joining us again this year and will make your kids giggle and wiggle with her tunes (10:30am). We also have a special treat for all you moms! While your children are busy dancing to Lesley’s songs, you get rid of all your children’s old clothes that don’t fit and get ones that do fit by participating in the Children’s Clothing Swap. There will also be an eco-childcare workshop for all you moms with infants. This workshop will teach you everything you need to know about rearing your little one using methods that won’t be harsh on Mother Earth. For those of you who want to get your hands dirty with some collaborative community art, BOLD DOORS will be hosting a “Community Door” project, where you, along with many other members of the community, will have the opportunity to repurpose a reclaimed door and make it into a work of art! Would you like to become a vendor or bring your garage sale to this year’s FLEA? Please visit our vendor sign up page to sign up for a space here.
It was a hot day and the first day back to Boulder for many CU students. This years FLEA market was full of great vendors. We were thrilled to host some amazing finds! Some favorites were fabulous, customed-painted bikes and skateboard decks, great womens wear made of recycled plastic bottles (good white water chic!), mosaic wall art made of small brand name stickers, custom leather belts made while you wait, great vintage jewelry and art and local goods made by groups like SwearJar, Anaka Arts and the Carriage House Art program! Beyond these treasures there were great garage sale steals, a delicious weekend brunch at Cafe Aion, fabulous coffee & poetry by Innisfree Poets, Hill business giveaways from groups like Brazil on the Hill, and cool stuff by student entrepreneurs like Jesse Hudson. Thank you to everyone that came and made it a great day. Check out coverage on the market written by the Daily Camera.
Do you have a skill you’d like to share? Do you know how to fix, grow, or make things? Are you willing to sing, story tell or dance in the streets? WE WANT YOU! Our market celebrates reuse, upcycling and DIY repairs, fixing and making. Create, make, local goods and stuff. We support new entrepreneurs that are helping our community become more sustainable and daring! We’d love for you to join us by sharing your knowledge and expertise or by dropping by to learn something new. Contact us if you’d like to be a part of our August Market Entertainment or Workshop line up please let us know if you’d like to be considered by June 30th, 2011 by emailing your ideas/suggestions and contact info to info@thehillflea.com
What a hot, beautiful day!
Visitors enjoy a presentation on making “yarn” to knit or “rope” from plastic bags. Perfect Mothers Day gifts! Favorite Flea Fans.. Waylon (Elephant Journal) and David (The Boulder Fringe Festival). Join the community- be at the FLEA or get invovled.
Craft and Mothers Day DIY activities for kids. Visitors learned how to build a worm box for home as a part of the ”Recycle Your Food” workshop hosted at the FLEA. Visitors stopped by the MadGraphics Booth to make custom Mothers Day Stickers. Sketch, draw and print your own. Stay tuned for an amazing line up of activities and events at the next August 13th FLEA.
Looking for an environmentally friendly present for Mothers day? Stop by the Flea and find a special treasure then visit the Hill Flea Information booth where you can wrap your own present with old newspapers, magazines, and Flea Posters. A reuse masterpiece! Speaking of Newspapers… Check out today’s Daily Camera Article on this years Spring Flea Market at: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_18003167 Can you think of other fun ways to reuse your newspaper… give us your suggestions and we’ll publish the best ideas here. If your wrapping your Mothers Day present with recycled newspapers, magazines or Flea Posters consider these guidelines: 1. Decide the overall tone you want when giving the gift. Is it a serious sentimental gift, or a silly white elephant-style surprise? 2. Gather old newspaper, magazines, and scrap paper from around your home or workplace. 3. Scour the newspaper for the best headlines and separate the chosen section to be used as the wrapping paper. 4. Choose appropriate pages if utilizing magazines for gift wrapping. Use as many different pages as you want when wrapping. If you choose magazine pages to wrap your gift, keep in mind that one page will probably not cover the whole gift (unless it’s small, like a CD). This is a good thing! Mismatched magazine and newspaper pages can add to the pleasing aesthetics of your gift wrap. A bright red page on one side and a blue-and-yellow design on the other side is very hip and will be well-received. Everyone is used to conventional wrapping paper; a recipient will be happy to get something a little different. Suggestions care of Ehow.
Bring your kids to the Hill Flea this weekend for a day filled with FREE fun! At 11am Kids can enjoy Story time, singing and dancing in the street. Join Lesley Kernochan who sings songs for children about many important subjects such as eyebrows, opera singing flies, chickens on tubas, and hugs. Come dance and sing and wiggle with her! Join us in the street for favorite mothers day stories such as the classic ”Are You My Mother?” Kids can also join us at the recycled art station afterwards where they can make Mom jewelry out of junk for a fun mothers day present. There’s so much going on!!! Bring the whole family down for a great day of play. |
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