Featured Vendor: Usborne Books & More

Usborne Books & More is a division of Educational Development Corporation (EDC), a publicly-traded company that has twice been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of The 200 Best Small Companies in America and three times by Fortune Magazine as one of America's 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies.  Usborne produces books that are of excellent quality and cover the ages of preschool to adult.  For more information about Usborne Books & More, please click here.

Featured Vendor: LetterLandmarks

Based in Athens, Georgia, LetterLandmarks was formed in the summer of 2003 by three childhood friends, Donna, Susan and Kay, who attended Athens High School and the University of Georgia together.  To learn more about LetterLandmarks, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Georgia Museum of Art

The Georgia Museum of Art shares the mission of the University of Georgia to support and to promote teaching, research and service.  Specifically, as a repository and educational instrument of the visual arts, the museum exists to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret significant works of art.  For more information about the Georgia Museum of Art, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Beca Designs

Beca Designs features many different pieces made from recycled glass.  The eco-friendly line of necklaces, bracelets, earrings and pendants has an organic, yet elegant feel, with natural variations making each piece truly unique.  To learn more about Beca Designs, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Zoegetics

The mission of Zoegetics is to enhance physical health through whole products, to promote environmental health through conscientious decisions, to generate financial health through a health-creating business model and to increase spiritual health through positive relationships.  To learn more about the products offered by Zoegetics, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Cindy Watlington Jewelry

Cindy Watlington is a former Fortune 50 executive who left her career to follow her soul.  She went to jewelry school, developed her hand-sculpted "tendril and berry" design motif, and acquired a regional following.  For more information about Cindy Watlington Jewelry, please click here.

Featured Vendor: UGA Alumni Association

The University of Georgia Alumni Association proudly supports the academic excellence, best interests and traditions of Georgia's flagship University and its more than 250,000 alumni worldwide.  For more information about the UGA Alumni Association, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Verdae Skin Therapy

Verdae Skin Therapy is based on a passion for all-natural skin care that makes you look good.  The team at Verdae Skin Therapy prides itself on researching and purchasing fair-trade shea butter that is hand-rendered and chemical-free.  To read more about Verdae Skin Therapy, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Tiffany Christine Jewelry

Tiffany Christine Jewelry was started by Tiffany Carter in 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Specializing and creating one-of-a-kind handmade jewelry, Tiffany loves using semi-precious stones and gems in addition to numerous types of metals in her jeweled creations.  To learn more about Tiffany Christine Jewelry, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Grits Bits

Grits Bits is the latest gourmet venture of Diane Pfeifer who resides in Atlanta.  Diane has appeared on numerous television shows including "Regis and Kathie Lee" and "CBS This Morning".  To learn more about Grits Bits, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Statianery

Statianery features a variety of announcements, invitations and note cards.  For more information about Statianery, please click here.

Featured Vendor: JLA Cookbook

The Junior League of Athens recently published its first cookbook in over 40 years, Beyond the Hedges: From Tailgating to Tea Parties.  Featuring recipes from Junior League members, sustainers, local celebrities and favorite Classic City restaurants, Beyond the Hedges is a must-have for fans of UGA and Athens.  For more information about the Junior League of Athens Cookbook, please click here.

Featured Vendor: House of Morgan Pewter

House of Morgan Pewter is owned and operated by Kent and Martha Morgan of Mount Airy, North Carolina.  They have been casting beautiful pewter items since 1978 and offer over 530 different items for sale.  For more information about House of Morgan Pewter, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Homemade Gourmet

Homemade Gourmet has many great tools and products that take away the skill needed to prepare great tasting food.  From preparing grocery lists to menus for the week, Homemade Gourmet has cookbooks and recipe pages that plan it all.  To learn more about Homemade Gourmet, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Fussy Frog Designs

Jenny Grogan created Fussy Frog Designs after spent weeks searching for the perfect birth announcement for her son.  Fussy Frog Designs offers a variety of customizable stationery items including note cards, announcements, invitations, gift enclosures and many more.  For more information about Fussy Frog Designs, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Bon Vivant Baskets

Bon Vivant Baskets, located in Colbert, Georgia, caters to people who enjoy life and appreciate high quality gourmet food.  For more information about Bon Vivant Baskets, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Geraldine's

Geraldine's began when Geraldine Cunningham started baking her cheese straws as a peace offering for the trouble her mischievous children got into.  After a few bites the townspeople of Newnan, Georgia not only forgave the Cunninghams, they found themselves asking for more.  Cathy, one of Geraldine's fans, had the idea of selling the famous Cheese Straws through a company called The Bodacious Foods Company.  To learn more about Geraldine's, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Fire & Flavor

Fire & Flavor started in 2003 and focuses on developing and promoting exciting and unique products to make Gourmet cooking, simple.  Fire & Flavor offers grilling planks, wraps and skewers as well as brines, rubs and seasonings for a wide range of dishes that allow you to experiment and create your own unique flavor combinations.  To learn more about Fire & Flavor, please click here .

Featured Vendor: Dave Cain Handcrafted Jewelry

Dave Cain began working with metals in 1995 and began focusing on jewelry six years ago.  Everything he makes starts out as wire, and he cuts all of his own rings and hand-forms each piece.  For more information about Dave Cain Handcrafted Jewelry, please click here.

Featured Vendor: BeautiControl

BeautiControl is a beauty company that specializes in Spa treatments, Personalized skin care and Advanced Anti-aging products (SPA) through a unique at-home spa experience.  To learn more about BeautiControl, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Ann Peden Jewelry

Ann Peden has been living a charmed life for the past few years.  Her humble beadwork hobby used to take a backseat to her career as a cardiology nurse, but these days it takes her up and down the Southeast, to art festivals and trade shows, and she nows sells her jewelry to over 500 retailers and art galleries across the country.  For more information about Ann Peden Jewelry, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Andy Mathis Art Co.

Andy Mathis began painting as something to do in an adult education class, once a week, through a junior college in 1994.  He strives to create paintings that are both interesting to view and technically challenging.  Watercolor is his favorite medium.  His subjects vary from florals, still lifes, people and architectural subjects.  To learn more about Andy Mathis Art Co., please click here.

Featured Vendor: The Princess & The Pearl

The Princess & The Pearl offers enchanting, high quality natural freshwater pearls and sterling silver jewelry to customers world wide.  For more information about The Princess and The Pearl, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Tastefully Simple

Tastefully Simple offers a wide selection of convenient, easy-to-prepare foods designed to help people spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying the rest of their lives.  Tastefully Simple products are sold by independent Tastefully Simple consultants.  For more information about Tastefully Simple, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Sugar Marsh Cottage

Sugar Marsh Cottage is a small batch artisan confectioner featuring gourmet shortbread, gourmet toffee, whimsical confections and exceptional gift box combinations.  Its signature line of gourmet sweets are prepared by hand, using only premium and natural ingredients.  For more information on Sugar Marsh Cottage, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Stella & Dot

Stella & Dot features colorful, modern jewelry that has been featured in national publications such as InStyle and the New York Times.  For more information about Stella & Dot, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Spotted Leopard

Spotted Leopard features custom handcrafted moss creations, ranging from custom picture frames to initials.  For more information about Spotted Leopard, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Silpada

Each and every piece of Silpada Designs Jewelry is, in its own way, one of a kind.  Individual Silpada artisans meticulously render each unique Silpada Designs creation and incorporate only the finest .925 Sterling Silver.  Their use of spectacular gemstones, natural materials and eclectic designs is what makes Silpada Designs' line of handcrafted jewelry truly exceptional.  For more information about Silpada, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Sleepy River Music

Keith Phillips is a solo piano music and keyboard performer from Atlanta, Georgia.  Keith received #1 hit radio airplay in 1985 with Steven Rhett Shiver and has now evolved into a solo artist with Nightfall.  He originally hails from Athens, Georgia, where for years he performed in cover bands in the genre of rhythm and blues, country and acoustic rock.  Classically trained, he is currently a piano teacher, composer and author in the north Atlanta, Georgia area.  For more information, please click here.

 

Featured Vendor: Pretty Persuasions

Pretty Persuasions offers a variety of handbags, accessories and home decor items.  For more information about Pretty Persuasions, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Home Fields

Ken Small founded Home Fields in 1999 and went to market with 11 Southern stadiums.  Home Fields now has 80 plus regular-sized stadiums and 8 jumbo, lighted versions from Boston to Dallas.  The numbers will continue to grown, until encompassing Texas and the West Coast, in the next several years.    As a former sports writer, Ken takes pride in the history he writes for the back of each stadium.  He calls it the intrinsic value of the stadium.  Some customers call it the best part of the stadium.  Ken and his family members hand-make all of stadiums.  For more information about Home Fields, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Entourage Clothing

Entourage Clothing is an affordable, chic boutique located in Athens, Georgia.  For more information about Entourage, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Dodelin Gourmet

Located in Columbus, Georgia, Dodelin Gourmet Products is a female-owned division of D & D Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of sauces, marinades and dressings that has been producing quality products since 1990.  For more information about Dodelin Gourmet, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Discovery Toys

Discovery Toys believes that children grow to their fullest potential when parents are involved in play.  To forge the special bond between parents and their children, each of the Discovery Toys products is carefully conceived to deliver maximum interactivity and fun - building a foundation for future learning success and achievement.  For more information about Discovery Toys, please click here.

Featured Vendor: Daisycakes Soaps

Daisycakes Soaps was started by Jean-Marie in 1999 in New Orleans & Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  In 2008, Daisycakes Soaps moved to Athens, GA.  Daisycakes Soaps features cold process soaps, glycerin bars, solid perfumes, lip balms & bath bombs. Jean-Marie makes her cold process soaps with velvety olive oil, rich cocoa butter, smooth coconut oil and amazing essential & fragrance oils.  For more information on Daisycakes Soaps, please click here. 

Featured Vendor: Brittle.

Brittle. is a Georgia-based company that currently produces four nut brittles, including peanut brittle, cashew brittle, pecan brittle and macademia brittle, made with real butter and other natural ingredients, available in four and eight ounce sizes.  For more information about Brittle., please click here.

Featured Vendor: Beijo

Designed by single mom, Susan Handly, Beijo handbags feature fresh, unique designs.  Not available in department stores, Beijo collectible products are only available at home-based Beijo Collection Showcase Parties or trade shows, like The Marketplace presented by the Junior League of Athens.  To learn more about Beijo products, please click here.

Featured Vendor: A Kitchen Diva

Alpharetta resident Claudine Destino is a caterer, personal chef, cooking class instructor and author of the cookbook "Confessions of a Kitchen Diva", a compilation of more than 250 recipes, timesaving tips, entertaining and party-planning ideas.  For more information about A Kitchen Diva, please click here .

Meet Our Vendors

We are very excited about our many vendors that will be joining us at The Marketplace this year.  For a full list of our vendors, please see the list to the right labeled "Meet Our Vendors" and click on the links to visit each vendor's web site.

As the weekend approaches, we will be highlighting many of our vendors here, so be sure to check back often!  Get excited for another fun shopping extravaganza presented by the Junior League of Athens - our vendor lineup this year looks better than ever!

You're Invited!

The Marketplace 2009

The Junior League of Athens proudly presents

The Marketplace:  
A Shopping Extravaganza

Friday, October 23

7 - 10 p.m.

Preview Party and Silent Auction

featuring dinner, wine tasting, shopping and entertainment by Athens A-Train Band

Cost:  $15/person

Saturday, October 24

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Shopping, Photos with Santa & Santa's Workshop 

GA CHIP Child I.D. Program

Cost:  FREE

Sunday, October 25

Noon - 5 p.m.

Shopping, Fun & Santa's Workshop

Cost:  FREE

For more information, please visit our website www.juniorleagueofathens.org