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