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The Renegade Craft Fair
SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH 2009
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Every year in various major cities, DIY and indie artists from all over the country gather to share and sell their artwork with the local community. This year was the 5th Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, and over 300 artists put on their best hipster outfits and bartered their wares in McCarren Park. The experience equates to a tangible, walkable version of Etsy.

I had been anticipating this fair since I discovered it last year (sadly, a week after it happened), and was determined to attend it. So, despite our almost two hour delay coming into NYC and hauling boxes up three flights of stairs in 85 degree weather and not having eaten since 5am, Justin and I made it to the fair in the early afternoon on Sunday, the last day of the show.

As expected, there was too much that I wanted to buy with the tiny amount of money I saved for the show ($40). I walked away with this blue wooden house and this orange wooden house by Something's Hiding In Here, as well as a rebound textbook-turned-journal (last photo). The book, written in 1914, outlines the woman's proper role in the domestic environment, getting so detailed as to specify the appropriate width of straps on the kitchen apron.