At last, a moment to get back to the blog! Behind every hour of fun at Holiday Market, there are several hours of work by everyone involved, both Market staff and Market artisans. That's over 300 people working all week long to bring our sweet and lively Marketplace into being every weekend. Somehow this season, blogging ha

October was gorgeous this year, wasn't it? We were blessed with sunny Saturdays and plenty of activity. So much so that keeping up on the blog inched off the bottom of my ever-blossoming to do list. It happens like that this time of year, as Saturday Market and the impending Holiday Market both need time and attention. This

I've been working on collecting photos for this year's Holiday Market poster for the past couple of weeks. This means I've been making a more concerted effort to get out and about and visit with the craftspeople of Saturday Market. Every one of them is innovative, talented, motivated, creative and (lucky for me) photogenic!

Dear Universe,I want this summer to

We've arrived at the season of sweet Saturdays filled with the slanty warm light of the late summer sun. It's also the season when we're cruising along without a whole lot of extra news or excitement to blog about. That means I'm going to really have to stretch to connect the dots and make a blog post. But I can do it! You

Although I spend a fair amount of my day at the stage, I do make an effort to get out and about and see what folks are making and selling. At the end of the month, I take a tour looking especially for the new goodies to post on the New Products Page on the Marke

These August Saturdays are precious. No matter how foul the long spring is, by August it's sweet sunny summertime. The Saturdays roll by in a succession of all the Usual Things that make up a Market day.

Sorry for the delay on this post, I know you've all been anxiously anticipating the answers to my burning questions! This post required a bit of research, calling out to the Internets for an archival photo, and was interrupted by SLUG Queens. But all that's over now and we can proceed...As you will recall, in my

I have questions about things I saw on Saturday. Lingering questions that I hope to get a chance to ask this week. This is what happens when I run around at the far side of the Market at the end of a Market day grabbing photos and not having time to chat.

Now that was a great day for a Market!

As I walked onto the Park Blocks on Saturday, less than thrilled at the soggy greyness of the day, I was greeted by the uplifting tones of Paul Naylor and his magic voice machine that allows him to sing three part harmony with himself. He was singing that sweet old Turtles hit "

When there are only seven days in a week, and only thirty three Saturday Markets in a year, it's inevitable that sometimes we have to share our special day with other events. One of our favorites to share with is the Oregon Country Fair. In this amazing and abundant place ther

It had to happen eventually, the mythical Real Opening Day. I'm proclaiming that last Saturday it arrived at long last. Opening Day is always the first Saturday in April. The REAL Opening Day is the Saturday when it is gorgeous and sunny all day long, everybody is in a great mood, and there is a certain excited buzz around

The sky was blue on Saturday morning as we set up the Market. It continued to be blue all day long, and featured a big glowing orb that sent warm rays down upon us. This was a new experience for us this season, and it was FUN!We'd like it to happen again, dear Mother Nature if you're reading this, because this i

If ever there was a day in need of magic, it was last Saturday. It was grey, chill and rainy once again.Magically, I had scheduled Magic Levin to bring some magic to the Park Blocks! Also magically, every week at 11 AM the audience goes from maybe one or two random kids to lots of them, even on a grey rainy day.

I arrived Saturday morning to find the Da

Dan Pegoda's Something Euge! cartoon in this week's Eugene Weekly sums it all up quite exactly. A huge crowd of tiny people are attempting to pull back giant curtains of clouds to reveal the sun. "Pulling for some sun" is the caption. Saturday's forecast seemed

In cheerful anticipation of an actually sunny, warm Saturday, I present some fun facts gathered on what will hopefully be the last chilly grey Saturday for a long, long time.

Saturday Market is many things to many people. To many people, Saturday Market is the place to dance. People dance during every set of the day! I remember Dave Carter telling me that Saturday Market was the first place he ever saw people dancing to his cerebral folk songs. He was amazed.This week was a very danc

It was a grey Market day. Those seem like the best days for having leisurely chats, and so on this particular grey day I ended up chatting with Tom, bass player for the Jim Bronson Band, and the conga player whose name I have now forgotten... oops.

This past Saturday was our annual Mothers' Day Giveaway. For years now in honor of Mothers' Day and the Market's Birthday, we've asked Marketeers to donate things, and then given them away. This chair brimming with cool Market stuff is just one fifth of what I gave away in the course of the day - more than seventy people wo

Looking through my photos from Saturday, I'm marveling at how many different little stories and events manage to gel into a Market day. I've know this for as long as I've been a Marketeer, but the variety always amazes me.

This is Eliel Fionn. She's been a Market

I bet you thought I was going to complain about last Saturday's never ending rain. Nope, I already did that - that's what Twitter is for! I'm also not going to write about the awesome variety of umbrellas I saw, you can see them on the

First off, I want to point you at Taryn's great blog about making it to their first Saturday Market with baby Bracken along at woolymossroots. Frankly, she was my inspiration for even blogging this afternoon. If Taryn & Jeff can make it

I bet I say this every year, and I know it's true every year. That was a really happy Opening Day! Seems like everyone I saw had a beaming smile, just happy to be back together on a Market day.

That's what we've been saying excitedly all week long to everybody who stops in the office. "See you Saturday!" It's good to say it and really mean it, after a long three months of Market hibernation.

Here we are, the Market crew for this season. This is just after our

Here come the last five days of Holiday Market - Saturday & Sunday, then Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's a busy, exciting week! I think I'm ready for it, how about you? Since times are a bit crunchy, I'm going to go light on the blog...But I wanted to share a couple of fun moments from last weekend. We star

At last, we made it to Holiday Market! At last, I have a bit of time and brain available to catch up with ye olde blog! Rather than give a detailed report of all seven Market days gone by, I'll share some of my favorite Market moments so far. Daily Market Parades: