Local Yokel Holiday Shopping Guide

It's estimated that for every dollar you spend, twice as much will be reinvested in the community by a local store than a national store.1 It's also estimated that Bay folks are so damn cocky we think we live in the coolest place in the world and we love us some Bay-related things. It's also estimated that the Bay is home to some of the most creative, stylish, and planet-positive entrepreneurs around. No footnote for the last two. Lesson of all these estimations? Buy Bay, give Bay, you'll make many a Bay people happy. Because this holiday season... who gives a fuck about the rest of this country?
Ready, go!

The City

• 12/4: Chillin Productions Annual Holiday Show is paradise for the indie designer lover.
• 12/4: 3rd St Holiday Sale with over a dozen of my favorite SFMade companies.
• 12/9: Get your SFMade gift bag at their holiday mixer 
• 12/10: La Cocina Gift Fair is gonna be delicious. Period.
• 12/4 & 12/11: Market SF, see previous post.
• 12/11 & 12/12: KPFA Crafts & Music Fair for the Berkeley moms.

East Bay

• 12/3: First Friday in Oakland could inspire you to buy some art.
• 12/4: The Find at Jack London Square looks coo', never been.
• 12/11, 12, 18, 19, 23, 24: Telegraph Holiday Street Fair. Helloooo high school. 
• 12/11: Temescal Holiday Stroll- that's my hood! woot woot!
• Get Online @ http://www.shopoakland.com/

Know of a cool holiday shopping event? Holla at yo girl... let's make it a collective list. 

Saturday Artist Market in the Mission (with drinks yall!)

What: Fifty plus rotating artists slanging their goods. Racey greeting cards to locket necklaces to screen printed sweatshirts (no, screen print sweatshirts?? In the Bay? How unusual!) But seriously, I think this market has major potential, list of artists here.
When: Saturdays from 12-6 pm. 
Where: The Blue Macaw, which means $5 bloody marys and mimosas! 2565 Mission St.
Warning: It can be dangerous to shop and drink at the same time. One starry night in Greece, after putting a few back at the bar, my sister and I decided to wander down the strip to shop for jeans and I left the island with a bootleg, rhinestone-studded pair of flares that said "D & G" on the ass in bright orange. Beware of the drunkin judgment calls.


Got the travel bug?
More info here: http://www.market-sf.com/