Shop Small Holiday Makers Market

🎄 November 30 - December 1, 2024 🤶🏽

❄️ December 21-22, 2024  🎁

Bellingham Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven

355 Harris Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225

We’re excited to announce that we will be hosting two holiday markets at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven again in 2024! This venue is lovely, and will be decorated for the holidays. 

Also, we love this venue because there is ample parking for vendors and shoppers alike! One of the great things about renting the Ferry Cruise Terminal is that vendors will be able to leave their booths set up overnight on the Saturday night of each market! Less loading in and out!

Because of the high numbers of vendors who are interested, we will select 50 vendors for one weekend and 50 different vendors for the other weekend. In the application, you can tell us if you would like to be considered just for one of the weekends or for both weekends, and if you have a preference. 

This application process is competitive. Our list of interested vendors continues to grow, with over 900 on our email list and 3200 followers on Instagram. We value accepting some vendors that are new to us at each market, as well as including vendors who have participated in our past markets. We aim to offer a rich and diverse experience for shoppers at our events, ensuring there is something unique and enjoyable for everyone! 

Please fill out your application carefully, with the same thought you would put into filling out a job application, for example. In order to help you fill out your application, here are some things that are difficult for us:

• Typing in an email address or phone number incorrectly
• Not filling in your last name
• Giving us a phone number that can’t receive texts
• Leaving questions blank or answering with just a word or two
• Submitting photos that don’t show products or booth clearly
• Submitting photos in formats other than JPG (please don’t submit .heic, which is the Apple compressed file format)
• Paying the application fee with an account that is not obviously your name or your business name, and forgetting to email us to let us know

Vendors are not grandfathered in because they were accepted to a previous BMM market. 

Important Dates and Times:

• Applications due: 9/16/2024
• Notification of application status – either accepted, waitlist, or declined: 9/30/2024
• Vending fees due: 10/7/2024
• Vending fees become non-refundable: two weeks before each market (11/15/2024 and 12/6/2024)
• Market hours:
  • Saturday – noon to 6pm
  • Sunday – noon to 5pm
• Load-in times: 9:00-10:30am. No one is permitted to begin loading in earlier than 9am.
• Load-out: Vendors are not permitted to start breaking down before the market closes. Any vendors breaking down early will not be accepted in future markets we host.

Other Important Details:

• Booth spaces are 8x8 feet. We want to include as many vendors as possible, so double spaces are not available.
• Application fee: $10
• Vending fee: $250 per weekend for an 8x8 foot space
• Your business must be registered in WA and you must have a UBI number and be able to collect your own sales tax.

This market is open to handmade makers, artists and artisans. Obviously in the process of hand making our items, all of us use some bought supplies and components. But we want to showcase vendors who are pouring their creative energies into what they sell.

We believe that having our vendors promote the market is key to bringing the shoppers!  Participating vendors are required to promote the market on their social media at least three out of four designated times. We will email you four different times with a graphic and suggested text for you to post that day or the next day. We will do our part too by advertising on local online events calendars, reaching out to news sources, putting up posters and flyers, and contacting our growing list of shoppers who gave us their emails to learn about upcoming markets.

You must be reachable via email. All notifications and reminders will be sent via email from BMM@bellinghammakersmarket.com. When you fill out the application form, please enter an email address that you check regularly. If you miss a deadline because an email went to your spam, junk or gmail's 'promotions' folder, we will assume that you are no longer interested in participating, and will offer your place to a vendor on the waitlist.

The booth photo is a required part of your application. We will not consider your application without a booth photo. We want to see your products beautifully displayed in your canopy, with all your signage. If you haven't created a booth photo before, there are lots of tips online. We will be using this photo to help us understand the quantity and variety of products you sell, and to visualize how it will look in a row of booths. Impress us!

We're so excited to celebrate the holiday season with two amazing markets!