Vendors At Womon Gathering

The Marketplace is a lively area right outside the dining hall, surrounded by trees with areas to sit scattered around.  We browsed the vendors a little each day and drooled over lovely wares, but managed to stay within our planned budgets.  There was a booth for massage and another for hair cuts.  We saw beautiful Yoni art work, handmade dolls, pottery, jewelry and much more.

Mama Kelly:  I would really like to see us able to afford massages next year.  Bare butt naked with the breeze blowing softly over your body with the leaves rustling overhead.  Sigh!!!

My first purchase was a lovely skirt and top made of gauze-like material with a spiral pattern, purple of course.  Usually I like to browse for a day or two before making purchases, but since it was the only one like it I bought it the very first day.   I had Angelgirl on the phone Saturday as I walked around describing some of the items so she could pick out something for me to bring home for her.  She chose a lovely handmade cloth hat, the fabric has a celestial pattern from Mosa Mimi Baczewska (website under construction).   I also got myself a purple tie-dyed tshirt with a beautiful silk-screeend tree-of-life image on the front from Willow Moon Designs.  And I picked up a few littles thing - magnets for me, Angelgirl and Mama Kelly and her daughters, a snake pin (which I gave to Mom when I got home), a bag of sage, and a cd of chants (by Marie Summerwood, see photo and link below).

Mama Kelly: I came home with 2 rainbow-clay goddess charms to string on cord for my girls, a brimmed cap (in a multi-color pattern) for Miss Artistic (from the same shop that AngelGirl’s hat came from), and a Tie-Dye Tshirt for Princess Nibbles.  For myself I purchased a chant CD and a Labradorite egg.  Also with a bag of sage, thanks to Lady Rose’s generosity.

Here are some photos fo the Marketplace at Womon Gathering 2008:
 

 

Marie Summerwood (her CDs and herbal wares) - wise womon handmade herbal tinctures, salves, oils, lip balm and her cds. Also colorful fabric serpent familiars, small snakelet pins and barrettes.

Links to some of the other vendors Mama Kelly was able to find for some of the vendors

Warped & Twisted - wraps, shawls, scrafs, hand-spun wool.
K Robins Sculpture - symbolic silver jewelry.
Mama Donna’s Spirit Shop - magents, charms, goddess images, and more. (who was unavailable to attend this year due to surgery.)
Moonien Arts Studio - sacred objects and art, spiritual tools and instruments, salt Goddesses.
Spiral Moon Boutique - exotic gifts and apparel to entice body, mind and spirit.
Sweetwater Pottery - stoneware and porcelain dinnerware, lamps, vases, drums, ritual plates and chalices.

Mama Kelly: So those of you planning on attending next year, start saving some pennies now.  As you can see the wares can be very tempting.  Also know that there are “free boxes and tables” at Womongathering.  You are free to take form you want from these areas and invited to leave those things which no longer serve a place in your life and you are ready to let go of.  Books, pagan periodicals, crystals, sealed snackfoods, what have you.