file19On chilly Saturday mornings in rural Georgia you will find organically minded shoppers visiting this cheerful open market.  Bluebird Christmas Market will warm your heart with delightfully simple hand-pegged wooden rocking horses, Dickey Farm’s Peach Ciders, homemade Christmas fudge, fruitcakes with Georgia pecans, Nutcrackers, soft gingerbreads, Rum Raisin Stollen, toys, books, hot mulled ciders, Christmas Trees, handmade decorations, ornaments and so much more. 

The Bluebird Christmas Market is a Farmers Street Market with open air stalls filled with those beautiful people that bring us the most organically fresh and local arts, cottage baked goods and harvest available in Middle Georgia.

We invite you to bring your family and Buy-Local from folk artisans, cottage bakers and growers bringing holiday cheer to you at Bluebird Christmas Market 2009.file12

It’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you! Giddy yap over to the Bluebird Market on Saturday, December 5th for a collection of our local folk artisans’ most lovely works. When you buy local arts from our local people you buy more that just a piece of work…it is a collective story of our culture. I am so proud of our local people and have seen such gorgeous pieces of work that bring culture to our community that stands the test of who we are as a hometown. In our storybook hometown, it is the people that make up the story and these works of art are the unspoken expression of our local hometown collective storybook.
Sleighbells and mistletoe and warm cider with cookies brings us together for a season of love and hope of how we can continue to grow and turn the pages as the story gets better with every day. Thomaston’s storybook hometown identity should want you to keep turning the pages because you can’t put it down …our fascinating people, love of the arts, homegrown gardeners, friendly shops and fantastic spirit of community is what keeps me turning the pages.
I can’t wait to get up in the morning and read another day in our precious community. As you write your page in our hometown storybook, be sure to get out and tell people about it! Don’t keep your role a secret…come over to Bluebird Market, build a birdhouse, paint a wagon, share your artistic loves with us on Saturdays as we write our little story about folk artists that make time to create.
Find their fasinating little stories and artworks at the TUAC gallery for Christmas shopping. When you give a gift this Christmas, make certain it tells the story of your hometown people.
At the recycle hub grand opening in Griffin, I was especially delighted when a recycling award was given by the Mayor of Griffin. It was a Bluebird House which he created, painted and numbered. Everyone has something to bring as a folk art piece so why not find a way to express yourself. I encourage you to come out and see what local people are doing and saying through their artworks. You will love reading our little hometown storybook every day more and more!
 
Enrich your life on Saturday at the Bluebird Market. Explore with us each week to discover simple ways we can affordably contribute to sustainable and renewable eco-friendly living. Find resources online at www.bluebirdmarket.com and www.planetgarden.wordpress.com. Email EE questions to: planetgarden@live.com.

arts harvest sleigh ride with addressNovember 14th….Holiday Market Gift Basket Day

Bluebird Market Baskets…a delicious way of saying hello.  101709%20bluebird%20pics%20336

This is the day to choose from all the best of holiday Bluebird Market Baskets.  Find your favorites like the Bluebird Coffee & Desserts Basket… deliver locally for Thanksgiving or Christmas as a delightful family gift.  Last day to order is November 14th for FREE local delivery.

November 21st…Hoorah for the Pumpkin Pie!

Cottage Industry Holiday Baked Goods Day

101709%20bluebird%20pics%20322Order a Bluebird Easy-as-Pie Basket for Thanksgiving deliveries locally.    Just in time for Thanksgiving when you don’t have time for baking but want the best tasting and traditional holiday favorites.  Shop Bluebird Market Cottage Bake Sale for fruit pies, pecan pies, cakes, cookies, Whole Wheat Artisan Bread with local honey, Butter Pecan Banana Nut
Bread, Pumpkin Pie, Hot Pepper Jelly, Blue Ribbon Winning Apple Butter, Dickey Farms Pickled Peaches and more. Also find local farmers’ and their harvests along with firewood, live Christmas trees and more for a fresh and local All-American harvest Thanksgiving celebration.

November 28th…Ambrosia Day

tm1c66_orange_almond_salad_lgWant Ambrosia-Worthy Oranges?  Straight from the Orange Groves find the finest fresh-picked, Ambrosia-Worthy-Oranges of the holiday season. Choose Bluebird Fresh-Fruit Baskets as lovely gifts for friends and family.  Learn how to prepare refreshingly delicious Ambrosia for a delicious and nutritious season of wellness and taste second to none. Attend the cooking lesson at the Kitchen Show and stay for the FREE Farmers Market lunch after the show.  Everyone welcome!

December 5th…Sleighbell Arts Market

candletree-logoEveryone is excited about handmade local creativity at its peak…the very best Etsy, Indie and Folk artisan works for a patchwork of  handmade meaningful holiday giving. Ask us to custom make a lovely Bluebird Artisan Basket of assorted locally created works.  Shop the First Annual Bluebird Holiday Arts Market for a handmade Christmas of pottery, Art Photography, Restoration Jewels, needlework, quilting, handsewn baby clothes, handmade purses, jewelry, toys, clocks, furnishings, decorations, soaps, milk baths, fleece footies and hats, artworks from our Bluebird Arties! This is a Forward Bluebird Arts event.

December 12th…A Christmas Story…gingerbread, storytelling and Noahs Ark animals

MOMS Club LogoPresented by MOMS Club of Griffin Thomaston Area, this will be a local Christmas highlight for all ages.  Bring your children for the wonderland of stories told in a theatrical fun way by local celebrities.  Make a stuffed animal with MOMS Club.  Delight in the Kitchen Show at 11:00, when you will make your very own Gingerbread Cottage!  RSVP for these custom made cottages prebaked just for you!  Cost is $3.00. Be sure to take home a  Bluebird Story Time Basket.

December 19th–Toytown B’fast with Jolly St. Nick

Free Portrait of your child with St. Nick by Photography Studio

Handmade toys fill Jolly St. Nick’s bag

 Local Toytown workshops bring us Elves’ most precious and creative heirloom treasures.  Handmade rocking horses, doll baby beds, red wagons and much more!  This delightful Toytown Breakfast with St. Nick arrives at Bluebird Market just in time for a fun holiday morning that promises to be your child’s most favorite new holiday tradition.  Breakfast is at 9 am with Christmas Stories at 10. Meet Father Christmas with a selection of old-fashioned hand crafted Toytown toys available only at Bluebird Market!  Receive a free portrait sitting of your child.  Enjoy this special heartwarming and quiet moment in time to cherish the spirit of Christmas in our hometown.

December 26th–Spa Day–To Health & Happiness

101709%20bluebird%20pics%20074After the holidays come and relax with handmade soaps and scrubs.  Enjoy soothing teas and a lemongrass hand treatment.  Add Bluebird handmade soaps and teas to your Christmas list for a Bluebird Ultimate Spa Basket. You deserve this rejuvenating experience to ring in the new.  Find your favorite fresh farmers market products for a New Year dedicated to your health and happiness!

7e10934083c1c8f86f82d3aa262b99adVisit Bluebird Market, 215 Barnesville Street, Thomaston, GA for a Bluebird Christmas Experience. Open Saturdays 8 am until noon.

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218 N. Center Street, Thomaston, GA

Open Saturdays from 8 am until noon. November 14th, 21st and 28th; December 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th 2009.