Business Name: Love and Flour Your Location: Salem, New Hampshire Year you started your baking business? 2016 What do you make? French Macarons, Custom Cakes, dessert bars, cookies sandwiches, and more How did you get your start? Making cakes for friends and family in my moms kitchen! Whats your signature dessert/baked good? French Macarons What is the story behind your business name?   I feel like our baked goods truly do have so much love in them, which makes them so much better! our business name states two things we use in our products - Love & Flour! What inspires you ..read more

Business Name - Top Shelf Cookies Location: Dorchester How long have you been in business? 4 years What do you make? Craft Cookies How did you get your start? Baking for superstition.  Heather Yunger is a longtime superstitious Bruins season ticket holder. She would bring her Black & Gold cookies to the bar for pregame every game and that year the Bruins won the Stanley Cup and Heather decided to start thinking about escaping her cubical to make cookies! Whats your signature dessert/baked good? Black & Gold cookie, it’s a dark chocolate (think oreos) chewy chocolate cookie wi ..read more

Business Name - Flour Bakery Your Location: 114 Mt. Auburn Street (Harvard Square) and 190 Massachusetts Ave. (Central Square), Cambridge, Mass. Year you started your baking business? 2000 How long have you been in business? 18 years What do you make? Breakfast pastries, breads, cakes, cookies, and tarts as well as sandwiches, soups, and salads How did you get your start? An honors graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics, Joanne Chang left a career as a management consultant to enter the world of professional cooking. She started as garde-manger cook at ..read more

Business Name - Mama B's Tasty Treats Your Location: Kitchen located in Rockland, MA Year you started your baking business? We started our business in the spring of 2013. How long have you been in business? 5 years, but have been baking for over 45 years! What do you make? Pies, cakes, tarts, cookies, bars and tea cakes. How did you get your start? We started selling muffins at a local farmer's market, and it became clear that this was something loved to do, and wanted to do as much as possible! Whats your signature dessert/baked good? Chocolate chip cookies, frangipane tarts, and Italia ..read more

Business Name - Celebrated Your Location: Providence, RI Year you started your baking business? November of 2017 How long have you been in business? We'll be 10 months old in September!  What do you make? We specialize in hand-crafted dessert tables for special occasions, with a dedicated focus to weddings! All of our desserts are vegan, mostly organic + free from artificial colors and additives.  How did you get your start? It all started with a love for baking many years ago.  I gained professional experience as a manager at several bakeries, and realized I could turn my ..read more

Welcome to 'Artists Illuminated'. A series where we turn the spotlight on our favorite holiday market artists and makers. Today we are featuring South Boston Holiday Market maker: Backyard Soap Co. BACKYARD SOAP CO. Chef, Gardener, Soap Maker Richard Bonasoro is a passionate creator from Massachusetts. He is a renaissance man finding that the ways of the old world are not only romantic but efficient in our fast-paced lives. His love for soap making began almost five years ago when he was in his discovery of the magic of raw organic ingredients. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View ..read more

Welcome to 'Artists Illuminated'. A series where we turn the spotlight on our favorite holiday market artists and makers. Today we are featuring Salem Holiday Market maker: Loyal Supply Co. LOYAL SUPPLY CO. Loyal Supply Co. is a design firm, retailer, and distributor of goods for the home, office, and studio. We believe in useful, thoughtfully designed products that make life more enjoyable. We work by the motto Supplies for Life. To us, this means objects worth keeping by your side for life.  We are very particular about the products we carry and the goods we design. View fullsize View ..read more

Welcome to 'Artists Illuminated'. A series where we turn the spotlight on our favorite holiday market artists and makers. Today we are featuring Salem Holiday Market maker: ParTea PARTEA In an age of craft cocktail bars, home bar carts, and beautiful drink recipe books adorning every well-styled coffee table, what makes ParTea's Booze Infusers so special?  To start, their blends are meticulously handcrafted to ensure the highest quality infusion possible. They include only whole, natural ingredients so you can maintain control of just what you're drinking. By using a dried infusion rather ..read more

Welcome to 'Artists Illuminated'. A series where we turn the spotlight on our favorite holiday market artists and makers. Today we are featuring Salem Holiday Market maker: Englishman Bay Trading Company ENGLISHMAN BAY TRADING COMPANY Englishman Bay Trading Company celebrates New England craft and style. It is about supporting local craftsmen and artisans expressing their talents and skill.  English Bay sheep are raised on the rocky Maine coastline perpetuating the Down East tradition of seaside living. The authentically hand made wool products with unique designs will keep you warm for g ..read more

Welcome to 'Artists Illuminated'. A series where we turn the spotlight on our favorite holiday market artists and makers. Today we are featuring Salem Holiday Market maker: The Science Boutique THE SCIENCE BOUTIQUE Bonding science and fashion since 2012! Handmade jewelry and accessories for the science lover made by a scientist!. Jewelry and accessories handmade from polymer clay, shrinkable plastic, resin and more.  View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Look for The Science Boutique at the Salem Holiday Market. For more info o ..read more