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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — There’s something bizarre going on in Brighton.
Over 50 small businesses are selling some peculiar and campy things at The Brighton Bazaar's How Bazaar: Dead of Winter market at The Charles River Speedway.
“Tooth rings or random cloches of animal skulls, that kind of things," are just some of the items at the Crabby Baddies booth, owner Elaine Joyce told WBZ NewsRadio.
She upcycles crab shells from the beach into hand-made jewelries, a process that takes a lot of patience and labor.
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“I give them a little spa day, put some nail polish on them, put some beads and stuff in the claw, then they’re jewelry,” she said.
Emily Robertson of Feral Fawn founded The Brighton Bazaar in 2021 as a pop-up market. The goal was to create a space to help artists in the early stages of their business to grow and connect with the community, and the demand from customers and vendors for more events like this popped off.
“I saw a post about it on Instagram of like come see weird bizarre things and I like weird bizarre things,” Dani from Salem said.
The popularity for weird and eccentric trinkets, especially, inspired the organizers to expand to host more markets around Boston.
At the Dead of Winter market, Robertson said she is selling embellished products she made herself. “I hand embellish the hats with vintage materials and natural materials,” she said. “It’s a witch hat with a fringe trim, and shelf mushrooms and moss and some little animal bones”
There are lots of other vintage relics too, like a 1987 New Yorker magazine and a rotary phone.
Admission is free, and The Brighton Bazaar will host another market in March: Bierfest Weekend Bazaar.
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WBZ NewsRadio's Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) reports.