Photos: A big ‘thank you’ to the Forest Hills Holiday Bazaar organizers, vendors and shoppers!

We at Forest Hills Connection believe in shopping locally. So it was a real pleasure to give local artisans a place to sell their wares at the Forest Hills Holiday Bazaar on December 3rd.

Karen Lithell and Dzenita Saracevic organized the event, now in its second year. Lithell opened up her home on Albemarle Street and Marina Burmistrova graciously offered cups of spiced wine and cookies to the visitors and vendors.

About 150 visitors showed up to shop. They generously bought paintings, jewelry, crafts, hand-designed bags, lotions and scrubs, sweets, hand knitted hats and scarves, and items at the silent auction. A portion of the proceeds support Forest Hills Connection.

Karin Lithell was an artist-vendor, organizer and the host of the event. (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

Ceramics by Natalia Kormeluk (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

Printed Wild by French-American designer Eva Calonder (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

RaRer sells refinished and repurposed home furnishings and accessories. (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

Artist Selma Selman (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

An item in the silent auction. (photo courtesy of Jules Conley)

A shopper checks out artist Michelle Muri-Sloane‘s work. (photo courtesy of Phil Taplin)

Couture cake and patisserie chef Dijana Zaric of DG Cakes (photo courtesy of Phil Taplin)

Pat Davies sold hand-knitted hats, toys and blankets on behalf of the Georgetown Ministry. 100% of those sales went to the homeless people who crafted the items. (photo courtesy of Phil Taplin)

Sampling the potions and lotions made by AromabyAnette (photo courtesy of Phil Taplin)

Perusing Poppyor Jewelry (photo courtesy of Phil Taplin)

We didn’t get a photo of Pico Vela‘s booth and gorgeous knitwear, but here’s a peek:

A photo posted by Pico Vela (@picovela) on Nov 22, 2016 at 4:06am PST

You’ll find some of these vendors at the Van Ness Main Street’s Made-in-DC Pop Up Holiday Market this weekend. They’ll be setting up shop at 4250 Connecticut Avenue, between Acacia Bistro and the interim Cleveland Park Library. View the schedule and complete vendor list.