It’s giveaway time again at Vintage Charlotte!  Here are the details:

One lucky Summer Market attendee will win our giveaway!  13 of our amazing Vintage Charlotte Summer Market vendors have contributed to this giveaway, all of the items described in this post are included in the giveaway.  The winner MUST claim their prize IN PERSON at The Vintage Charlotte Summer Market (May 12th at Camp North End).

Ways to enter (do all three for increased odds!):

1. Follow @VTGCLT on instagram, share the giveaway photo and tag with #vtgcltgiveaway and @vtgclt  [if you are a private user, please comment on our photo to let us know you have shared].
2. Follow @VTGCLT on Twitter, retweet our giveaway and tweet us back to let us know you’re excited using #vtgcltgiveaway
3. Follow Vintage Charlotte on Facebook, Share our giveaway photo post [if you are a private user, please comment on our photo to let us know you have shared].

Up to three entries per person [one per social media platform]! Winner will be selected at 6pm on Friday, May 11th at 7pm. Vintage Charlotte vendors ARE eligible for this giveaway. Good luck!

Official Giveaway Photo:

The goodies include (clockwise from upper left corner):

– Pea Pod Necklace from Created Beautifully
– Vintage Floral Wallet from Heart’s Desire
– Tie Clip from Beautiful Idiot
– All of You Oil from Little Sey Salt Cures
– Two Prints from Shannon Newlin
– SUV Notecard Set from Holly Graham
– 3 Bottles of Shrub Soda from Old North Shrub
– Vintage Brass Unicorn from Tissy Vintage
– Cactus Planter from The Cactus Club
– Carolina Fried Chicken Map from EDIA 
– Vintage Film Reel from Malias Mark
– Floral Hexagon Plate from Golden and Grey
– Vintage Brass Bird from Posy

VTGCLT is popping up on May 12th at Camp North End for the seventh annual Summer Market! Come out and spend the day shopping with over 80 of the region’s best vintage & handmade vendors. $7 early bird entry at 10am // $2 general admission 11am-5pm.

Leading up to the market, we’ll be sharing vendor spotlight posts that give you a chance to meet some of our amazing vendors in advance of the market. We are really excited to welcome Laurie Caffery to her first Vintage Charlotte Summer Market. Laura Caffery creates functional ceramics with whimsical illustrations of home. Here is Laurie with a little about her process and a sneak peak of what she is bringing to market:

I have always planned to be an artist, but as a child I was much more interested in drawing and painting. I took ceramics in high school and enjoyed it very much, but did not see it as a path I was interested in. Freshman year of college I took a beginner wheel throwing class, and although I had worked on the wheel many times before a switch flipped and I was completely hooked. From then on I couldn’t imagine working with any medium other than clay.
My work is inspired by the concepts of finding home and belonging. I explore these themes through narrative and whimsical scenes on functional pottery to elicit the feeling of place. I grew up living in and exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, so my drawings often reference these areas that I am most comfortable in.
My absolute favorite thing about clay is that there is always more to learn. I am learning about new techniques, methods, and materials in ceramics all the time and it is so exciting. It keeps me engaged in the medium as I push my work forward.

We are thrilled to offer these Mini Mentor Sessions again with our founder, Amy Herman. Participants can expect product and branding feedback as well as insight on how to push business forward both in Charlotte and beyond.

Interested? Act fast! There are only 8 times available and each time we have offered these, they have sold out quickly! Click here for tickets and more information: https://vtgclt.ticketleap.com/vtgclt-mentor-session/

Feedback from previous mentor sessions:

“Your advice and counsel has really stuck with me since our meeting. […] I wouldn’t have pursued this collaborative path if you and I hadn’t talked, and I’m so very grateful. I hope we can have a check-up meeting the next time you offer your mentoring sessions. Thanks again, so much.”

“This was so great for my brand. Sometimes you are so close to your brand that you know something isn’t right but you just need to hear it from someone else. Amy delivered the bum kicking I needed and helped me re-think aspects of my business and get 2017 off to an amazing start.”