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The minds behind The Good Trade Makers Market, RI VegFest, Little City Thrifty Vintage Market, and Bloom Flower & Home. Ampersand Creative Co.

is best known for their curated large scale community events, including The Good Trade Makers Market, Little City Thrifty Vintage Market, Bloom Flower and Home Market, and RI VegFest. Ampersand's series of events generate an estimated $2.5M in revenue for participating small businesses annually. In addition to these events, Ampersand is also a creative and communications team who thrives off of br

inging people together and supporting small businesses through design, PR, and grassroots marketing. From web and graphic design, to video and photography, to marketing and brand consulting, Ampersand Creative Co. strives to help brands look their Sunday best.

01/11/2025

Don't forget, vintage vending virtuosos, vendor apps are due tonight by midnight for Little City Thrifty's annual spring vintage market on March 7th and 8th! If you love vintage and your community, and you think being nice to others is cool, then head to littlecitythrifty.com/apply.

19/10/2025

From the bottom of our flamingo-shaped hearts, thank you for hanging with us at Little City Thrifty this fall. You're amazing, and there's nothing better than supporting small businesses while giving old things a new life with you.

Speaking of, our friends at Epic Renewal just shared the event composting stats with us, and together, we diverted 537 pounds of waste from the landfill! That's the equivalent of greenhouse gas or CO2 emissions from: driving a gas powered vehicle 444 miles, 19.6 gallons of gas being consumed, or fully charging 14,082 smartphones. We're proud to host fully compostable events and we appreciate your support in keeping things a little less trashy. We'll see you again on March 6 & 7 - vendor applications are open now, and tickets will go on sale soon!

25/09/2025

We had such a great time on WJAR's Studio 10 with Colonel's Collectibles! We got to talk about next weekend's Little City Thrifty Vintage Market and take a look at some of the things The Colonel will be bringing. Watch the full segment at turnto10.com/studio10/events/vintage-lovers-unite-more-on-little-city-thriftys-return-to-pvd-next-month

20/06/2025

We couldn't be more excited to start introducing you to all of the vendors that will make up our inaugural Vermont VegFest! We have a ton of vegan and vegan-friendly businesses from all over coming to Hula in Burlington on September 20th. Follow as we introduce you to new vendors every day!

Haven't gotten your tickets yet? Pick them up at vermontvegfest.com.
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VENDORS: While the event is filling up, we're still accepting applications on a rolling basis. You can learn more about vending with us at vermontvegfest.com.

16/06/2025

After a short delay (see our last post!), we’ll be contacting all applicants of The Good Trade Makers Market by the end of the day Wednesday, June 18th.

Curating The Good Trade is, without a doubt, the hardest thing we do each year, and the quality of this year’s applicants made it even tougher. We received over 1,200 applications for just 180 spots across both cities, which means we’re able to accept less than 10% of the inspiring businesses who applied.

While we’re beyond excited to welcome so many amazing makers to this year’s events, it's also difficult knowing that we’ll be disappointing so many perfectly worthy businesses.

For us, the curation process is all about creating balance:
🖤 Welcoming new faces alongside TGT veterans. This year, we’re especially excited to introduce lots of new-to-us businesses, including many trying a new city for the first time.

🖤 Ensuring a wide range of price points, styles, and trades. For example, we could have filled each event twice over with the number of jewelry artists who applied. To avoid oversaturation, we limit the number of vendors per category and aim for variety in style and price so that every shopper can find something special.

🖤 Supporting both local and traveling vendors. We launched The Good Trade to help makers grow by connecting with new audiences. That’s why we aim for a 50/50 split between in-state and out-of-state businesses, to foster community, promote discovery, and make space for growth across state lines.

With this many incredible businesses, there truly are no perfect answers. We spend weeks trying to make the best decisions we can, knowing full well that we may disappoint close friends, longtime veterans, and new businesses we’re genuinely excited about but couldn’t fit in.

Wednesday will be a bittersweet day.

To everyone joining us this year: we can’t wait to work with you! And to those we weren’t able to include: please know how much we loved learning about you. We’re rooting for you, and our decision is in no way a reflection of your worth or talent, it’s simply a matter of space.

We appreciate your understanding and support, and we hope to see you all soon.
- 🖤 The Good Trade

12/06/2025

A NOTE TO OUR APPLICANTS 🖤 First and foremost, thank you to every single person who applied to . We’re blown away by the creativity, passion, and care that shines through in your work.

We know we originally promised to share application decisions by June 3, and as many of you have noticed, we're... running a bit behind. We’re a small husband-and-wife team, and one of us recently experienced a medical emergency that led to a prolonged and unexpected hospital stay. We’re okay and on the mend, but it’s set us back longer than we anticipated.

That said, it’s incredibly important to us to give each application the thoughtful consideration it deserves. With more than 1,000 applicants for just 180 spots, we’re working hard to curate a vendor lineup that is diverse in style, price point, and category, featuring both familiar faces and new-to-us talent from across the country. We don’t want to rush the process, because we know how much heart and hustle you all put into everything that you do.

We're now in the final stages of our process and expect to notify all applicants by early next week. Hang tight and you'll hear from us real soon, we promise!

Thanks so much for your patience, your understanding, and your continued support. It truly means the world to us.

— The Ampersand Team

PS - Remember to add [email protected] to your contact list so we don't end up in your spam!

28/05/2025

We're getting the flock back together! Little City Thrifty, our big vintage bonanza is returning to WaterFire Arts Center in Providence, RI on October 4th & 5th, 2025. You can catch us and over 90 booths of pre-Y2k housewares, records, home decor, art, jewelry, size-inclusive clothing (across many eras!), and more, at all price points, brought to you by friendly vintage dealers from Rhode Island and seven other states.⁠
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As always, with entry, you'll receive a complimentary drink ticket to redeem for your choice of beverage (a small 5 oz beer or cocktail, a non-alcoholic seltzer, or a hot coffee), OR a $2 discount on any full sized beverage at the Inside Voices bar. And, if you get hungry while you're digging for treasures, we'll have two pop-up restaurants on site, along with some locally made sweet treats.
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Tickets are available at littlecitythrifty.com for the 11 am Early Buying Hour (which includes a limited edition LCT tote bag printed by Hungry Ghost Press) and the 12 pm entry on both Saturday and Sunday - get them while they last!

14/05/2025

🦩 ATTENTION VINTAGE VENDORS 🦩
Vendor applications close TOMORROW, 5/15, for the next Little City Thrifty Vintage Market on October 4th & 5th at WaterFire Arts Center in Providence!

If you’re kind, have a great vintage collection, and care about your community, we’d love for you to apply to join our flock.

While vintage clothing is always welcome, we’re especially on the lookout for dealers of preloved:
🦩 Home decor
🦩 Art
🦩 Vinyl records
🦩 Furniture
🦩 Books
🦩 Jewelry

Not a vintage vendor, but have a favorite that you'd like to see at LCT? Tag them below and give them a nudge to apply at littlecitythrifty.com/apply

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