The Makers Marketplace at 900

08/24/2026

Sometimes you don’t need a reason. You just need to find something that makes you smile. 💕✨

A little art. A little color. Something handmade. Something completely unnecessary that you absolutely need anyway. 😂

Come wander around and find something to love. 🌸

📍 The Makers Marketplace
900 Rutter Ave, Forty Fort

08/22/2026

Reach out fellow crafters and small businesses- we would love to whip up something beautiful for you!!

We LOVE our new sign from The Makers Marketplace at 900! This sign makes our tent easy to spot in a crowded walk way!

08/16/2026

Sold!

This piece sold almost as soon as I shared it, and if I’m being truthful, I’m a little sad to see it go.

I made this during a time of serious emotional distress. I was trying to work through things I didn’t quite have words for, so I did what I know how to do: I made something.

I took an old frame that had been sitting forgotten for years and gave it another life. I painted it, filled it with flowers, and chose words that I desperately needed to believe myself:

Even here, something beautiful can begin.

And now I have to let it go.

Maybe that’s part of the lesson too.

We don’t get to hold onto everything that helps us through a difficult season. Sometimes we create something, love it, learn from it, and then release it so it can become part of someone else’s story.

There’s something beautifully bittersweet about knowing that a piece created from one of my hardest moments will now hang in someone else’s home.

I think life asks us to do this more often than we realize.

Make something beautiful from where you are.
Love it while it’s yours.
And when the time comes, let it go.

Love, Laura

The Makers Marketplace at 900

08/15/2026

08/14/2026

Weekend Hours:
Friday 12:30-5
Saturday: Closed for Vacation
Sunday 12-4

08/13/2026

This one feels a little more personal. 🌿

This old oval frame has been sitting in my basement for years, waiting for me to decide what to do with it. It was in desperate need of repair, a little battered and forgotten, but still far too beautiful to give up on.

And somehow, after the past few weeks and some of my own battles with mental health, these words felt like exactly what belonged inside it:

“Even here, something beautiful can begin.”

So I repaired the frame, gave it a soft Rosewater background, added the words in deep espresso, and built a little garden around them from dried and preserved flowers.

There’s something about taking something that has been damaged, neglected, or simply waiting in the dark and giving it another life that feels particularly meaningful to me right now.

Maybe “even here” doesn’t mean everything is suddenly okay. Maybe it just means that wherever here happens to be, something beautiful is still allowed to begin. 🤎🌿

And on a much less poetic note, photographing a domed-glass frame may actually be impossible. 😂 I promise it’s even prettier without the reflections.

Love, Laura
Botanical Art & Design