Jolly good time
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark holiday shopping event will feature 40 local vendors.
Oh by golly there are Holly Jolly Shops for Christmas, in Bricktown, this year. The Bricktown Ballpark will host Revolve Productions Holly Jolly Shops on Dec. 8 and 9, featuring 40 local vendors for holiday shopping and retail opportunities. Vendors will include some individuals from the Oklahoma City metro area and others coming in from throughout Oklahoma. Savannah Shirley, a first-grade teacher in Woodward and owner of The Crochet Cabinet, will have a booth at the event selling various clothing items. “I make all the hats and scarves. It’s just a one-person, handmade operation,” Shirley said. “I started it out as a hobby, and then kind of turned it into a small business.” The teacher sells her collection of products as a supplemental revenue stream to teaching, and she hopes the Christmas-theme event in Oklahoma City will be extra productive. “My best markets I’ve done have been about $1,000 a day,” Shirley said. “With it being the holiday season, I try not to shoot too high, but
anything over that would be wonderful.”
Holly Jolly Shops will be held at Bricktown Ballpark and open from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. In addition to shopping, consumers can find snacks and hot chocolate at the concession stand, as well as alcoholic beverages, and take photos with live reindeer.
“There’s good stuff,
and there’s going to be reindeer out there, so that’s cool,” Lucky Lulu owner Amber Garza said.
Garza does shows every weekend of the year except for January, she said, and this one she expects will be profitable.
“For this one I’m going to expect $3,000 (revenue),” Garza said. “After booth fees and everything I’ll probably profit $2,500.”
Garza sells homemade jewelry, specializing in products made with Buffalo nickels.
The event is partnering
with the Curbside Chronicle and its Wrap Up Homelessness campaign. Oklahoma artists designed holiday wrapping paper that can be purchased throughout the holiday season, with proceeds benefiting Curbside’s mission to end homelessness in Oklahoma City. Prices range from $10 to $20.
“The holidays are really my favorite time of the year, a time filled with family and community,” artist Emily Hamm said. “For my design this year, I chose a classic Fair Isle
sweater pattern, tying in elements of Oklahoma to symbolize how Oklahomans should warmly embrace each other in their community.”
Setting up a booth, working with other vendors and the partnership with the Curbside Chronicle, makes Shirley excited to make the trip to Oklahoma City for the event.
“I think what makes it unique is it is such a holiday experience,” Shirley said. “I’m looking forward to the atmosphere of the holidays.”