The Sunday Market closes out its 2021 season  with its First Annual Holiday Market, Sunday, Dec. 12th, from Noon to 4:00 p.m. in the community room at Park Delta Bay’s clubhouse.    A Holiday Market had been planned for 2020, but the sudden reinstatement of the state-wide lockdown forced its cancellation.  Now, the vendors and volunteers band together to bring an amazing array of Delta-made goods and lovely collectibles for your Holiday gift-giving, home decorating, or to treat yourself!

Many of the regular vendors will return for this season-celebration with new offerings and special holiday presentations.

Rachel Warren, who designs and makes jewelry, hand-painted glassware, and original artwork cards, will have prints of some of her most popular work along with new creations.  Warren designs and creates as Magical Alchemy Designs.   Warren combines her love of Mexican folk art and her deep roots in the Delta to put flare on each of her pieces.  She also does custom work and reprints.

New to the Sunday Market this year, Eric Fanslau of Fanslau Metal Works LLC  impressed market customers with his delightful hand-crafted signs and yard art.  He also proved his love for the Delta by donating the proceeds of one entire market day to the River Delta Fire District, along with creating a sign for them.  Like all the Sunday Market vendors, Fanslau and his wife Shelby deeply love the Delta community.  Fanslau also contributed the Kids Korner sign for the Sunday Market, which made him very popular with the Market Manager and volunteers!  Fanslau will doubtless have many wonderful pieces from which to choose, and he always finds a way to put his special metalwork spin on the holiday at hand!

Another vendor making her debut at the market for the 2021 season, Heather Sousa of Let’s Get Sauced became popular quite quickly!  The lines at her table started early each Sunday.  She returns for the closing event with more of her delicious, home-cooked sauces, flavored with the special goodness of fresh Delta ingredients like pomegranate, peach, and pepper.  These delicious sauces make excellent gifts and will please your holiday company!

copyright Demi Stewart Photography 2021. Reprinted by permission.

One of the newest Sunday Market vendors, Demi Stewart of Demi Stewart Photography, is no stranger to Park Delta Bay and the Delta Bay Marina.  One of the favorite artists of the area, Stewart has featured in both solo and duo shows at the Marina and a group show at the park.  She showed at the Market for the first time at the Harvest Market, and returns for the Holiday Market.  A bridge tender on our Delta Waters, Stewart captures sunsets, water fowl, and the Delta life in a unique and breathtaking manner.  She shows her work both framed and unframed; mounted or matted; and in calendars.  She also special-orders the size and fitting that you prefer.  No Delta home can be complete without a beautiful portrayal of our beloved surroundings, and few depict the glory of the California Delta quite as well as Demi Stewart.

These are just four of the many vendors who will be showcased at the Holiday Market.  Tracy Holcombe returns with her lovely stained glass ornaments, windchimes, and plantholders.  Melissa Fink brings her Driftwood Designs, painted rocks, and handcrafted bead jewelry.  Trinity Eden’s CoZMe hand-made crochet pieces come just in time for chilly weather.  Barbara Estlack-Brock always delights visitors to her booth with unique collectible china, knick-knacks, and vintage jewelry.  Expect her Out of The Past offerings to include holiday tableware and ornaments!  Delightful fragrances will waft your way from the handcrafted soy candles from Socorro Guzman of Coco’s Candles.  “Luv Resin” offers interesting, one-of-a-kind vases, coasters, and jars made from poured resin.  Melissa Stolte’s perennial favorite Lavender Lovelies make excellent stocking stuffers and special gifts for your favorite guy or gal. Her goat-milk and lavender soaps will soothe the savage beast after a long, tedious day at the office!

There will be no end of wares for your Holiday Shopping!

The Holiday Market welcomes Natas BBQ as its food vendor.   Bring your appetite!  Rumor has it that he will be selling his famous chili and brisket sandwiches!   Hot chocolate, coffee, and cold bottled water will be served courtesy of the Market Manager.   And there’s sure to be candy canes somewhere about the place!

The Kids Korner will be relocated from its picket-fence to a round table in the community room.  Volunteers will help little ones make Holiday ornaments!  Bring your kids and let them create to their hearts content while you shop!

The Kids Korner welcomes a small donation to help defray the cost of supplies.  But regardless, every child who visits the Kids Korner at the Holiday Market will get to make an ornament of their own and take it home to hang on their tree!

The Sunday Market Vendors and Volunteers have not forgotten the Reason for the Season.  Customers are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy or children’s item to donate to Grace Is The Key.  This 501(c)(3) not-for-profit has adopted over 150 children in nearby Modesto, California this year.  Grace Is The Key also serves dinner every week to unhoused families and has many other programs.  At its Christmas event,  toys and children’s gifts, donated by visitors to the Holiday Market and many other kind souls in our community, will delight eager children whose families can’t provide presents for them without assistance.  The Sunday Market has a special place in its heart for this charity.  The parents of the founder and director of Grace Is The Key lived at Park Delta Bay for many years, and with their dear friend and next-door-neighbor, helped start the Market in 2020.    Though they retired and moved in August 2021, they will make an appearance at the Holiday Market to help gather the donated toys and thank Market customers for their generosity.

Since the event will be held indoors, it will be “rain or shine”.  Parking in and around the park’s common areas courtesy of Park Delta Bay.  Visitors should stop at the kiosk for instructions as they enter the park.  For information, call the volunteer Market Manager, Corinne Corley, at 816-520-9152.  For directions to the Park, which is located on the California Delta Loop, call the park office at 916-777-5588.  The Sunday Market encourages you to take any health precautions you feel are appropriate to your situation, including getting vaccinated, masking, and using hand sanitizer.

Nobody throws a Market like the vendors and volunteers of the Sunday Market, and this year-end event is guaranteed to be a Jolly Good Time!  Come join us for a delightful day in the beautiful Delta!  You’ll be so glad that you did!  See you at the Holiday Market!

The Sunday Market is sponsored by the Delta Bay Foundation, a California not-for-profit with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.  Park Delta Bay provides a venue for the Sunday Market without charge to help the Delta Bay Foundation in its mission to promote the culture, community, commerce, and conservation of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 

All visitors to the Sunday Market’s Holiday Market assume risk of attendance.