One booth offered kits with instructions and materials for making pillows, bracelets and necklaces using needlepoint. “I can’t do anything else,” said Jenny Henry, 43, their creator, referring to needlepoint, out of which she has built a 20-year career.
Not far from Ms. Henry’s booth was Aela Alchemy, where Micaela Foley, 26, and Kaela May, 29, were selling crystal and clay jewelry, as well as biodegradable glitter bombs (little tubs of glitter and wax that you can spread across your skin).
“I was really heavily into glitter for a while,” said Ms. May, who used to perform with a hula hoop at music festivals. “But I hated that it was littering. I made glitter bombs for myself with regular glitter, and I was like, ‘I can’t keep doing this, it’s littering, it’s killing my soul,’ and I ended up doing a lot of research and finding a good source for biodegradable glitter.”
She and Ms. Foley were also offering packets of pre-mixed herbs with names like the Lovers and the High Priestess, to add to “other herbs you might smoke,” Ms. May said.
D.I.Y. enthusiasts who wanted to create their own beauty and skin care products had an array of classes at their disposal. In one, a handful of students stirred a mixture of Himalayan and Dead Sea salts, seaweed and oils in matching bowls as Leslie Mullin, who owns a beauty company called Dirty Mermaid, explained why a carrier oil is critical to a bath-salt recipe. “It carries the essential oils,” she said. “Your carrier oil is very personal to you.”
Ms. Mullin asked the women at the table what they do to relax.
“I wish I could say I do yoga,” one said.
“Face plant on the bed,” said another, clearly less laden with yoga guilt.
Later, Ms. Mullin circled the table, sniffing the scent combinations her students had chosen, and suggested that those who live in New York could use the salts in a bath for their feet rather than their full body. “New Yorkers don’t have bathtubs, or they share them with lots of people,” she said, eliciting knowing nods.
The women around the table had various reasons for attending. “We never really take time for baths,” said Heather Morowitz, 30, a masseuse and performance artist who periodically pretends to be a pre-feminist, time-traveling ghost named Madame Ovary (accessorized with a large “biological clock”). “It’s nice to have a good reason to.”
Seated opposite Ms. Morowitz was Danielle Lam, 28, a government relations manager who lives in Brooklyn. In addition to the bath-salts workshop, Ms. Lam had learned how to make a face scrub and was planning on checking out Intro to Embroidery later that day. Like many others who have recently embraced pottery, craft making and D.I.Y., Ms. Lam was searching for a way to unwind, recharge and tap into a part of her brain that she does not use in her daily life. “I don’t get to do a lot of creative stuff,” she said. “Now I get to do marbling.”
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