Artisanal LA Holiday City Market — Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

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The makers show up before the shoppers do, arranging ceramic mugs and hand-poured candles and letterpress cards on folding tables while the Promenade is still quiet. By noon, the crowd is three deep and someone is buying a cutting board they did not know they needed from the person who carved it. Artisanal LA's holiday weekend market returns to Third Street Promenade with 75+ independent makers across multiple weekends in December: the 5th through 8th, the 14th and 15th, and the 20th through 22nd. Ceramics, print, jewelry, apparel, home goods — all juried, all from people who make things for a living and need this season to work. Free entry on a pedestrian-only street in Santa Monica. The Promenade is at the 1300 block of Third Street between Arizona and Santa Monica Blvd. The vendor roster rotates between weekends, so repeat visits are rewarded with new discoveries. This is the largest annual market Artisanal LA runs and routinely draws weekend crowds that spill into the surrounding blocks.