Lost+Found Coffee Company to host Mini Makers Market this Saturday

TUPELO — Lost+Found Coffee Company will host a Mini Makers Market featuring more than a dozen arts, food and niche goods vendors on Saturday.

Sarah Gamiel, events coordinator for Lost+Found, said the shop's first makers market will feature a range of goods including freeze dried sweets, jewelry, vintage goods, woodwork, paintings, haircuts, baked goods, flowers, pottery and more.

Most of the makers featured in the market are based in Northeast Mississippi.

"We're going to have a bunch of really cool stuff there," Gamiel said. "We are putting in a lot of work to make sure it's stuff you wouldn't be able to find other places."

Vendor booths will be set up on the west side of the building from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and the Lee County Library's Bookmobile will be on site through the day. Lost+Found, located at 910 Robert E Lee Extended in Tupelo, will operate with normal hours, serving coffee and its selection of snacks to customers throughout the day.

"One of my favorite things about the shop is people who don't know each other come here and talk and act like they've known each other for years," Gamiel said. "And that's what I'm expecting from the market, is people come meet people, they find new vendors and new places to get goods that they would already be getting, new places to get gifts and fun people to get them from."

Gamiel said there were more vendors interested than the shop could accommodate for the first market. More than 40 vendors signed up on the first day applications opened, and Lost+Found hopes to host additional makers markets in the months to come.

"It would be such an add to Tupelo," Gamiel said. "It would bring people in, make it communal. We need more communal things, more third spaces."