Making it interesting: Is your shopping addiction really being served by refreshing that grocery order and impulse buying on Amazon? Sure, Etsy can take you down some twisted, cash-grabbing rabbit holes, but the most fulfilling isolation void-filling purchases may be at Craft Cville’s Virtual Pop-Up. How about a set of magnets that features Tupac and Biggie for that hard-to-shop-for friend? Perhaps you’re in the mood for curbside buttercream shots or a cake flight. Or maybe you’re just over it, and the Bad-Ass Bitch Any Scent I F’n Want soy wax candle appeals to your need to burn it all down. More than 30 locally based vendors have convened on the site to offer an array of unique, sometimes strange, handcrafted items.
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