Students from INCubatoredu, Makerspace, held a craft and gift fair at Painted Tree on Dec. 7, which included students selling a variety of items from crochets, snowmen and pins. Killough art teacher Peri Berman attended as well, selling her students’ art.These types of events are a way for the public to buy gifts for the holiday season, support local businesses and discover rising entrepreneurs.

“[The goal of Starstruck] is to provide different candies that aren’t provided in the vending machines,” founder of Starstruck Candy junior Larry Rico said. “The candies change weekly, and we also do special things for special holidays like Christmas.”

Sweets were not the only thing being sold, as there was a wide variety of popular Hispanic pastries as well, including tres leches, flan, and one of the businesses signature pastries for the season, a red velvet cake with green cream cheese, themed after The Grinch.

“I started making sweets and gave them to my friends that were in band,” founder of Kim’s Sweets senior Kimberly Escobedo said. “I eventually started selling them at school. I started to do seasonal [pastries] like The Grinch cake for the holidays and chocolate covered strawberries for Valentine’s Day.”

If sweets and pastries weren’t something customers were looking for, stocking stuffers, and accessories were also available to purchase. 

“[I created] replicas of postage stamps for multiple different artists and groups, like BTS, Rosé and j-hope,” founder of Radio Indigo senior John Gomez-Jimenez said. “I also have fake Game Boy cartridges, which are a reminiscence of two bands that I have, which are MARINA and KATSEYE.”