Austin's South Congress (SoCo) area which is like a smaller version of Melrose with its fun shops and restaurants has a thing called First Thursday. It's the first thursday of each month where Austin's local vendors come out and take over the parking lots of various stores and restaurants to set up tents, tables, etc. to sell their handmade goodies such as jewelry, apparel, art, etc. Rob and I went to check it out. We also visited a vendor friend of ours, Valerie Eff of E Street Jewelry.
