One person’s old basketball is another’s new pencil case.
Youngsters and families flocked to the Coney Art Walls at the People’s Playground for the Brooklyn-based pop-up FAD Market on Aug. 6. About 45 different local, independent designers showed off their unique products, including clothing, jewelry, and home accessories. The market was just as exciting for the vendors as it was for the visitors, said one woman who sold her repurposed basketball skins that she turns into pencil cases.
“It was a very good atmosphere, very good music, and people, nice vendors,” said Rita Balta, who lives overseas in Germany. “I enjoyed it very much.”
Balta creates her jewelry, pencil, and eyeglass cases from old basketball skins since the sport is so popular in her native Lithuania. And the material makes for a very protective case, said Balta.
“Everybody is playing ball, it’s a national sport,” she said. “Pencil cases, or cases for glasses, they’re very durable, very stable, it lasts forever.”
