Hundreds of Kentucky-based "hand crafters" create a wide variety of small items [see also under TCHOTCHKEs] The goal is to specifically market their products during and preceding the major holidays that iconographiclly permeate 21st century American social culture:

• Christmas

• Hanukkah

• Advent

• Easter

• Cinco de Mayo

• Halloween

• Thanksgiving

• Independence Day (4th of July)

• Dia de los Muertos

... and many more.