Hanging out with musicians and local artists isn’t just for Friday nights anymore.

Those in love with the local art and music scene in the Classic City can get even more of it on afternoons the first Saturday of every month at Little Kings, a bar at the corner of Hull Street and Hancock Avenue.

MOXIE, a group of mostly female musicians and artists, usually get together for a few hours to sell homemade items.

Featured items include handmade clothing by local singer/fiddler Amanda Kapousouz of Tin Cup Prophette, spa items by local singer Sara-J Ursrey and soap by hope for agoldensummer’s Claire Campbell.

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Kate Zimmerman, a University graduate who has had her local business JetKat Design for two years, will have seasonal and custom invitations and stationery.

She said being involved with MOXIE can cut into her work and free time, but she is “very passionate” about her designs.

“I don’t have a lot of free time, but we hang out anyway, so we might as well do something productive,” she said of the group members.

Kapousouz said MOXIE isn’t cutting into her time right now, even though she is finishing up her album for her March 11 CD Release Party at 40 Watt Club.

“I’m trying to get the CD done, so it’s been a chaotic month, but it’s OK because I like chaos,” she said.

She will have original clothing for sale. She has been making clothes since her mother taught her to sew when she was 8, when she made her own outfits for summer camp and MC Hammer pants out of rayon fabric in ninth grade.

Fellow musician Campbell didn’t make soap when she was younger but started doing it about four years ago after taking a class.

“I always wanted to learn because I always went to the bluegrass festivals and saw the big ol’ country women with a caldron and an open fire,” she said. “I found out you don’t have to have a caldron and an open fire to make soap – if you use vegetable oils.”

To make her creations, she adds herbs like coffee and lavender to Crisco and vegetable oil, among other fats. She plans to use shae butter in the future.

These ingredients must be combined with lye and sometimes left for weeks to create soap.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of lye,” Campbell said.

She said it’s not like the painfully graphic scene in the movie “Fight Club” in which it burns the hand of Jack (Edward Norton).

She also sells soap at her band’s shows and on its Web site, hopeforagoldensummer.com.

Since many of those involved with MOXIE are involved in the local music scene, their bands or other local ones will play as the sale winds down.

Ursrey’s band The Ones, which also includes Mike Linhardt, will play an acoustic set at this Saturday’s event, starting about 9 p.m.

She will have such spa items as scented massage bars, oat baths and bath salts. She started making these items five years ago for herself because of her sensitive skin, and for her friends as gifts.

“I only want natural things on me,” she said.

There is no charge to browse the shop or attend the musical performance, but Kapousouz said there may be a charge for music in the future.

“We’re playing things by ear because none of us have experienced running a business,” she said.

That inexperience has brought with it a few problems.

MOXIE wasn’t the first choice of a name for the group.

It instead came from “desperation,” according Kapousouz.

The group was originally called SOUP.

“Stephanie (Dotson, a founding member) likes the word ‘soup’ and names everything that, and we thought that would work,” Kapousouz said.

The co-founders (also including Kapousouz, Zimmerman and Rizzie Gallego) wanted a unique name that defined their purpose: have a collection of various original art.

But after using the name since the summer, the members discovered Jamie Voivedich had a local pottery store called SOUP, so they decided to rename.

The next pick: OLIO.

But that name was taken too, this time by a local art academy.

MOXIE was created a few days ago to prepare for Saturday’s event – the first for MOXIE.

“It means ballsy, crafty people with guts, but skillful,” Kapousouz said.

The group has done its research and hasn’t found another local business with the name – yet.