Sunday, November 8, 2009

St. Brendan's Craft Fair (Bothell)

Here are some of the cool ideas I saw:
  • Teacups, cut in half, and turned into the cover on a night light.
  • Necklaces made out of the tip of the handle of old utensils.
  • Ready to go alcohol infusions. Think similar to those jars of ready to go cookie mixes, with the pretty layers of ingredients. They were in pretty bottles with large grain sugar on the bottom and dried fruit or spices layered on top. They had instructions to add your favorite wine/rum/vodka (depending on the mixture and your taste), let sit for two weeks, shaking each day. Examples were blueberry mango or ginger cranberry. Tamara got one for Will. I'll have to ask her to take a picture for the blog.
  • Another food one was feta cheese marinated with olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes, and other spices in a pretty jar.
  • For the pet lover, catnip or dog treats in pretty bottles.
  • Mirrors framed with glass Mosaic.
  • Purses made out of old sweaters.
  • Those are the things that stood out to me, but there were lots of cool things that you traditionally see at craft fairs that we could make: potholders, aprons, cards with photography, table runners, beaded jewelry, etc.