Every Husband’s Nightmare Bazaar is now officially OPEN for business. Tonight, 5-8pm for Preview Night, there is a $3.00 admission charge, which entirely goes to the Washington County Food Bank. Parking is always free and admission is free for the rest of the week. The NEW LOCATION for the show (since the old exhibit hall has been demolished!) is the Cloverleaf Building at the far back of the fair complex. You enter off 28th, which is right behind Albertsons.
Here are pictures of the items I have in the show:
LOTS of cute journals at really great prices, $5 – 8.00! Perfect little gift for a co-worker or work part gift exchange.
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I brought HUNDREDS of these handcrafted vintage sheet music rosette ornaments this year. Last year I only made one box of them and they sold out after the first two days. I made she to make PLENTY of them this year. These make great package toppers too. Priced from $1.00 – 2.00!
UNIQUE wreaths, wall and door decor in lots of different sizes and styles!
I scoured thrift stores and estate sales all year to curate a huge assortment of vintage salt and pepper shakers to make these cute snow folk! I bet you can’t buy just one! Fun upcycled Christmas ‘trees’ made from vintage aluminum Jello and tart molds.
Unique gift boxes make great decorative items too. They are the perfect container for a gift card.
Throw pillows with REMOVABLE holiday decorations so you can still use them AFTER the holidays are over. The wreath is even ‘separate’ and can be used otherwise!
Decorative weathered wood shutters with removable wreaths too. Take the holiday wreath off and add different decorations for each season.
They have somewhat been ‘buried with product’, but I’ve got some wonderfully grubby step ladders, 4′ and 6′.
I use a 6′ ladder in my garden and put planters with wave petunias on each rung. Buy the end of summer it looks like a waterfall of flowers!
Handcrafted mini cupcake ornaments. TOO cute glittered high top sneaker key chains. Red glass jar lanterns with metal candy cane ornament attached. BIG gold glitter reindeer: these have glitter on BOTH sides. Perfect for window decor and you don’t have to look at the ugly bare side from the inside! Hand stitched red and turquoise vintage style ornaments.
Hand painted signs. Pink or white shabby chic stockings. Adorable red truck with Christmas tree ornaments. Hand stitched grey wool felt Scottie dog ornaments.
Hand crafted banners.
And a few photos throughout the rest of the show. There is SO MUCH MORE than I could ever show you in pictures. You need to BE THERE and see it all in person to really enjoy it.
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And of course, the infamous FOOD AISLE! And this is only one side of it. There are always samples out for you to taste test before you buy!
In the past I’ve used vintage sheet music for the background paper. This time I decided on old dictionary pages.
There are SO many pretty colors and styles if paper doilies available now. I love this turquoise and kraft combination. The center medallion was punched from some wrapping paper I bought that has assorted vintage looking handwriting on it.
I don’t care for the look of the plain white paraffin wax that these are made of, and they always have at least an extra inch of wick. So I top them off with some scented candle was.
I tied a couple of reproduction keys around the rim with some turquoise/white bakers twine.
You can find prayer candles at just about ANY grocery store, but the plain white ones like this can sometime be more difficult to find. Dollar Tree always has them in stock.
My booth at Stars is SOOOOO packed with Christmas stuff right now that I am probably going to set these aside until the first of the year, or maybe spring.
I made this altered bottle at the same time as the candles. Just an old glass bottle and some of the wrapping paper glued around it.
The ‘padlock’ came from the craft store.
As did this key with ‘MEMORY’ stamped into it. (I think the key was from a Tim Holtz set.) I put a band of tea stained muslin around the neck of the bottle, and tied the key on with bakers twine. I’ll set this one aside too, until I get a whole batch of altered bottles made to take in.
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