November is already over. It was a blaze of glory really. The Autumn leaves were stunning this year and we had some days of sunshine that brought joy and delight. My favourite thing about November now that I am an adult is the craft fairs I attend. I have attended an all time high this year ~ six!
The season started off with one of the biggest craft fairs around. I have gone for years and years and I know different vendors and have my favourites I love to support. Our family has a tradition that we all go together to this craft fair. Everyone finds a treasure that warms their hearts and we wander around and enjoy. Some years have been quite challenging and some years just magical and this year was a magical one. Some friends of ours came as well and all my children were there and my heart. Oh my heart. It just felt like for that moment in time I had done something right. I had done something that mattered. It sounds silly to write that, and I can't explain it, but everyone WANTED to be there ~ at a craft fair ~ with me. I am so thankful.
The next craft fairs were smaller and sweet and I saw a purse I wanted. My current purse was a shredded rag. I did not buy it though for multiple reasons. I found more treasures and so did my children who were with me. Then the week after I went to another craft fair and there was the purse again and I bought it. So I have a new purse. That doesn't happen often. I might be getting another purse as well. Two purses! What luxury.
Why do I love craft fairs? There are multiple reasons. Craft fairs remind me of my grandmother's who I loved dearly. This year I found a small quilt that had fabric in the same pattern that my grandmother used to make dresses for me! I felt teary eyed.
Craft fairs hold really good energy for me. People are often filled with a certain kind of joy because they are displaying a true authentic beautiful part of their self through their work. It is an environment I love to be a part of.
When I am at craft fairs I am often looking for something and I don't often know exactly what it is but when I see it or I don't....then I think what could I add or what do I wish I could add.
This year I missed my favourite basket makers. They both have passed on or at least one of them have and so now all I have is baskets made by their hands to treasure and I am so grateful for that. I wish there was someone new who made baskets. I wish people had wooden candlesticks and beautiful linen aprons with embroidery and ruffles or lace. I wish there were more leather crafters out there who made amazing bags and belts. I wish there was a potter who specialized in tiny little treasures and art scenes. I wish there were more glass artists. I live in a smaller town and so I know in bigger towns or other countries these would not be so rare but here these are what I wish to see. I would have loved to see more wool felting of whimsical animals and dolls. I wish there was someone that knitted adorable little gnome hats for babies.I wish there were quilted jackets and knitted sweaters in my size.
But there were tiny intricate snow flakes that someone had crochet and there were beautiful bees wax candles and tiny wooden dolls and there was local honey and walnut shell Christmas tree ornaments and the list goes on and on.
The fairs all have been so lovely and there have been so many treasures that I have enjoyed.
I am not sure if I will go to another craft fair this year and if I don't I am just so thankful for all I did choose to attend and I am thankful for my children who enjoyed them as well.
Happy first day of Advent
May hope fill your heart
xo
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