Annual Christmas Craft Show planned in Osborn
It’s beginning to look like Christmas in Osburn, where the 25th annual Christmas Craft Show will be next Saturday and Nov. 5 at the Silver Hills grade school.
With offerings from up to 95 vendors, this is the place to find one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted gifts – everything from woodworkers’ sculptures, to jewelry, to anything made out of fleece, bakery goodies, ceramics and even art made of burnt brown bags.
“The best thing about the 25th annual Christmas Craft show … is that 100 percent is given back to the community,” said Bambi McKay, chairman of the Silver Valley Arts and Craft Association.
Last year $3,800 went to charitable organizations, including Meals on Wheels, all the Silver Valley libraries, and helped with transportation needs for cancer patients and to women’s resource groups.
Most everyone associated with the craft show in involved in education. The cheerleaders help out with Santa, and they in turn receive donations for their assistance. Additional money is raised by selling chances to win a quilt that the craft association donates, and by selling raffle tickets to win one of the craft items donated by the vendors, said McKay.
One local artist who will be diplaying her wares is Corrine Ziesmer of Rose Lake. Her passion is capturing the beauty of the Northwest. Pictures of moose, elk and bear dominate many of her pieces but it is her use of natural elements that makes her products stand out.
Chiseling hunks of aspen, Ziesmer transforms log or large branches into lamps or candleholders with impressions of wildlife etched into them.
“I am always dragging home some a stick, branch or rock – anything that looks cool and I can do something with. I am always on the lookout. And it is hard not to be inspired.” Ziesmer said.
Other featured artists include a jeweler from the Silver Valley; a woodworker creating intarsia segmentation, where wood inlays look like photographs; watercolor painters; antiques; and the Tom-a-Hawk man with his variety of homemade jerky.
For more information, call McKay at (208) 556-0146.