A school fundraiser worth checking out

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid the fundraisers that the PTA at my elementary school put together were pretty simple. Bingo Night. Spaghetti Feed. Cake Walk. That sort of thing.

Well, the parents at Nine Mile Falls Elementary School are hosting a school fundraiser to end all school fundraisers this Saturday. They’ve organized a craft fair with vendors that normally sell their goods at the Farm Chicks sales, the Latah Creek Variety Market and other such events.

Take a look at this lineup:

Unexpected Necessities
White Box Pies
Buttercuppity (which you might remember from the other day )
Vintage Charm
Bizi Furniture Etc. (which you might remember from two weeks ago )
Simply Adorable
Cast Away Clutter
Angels Attic
Sophia’s
Orphaned Decor
Southern Charm
Hudson’s Holidays
Aunt Nell’s Bits
J T Branches

Updating to add more vendors and links:

Rustic Angel
A Little Something
Jessica Cobb
Mountain View Soy Candles
The Lunch Box Lady
Kitschy Kitschy Coo
Shanda Woodward
Amy Berry
Wizard Man
And the PTG will be running a used-book sale

Plus, Down to Earth’s very own Cheryl-Anne Millsap will be doing a trash-to-treasure demonstration at 11 a.m.

(If anyone has Web sites for some of those businesses without links, please let me know.)

The event even has a cute name: the Vintage Finds and Handmade Treasures Market. That’s waaaaaay better than “Spaghetti Feed,” but don’t tell my mom I said that.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nine Mile Falls Elementary is at 10102 W. Charles Road, Nine Mile Falls. (From Northwest Boulevard, take Highway 291 to Nine Mile Falls. Turn left onto Charles Road.)

With Halloween behind us, it’s finally time to get serious about holiday shopping. Every year I try to make more of the gifts I give instead of buying them, but this season might break a record for busiest one yet in our household. If my schedule gets the best of me and I can’t craft everything from scratch, my plan is to buy my gifts either secondhand or from local crafters and artisans. Based on the photo above of one of Unexpected Necessities’ vendor booths in the past, it looks like I could cross off my entire list in one stop on Saturday.

Happy treasure hunting.