Everyone is invited to celebrate the 19th annual community arts and crafts day as area friends and neighbors showcase their handiwork, humor and heart-to-hand style at the Tuckahoe Street Fair slated for October 4 from 9-4 p.m. at Bellwood’s Excelsior No. 1 Firehall.
All types of baked goods from cakes, pies, cookies and candy will be available at the fair. Arts and crafts featured will be ceramics, wood crafts, quilts, baskets, candles, floral arrangements, painted items, dolls, needlework and machine stitched projects.
Proceeds from the Tuckahoe Street Fair will benefit The Door in Bellwood, B-A Food Bank, Bellwood Firemen, B-A Library and BAHS Scholarship Fund.
According to public relations contact for the fair Louise Dunn, the event has grown tremendously since the founder of the event, Barbara Parks, started the fair 19 years ago.
This year in particular all the available tables for the fair have already been sold out. Another highlight of the fair is that most of the vendors are now inside the firehall, so the event can be held rain or shine.
Dunn said the purpose of the fair is to showcase the talents of local artists.
Vendors for the Tuckahoe Street Fair include: Sandy Beech with creative memories scrapbooks; Mary Brunner with history of Bellwood; Cathie Gould with snowmen, bib items and angels; Ellen Cunningham with wood and related items; Susan Springer with fleece quills, baby quilts, table runners, quilted pillow cases and wall hangings.
Also, USAF Mothers with soups, baked goods, patriotic items, ham BBB, apple dumplings, hot dogs and sauerkraut; Karen Ritchey with fabric crafts; Sobeida Acevedo with silk and dried flowers and snowmen; Wanda Clark with crafts and apple dumplings; Hope Mazza with crafts; Marie Fleming with ceramic, wood and painted stones; Rose Kemp with baby quilts, knives and afghans.
Also, Coral Davis and Pam Mauk with scarves and clothing; Hilda Wills with watercolor paintings demonstration; Cindy and Chrissy Eicher with crochet and knit items and beaded jewelry; Patty Davis with baked goods and haluska; Renee and Rochelle Replogle with beaded jewelry; Connie Grannas with center pieces and wreathes; Ruthy Sleeth with Shaklee nutritional products and Jen Liddick with Mt. Nittany candles.
Also, Trinity United Methodist Women with home baked goods; Pat Ansman with Tupperware, fudge and pumpkin rolls; Ron Berkstresser with fly tying demonstration; Amy Chamberlain with wood items, magnets, face painting, sand art and puppets; Nancy Beatty, Barbara Parks and Kathi Padula with crafts, sewn items, sweaters and cookies; B-A BPW with crafts and food; Helen Johnston with soaps, lotions, salve and tote bags and Vickie Hayes with hand-knit scarves.
Also, Louise Dunn with button jars, decorated pumpkins and dipped apples; Grace Lutheran Church with crafts and baked goods; Tracey Salmon with pewter ornaments and figures and trinket boxes; Patty Kemp with hand-painted candles and hand-knit dish clothes; Margy Aikens with baby afghans and sweater sets; Karen Lonesky and Kathy Shauf with Barbie clothes, baby items and refrigerator magnets and LAJo’s with Italian sausage sandwiches.
Also, JoAnn with cross stitch items; Susan Hobgen with hand-painted Italian signs; Stacey Yaney with soft dolls, rubber stamps and handcrafts; Lee Runnels with crafts; Pioneer Club with bake sale and crafts and Tim Klock with chain saw carvings.
