I have been looking forward to the Kaleidoscope Art and Craft Market ever since we first visited it last year at this time. It's an example of all that's right with the world to me. A bunch of home-schooling families and their friends have spent weeks and weeks getting ready for this show. Some have learned new skills like crocheting, just to have something new to offer. And, what better place to hold it than the restored Old Camborne School?
This post is brought to you by Christmas lights. So simple and so lovely.
And, there's our sponsor again inside. I love the blurriness of this image. It represents the mood inside the schoolhouse. Dozens of friends and family bustling about the middle of the room, visiting, drinking cider, and interacting with the youthful sellers whose tables circled the space. You can tell that these kids have a year of making and marketing under their belts. Each one I talked with was polite and well-spoken. They went out of their way to let me know about their wares.
We bought all kinds of things we do not need. But, that wasn't the point of the exercise. The makers needed our transactions:
Some money for two little paper dolls with moveable arms.
Some money for a bag of the best crushed-candy-cane-covered brownies ever.
Some money for a little handmade doll next to a Christmas tree.
Some money for two bracelets made from the maker's Grandma's button collection.
Some money for a tiny jar of beeswax/coconut oil cream.
Some money for a few bags of chocolate and maple fudge.
If these kids are our next generation, the world is in good hands.
Back home and savouring those crushed-candy-cane-covered brownies, I thought about the simple strings of Christmas lights at the Kaleidoscope show. Then, I looked around and noticed that we've had them up too - ever since grandchild #3 was here last. And, we all seem to be looking up at.....
..... oh Ted!!!!
He must be feeling better.
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