St. Mary's Church Bazaar

It's almost here....     said with joy and anticipation  :))  It's that most wonderful time of the year...
        
                                                    Saint Mary's Church Bazaar 
                                                        309 South George Street
                                                                     York, PA
                                                  Saturday 11/12/11  8 am - 5 pm
                                                    Sunday 11/13/11  8 am - 1 pm
                                                         

Here are the crafty ladies that are in charge of making wreaths, arrangements, ornaments, painting and decorating all sorts of holiday items; knitting baby blankets, scarves, hats, mittens and more; making jewelry, gift tags, and I could go on - if I remembered everything they make - the list is only limited by your imagination!!

Front to Back - Ginny (my Mom), Joan (Aunt), Ann, June, Ann (cousin)

L to R - Dolores, Virginia (daughter), Jane, Lin, Dale

My daughter Virginia and I love helping out every year.  If we are lucky, when she has off in the summer we will have had the chance to come up and make Christmas 'stuff' when the ladies get together on Thursdays.  We did get one chance this year.  Otherwise, we come up on the Friday before the Bazaar to help them finish pricing and setting up.  Saturday and Sunday we put our business acumen to work and sell, sell, sell.  Then it is all organizing and tearing down - all to be put back in the Craft Room for refurbishing or tearing apart to create something new.  This is one talented group of ladies.  And they are so much fun to spend time with!

Just one shot of the Attic Treasures area.  This area includes all kinds of goodies from the Saint Mary's Thrift Shop.  They bring in household items, jewelry, and lots of Christmas goodies.  One of my favorite ladies in this department is Millie - she is on the left.

This is the Book Nook - boxes and boxes of all kinds of books.  They are all wonderfully organized thanks to the hard working ladies who work in this area.

This is the Crafts area again - showing some of the hand embroidered linens and knitted items.

The front side of the Crafts area showcasing lit glass blocks decorated like packages, and decorated, lit Christmas trees.  Lovely!

The Silent Auction  -  they auctioned off this furnished doll house last year, as well as a quilt that you can see two photos down - it is on the left of the photo.

The Baked Goods area.  Always hard to resist - so why bother!  The ladies bake, bake and bake some more.  I always buy at least one pie and one cake to bring home to my husband Bob.  Delicious.    (The rest we eat there ;] )

On the left - just past the Baked Goods area is the Homemade Candy Table.  YUM!  Behind the Candy Table is the quilt that was auctioned off.  Beyond the Candy Table is the Secret Santa kid's shopping area where they have nice, affordable gifts for kids to buy.

On the far, upper right are round tables set for lunch/dinner.  The ladies in charge of the lunch counter usually have homemade Chicken Corn Soup, as well as Hot Dogs, Hamburg Barbeque, Egg Salad Sandwiches, and other goodies.

There is also a room that has pre-made Gingerbread Houses with all kinds of icing and candy to decorate them.  Fun for the kiddies - but fun for the aspiring adult architects too!!!  

And to finish it off - of course there are Christmas Carols playing, Santa usually makes an appearance, and last year there was this really big Elf that showed up.  I think she'll be there this year too!!


This is a fun bazaar with amazing items to take home at bargain prices - and you are helping a good cause to boot.  All of the money goes to help the church with their various outreach programs and more.


Hope to see you there!!

Ladies Board Rummage Sale Friday Sales

This little fellow was one of my finds at the Rummage Sale.  I just had to start with him because he is so darn CUTE!!!

The most delicious lunch in Loudoun county is served in this little building on the Morven Park property. 

These are just some of the women who do this for over 500 volunteers every day for almost a week.  We gave them a huge round of applause today during lunch.

Our one year old, deaf kitten Inkblot (aka Inky) is checking out his new crate.  Another great find at the Rummage Sale!  We had a larger one in our kitchen but it really had to go - it just took up too much room.  Inky was use to being tucked into the crate every night to go to bed.  After we took the crate down, he was inconsolable.  He cried every night.  Luckily I found this nice small one (I did have a small budget as well).  Now he feels nice and secure at night - no more crying.

This was the beginning crowd - the Early Birds at 7:25 am.  The 'doors' didn't open until 8:00 am.  Before the doors opened at 8:00 am, the crowd had completely filled the open space you see here in the photo.  There were also two other entrances where they could come in!


Sorry - the dryer just dinged!  New or not - anything I bring in the house immediately goes into the washer and dryer.  I had to go fold my brand new mattress pad ($4.00), and three brand new fitted sheets ($1.00).  We found one groovy vintage flat sheet that Ginna may use as a curtain in her dorm room next year :)

 I had to take some pictures of some hard core, but very happy shoppers.  This lady had an amazing armload of clothes - but remained smiling!

This woman had a great idea - load all your clothes in the wagon.  I think this might get a little unwieldy in some of our departments.
Enough pictures!  I had to get to work.  Socks .25 cents per pair, robes $3.00, new bras $2.00, new pantyhose $1.00, and so on.  We were adding numbers in our brains, making change, and bagging lingerie as fast as we could.  All of our customers were very patient, and we appreciated every dollar that came in.  I can't wait to hear what the sale brings in this year.  
We worked all morning long and then went off to an early (and delicious) lunch.  Ginna couldn't get over the three bean salad that one of the volunteers made.  It had water chestnuts and dill in it and was fabulous.  Afterwards we took some time to ourselves and went to The French Room.  This is where the designer and select clothes, shoes and purses are sold.  Ginna found a pair of loden green dressy cargo pants ($12.00), I found an acid lime short swing jacket ($20.00) -Jennifer Huffman seal of approval, and an adorable 1960s, groovy, long floral skirt (to be sold on Etsy).  
Then off to the Christmas barn - Jennifer says we are going to do 'flocking' - alrighty then!  Ginna is working on her next art project for Art 4.  It is a large 'A' from a commercial sign that she intends to fill with objects that begin with the letter 'A'.  Here we found 'apples', and an 'angel'.
Next stop, the Toy barn.  Here she found two 'arachnids', and two 'alligators', one 'army' man, and 5 Barbies. Wait - Barbies begin with a 'B'. - Sorry - already dismembered - 'arms' and 'asses' :0  !
I always know I am in trouble in the Book barn.  We did get CDs for $1.00 each - not bad, and she bought some classic paperbacks.  I tried to keep my book urge in check.
In the Sports barn I found a pair of men's ice skates, and  a ladies bowling ball (gray and pink!).  Don't even ask...
This is all for tonight.  6 am and my yard sale tomorrow will come awfully quick.  I leave you with my failed attempt at being "Pretty Dress Police" for Ginna - as you can see - I was absent on the job! ($6.00)