Womelsdorf Town Kum Wunnerfitz Fair!

Come one, come all! Kum Wunnerfitz! 

On Saturday May 19th this year, in honor of the 250th anniversary of Womelsdorf, the whole town is rolling out a red carpet! Here is a list of the businesses and companies attending:

Fire Company 8am-8pm (Trolley Stop 10-6) Womelsdorf Fireman and Ladies Auxilary..

OPEN HOUSE - Fire Prevention, Refreshments, Face painting, etc..

Trinity Fellowship Church 8am-till 4pm (Trolley Stop 10-4) 

OPEN HOUSE and Yard Sale

Lutheran Church 8am-till 4pm

OPEN HOUSE and cafe outside at Fellowship Square

Womelsdorf Borough Hall 10am-4pm (Trolley Stop 10-6)

OPEN HOUSE, Refreshments, and great opportunity to meet Womelsdorf Council Members

Womelsdorf Police Department 10am-4pm

OPEN HOUSE

Womelsdorf Swimming Pool 10am-4pm

OPEN HOUSE. Great time to sign up for 2012 membership(cash/check)

Stonecroft Village 10am-4pm (Trolley Stop 10-4)

Art and Craft Show 10am-4pm - Beautiful Arts and Crafts

Stouch's Tavern 10am-1pm

OPEN HOUSE with special treats for sale on the front porch - baked goods, fresh fruit, & Iced Tea

United Church of Christ 11am-3pm

OPEN HOUSE

Conrad Weiser Homestead 12pm-4pm (Trolley Stop 12-4)

OPEN HOUSE

Williamson Lodge 2pm-6pm (Trolley Stop 2-6)

OPEN HOUSE, selling soup and BBQ

There will a town-wide yard sale sponsored by the Womelsdorf Fire Company. They will also be sponsoring a craft show (which I will be at with all of my wares) in the town park.

The Womelsdorf Community Library will be having a book sale from 10 am - 4 pm. $5 a bag (exception: DVDs are $1, and rare books priced as marked).

It is going to happen, rain or shine, so be sure to attend!

"Eco Craft" Book Review

Eco Craft: Recycle Recraft Restyle by Susan Wasinger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I found this book inspiring. So many things that I could do to artfully clean up my part of the trash that is destroying my home. And these crafts aren't expensive and only moderately hard to do and fun. All that is needed is time. I plan to go more in depth on this book as I'm doing some of the projects the author has so delightfully put together in this book.


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Fixing and New Stance on Eco Crafting

I fixed some things recently. This poor hummingbird was in pieces when I found it. Good as new now! (Just a note: I won it at a bowling competition. Why exactly they thought bowling and delicate things went together is a bit lopsided, but what do I know!) I also fixed this wreath for my mom. It now decorates our beautiful bathroom! I could make similiar projects and probably will in the near future. If you want one, just let me know. I've got plenty of shells so no worries!

I've also decided to start crafting with a bent towards being green and recycling and being kinder to the planet. Especially as new reports keep coming out about new planets that could be like ours, a.k.a. liveable with air and water and plant life. But they're billions of miles away, so getting to them is a bit problematic.

So more and more of my crafts will be made from reused products and more things will be salvaged and given new life through me. My purple treasure box from my last post is like this. Not everything that makes it up is recycled. But the box itself was originally used to hold my business cards and instead of throwing it away, I painted it, and gussied it up with ribbon and gold painted seashells, and made it presentable (and perhaps purchasable *fingers crossed*) for a new person out there in the wide world. I'm very proud of this small contribution to keeping our planet beautiful.

I strongly encourage other crafters to do the same thing. It might seem weird to people at first because we like our new stuff, but just imagine the new life you could breathe into old things. And not for nothing, it's much easier and cheaper to gussy up an old thing and make it sparkle. And there's such a large market for it now!!!

My new mantra, to myself and others: "You can do it, make it beautiful!"

Until later, Kara!