What sold very well at Marysville craft show
Published 12:01 am Friday, October 21, 2011
There’s a dearth of deviled-egg plates out in retail land.
Jennifer Ward of JW Giftware aims to fill that void.
Her custom-painted ceramic deviled-egg plates and Thanksgiving platters sold well Saturday at the 2011 Autumn Craft Show at the Ken Baxter Community Center in Marysville.
“Hot items included Amy Lawrence who sold yummy teas and scones, Eugenie Savon Soaps by Deborah Roscoe, Teresa Mulvaney of Kindergarten Art pottery and Kristal Schwartz of Fairly Enchanted Designs,” said Maryke Burgess, center manager. “We had over 26 vendors selling everything from high-end pottery, ceramics, teas, baklava, dog collars, pet beds, holiday wreaths, jewelry, cutting boards and wood bowls, iron works, fun ‘monster’ hats, elegant soaps and more.”
There were more than 1,000 shoppers.
“Our show keeps growing and we have built ourselves a nice reputation for having high quality crafters,” Burgess said “My favorite part of this event is all the networking that the vendors do together. They have become friends and share ideas.”
As a result of the crafters getting together, the center is coming up with a series of classes for small business owners and crafters this winter.
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Tatiana Sarmiento, an MBA student at Columbia College-Marysville Campus, scored in the 96th percentile on a Major Field Test. Almost 1,000 colleges and universities across the United States take part in the MFT, a three-hour exam, designed to assess student achievement and curriculum evaluation.
She is graduating this month.
“She earned her Linguistics Teaching Bachelors of Arts degree from the prestigious Nizhyn Novgorod University in Russia (and) completed her MBA while juggling motherhood and working full time,” College Director Tom Larsen said. Her husband serves on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Sarmiento was inducted in May into Sigma Beta Delta, the international business degree honor society.
She has a perfect grade point average, Larsen said.
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Jazz is on tap in Stanwood.
Music is planned at the former Gerry Andal’s, said Peggy Wendel. Now called Cyndy’s Broiler, the owners kept the Wild West setting and serve American food.
“The spacious venue has Stanwood’s best live music stage and a wooden dance floor,” Wendel said. “Cyndy’s owners, Tom and Jenny Grennan, live on Camano Island and are experienced hands in the restaurant biz. Cyndy’s is a family business that started in Seattle as Cyndy’s Chalet, then Cyndy’s House of Pancakes. Now Cyndy’s is in Stanwood.”
Hot Swingin’ Jazz is planned for 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at 27021 102nd Ave. NW, in the west end of Stanwood.
For reservations, call 360-629-4800.
Listen or dance to Swingnuts Jazz, featuring swing, upbeat Brazilian, and jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s, plus some modern-day originals. Band members include Wendel, Philip Nakano, Pete Smith, Mark Dodge and Randy Johnson.
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A concert in Index was a great success.
Jill Linzee, with Northwest Heritage Resources, said traditional Scottish music enticed folks from around Snohomish County to visit The River House in Index.
The event was a benefit for the Index Museum.
“There were over a hundred people,” Linzee said. “The music was fabulous and the audience loved it.”
They handed out audience surveys and they were returned with the highest possible ratings.
There were folks from Skykomish, Baring, Gold Bar, Monroe, Snohomish, Maltby, Lake Stevens, Arlington, Redmond and Boise, Idaho.
Someone wrote on their survey, “It was well worth the drive.”
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com
