It’s that time of year, well, almost. Craft Show time. I’ve been working all year making toys and wood crafts for the upcoming Holiday Season. This year we’ve decided that we’re only going to do one show. (Actually I’m the one who pretty much decided it.) The one at the Rio Rancho Baptist Church. Not because we’re lazy, and not because I’m really the only one of the “artisans” at LoBo Canyon that can do this full-time, and not because we don’t like doing craft shows, and not because we don’t have enough inventory to do a show, and not because we’re Baptists (We’re not.), I guess, just because.
I remember the first time we did the show two years ago, my daughter was worried that Baptists, according to her, didn’t accept women in pants. She was wearing jeans. My first response was something like, “Where the hell did you hear that?” She tried to convince me that it was common knowledge so I became concerned that we were going to be shunned and embarrassed, and she was going to be sent home to change. Of course, everyone there was wearing pants. Crisis non-existent.
I can remember, and I really hope this doesn’t date me too much, that girls in my high school were not allowed to wear pants unless it was a snow day. See, we didn’t close the schools in Wyoming in the 60s and early 70s when two feet of snow fell, drifted and temperatures dropped below freezing. They get an inch of snow around here and the kids get a snow day. No, we were expected to be there and not late. But the girls were excited because they could wear pants. Not jeans now, but dress slacks, if there is such a thing. This was clearly to do with modesty I guess, however lame this might sound, but dresses and skirts had to be at the knee also. How “tight” a pair of pants could be was not clearly demarcated. Needless to say, the boys looked forward to snow days as well.
But this isn’t about pants. This is about things we’ve made. First up for bragging rights is this toy Freightliner Semi Truck.
I made two of them, but the other one sold on etsy. Speaking of which, you can go to the online store here LoBo Canyon . I also made this truck, which I call the Lowboy Hauler.
This has a working bulldozer on the flatbed and I’m convinced it will get broken at the show because you just can’t not touch it, and that smoke stack you see on the top is not as strong as I should have made it. It’s how you release the blade in the front. I’ll have to display it up high, I guess, which kind of defeats it’s purpose. It’s for kids to play with.
The landlord replaced the side gate on the house with a metal one, and all I saw was aged cedar that I had to use. So I made Tommy Turkey.
Tommy Turkey Thanksgiving Centerpiece
And then I made some reclaimed wood crosses.
Copper, Turquoise, Tin Flower and Turquoise heart.
Three tier wood cross with Silver, Rose and Turquoise
We have some Christmas ornaments as well. I had a lot of craft sticks and Popsicle sticks lying around that we had purchased for other projects that didn’t get done, so I tried to come up with some uses for them.
My daughter buys bags of costume jewelry from the local thrift store and we came up with these reclaimed-jewelry crosses. The pictures don’t do them justice, as they say.
We’ve got birdhouses, and bubble gum machines.
I went through a pull-toy phase this summer, so we have pull toys like cyclists and grasshoppers.
That’s only some of the stuff. We have over 200 items for the show which runs November 4th and 5th from 9-3 both days. If you can’t get to the Rio Rancho Baptist Church in November, go ahead and check out our etsy shop at LoBo Canyon and see what else we have. Follow us on etsy and see what else we come up with. It makes us look successful . All in-stock items ship in 1 to 2 days. Everything is lovingly handcrafted in the USA.
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