The local holiday shopping season begins in earnest this Saturday when the annual Mistletoe Market is held at the Logan County Extension Office.
A total of 41 vendors will set up shop from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. They will have everything from homemade/handmade crafts and goodies to works of art to merchandise, catalogues and samples from some of the best-known suppliers in America.
The event has been organized again by Marcia Miller Key of The Tangled Trunk, which supplies leather and freshwater pearl jewelry from Destin, Fla.
Other vendors are JPT Studio & Boutique, Linda’s DeZign’s, Mary Kay, Kentucky Finery, Florals by Linda & Tommie, Scentsy, Pampered Chef, Premier Designs Jewelry, Avon, Sonny Green artist, Happeny Ever After, Jackson Sales, Rodan & Fields, Kessler’s Woodworks, Trinkets & Treasures for Five, Edible Creations, the Logan County Humane Society, Hoptown’s Treasures, Younique, Thirty-One Gifts, Belle Crest Farms, Partylite Gifts, Signature HomeStyles, Julie’s Blankets and More, Tupperware, Just Sew By SueEllen, The ARTillery, Southern Grace Sass, The Pink Blueberry Boutique & Monogram, Crafty Shay, Lularoe, Creative Designs by Brooke, Jamberry Nails, Origami Owl, Post Oak Baptist Church, Turner Valley Produce & Crafts, Color Me Beautiful Salon & Children’s Boutique, Mistletoe Café by Center of the Mark Christian teen group.
Some of the people involved are Morgan Atkinson, Cynthia Martin Beard, Teresa Byler, Tommie Brown, Amber Bush, Connie Campbell, Linda Chapman, Crissy Speck Christmas, Deanna Thomure Coker, Sonny Green, Julie Hadden, Celeste Finley Happeny, Linda Harlan, Natalie Jones, Samuel Kessler, Marcia Miller Key, Lea Ruddell Martin, Jan Gilliam Mills, Linda Martin, Emily McElfresh, Shayna O’Kelley, Meredith Lowe Parker, Charlene Piper, SueEllen Ramsey, Patricia Raymer, Elizabeth Ann Reynolds, Brooke Scarbrough, Renee Chick Shoemake, Patty Stewart, Beth Wright Thurston, and Elaine and Lindsay Turner, Tammy West and Rhonda Nash Wright.
So many vendors wanted to be part of this that several were turned away and a waiting list created.
No admission fee will be charged and parking is free, but planners ask that guests bring a donation for the Humane Society. A list of needed items can be found on this page.