Holiday Garden Art and Craft sale returns

Handmade art from local artists will be available at the annual Holiday Garden Art and Crafts sale on Nov. 20 this year.

The event from the Arlington Garden Club is held at the Gleneagle Gold Course’s main dining hall at 7619 E Country Club Dr., Arlington.

This year’s event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“The Holiday Garden Art and Crafts sale started in 2012 so we’ve had it for eight years, except for last year,” said Judy Ness, past president of the Arlington Garden Club.

There will be about 22 vendors at the event, all of whom are local artists.

“There’s nothing commercially made at the sale,” said Ness, and all of the items sold are handcrafted.

“People seem to enjoy the crafts that these vendors are able to put together,” said Ness.

Vendors include the likes of artist Dennis Kent, who makes metal sculptures.

Others will be selling American Girl doll clothes, hand-painted silk scarves or walking sticks.

Some will bring specialty food items such as maple syrup from Wisconsin or honey.

“There are people who stop by every year to get their yearly supply of syrup and honey,” said Ness.

The Arlington Garden Club also brings a number of items to sell at the event.

“The Garden Club will be selling gnomes of various descriptions, beaded glass bottles and lit glass bottles,” said Ness. “We have been holding work parties and making things for this sale and having a good time."

They also try not to have too many vendors selling the same things. Ness said some small markets get dominated by jewelry or custom sign sellers, but there are only a couple of those at the club’s sell.

“There is a lot of variety,” said Ness.

This is one of the two main fundraisers held by the Arlington Garden Club each year, the other being their spring sale.

“The money we raise with this helps us award a scholarship to a graduating senior,” said Ness.

Although they didn’t have any fundraisers in 2020 the club was still able to award a $1,000 scholarship. The year prior they gave out two $2,500 scholarships.

Those funds are given to a local graduating senior, although not necessarily from Arlington and the club has supported students from the area including Lakewood, Marysville and Granite Falls.

For more information about the Arlington Garden Club, go to arlingtongardenclub.org.