Beehives at St. David’s Jubilee Community Garden were abuzz all summer long with bees producing honey that will be part of the edibles available at St. David’s Anglican Church’s Christmas Craft Fair this Saturday.
The event kicks off at 10 a.m. with a Keen Footwear sample sale that launches the fair’s European-style Christkindlemarkt. The footwear sale is held semi-annually in May and November at St. David’s.
With the Feast of St. Nicholas only 12 days away, Sankt Nikolaus will make an early appearance – in his legendary dress as a bishop-figure of the saint with flowing beard, mitre and staff. Mingling with the crowd, the quasi-Sankt Nikolaus (parishioner John Hedgecock) will give out sweets to the children marking the European tradition of present-giving on Dec. 6, keeping Dec. 25 as a religious event.
At the home-baking table will be all manner of kitchen fare, including a selection of frozen fruit pies as well as jars of preserves, jams, jellies, pickles, relish and more.
Local craftsman Bob Peters will have many handmade objects on proffer – all made from discarded pallets, cut-ends of lumber, and limbs and boughs collected during Delta’s Spring Clean-Up program. Trays, boxes, table-size Christmas trees and ornaments, tea-light holders, and totes are some of the items Peters has produced from re-claimed wood.
Other stalls encircling the parish hall will display the work of parishioners who have knitted and stitched, baked and bottled, cut and pasted, refurbished jewelry and polished treasures.
In addition, a separate room will be piled high with gently-used books.
The parish kitchen, renamed St. David’s Café for the day, will be open for morning coffee, tea and German stollen, snacks and lunch.
Christmas Craft Fair hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information go to www.stdavidsdelta.com.
