KIM BURTON-SCHRAM
LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER
The Festive Market held in Williamstown at the Glengarry Nor’Westers & Loyalist Museum kicked off the holiday shopping with a great start.
Organizers plan to expand the Festive Market to a bigger space to make room for artisans offering one-of-a-kind paintings, wooden signs, candles, home décor and decadent treats.
A stream of interested shoppers continued steadily throughout the evening and full day of the weekend sale. Artisans were offering honey, truffles, candles, bespoke wooden decorative signs and one-of-a-kind paintings for sale.
One of the vendors, Sue Goring, creates wooden table centrepieces and decorative ladders with the help of her husband, Keith. Usually, she sells her creations at church bazaars in her home area of The Laurentians, but wanted to support the Festive Market, and her family who live locally, so she and her husband travelled to Williamstown to participate.
Truffleuffagus from Martintown had on offer rich chocolate treats including truffles, over-sized cookies and chocolate bark. Val-Ley Bees honey producer in St. Andrews has eight hives that provide honey mostly sold at artisan and farmers’ markets. Jars of spring and fall honey, each with a slightly unique flavour, along with spiced hot honey were available to purchase. As well, customers can take their own clean jars to the St. Andrew’s location to purchase bulk honey by weight – a great way to reuse jars.
A sum of $1,300 was raised for the museum.
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