Local craftsmen brought the goods needed for the shopping day on the east side of Lorain.

The Lorain Community Senior Citizen's Center hosted the first Autumn Harvest Craft Fair and Holly Festival Market on November 6.

The vendor filled the lobby of 3361 Garfield Blvd with 35 pieces of handmade products. As a fundraiser for the elderly center.

"It's all very good and different," said Nancy Lee, who leads the senior center board with her husband JR. "We have everything."

Prices range from a few dollars to more expensive works of art.

Even before the new coronavirus pandemic, supporters of the elderly center wanted to hold a handicraft show. Li said that it finally came together this year.

The performance started at 9 a.m. and ended at 12:30 p.m. with at least 150 people passing.

Volunteer Janet Pogorzelski (Janet Pogorzelski) said: "We have a good, stable flow of people, we are very excited." "This is our first year, people really support us. "

The elderly center has a room dedicated to display quilting, ceramics and other handicrafts.

"This makes the quilting room in the center busy because they are making a lot of things for this handicraft exhibition," Li said.

Volunteers Liz Golowenski, Nancy Hill, and Sue Carpenter operated five tables with handmade Christmas and winter items in the center, from tablecloths to coffee cups and sofas to pocket tissue holders.

These items are made from donated materials and volunteer time. Sales revenue will benefit the center.

"We serve the public, and the public supports us," Golowenski said.

"We had a great time and we supported each other," she said.

"We learn from each other," Carpenter said. The trio attributed the work of Nancy and JR Lee to keeping the senior center running. It can also be open for meetings of other community groups.

Charlene A. Jones, the owner of FashionQueen Alterations and Tailor, provided various costumes she made. Jones described himself as a tailor "only over fifty years", a left-handed man who learned this craft when sewing supplies were all designed for right-handed people, rather than dexterous.

Her inventory includes aprons. Amy Jaynes-Brown bought one to serve with Clyde and Darla Hescox. They are members of United Auto Workers Local 2000, and the union has become a partner in the Advanced Center project.

The woodcarver of Lorraine County brought nine members. They brought everything from boxes to trekking poles to artworks and novelties, such as woodpeckers on clothespins.

"There are a lot of people here," said Huey Kirk, Art founder of Kirk Original Woodcarvings. "We did a good job. We did some sales, which is always good.

"This is a great show," he said. "I think they have made a good start."

"Very good, very good, with high turnout and participation," said Ann Mowery, President of Wood Carvers. Mowery is a native of Lorain, and she said she goes to school in the building that is now the senior center.

"This is a good debut," Kirk said. "Their approach is correct."

"For the first show, the food and everything was excellent," Murberi said.

Linda Ritzert is a Lorain native and interior decoration consultant. She has lived in Florida for 28 years and recently moved back.

She brought her elaborate gift baskets and recruited Georgian residents and Broken Chain Creations artist Vicki Taft.

Taft has a family in Amherst and is good at making original artworks from broken jewels and chains.

Taft made the "Tree of Life" for Ritzert, which included jewelry made by her family. The tree includes a swing, and its seat is made of bullet shells used in military honor at the funeral of her late twin brother Larry Marshall.

"Her things are priceless," Ritzert said.