Friday night, the Craft Fair opened with a 5-7 wine and cheese event in which the vendors could drink and munch and buy from one another. Seems to lack proper respect for the customers, in some way. The best things, potentially, could be gone before they even get there at the opening bell on Saturday morning.
The Christmas Craft Fair is a big event here in Point Roberts: everything has to be made by locals and sold by people who are legally in the U.S. Canadians, on the other hand, are free to buy as much as they want and, if they take it with them back to Canada, deal with the border people as to taxes in whatever way is required. Or, if they've got places down here, they can just leave the new goods in their cottages and that's the end of it.
The quilt group had hoped to sell raffle tickets for its set of quilts. But the Fair organizers did not allow that because they are also having a raffle (goods supplied by local business and Fair vendors) and they didn't want the competition, assuming there would be any serious competition. In any case, they don't allow it, although they are letting us have the raffle quilts there with a sign saying that interested folks can buy raffle tickets at the Blue Heron. Nevertheless, the quilt group will be represented by four of its members with the wonders of quilts and quilted goods. Like these things:
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