 Welcome to Senior Moments. This is an interesting program today. We're doing it with the veterans of foreign wars here in Mount Payer. This is a craft fair that is being handled by both the St. Augustine's Church and the Northfields Veterans Place where the vendors will be supporting these two causes today. And we have 25 vendors here and this is going to be a full day because all of these people here have some great crafts and we're really very excited about having this beautiful day to be here and I hope that all of the craftsmen will do very well at this particular point. We'll do a couple of interviews and as a matter of fact, we'll see what some of the crafters are doing these days and get their ideas and what the market is. And this is a panorama of the 25 that are here. We've got quite a few. Really, it's some excellent crafts here for today. I just hope that the people come out because these people put a lot of effort into doing what they do and their prices. It's almost all personal. And so it really is a great, great place to have. My wife just got here so it looks like that part will be taken care of. Okay, but that's good. We're here today with this wonderful craft fair that was going on at the VFW and we'd like to talk with Michelle Smitty. And she has an interesting product here because the scents that are coming out of here, matter of fact, she did a couple of fairs with me before and she always hands behind this lantern and like that and I looked over there and I saw her and I said, whoa, boy, she looks like an angel. If he only knew. We'll let him think that. Michelle has another job too as well but she's been doing this for how long? This is almost my third year. I'm coming up on my third year with Sensi. It's a newer company to the DS market. We've been around for about 14 years now and it's all about home fragrance. So we have what we started with is our wax and our warmers. So you put a cube of wax into the warmers and the light bulb or an elements warmer heats up the wax. It's all made with paraffin wax and it has natural and essential oils in it to get the fragrance. We also now have a laundry line, a cleaning line. We have body wash, hand soaps, room sprays. We have scent circles to hang in your car. We have scent packs and these scent packs are great to put in hockey bags. Come on, this is like Barry Montpillier-Hermont. We're good with hockey, right? These go great in the hockey bags to get rid of some of that stink that your hockey players have. But what they were originally designed for is to go in a Sensi buddy. So we have buddies that we come out with and they have a pouch in the back and you stick the scent pouch back there and this is a great little cuddle buddy for any child. And you can even get a French lavender scent pack and give it to them at bedtime to help them fall asleep at night. So that's my favorite little trick for moms. But we have lots of great items to choose from. A little bit of something for everyone's household here. That really is working very well on it and that's just, you're doing it with electricity, huh? Yes, it's all like... You activate it with, and so it must be a very popular, that sets up everybody. It's like way over there. It's a... A couple of people are like that and they're selling, you know, big goods and like that and they see this sent over here. That one is our diffuser. So it takes water and natural or essential oils and then it does have 13 different LED lights so you can interchange the light if you watch it long enough. It should rotate through the colors for you. And you can actually set it on each one individually if you like a particular color more. So you can leave it on one color or let it rotate through. And it has two settings for the diffuser as well. It has a high setting or just a lower intermittent setting for the diffuser to put the fragrance out in the air for you. That sounds really great. Thank you, Michelle, for doing this for us. Let's try you out, Coran Stevenson who was... You said... Finisher, is it Swedish? I have no idea. I married into it. Oh, you married into it. I know my first name is Greek because it's an odd spelling. Yeah, that's right. Cor. K-O-R-E-N. Yeah. But the last name, I don't know. And this is a national firm, isn't it? Yes. It's pretty new to the area. Agnes and Dora. It's women's clothing. I love it. Super soft, comfortable, made for everybody. And one of my favorite things is almost all of it has pockets. You're wearing one of them yourself, yeah? I am a big fan of pockets on clothing. Yeah, that's good. Why don't you pull out a couple of these and see what we can do here? Yeah, absolutely. We've got cute little tops with fun sleeves and gorgeous colors. We did have with fashion designer here not too long ago and like that. So it's kind of interesting what you're doing right now. Yeah, I mean, this is actually a top, but it's meant to be long so that people can wear it. Some people can wear it as a dress and how about the white and the dots and the nice cut. It's got a nice v-neck. It's gorgeous. And the softness, I don't know. What do you think? Super, super soft. That's a summer wear though, huh? It is, yeah, I would say it's a summer wear. Let me grab a sweater. Yeah. So, and then I have some gorgeous sweaters. You can't miss that color. Yeah. It's got pockets, nice and flowy and just soft and comfy. Yeah, it looks good. I love it. I love it. You said pockets, those are nice. Yeah. I'm a big fan of pockets. That's good. On pretty much everything. Good. Well, I hope that everything works well for you today because we hope that the few more, we got some great products here and like that. We need some people now. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is a Jolaine. Gislaine. That's an interesting name, Gislaine. Yeah, Gislaine Baker. Yeah. The colors and stuff, the thing you're doing is they really look really nice. Thank you. As a matter of fact, they're on your card. Yeah. Amazing. That's it. That's that one right here. Yeah. That's on the card. That's all right. I'll pick them up. Tell us what you do. I make table runners, quilts, table tops, potholders, pillowcases, purses, whatever, wall hangings and then I have a friend that makes these. This is all hand done too, right? Well, machine done. It is machine done. Yeah. By sewing machine. Oh yeah. And I hem it by hand. I hem, do all the hem by hand and I quilt it. But you have some great colors here. Is it aniline dyes or is it natural dyes? I haven't got no idea. So you just buy the fabric. I go to quilt stores and I buy fabric. Yeah. Until you use the old the matter of fact, a lot of times that they use the old material and like that and make something new. No, I don't. Everything is new. Everything is new fabric. Exactly. New fabric. Wow, they all come tumbling down. I'm going to let you go. Okay, thank you. Grist in. Just slain. Just slain. See that? Matter of fact, that's good. Yeah, thank you. Good morning Gladys. Gladys has been around here for a long time and she does this. I've seen her have many, many fairs and like that. So tell us a little bit about your product. My products are runners, placemats. I even got little tiny Easter baskets here for oops, dropped it up. A little tiny Easter baskets here that I've made. And I got potato bags that you put your potatoes inside the microwave in these bags they cook for about four or five minutes and they're all done and ready to go with the vegetables that you can put inside. I also have pot holders, baby booties and slippers. I mean, excuse me, slippers, mittens, scarfs. Thank you. Please, we're also enjoying to have you come and visit us. We have a lot of variety of things in here and it's really, really nice. Well, I hope that what we need now is some people. That's what I'm saying. Hope you all come. Matter of fact, it's such a nice day out there. I hope that people come out. We'll drop the window in this sun. Little white snow out there, but it's really, really nice. After all of the stuff that's been going on. Yeah, right. Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it. Okay, Linda, this is a jewelry. Tell us a little bit about this new line. This seems to be just Touchstones Crystal. By Saworsky. Okay, so this is a big line? Well, it is. We are actually a company and we've been in business about seven years. But we have the Saworsky heritage behind us. We have our own designers from Saworsky and of course, they've been in business for 120 years. So we have a lot of really great heritage behind us. So our goal is to have parties with individuals so that they can see our beautiful products and as a hostess, they get free merchandise. That's good. I'm going to do this on the side because I love people. I'm getting out and meeting different people. The jewelry here, it looks like is it silver? Well, we have many different kinds of metals. One of the great things about our products is that they are all nickel and lead free. So right there, that's good because a lot of people have sensitivity to jewelry. So we have silver, silver plating. We have gold. We have a lot of pieces that are which is a really good metal that prevents people from breaking out. That's interesting. As a matter of fact, you have to think about that. Everybody is a gesture and has different sensitivity. Absolutely. So this is a relatively new business for me. I've actually been in direct sales since I've been 25 and I won't tell you how long ago that was. With one company or another and I'm just doing this company, I'm really having fun with it and I love the products. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is the girl that did all of this. I mean, she really worked hard at putting this craft fair together. Bernadette is probably one of our best church goers and with all of the things that she's done, she's just come back from the Philippines. She has a lot of people in the Philippines now that are church members and she has her own business and she did all of this on top of that. She has a job of her own working for the state of Vermont. So Bernadette, you're going to tell me all the good things that you do. So tell me. Start talking. First time I organized this and thinking about the homeless people, this is a fundraising for the homeless people, soup and kitchen and for a better place in Northveld. So all the people came over and participated in this event. We do appreciate their participation and I'd like to thank Donald as Michael, organizer without him, this is not going to be possible. Well, I don't know. You could have done it without me. Yeah, that's it. That's the only thing I can say and inspire me to do this and organize this because of the homeless people. Yeah, now tell us about your product because you have a lot of good and interesting things and you do a lot of this yourself. I have a mittens, handmade You're talking into the camera. Okay. I have handmade mittens and manufactured jewelry from the Philippines and I have handbag that I made it myself and manufactured scarps and I think that's all good and my sign is there. Maybe you can get the sign over there by the wall. Matter of fact, we're going to shoot this here too. You're going to tell us about this too. And then you did this and we have this one bake sale fundraising for the St. Augustine soup kitchen and other things. And what else? The print. And you've got the readjusters. I have this fundraising for the soup and kitchen and St. Augustine. These are donated by the Catholic daughter, St. Augustine. Thank you. Where does the and then this is we just got a donation here for the painting. The painting somebody bought. The painting is donated by Rivas. Yeah. Painting is donated by Mr. Regis. Rivas who? Coming. And this is the sign for the painting. And he had a painting that was in the governor's quarters, wasn't it? Yeah, this one is displayed by the governor's quarters. And he donated it to us. Thank you. Sounds good. Thank you, Bernadette. This is a young lady that boy out there she's really energetic. Matter of fact, I did a show with her not too long ago. She completely developed out a show that she did in Barry at the old labor hall. The old labor hall, which is, you know, quite well. As a matter of fact, I think she did a better job than we have. But we learned an awful lot and we learned also that there's an awful lot of work that goes into building one. Certainly are. And Debbie has a lot of different nice items here and like that. So tell us a little bit more about what you do. Certainly. All of my jewelry is magnetic. You just change the look as an example. Here's a silver bracelet with a purple in it and then you put in a fuchsia and it totally 100% changes the look. Or a black and silver is gorgeous in it. We have necklaces, keychains, badge reels. We also do custom photos. You upload a photo from your phone, your tablet or your iPad and a week later you have a one inch custom photo in your mailbox. Fantastic. Very very fun. And the magnetic is automatic. And they don't fall out. They don't fall out. I work full-time for General Mills and with metal shelving day in, day out and don't lose magnets. They're very very strong. And they're very fashionable. Yes. You can change with them. You know, if you have something that's brown on and like that your jewelry can be coordinated with that. Absolutely. Just like that. That sounds good. All right. Thank you. Well, thank you. Deanna Dunston is she's got some fantastic stuff here. There's a lot of glass stuff that you got here today. And they are on a timer. Huh? We need a little better. Need a little better? There are glass ornaments that go on your garden and they have timers with batteries and they go for four to six hours and then shut off. You can use them in your garden or you can use them in the house for night lights. And then we have these called full face baby bibs and they velcro around the legs and around the neck. So it protects the full front of the baby. They're reversible and then they have a burp cloth that matches with them. We also have what we call angels kisses. They're dark chocolate fudge cake filled with peanut butter cream. Absolutely no calories. So you don't have to worry about it. It's almost Christmasy. Yes, they are. Towels. And they're called towel dresses. They velcro around the waist so they hang on the oven door and they won't fall off. And we also have the other bibs. Other aprons. And we have aprons for adults, aprons for children and have pockets to put crayons or markers in. We have beaded ornaments that are all hand done. And we have the dog's collars and the dog's frames. There's a lot of variety here. Anything you would like to have done, we're willing to try. That's great. Thank you very much. Watch this. She's using a drop spindle. This is kind of interesting because we just did it together and it's a singing spindle spinnery. That's three S's. As a matter of fact, it comes from South Ducksberry too. So this is quite interesting. You're going to have to tell us a little bit about Carol. This is Carol Johnson in Collins. Carol's going to tell us a little bit more about what her product is. Is this the mic? It's very powerful. He'll tell me if it's not coming. I've been in business for 35 years. I started my business in 1982 in South Ducksberry. I've been in business 35 years and I'm in South Ducksberry, Vermont and I teach spinning, knitting, crocheting, felting, dyeing, multi-color blending, circular weaving and more. You must teach too. Yes, I teach a lot. I travel to people's places if they can put together a group. A lot of people have been coming to me since 1982. So you do all kinds of different fibers? I work with lots of different fibers. Have you worked with Alpaca? I surely have. You know the Yaimara Indians of Peru. Oh yes, in fact you and I have met before at the International Festival in St. Mike's. You're really good at it. Anybody that works in Alpaca knows you're a good spinner. It is a lovely fiber. So I have seeds for 2018 from my own garden from my own plants and I make felta ball kits circular weaving kits drop spindle kits small felted balls This is soap from a friend of mine I make button necklaces similar to the one I'm wearing and I have gift packs of seeds and few hats some made from the actual weaving kit So this hat is actually made from the circular weaving kit So those are antelan dyes or are they natural dyes? These You're a dyer so you probably do a lot of different using a lot of different minerals and things. The wool dyes the wool yarns I've dyed with acid dyes but I don't do all the dyeing myself just some of it. This for example I've dyed some of these wools and some were dyed by one of my students but what I'm going to do right now is some drop spindle spinning if you'd like to see that So right now I'm wrapping the yarn that I just spun onto the shaft of the spindle So how do you get the nubs out of it? Well that's a long process depending upon the the actual fleece of the sheep It takes a lot of skill here Well it's not hard a six or seven year old can learn to spin I taught my daughter when she was six she's now 41 and she's been spinning for almost 35 years This is the oldest way of spinning in fact the machine wasn't even around and this was the way people actually created their garments They're right all over the world They're spinning using drop spindles Isn't that nice? Look at how she does it See how fine it is? She's got a gauge here I can spin much finer than I am right now This is a worsted weight but I can spin sport weight lace weight, I don't have an example of that She does this just with her fingers so that's how skilled she is Well now I need to wrap it on because I have enough that it's too long for the space I have So I'm wrapping keep in mind this is not a prize winning yarn that I'm spinning right now I'm just demonstrating quickly But usually I bring my spinning wheel but because I didn't know if I would have enough space I didn't today and I'm glad I didn't because I wouldn't be able to show my customers or the visitors to my booth, my spinning because I would be tucked back there but the spindle allows me mobility and I can actually I can walk around and just the way Shepherds did as they watched their sheep absolutely, they spun and watched their animals at the same time Well thank you for coming I'm happy to be here Karisa Doyle she is one of the sponsors of this program here and she's the junior vice president of the VFW auxiliary It used to be the ladies auxiliary a couple years back we changed our name to the VFW auxiliary took ladies out and allowed men to join under their parents or spouses or other VFW members if they didn't have the actual veteran experience because we're one of the principal charities that we're doing here is the Veterans Club place over in Northfield tell us a little bit more about how the VFW got involved in this and their charity program we'll always support several different charities but the veterans place is one we go over and share dinners with them we do Christmas party for them and many of our members donate to them on their own charitable wise and we became involved because after all is the veterans place you know as a matter of fact this is a wonderful place because I remember years ago I got going over there and this used to be an old hospital so it really was designed really for veterans who could have their own place yep, yep, that's good because they need their space but they also need to be able to network with their companions and people who have the similar experiences that they have had do any of them come over here and participate in any of the activities here in the Montpellier post well I'm not sure because I'm with the auxiliary and even though they're in the same building we don't attend their meetings because they happen at the same time as ours so I'm not sure members are from over there you know come over here I see your commander here is Pat Pat Kelty, yeah, he just had a little operation too bad that he can't be here today but we wish him well he goes to get services through the VA and then part of that is they ship them where they need to go so he was down in Boston so he got his work done down in Boston take good care of him for him, right? and his wife Sherry Kelty is our president for the auxiliary president so they've been working as a team this past year so they really work hard for the the organization well this matter of fact that I was talking to Norm the other day and he said this operation here is busy all the time they got all kinds of functions coming in here for the next two or three months we do a lot of things to get money in and earn money for our programs the Northeast Fetalers come in we have several different groups that play cribbages different things and this area is a great place for an event like this because you got the space, you got the tables you got us to cook you some great food that's what you're doing out back thank you very much Trisha and thank you for coming and using it because it's important thank you Father Julian thank you for coming today this is one of the thank you your country is doing a wonderful job here at this craft fair to support the church so the better place in the north field and the soup kitchen is really where we were concentrating on and as you can see we got 25 vendors and like that so that is a lot 50% of this money from the vendors and like that is going to go to your church so tell us a little bit about the program first of all I would like to thank all the vendors who are participating this craft fair today and thank you for choosing Saint Augustine as one of your recipient of the proceeds for this fair we have a regular schedule for soup kitchen we provide coffee and brands and meals for those who would like to join our brothers and sisters who are in the city of Montpelier and they can stop in or those who are in need they can stop in any time during that day on Fridays and we really are happy to accommodate them for that we have a good people working for the soup kitchen I am very much grateful to be here in this area, in this Paris at Saint Augustine I am blessed with so many people who are active in the church and even the community outside the church at Saint Augustine they are also very much helpful to our faith community here have you seen any the soup kitchen for quite a long time have you seen the audience change or are they pretty much the same people that are there each time? Yes, thank you well I really don't know how many people who will be coming every week but I always do stop in I have mass in the morning and then holy hour because that is Friday and after sitting down for a few minutes in the confessional I go down to have some coffee some people there in the morning but usually the bigger crowd will be coming a little later, like 11.30 or 11 o'clock that is the time when they serve the lunch there are a few people who come earlier to have coffee and they sit down there to read and cheat chat with other people it is social time too it is, it is it is good to see other people and to have a break In the churches community like that do they still have them on Fridays or do you have the one on Friday and another church has it on Monday or Tuesday? Yes I'm not sure what days they have in some other churches around but it seems like we have multiple locations but it just happened that at St. Augustine we have the soup kitchen for Fridays Fridays yes, Fridays so thank you and thank you for the organizers of this craft fair and thank you again for choosing St. Augustine as one of your recipient we appreciate it and enjoy the rest of the day and hope you have a chance to stop in or stop by at the craft fair here at VFW in Montpelier it's still open until 3 o'clock this afternoon okay, thank you bye this is the swinging over 60s jazz band they are very popular at the senior center here in Montpelier and thank you for coming they are really wonderful people Amy Hand