Getting ready for AutumnFaire

This weekend, members Fiber Art Options will be selling small handmade items at AutumnFaire at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens.

It’s this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2-3, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is a celebration of nature that includes more than 29 vendors offering “a myriad of craft items made from or based on plants including such things as gourd art, basketry, handcrafted herbal soaps, garden pottery, mosaic art, candles, crochet, artisan jams and jellies, and more.”

I’m selling some of my notecard sets (above) and these stenciled and stitched business card cases like these:

AutumnFaire is free with Garden admission. Food and beverages will be available for purchase from Something Classic Catering. Members are free, $12 adults, $11 seniors 60+, and $6 children 4-12. The Garden is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., seven days a week. For more information call (704) 825-4490 or log on to www.DSBG.org.

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, located near Charlotte, NC, within 380 acres on the banks of Lake Wylie, offers spectacular gardens, sparkling fountains, a conservatory dedicated to the display of tropical plants and orchids, a visitor pavilion, gift shop and nature walks. HGTV named it one of the nation’s 20 Great Gardens and USA TODAY says the Garden is one of the nation’s best places to welcome fall with a flourish.