The Lynbrook Instrumental Music Boosters (LIMB) hosted their annual Holiday Craft Faire on Nov. 18, attracting people from the community to come purchase various crafts to support the school's band. Students and adults worked together to run the event, which was comprised of booths outside, in the cove and in the gym, as well as of raffle and food sales. Read on for pictures of the event and to hear about personal experiences from some of the participants who ran booths!
"The Craft Faire is a really nice place for people from different backgrounds and different talents to showcase that and it really brings the community together in that we’re all helping band, and everything goes toward a good case." said junior Jojo Chen of The Okay Group, a student-run non-profit that sells art for education.
"I actually started making tie dye products because I’m traditionally trained as a painter and printmaker, and I get really attached to the paintings and the prints that I make in a more emotional way, so I wanted to make art, but I wanted to make something that wouldn’t be so hard to give away when I sold it." said Avy Jetter of StormOne Originals.
"I was a painter for many years and I've always knitted and my mom was a quilter," said Mary Hammond of Mary Hammond Designs. "In shopping with her I happened upon this product called starch paper and bought some, played around with my yarn scraps and it evolved into what I call 'fiber lace'. I love the end result because it's like painting with fabric."