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Holiday Fair 2024

Three photos showing a holiday fair: left, two women and a man stand behind a set of tables covered with baked goods on plates wrapped with cellophane or in cardboard boxes, with a stage loaded with toys and games for sale in the background; center: two women behind a wooden fence at a table with holiday wreaths made of evergreen branches and decorated with red ribbons, while many more wreaths hang on the wall behind them; right: at large vaulted hall is filled with people browse tables covered in baskets, wreaths, baked goods, and jewelry, while carolers gather to sing in the middle.

Holiday Fair

The FUUSN Holiday Fair is a fun, festive event on Saturday December 7. Join us as the Parish Hall is transformed into a Holiday marketplace. Shop for gifts, toys, homemade baked goods, wreaths and swags. The Baked Goods table is overflowing with homemade cookies, cakes and sweets, Pick up a fresh green wreath, topped with a colorful bow.  Buy a ticket for the Quilt Raffle. You might win a handmade quilt. There’s a holiday caroling session open to all who want to join. Come one, come all to the FUUSN Holiday Fair.

Questions? Contact us at HolidayFair@fuusn.org

Important Holiday Fair dates
  • Sunday, December 1 – Friday, December 6: Donations of books and other fair items will be accepted after the service (See below for donation guidelines)
  • December 5 & 6: Holiday Fair set up
  • December 7: Holiday Fair opens to the public

We need your help to make this event successful. Watch your email and the FUUSN newsletter for information on what and when to donate items. You can sign up to setup, sort, sell and clean up.  We particularly need volunteers for the Silent Auction, crafts, publicity and selling Fair Trade items.  Contact the Yard Sale/Holiday Fair team more information.  If you need to donate ahead of the FUUSN drop off dates, contact us and we will try to figure out an alternative.

Barbara Schmitt, Kit Ryan, Sandy Jones, Ruth Comstock, Laurel Farnsworth — Holiday Fair organizers

What to Donate – and Please NOT Donate – to the Holiday Fair

We need your donations to make these a success.  However, there are a couple of things we’d like you to keep in mind about donations:
  1. Please, please, please don’t donate things that are dirty, moldy, incomplete, broken, chipped (no matter how nice otherwise), or unsaleable.  We have to throw them out – and since FUUSN pays for trash removal, these donations actually cost FUUSN money. 
  2. Please Do Bring: items that someone could give as a gift. Sets of pretty mugs, sets of placemats and napkins in like-new condition, unopened cocktail napkins, boxed cards, like-new decorative items, like-new silk scarves, nicer holiday decorations, unopened toys and puzzles, items with some value (artwork, sets of china, silver items…) – and of course, jewelry and books.
  3. Inappropriate donations (please don’t make FUUSN pay to dispose of these): Anything that is obsolete (cassette tapes, VHS tapes, old computer/phone cables, old travel guidebooks, etc.). Anything that is incomplete (puzzles/board games that are missing pieces, appliances that are missing cords or necessary accessories…). No clothing ( though accessories like scarves and purses are great). No shoes, no large sports equipment (skis, bikes, etc.), and no large electronics (tv’s, computer monitors, etc.).
With your help, we can make this a wonderful Holiday Fair!