WEEKEND: Holiday fairs offer unique gifts across the Peninsula

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Dec. 11.

There are just two weeks left in this holiday shopping season, but plenty of unusual gifts will be available at fairs and bazaars this weekend.

Here is a list:

Festival of Lights

PORT TOWNSEND — The sixth annual Festival of Lights will take place at Unity Spiritual Enrichment Center, 3918 San Juan Ave., this weekend.

This holiday craft fair and cookie bazaar is from noon to 5 p.m. today, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is free.

Handcrafted jewelry, wool scarves, rustic wooden reindeer, dreamcatchers, hand-crafted beauty and spa products, handmade origami lights, medicine bags and more are for sale.

The Festival of Lights highlights are the freshly baked cookies for sale by the dozen or individually.

A variety of homemade soups and hot beverages also will be for sale.

There is a silent auction with items ranging from kayaking for 12 and weeklong time-shares to handmade sock monkeys and piano lessons.

On Saturday, handwriting analyst Suzanne Reynolds and tarot reader Pam Douglas-Smith are available for readings.

Jenny Jo Allen also will be available to offer clairvoyant and energy healing sessions.

This year, the Festival of Lights will donate 10 percent of all sales — including proceeds from the silent auction — to Port Townsend’s Winter Shelter.

For information, phone 360-385-6519 or visit www.unitypt.org.

Frosty’s Winter Fest

SEQUIM — Local vendors and crafters will be at The Fifth Avenue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for Frosty’s Winter Fest.

Live music at The Fifth Avenue, 500 W. Hendrickson Road, will be followed by the Olympic Chorus at 2 p.m., a children’s coloring contest and five raffles, including one for a 32-inch flat-screen television.

For every donation of an item of cat food for Olympic Friends of Animals, donors will receive a free raffle ticket.

Shoppers will get a free raffle ticket with each purchase at the fair.

For more information, phone “AJ” Hitchcock at 360-683-3348 or email aj@thefifthavenue.com.

Chimacum fair

CHIMACUM — Chimacum High School will host a holiday fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

There will be handmade gifts of many varieties — gold and silver, textiles, candles, woodworking, leather works, birdhouses, food and clothing from almost 100 local and regional vendors.

For information, contact Daniel Milholland at 360-385-0519, email chmicraft@hotmail.com or go to www.chimacumarts.org.

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