Crittenden Countian Pamela Buijk will be one of more than two dozen vendors displaying and selling their handicrafts during the annual Christmas in Marion Arts and Crafts Show from 9 a.m., until 4 p.m., Saturday at Fohs Hall.
Vendors like Buijk will have custom, one-of-a-kind gifts for early Christmas shopping.
Buijk is a stay-at-home artist and special event florist. Her artwork is obvious in every corner of the house. If it’s not hanging, it’s sitting on something, be it the floor, coffee table or couch. Flowers crowd her cabin's corners while her favorite artwork – painted gourds – sit in the floor, basking in the sunlight.
Buijk, who has drawn artistically since she was a child, didn't start painting gourds until a year and a half ago.
“I started looking up painted gourds online and saw the typical, run of the mill gourds,” she said. “I wanted to do something similar but different and still keep the natural beauty of the gourd intact.”
She certainly has, and to read more about her work, see this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press.
