Jill McKissick, of Wilmington, shows off a bookmark charm she was selling at the Sparkle Village Craft Show and Sale in Saranac Lake on Saturday. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)
Terrence Henck, of Rainbow Lake, sketches between talking to customers at the Sparkle Village Craft Show and Sale in Saranac Lake on Saturday. He plots out his wood carvings before he sets chainsaw to log, but was "Mostly just staying busy" with his designs on Saturday. Henck said he has been selling wood carvings full time for a year and a half. He started it first during the pandemic when lumber for his other works got expensive and he started working with logs. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)
Martha Watts was selling a variety of hand-made goods at the Sparkle Village Craft Show and Sale in Saranac Lake on Saturday, including quillings, a craft which involves rolling thin strips of paper into ornate designs, such as snowflakes, rainbows or waves. It's an art form which has fallen out of popularity, but one she really enjoys. "What it takes is patience and good fine motor skills," Watts said. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)
Mary Jo Kowalewski holds a penguin hat crocheted by a woman in Bosnia at the Sparkle Village Craft Show and Sale in Saranac Lake on Saturday. For nearly three decades, Kowalewski has run the Bosnian Handcraft Project, which buys hats, slippers and scarves from women in Bosnia, which was involved in a brutal war in the 1990s. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)