STOP #9—Stacy Carlson

483 1st CRown Point Road

Stacy's Stop will offer crafts from Carlson Crafters, Darlene Villeneuve, and Rebekah Lowell. Crafts include: recycled wool mittens, alpaca dryer balls, high quality essential oil products including beeswax candles with essential oils in tea cups, ornaments, and artificial Christmas wreaths and mini Christmas trees. We hope to see you for some Christmas cheer and shopping!

This year, Stacy hosts Darlene Villeneuve of Wool Recycled. Wool Recycled makes high quality fleece lined wool mittens by recycling wool sweaters.

Stacy also hosts Rebekah Lowell, an award-winning author/illustrator and surface pattern designer with a passion for the natural world. She offers nature-inspired notecards, stickers, pins, prints, originals, tea towels, and more.Her children's books will also be available. As a survivor of domestic abuse, she’s found comfort in creativity and time outside. Her debut novel in verse, THE ROAD TO AFTER published by Nancy Paulsen Books in May 2022, offers a storyof healing from trauma, and was a Junior Library Guild selection and recipient of the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award. Her debut picture book CATCHING FLIGHT published by Doubleday Books for Young readers in March 2023, provides hope on the wings of birds. Her artwork has been featured on the Maine Duck Stamp five times and has been included in various shows around the country. When not in her studio, you can find her outside—birding, gardening, nature journaling, rescuing birds for Avian Haven, and raising butterflies – often with her daughters, who she homeschools. Rebekah has a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Children’s Literature and Illustration from Hollins University. She lives with her family in her hometown of Biddeford, Maine. Rebekah is represented by Paige Terlip at theAndrea Brown Literary Agency. See http://www.rebekahlowell.com for more info.

Merry Christmas in Strafford!

CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

OPEN SATURDAY ONLY