Over the weekend I went home to Binghamton, NY to help my mother at a craft show. It was held at a place called the Phelps Mansion which was built in 1870 for a man named Sherman D. Phelps who was a successful banker, business man, Republican Elector for Abraham Lincoln, and mayor of the city of Binghamton. The mansion is a two-story brick and stone building and features amazing post-civil War Victorian architecture, if I must say so myself. The mansion has been designated a historical landmark by the Binghamton Commission on Architecture and Design and is one of the first buildings in Binghamton to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
My mother is a frequent participant in craft shows and fairs but this is the first year she has done this particular show which is kind of a big deal in the craft world. She makes fused glass jewelry, candle holders, and what she calls “wall pockets” (pictured below).
The majority of the vendors there were selling various types of hand-made jewelry but there were also hand-made scarves, soap, antique jewelry and trinkets, oil and water paintings, and there were even items made from alpaca!
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