Carols Together With Crumpets - Tulsa
December v from 8 to 3, Carols in addition to Crumpets: An Herbal Craft Fair volition hold out held at the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 due south Peoria Ave. Lunch at the holiday-decorated Snowflake Cafe volition hold out served eleven – 2. Information http://tulsagardencenter.com, 918-746-5125, patsywynn@cox.net. 
Tulsa Herb Society sponsors Carols in addition to Crumpets each twelvemonth in addition to I visited them terminal calendar week during a crafting session to reckon what they are working on for the sale. Herb Society fellow member Lou Ann Gray constructed a felt tree that volition hold out decorated alongside homemade gingerbread cookies in addition to a Christmas skirt. Her tree volition hold out a raffle prize.
“I commonly brand the trees out of former Army blankets,” Gray said. “First the wool is boiled to felt it. Then, I cutting it into strips in addition to cutting the strips again. Using a dowel, floral record in addition to wire, I current of air the wool in addition to allow it dry. Holes are drilled a large dowel in addition to the branches are individually attached.”
At around other tabular array the cooking grouping was making Bouquet Garni sachets.
Mary Dillion said, “We combine dark peppercorns, parsley, basil, rosemary, oregano in addition to other herbs in addition to crease them into a food-safe muslin packet that nosotros necktie alongside cotton fiber string.” “For the herb vinegars, chutneys in addition to dried arrangements, members contribute the bounty from their ain gardens”, explained Frankie Fostercatts.
New items include peach chutney in addition to strawberry-basil jam which Dillon described every bit light, tart, fruity in addition to crisp.
“Chutney is a combination of herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, carbohydrate in addition to vinegar”, said Fostercatts. “The nearly pop items include cranberry vacation jam. Fresh, local peaches, strawberries in addition to pears were too used every bit ingredients this year.”
Tulsa Herb Society members encounter 3 days each calendar month for a twelvemonth inward gild to brand hundreds of vacation decorations, herbal vinegars, wreaths, chutneys, dried floral arrangements, hypertufa planters, penny felted items, Christmas tree decorations, soaps in addition to lotions. They too convey inward a room amount of evergreens boughs that are sold inward bundles for habitation decoration.
Other vendors at Carols in addition to Crumpets include: Kirk’s wood-carved Santa’s, Utopia Gardens, Prigmore Pottery, Garden Deva, Artistry in addition to Old Lace, Laughing Rabbit Soap, Basket Sensations, 3 Peas inward a Pod, Clear Creek Farm, etc.