{"id":2904,"date":"2015-10-27T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2015-10-27T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:39:36","slug":"2015-mera-christmas-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/2015-mera-christmas-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 MERA CHRISTMAS FAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meraschoolhouse.org\/uploads\/thumb.php?file=files\/Xmas2015Revised.jpg&amp;size=320\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #993300;\">Sat, Nov 28, 2015,\u00a010:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Always on the last Saturday\u00a0every November, the\u00a0MERA Christmas Fair is a day we all look forward to. Since 2005, local\u00a0artisis and artisans\u00a0&#8211; who pass our jury &#8211; offer wonderful and unique hand-crafted items for sale including\u00a0creations of the MERA Heritage Weavers and Potters. Other vendors incluide organic chocolate by Ludwig, Strawberry Cottage candles soaps, jewelry by My Gem Creations, Poittery by Jan Conley and more!\u00a0 20% of gross sales go to MERA so come and support\u00a0our local artists and artisans and MERA at the same time!\u00a0<strong>New<\/strong>\u00a0vendors this year include handwoven clothing by Heather Sherratt, and woodwork by George Fisher.<\/p>\n<p>The MERA fibrearts, knitters, weavers, potters and, new this year, the gardening club who are making terrariums,\u00a0donate many items to the MERA room where 100% of sales go directly to MERA.\u00a0All proceeds from the\u00a0Wizard&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 also go to MERA as well as sales from the bake table and popular Raffle Bags (with items all donated by vendors).<\/p>\n<p>Please come out and support local artists and MERA at the same time and give gifts that you will not find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0information contact Marilyn at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:meraschoolhouse@bell.net\">meraschoolhouse@bell.net<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0If you would like to help Marilyn on the day of the event or to set up or take down, or would like to be Coordinator-in-Training to take over this event, please \u00a0contact Marilyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Always on the last Saturday every November, the MERA Christmas Fair is a day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[617,1,9],"tags":[959,965,963,731,960,1083,961,964,962,966],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mera-schoolhouse","category-perth-on","category-perth-ontario-events","tag-2015-mera-christmas-fair","tag-handwoven-clothing-by-heather-sherratt","tag-jewelry-by-my-gem-creations","tag-mera-christmas-fair","tag-mera-heritage-weavers-and-potters","tag-mera-schoolhouse","tag-organic-chocolate-by-ludwig","tag-poittery-by-jan-conley","tag-strawberry-cottage-candles-soaps","tag-woodwork-by-george-fisher"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-KQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}