The talented members of the Local Guyra Crafts Group have opened up shop again at the Anglican Church Hall.
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They will sell their handiwork throughout the Lamb and Potato Festival, until Sunday, January 26.
This year, member Robin Godlonton said, the group hopes to build public morale in what has been a difficult year.
"We are in a tough time with the drought," she said. "At least when you walk in here, there's a bit of colour."
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The handmade bags she sells are certainly colourful: some are a cheerful yellow or green; others have rural farmyard scenes, flocks of rosellas, or fields of flowers. She also sells fabrics from her custom-made curtain business.
Vicki Bell from Guyra and her daughter Amanda are selling diamond dot notebooks with colourful fractal patterns and Indigenous designs, fridge magnets (sheep and cute pets), crystals, air plants, bookmarks, and oil burners.
Namesake Vicki Bell (from Black Mountain) has made drawstring bags, acrylic pens, and homemade cards; and her son Timothy has made a teddy bear.
Glenda Soraghan is selling a bit of everything: Guyra tea towels, sheep pot holders, pencil cases, beanies, tea cosies, bunny rugs, and bathroom bags.
Lorraine Clark has cooked tasty green tomato pickles, biscuits, and date loaves, and crocheted tea-towels.
Beth Williams has turned fallen branches (from the Chinese poplars at the Guyra showground) and pine cones - "all truly Guyra" - into coasters, table centres, wall hangings, clocks, mirrors, and a rather striking owl.
Guyra's younger element are also inventive. Caitlyn Montague, only 11, taught herself to sew, and has made scrunchies and bean bags. Thomas Atkins, 17, has turned golf balls into pink and chocolate poodles, yellow chicks, a horde of green and red ants, and teenage mutant ninja turtles. Another teenager's stone bead bracelets dangle from a tree.
Stalls will be at the Guyra Lamb & Potato Festival, in the Anglican Church Hall next to the main festival from 9am to 4pm every day until Sunday, January 26.