Submitted photo Donna Hamrick displays holiday wreaths for the Christmas Craft Show at the Randolph County National Guard Armory.

RANDOLPH COUNTY — The annual Christmas Craft Show returns for its 41st year today and tomorrow offering wreaths, ornaments, jewelry, dolls and more.

Starting today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the craft show will feature more than 50 crafters and their handmade wares at the Randolph County National Guard Armory, located just off Corridor H near Belington.

On Sunday, the event will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event has no admission charge; however, canned food donations are recommended and welcomed. All donations will be presented to the Parish House in Buckhannon.

“The first one we had… we had in our church hall,” Pam Wilson, who has been a part of the craft show since the beginning, told The Inter-Mountain.

“We put an ad in the paper and we had enough to fill the hall, and then the next year we had a larger venue, and on and on and on until we ended up at the new armory,” she said.

This year’s Christmas Craft Show will have “many of the same artists and crafters you’ve come to know and love over the years, and a few new ones,” a press release stated.

Homemade items being sold at the show will include baskets, wreaths, Christmas ornaments, crocheted items, jewelry, soaps and lotions, dolls, wooden bowls, leather items and hand carved figures. 

Food will also be available at the event.

When asked if there was a chance the craft show could be postponed due to the weather, Wilson said no, adding that, in the 41 years it has been in existence, the craft show has never been canceled.

“One year we had to change the venue because… the army needed the Upshur County Armory, so we had to move it,” Wilson said.

Wilson said the Randolph County National Guard Armory, which is just off Corridor H, sits on a hill and is hard to see from the road, but organizers will have signs out to direct attendees and plenty of parking will be available.

“We usually have a couple thousand people through and we do a lot of advertising. Everybody in the surrounding counties and beyond should know,” Wilson said.

“A lot of people come every year and they plan to come (this year).”