Wareham sips and strolls the afternoon away
Beth Kelly from Art on the Spot paints a Spiderman design on a young girl's face. She has been facepainting for 15 years. Photos by Tanvi Kulkarni
Susan Silvia sells her crocheted items, which she creates herself without a pattern.
The fair had many artisan booths with handmade items. This booth included artistic items made from around the world.
Elisa Campanini shows off her handmade dragon puppet.
Lauren Liljegren makes sensory buckets for children.
Hundreds of people attended the fair at Besse park.
Children learn about fire safety with illustrated books.
The fair had a few different food vendors.
Beth Kelly from Art on the Spot paints a Spiderman design on a young girl's face. She has been facepainting for 15 years. Photos by Tanvi Kulkarni
Susan Silvia sells her crocheted items, which she creates herself without a pattern.
The fair had many artisan booths with handmade items. This booth included artistic items made from around the world.
Elisa Campanini shows off her handmade dragon puppet.
Lauren Liljegren makes sensory buckets for children.
Hundreds of people attended the fair at Besse park.
Children learn about fire safety with illustrated books.
The fair had a few different food vendors.
Hundreds of children, families and furry friends gathered at Besse Park on Oct. 3 for the Sip & Stroll Harvest Fair. Attendants got glitter tattoos and facepaint, shopped from artisan vendors and feasted on food truck classics.
Many vendors were selling handmade items, such as cork bags, christmas wreaths, candles and crochet animals. Susan Silvia set up a booth with several different types of crochet clothing, such headbands, sweaters, baby onesies and beanies.
She first started crocheting at 8 years old and recently got back into the craft with making mittens. The hobby has grown into a full-blown small business called Knitting and Crocheting by Sue, and she works on her pieces from August to December to sell at events like the Harvest Fair.
"Everybody tells me the miss their grandmothers' [handmade things]," Silvia said. "Nothing beats homemade. All these are my own patterns. I don't follow [premade] patterns. I just make them up in head."
Elisa Campanini, who sat outside her mothers booth with sewn items, displayed her full-body dragon puppet, which she has been crocheting for a year now.
"I'm very close to done. I [thought], 'why don't I show people this?'" she said.
Another vendor, Lauren Liljegren, makes sensory buckets for children. The buckets have homemade playdough and little charms and figurines with themes. The sensory buckets are an old occupational therapy tool used to build finger strength for children, she said.
Many people attended the event with their pets and sat by the harbor with their festival food.
