Last Sunday, Holsworthy's Memorial Hall was once again the venue for an Allsorts Craft Fayre, allowing craftsmen and women from the local area to display the high quality and variety of items they produce. Among the 20 or so exhibitors, for the first time, was Mel Clarkson of Venton with her fine collection of handcrafted jewellery, which she markets under the name Black Sheep Designs. She explained that she had been making jewellery for about a year to fill in time when she was not­looking after her sheep. With Christmas approaching, cards and attractive Christmas stockings were much in evidence and for the cold weather, fine woollens and fleece scarves. Two wood turners ­displayed wooden bowls, candlesticks, clocks, barometers and mirrors with surrounds made of wood. Dora Reed from Thornbury was showing marble painted glass items as well as examples of pyrography, a process for burning images and ­patterns on wood and leather, and Colette David of Bere Alston displayed her Graphite pencil ­portraits of people and animals. All proceeds from refreshments sold at the event go to the Devon and Cornwall Air Ambulances. The Christmas Fayre will be on Sunday, December 7 from 10.30am to 3.30pm.