Maple Street Bell Buckle Tennessee Craft Show 2017

 This is Maple Street/Bell Buckle Arts and Crafts Show 2017 and what fun it was and always is ! The mornings are brisk as usual, still dark when we arrive, we get to park at the house on Maple St where  we set up our booths...   than the sun comes out and warms the day up and boy did the day warmed up in many ways......
The church here on Maple St. always puts on a big breakfast for anyone who want to have some breakfast to start out their day they serve biscuits & gravy , scrambled eggs, sausage patties, grits, coffee & orange juice, which they serve Saturday & Sunday of the show weekend. The Church Breakfast is by donation and believe me it's a GREAT breakfast !

As the day gets going on this Saturday morning the people start to fill the streets and Not one by one  ! Usually where there is one person starting to walk down the street there is about 10 or more crowding right along..but that is a good thing ! This show is one of the biggest in Middle Tennessee !

We have been at our spot on Maple Street in Bell Buckle since 2013 and We Love our spot !! Each year brings more and more people and alot of return customers ! The return customers say I come year after year and we love that your in the same spot ,,,or I told my friend or family member where you are located and the New customers usually say I will be back again next year - will you be in the same spot ?

Lori, Linda & Jim

Myself, Linda , John & Jim

 Then there are the other vendors who have been there for over 10 -  15 years or longer whom we look forward to seeing  every year !
We have  Jim, Linda & Lori who have sell Beautiful Quartz Stones, ALL kinds of gems & precious stone for collection or jewelry making, if your looking for it I'm sure they have it ! Jim & Linda say they are retiring this being their last year and Jim's daughter Lori will be taking it over .  He says they will be back to check things out... Sure going to miss them but I'm hoping they will miss All of us to and come around to visit.

Randy & Vicki

Jack

Then on one side of us we have Vicki and here husband Randy, they sell All kinds of metal signs and they sell a lot of them.
On the other side of us is Grandpa Jacks Concessions Food Truck. and he has some amazing fried pies ! His customers come back year after year for those fried pies and Great conversation,. His stand is family family owned and run by Jack, his wife and daughter . This is also his full time job he sets up  his truck in Fayetteville Tn everyday.

     Below sitting with me is my sister Sandy she tries to come &  help us at every show. I Love having her there with me to help or not .

my sister Sandy & Me

Our Booth 

Craft tents everywhere

These are just some of the pictures that I took as I was walking around ,,, As you can see in the picture above they have All kinds of activities for the kid..

If you are able to make it around the whole town and see everything than you are lucky.. The town of Bell Buckle is not a very big town at all ! Main street with the majority of the business is a block long, The town has old time values , it does have a new gas station/convence store on the edge of town across the train tracks and sits on a corner .

So if you have never been to the Big Craft Show in Bell Buckle, then it is a must to stop by and check  it out . If you LOVE handmade crafts as much as we do this is a GREAT craft Show not only to visit because it's a 2 day event  and actually if you want to see everything and I mean really want to see everything then it probably would take the whole 2 days !  For us being a vendor it is a good show to do we have alot of customers and even if they don't buy We  love just listening and talking to them ..


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