[/caption]1. Santa Claus will be there (at the tree lighting ceremony on Friday night, at Breakfast with St. Nick on Saturday morning, and riding in a sleigh in Saturday afternoon's parade).
2. The Baton Rouge Symphony will perform its annual concert of holiday selections on Friday night.
3. Grandmother's Buttons will have crazy bargains at St. Francisville's annual Christmas in the Country Sale!
4. You can Peep Into Holiday Homes from 6 – 8 p.m. Friday (it's a rare chance to view some amazingly decorated homes along Ferdinand and Royal streets).
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[/caption]5. The Women’s Service League will sell fresh wreaths and pre-wrapped Plantation Country Cookbooks all weekend on Ferdinand St. next to the library, with proceeds benefiting local civic and charitable activities.
6. Grandmother's Buttons will sell earrings starting at $5 and necklaces starting at $10 all day Saturday!
7. Jimmy Heidel of the original 1967 New Orleans Saints team will be one of the parade's grand marshalls.
8. Photographer Bevil Knapp will be signing copies of her book, "St. Francisville: Louisiana's River Bluff Country", at Hillcrest on Friday afternoon and Grandmother's Buttons from 10 to 2 on Saturday.
9. There will be a Community Sing-a-long at 6 p.m. on Saturday at the United Methodist Church on Royal St., and a Live Nativity, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on US 61 at LA 10.
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[/caption]10. The prices at Grandmother's Buttons will make you feel like Christmas arrived three weeks early!Yes, we know we listed Grandmother's Buttons Christmas in the Country Sale bargains three times, but honestly, this is the one time of year when you can get unheard of prices on beautiful, heirloom-quality jewelry. It's a one-day sale with tables set up outside the store on Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m.
In previous years, we've had almost 100 women lined up for the opening (no one is even allowed to peak at the tables before then) and we'll sell until dark. It's sort of like our much-smaller version of the annual tent sales Vera Bradley does in Indiana.
We'll be selling discontinued jewelry pieces, lots of beaded earrings, and some real antique button treasures, including a few trays of sterling rings and some watches. This year we're even selling a couple of our sterling pieces. We'll literally sell thousands of pieces in that one day--it's intense but a lot of fun for us and for our shoppers.
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[/caption]Susan's the queen of finding the great deal. Raised by a mother who had to find ingenious ways to dress four daughters at one time on a farm income, Susan learned early on how to be an avid sale shopper and a bargain hunter. She says, “I grew up loving the thrill of the bargain hunt, which probably led directly to me loving the hunt for old buttons!”If you need details on all St. Francisville events scheduled for this weekend, you'll find them at http://stfrancisville.blogspot.com/. And we've added the blog as a link on this site, so that you can subscribe and get all the ongoing news about our fabulous town.
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[/caption]We love the holidays. We love a bargain. And we'd love to see you this weekend in St. Francisville, preferably in that line waiting for us to open on Saturday morning! We guarantee you'll have a great time.
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