L+M Feature Friday -- Employee Craft Fair

The L+M Craft Fair held Friday in Baker Auditorium continued a longstanding tradition of employees selling their wares, benefitting a good cause and showing off to colleagues their creative talents.

“It’s fun to see what everyone does in their spare time,” says Allison Thorp, who helps organize the fair through L+M’s Employee Activity Club.

Sandra McPherson, for example, is Director of Clinical Informatics, but she also makes jewelry with her mother, Nancy Caplet.

“It’s good relaxation for Sandy,” says Caplet, who joined Sandy at the fair. “We usually get together on Sundays and bead. It’s better than medicine.”

Everything from pocketbooks to peanut butter cookies were for sale.

Diane Haigh, RN, sold hand-restored doilies and vintage napkins with “damask” or woven imprints in the fabric. Emily Milano of the PACU sold hand-made baby clothes and Jodi Williams from the Chemistry Lab sold hand-sewn stuff-animals.

“It keeps us out of trouble,” says Lesley Ingves of Health Information Management, who also makes jewelry, with her daughter, Rochelle Brisson. “We get to spend time together and it’s an outlet to express our arts.”

Fees to enter the fair and proceeds from fair raffles will help sponsor the L+M team that competes this October in the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk at Rocky Neck State Park.