Event Schedule: Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011
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TIME LOCATION/HOST EVENT DESCRIPTION
All day Various Chelsea Merchants Gingerbread House Displays
8:30 - 10:30AM Chelsea Comfort Inn & Village Conference Center FREE Breakfast with Santa! Visit with Santa includes complimentary pancakes & cereal for kids, coffee & donuts for parents! BRING YOUR CAMERA! Event sponsored by Lake Trust Credit Union. Pictures by A Moment 2 Remember.
9AM - 1PM Chelsea State Bank - Boy Scout Troop 425 Holiday Greens Sale in the Chelsea State Bank Lot. Featuring wreaths, swags, roping, and other specialty holiday greens.
9AM - 3PM Optimum Nutrition **Enjoy a healthy breakfast or lunch. Stop in for a chance to win freebies from our healthy tree. Bring in a non-perishable item (for FAI) and be entered into a drawing for a FREE 12 week weight loss challenge.
10AM - 9PM The Mission Marketplace
www.themissionmarketplace.orgMAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. Come in and purchase a bag and whatever you can fit in the bag - get 20% off while supporting Faith in Action (10% of sales go to FIA) Enjoy fair trade coffee, hot cocoa, home baked goodies. Listen to strolling carolers, and free chair massages.
10AM - 8PM Village Shoppe Holiday open house and refreshments
10AM - 8PM Garden Mill 25% off any single regular price item in the store. Children decorate & take home a free paperwhite bulb kit. Free refreshments throughout the day.
10AM - 6PM The Potting Shed Refreshments served
10AM - 3PM Gigi's Flowers
www.gigisflowers.comFeed the Birds - Make-and-Take Pinecone & Peanut Butter Bird Ornament. Back by popular demand!
10AM - 4PM Chelsea Fairgrounds - Service Building All the Trimmings Artisan's Holiday Show - A wonderful artisans’ show featuring unique local talent – woodcarvings, bears, counted cross-stitch, pastels, tiles, folk paintings, textiles, jewelry, antiques and collectibles, rug hooking, punch needle, stained glass, photography, bread boards and fresh Christmas greens. Free refreshments, free admission and free parking. Refreshments available. Free admission, free parking.
10AM - 4PM Waterloo Farm Museum
www.waterloofarmmuseum.org**Christmas on the Farm - This annual recreation of the holiday’s traditions includes tours of Waterloo Farm including the ten-room farmhouse, the authentic log house, eight outbuildings, and the one room Dewey School. New this year is a traditional Christmas program at Dewey School. Hand-crafted greens, homemade baked goods, and gift items will be available for purchase. Free refreshments and live music will be among the offerings for this homespun weekend. Admission: $4 adults, $3 seniors, $2 children (5-17).
10AM - 2PM Animal Regenerative Care Center Holiday pet photos, pet massages & acupuncture demos. Located behind Chelsea Animal Hospital
10AM - 4PM Wags to Whiskers Holiday themed pet portraits
10AM - 8PM Vogel's & Foster's BUY AMERICAN SALE 10% off all our made in USA products .Featuring Bill's khakis, Stormy Kromer hats and coats Fenini women's fashions, Colorado Fleece, Red Wing boots, and more
10AM - 4PM Gil Dorer Celebration of the life and work of artist Jan Dorer - Jan Dorer painted passionately for more than 40 years. She passed away in 2010 of Alzheimer’s. Jan's most recent work was conceptual in nature, developed through years of painting and experimentation. She gained the respect of collectors and peers for her creativity, integrity and innate use of color. Her husband Gil hosts a celebration of the life, memory, and work of Jan Dorer at 107 Willow Court, Chelsea, Michigan. Paintings will be offered for sale. Everyone is welcome. www.DorerStudio.com
10:30AM - 6PM Ellie's Chelsea Works by our featured local artists, for viewing and for sale.
11AM - 8 PM Chelsea River Gallery Jill Stefani Wagner & Peter Gooch "Faraway Places: history, objects, spirit & spaces"
11AM - 5PM Chelsea Area Historical Society CAHS will be decorated for the holidays and showcasing a vintage toy exhibit school display. Enjoy festive refreshments & extended hours. Experience Christmas Past!
11AM, 1PM & 3PM
The Chelsea Teddy Bear Company Free Factory Tours
11:30 - 12:30PM
12:30 - 1PMFirst United Methodist Church Decorate your very own gingerbread house for the holidays (free). Only 75 houses available – to reserve a house call the Chelsea Chamber of Commerce at (734) 475-1145. Sponsored by Lake Trust Credit Union.
12 - 4PM Uptown Antiques 50% off storewide and with every $25 purchase you will receive a Christmas Angel made by Marj
1PM Chelsea Senior Center
www.chelseaseniors.orgHoliday Songs From the Cinema - Celebrate the season with two holiday shows featuring performances by local performers and students from the Chelsea Center for the Arts. Pasta bar lunch at 1pm, 1:30pm show. Tickets $20, available at the Chelsea Senior Center
1 - 4:30PM First United Methodist Church Children's Christmas Bazaar for Preschool - 5th grade. By appointment www.signupgenius.com/go/201268 For pre-K to 5th graders, kids can shop for the holidays from the hundreds of affordable handmade and locally made items available, all for under $5.00. Children can shop and wrap, elfs available to help shoppers
1 - 4PM Chelsea Teddy Bear Company - Toy Museum Ken Yenke, Museum Curator, will offer free appraisals of toys and bears! Visit the Toy Museum and learn the history of teddy bears and see some of the rarest toys and teddy bears in the world!
2 - 3:30PM Chelsea District Library Holiday Tween & Teen Homemade Gifts - Need a present for a friend or family member? Who doesn’t like a homemade gift? Make your own holiday presents at the library! What we’ll be making is a surprise, but we’ll make it and wrap it today! Parents can go shopping downtown while your children make you a present! All supplies provided. Registration required, ages 10-15.
2PM & 7PM Chelsea High School Auditorium **Nutcracker Ballet presented by the Youth Dance Theatre of Michigan. A Sugar Plum Tea will be held prior to the matinee at 12:30PM. www.youthdancetheatre.org
3 - 6PM La Jolla Fine Jewelry Enjoy Cookies and Sparkling Cider
6PM Main Street, Chelsea Chelsea's Hometown Holiday Light Parade! 7th annual parade featuring dozens of lighted floats and vehicles, marching bands, and the big guy himself, Santa! Parade starts at Chelsea State Bank’s south-end lot and ends at the Chelsea Teddy Bear Company for the free community afterglow party with refreshments.
6PM Common Grill Free hot chocolate during parade
6 - 8PM Main Street, Chelsea Luminaries - Sponsored by Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts.
6 - 8PM Back to the Roots Discussing the medicinal benefits of herbs and how to easily add them to your daily diet. Smoothie demo with samples. Herb talk with Curtrice Goddard
7 - 9PM The Chelsea Teddy Bear Factory After-Parade Party & Community Sing led by musical group Counterpoint - Warm up after watching the light parade, enjoy free refreshments and sing holiday carols with Counterpoint. Sure to get you in the holiday spirit. Sponsored by Chelsea Teddy Bear Company & Chelsea Comfort Inn.
7 - 10PM Zou Zou's Café Free Live Musical Entertainment
7:30PM George Prinzing Auditorium Night at the Wax Museum presented by Chelsea Area Youth Players www.chelseaareaplayers.org
8PM Chelsea Teddy Bear Company Bear Cub Run - Now an annual event, share in the excitement as several local children are selected to run through the Chelsea Teddy Bear warehouse and grab as many bears as they can carry. The bears are then donated to local hospitals and organizations. Sponsored by Chelsea Teddy Bear Company