Volunteers’ pickups and SUVs are buzzing around town, filled with donations from professional designers and retailers for our Designer Tag Sale next weekend. Witness this load (and lode!) of custom, designer-created unusual fabrics

just WAITING for your home or body.

Make pillow covers, slipcovers, reupholster those dining room chairs, drape windows, or even make this zero-waste jacket for cool Sarasota days!

Can the Historical Society magically turn this fabric (and furniture and lamps and chandeliers and books and decorative accents and and…) into shingles for the historic Bidwell-Wood House, our county’s oldest residence? Can our supporters help by shopping the Designer Tag Sale? And the Ye Olde Bookseller sale and the Back Porch Bargain Bonanza Saturday November 17 from 8am to 2pm?

Mark your calendars, set your timers, but be there… and bring a carload of friends. If you’re going on the Trolley Tour at 10, come early and shop first, to find YOUR treasures.