Register for the First Annual Valley Vista Spring Chili Cook-Off

Exciting news coming from the Event Coordinator of Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair! Jan Reid has announced that on May 3, 2025, in tandem with their Spring Craft Fair,, Valley Vista will be hosting an epic 1st Annual Chili Cook-Off with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd! 

1st place: $100

2nd place: $50

3rd place: $25

Jan states that a Chili Cook-Off, "is a way to have the community get together and have some fun!" And we here at Cutoff Crafts couldn't agree more! 

How to Enter:

So how does a team or individual enter this 1st annual Chili Cook-Off? It Easy! Simply follow the steps below!

1. Fill out the registration form and pay the entry fee. Be sure you only pay Jan Reid. All others taking money will be scammers.
2. Make your special Chili to give out to the guests of the Craft Fair. 
3. On May 3, 2025 , bring your own tables, chairs, and tent (optional) to the Valley Vista Craft Fair at 459560 Highway 95, Cocolalla, ID. If you bring a tent, it must be weighted down. Your area must be set up by 10 am to facilitate ease of entry for your judges. 
1. Be sure that your chili remains in a hot crockpot or other cooking container. Valley Vista will provide electricity.
2. Provide small sample cups and spoons to serve your chili in.
4. Be sure to bring enough chili to last the day. At 4pm, the winners will be announced!
5. For more information contact: ValleyVistaCreations@gmail.com

Requirements for Entrants:

• Use your favorite recipe. It can be with or without beans, with or without meat, and ingredients may be cut, shredded or ground to any size. 
• Please have a list of the meats used for allergy purposes. 
• If peanuts or peanut oil is used, please display a warning sign.
• You may NOT use can, store bought chili or mixes. 
• All ingredients must be pre-cooked prior to the event, chili is to be brought “ready to eat”.

To get the registration form click here or click the image below. Then fill it out and send it in. :)

Here is the disclaimer, terms, and other law stuff:

By participating in the Contest, each entrant agrees to release and hold the Sponsor, Valley Vista, Jan Reid, and all those associated with Jan Reid and Valley Vista harmless from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind in connection with the Contest or resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize, including, without limitation, personal injuries, death, and property damage, and claims based on any libel, slander, illegal competition or trade practice, violation of rights of privacy, infringement of copyrights or other rights of third parties.

Our Birthday Celebration is Back!

 

It's hard to believe that Michelle and I have been in business for seven years! Seven years ago Michelle talked me into attending our first craft fair in Cocolalla. Seven years ago we hosted our first booth selling crochet items,, pomples, and jewelry. Seven years ago we started on this cray journey! Just look at our booth back then!

Our first booth at our first craft fair

Michelle Durst sitting at our first booth at our first craft fair.

Yup, that event, that little booth started it all. From there, we exploded into the crafting and gaming world. We started taking special orders, people were wondering where we would be next, and we began setting up our business plan.  From creating a website to an ecommerce store, we began the process of expanding, exploring, and traveling. Now we host over 20 booths a year, take online sales and special orders, and travel around the Northwest to Comicons and other exciting events! 

 We want to take a moment here and thank everyone who purchases our products and supports our crazy dream. We know this isn't possible without all of you!

At this time every year, we like to celebrate you and our business birthday with a party at our annual Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Market Booth! This booth features all our standard items many of you love! 

Some of the items we will have at our booth will be:

Crochet toys!

Fun and elegant earrings!

Mystery Loot Dice bags and RPG dice!

Fandom keychains from anime, movies, tv shows and more!

Along with our unique products, we will also be featuring some freebies and a giveaway!  That means there is even more fun to have!

This is our birthday event, and what is a birthday event without SWAG! On March 29, from 10am - 3pm, the first 50 people to come and say hi to us geeky girls, will receive a wearable sprout! These little sprouts come on a little alligator clip so that they can be attached to straps, shirts, or worn in the hair! We have several different styles!

Because SKGaleana.com is our sister blog, we will be hosting a fun giveaway featuring the complete first season of The Smurfs on DVD! Come place your name in the box and find out if you win at 2:30pm on March 29, 2025! You must be present to win!

We will also be giving surprise discounts to shoppers! Random purchases will receive a discount off their order! You never know when it will happen, but we will announce it if you are a random winner!

We hope to see everyone at the Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Market on March 29, 2025 from 10am to 3pm. We will be inside the Rathdrum Lions Club having a little party to celebrate Cutoff Crafts' 7th birthday! Grab a party sprout, shop some cool items, enter the giveaway, and see if you are a lucky discount winner!

Gotta Celebrate 'em All! Cutoff Crafts Pokémon Day Celebration

On Saturday, March 1st, 2025, Cutoff Crafts is celebrating Pokémon Day in Spirit Lake, Idaho, at the Brickel Creek Coffee shop! Cutoff Crafts Pokémon Day Celebration is a free to attend event and runs from 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Since we were unable to find any Pokemon events in our area, Ahsoka and I are hosting a Pokémon party to celebrate the 29th Year Anniversary of Pokémon. Cutoff Crafts Pokémon Day Celebration will feature trivia, games, activities, giveaways, and more!

Everyone is invited to join the fun! The first twenty junior attendees (ages 5-15 years old) will each get a swag bag. All junior attendees require a parent or legal guardian to be present.

There will be an abundance of activities. The games are free to play and open to everyone. We will be giving away hundreds of dollars worth of Pokémon themed merchandise, including sealed packs, as prizes.

Every single hour will be a random drawing giveaway for a holographic Black Star Promo card! The giveaway starts fresh each hour; all prior entries are eliminated and new entries are submitted for the next drawing.

Pokémon Trivia Madness will run for the whole event and may spawn randomly! We have assembled a list of 100 Trivia questions to properly tease everyones’ brains. Winners might just walk home with holographic trading cards.

Find the Pikachu! is a game created by Cutoff Crafts. A single Pikachu is hiding amongst 500 of his friends. Players have to find Pikachu before he runs away. One very lucky winner will win a Full Art Pikachu Black Star Promo as well as a Cutoff Crafts’ crocheted pokéball.

Energy Quest is a mad dash hunt to find eight different energy types from the provided energy cards. Players race the clock and each other to win the prize, a holo Skeledirge Black Star Promo card.

Coloring pages, crosswords, word searches, and other printables will be freely available as well as crayons! There will be a coloring page contest with separate prizes for the winner of each category. Categories are as follows; Kid 5-12, Teen 13-18, and Adult 18+. Printables and crayons will be available while supplies last.

How Many Evolution Stones? is an estimation game where players guess the number of semi-precious stones in a clear jar. The winner is whomever gets closest to the actual number of stones without going over. Guesses will be accepted from 12:01 p.m. to 12:59 p.m. The correct number will be revealed around1:00 p.m. from a sealed envelope. The winner will gain a snazzy Pokémon-themed lanyard.

We will be luring the local Pokémon Go pokéstop for the duration of the entire event.

Of course, what is a Pokémon party without the option to buy Pokémon merch? We will have an assortment of card packs available for purchase including: Lost Origins, Shrouded Fable, Battle Partners, Ruler of the Black Flame, Wild Force, Temporal Forces, Paradox Rift, Stellar Crown, Obsidian Flames, Silver Tempest, Brilliant Stars, Paradise Dragona, Super Electric Breaker, Paldea Evolved, Scarlet and Violet, and more! 

Those buying our special Cutoff Crafts Booster Boxes will find themselves the proud owners of 1 pack of Evolving Skies, 1 Japanese pack, 6 English packs, 4 Trick or Trade packs, sleeves, and vinyl stickers, all packaged in an official metal Pokémon tin!

There will also be Pokémon-themed crochet toys, keychains, earrings, stickers, snacks, eraser puzzles, pins, and lanyards available for sale.

The grand finale will be a prize drawing for a sealed Silver Tempest Elite Trainer Box.

Everyone is more than welcome to trade with their fellow collectors and trainers at our event! Physical trading cards as well as digital Pokémon Go trades are encouraged. Please be aware of the respective values of any trade and practice safe trading. Disclaimer: Cutoff Crafts is not responsible for officiating trades, nor are we responsible for damaged or lost Pokémon cards or other items.

We hope to see fellow Pokémon fans at the Cutoff Crafts Pokémon Day Celebration this Saturday!

Please note: we do not speak for the brand or for the company. We simply love Pokémon and wish to celebrate Pokémon Day with the community. Be sure to read our rules and regulations here.

How to Get an Evolving Skies Pokémon Booster Pack

2024 was a wild year where we expanded into the coolest items this side of the Idaho line, Trading Cards! We carry anything from art cards featuring some of our favorite characters from Genshin Impact, Stitch, anime, and more to officially license Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-gi-oh, NFL and more! We are currently looking to even expand into Magic the Gathering!

While looking to the future is awesome, we want to showcase one of our favorite brands, Pokémon! Since it's the Year of the Eevee and Pokémon Day is Feb 27, 2025, how could we not share our love of one of the most epic Trading Card brands out there? To celebrate all things Pokémon, we have stocked, in our store, many different booster packs, including the elusive Evolving Skies! However, the Evolving Skies Booster Pack is only available in our Cutoff Crafts Exclusive Booster Box (CCBB)!

What is a CCBB?

Tins will vary

A CCBB is a metal Pokémon tin that we have personally filled with several never-been-opened booster packs. We have very limited quantities of these tins due to the nature and rarity of the Evolving Skies booster packs. Each CCBB will contain one Evolving Skies Booster pack, which gives you that chance to find that chase card, Moonbreon.

Please note: the booster packs are random with random cards, we are unable to tell you what is in each pack because they have not been opened. It’s a mystery until you purchase and open them for yourself.

The Pokémon tin includes:

• 1 Evolving Skies Booster pack
• 1 Random Japanese Booster Pack
• 6 Random Pokémon Booster Packs
• 1 2022 Trick or Trade Booster Pack
• 1 2023 Trick or Trade Booster Pack
• 2 2024 Trick or Trade Booster Packs
• 1 package of sleeves
• 5 Pokémon stickers

How to get a CCBB containing an Evolving Skies Booster Pack

Covers will vary

Now for the information you have been waiting for! How does one get a CCBB with an Evolving Skies Booster Pack? We here at Cutoff Crafts are here to tell you, and it is very simple! All you have to do is contact us and request a CCBB! Due to the rarity of Evolving Skies Booster Packs, we have a limited number of CCBBs available. 

If you are wondering why a CCBB is such a big deal, it's because the highly sought after Moonbreon (Umbreon) Trading Card that can only be found in a random Evolving Skies booster pack! There is no guarantee that the pack you receive will contain this amazing chase card, but it gives you a chance to find one.

Happy Pokémon Day!

75 Days until the 2025 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair!

Jan Reid and the wonderful folk at Valley Vista are once again throwing a spectacular Spring Craft Fair this year! Mark your calendars for this May 3rd and May 4th, 2025 - the beautiful sprawling pastures of Valley Vista in Cocolalla, Idaho, will transform into a festive Spring Craft Fair. Get ready for the full load out of fun. There will be hay rides, pony rides, bounce houses, live music, delicious food, and of course tons of awesome local vendors.

2025 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair

459560 Highway 95, Cocolalla, ID

May 3rd, 2025

10 A.M. - 5 P.M.

May 4th, 2025

10 A.M. - 4 P.M.

Here’s an awesome Word Search for the Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair to get the kiddos in the mood. It’s a free printable download. The second page has the answer key.

FOR VENDORS:

Jan Reid is still taking applications! If you wish to sell your food or items at the 2025 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair please download the application below and submit it.

Jan Reid is the ONLY person able to accept applications and payments. Anyone else claiming to do so is a scammer and should be avoided.

Booth spaces are 10’ x 10’ and cost $100. Electricity is an additional $20.

All tent canopies must be staked down. Weights can be used in addition to stakes.

Valley Vista will be deploying wifi signal boosters to aid vendors with internet connections for accepting electronic payments.

Come Celebrate Spokane’s Lunar New Year 2025 - Year of the Wood Snake!

Cutoff Crafts is thrilled to return to Spokane’s Lunar New Year for 2025! The spectacular event is hosted by the wonderful people of Spokane’s United We Stand at the Spokane Convention Center. The doors open at noon and the event is entirely free to attend.

United We Stand will be handing out more than 5,000 Red Envelopes at the event with over $20,000 in prizes inside. These envelopes are known as “hong bao” and symbolize good fortune in the new year. The first 500 attendees will also receive swag bags.

Cutoff Crafts will also be handing out Red Envelopes to the first 100 customers who spend $20 or more on our wonderful merchandise. Each Red Envelope wishes the person luck for the new year and includes a real coin from many countries including: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and more!

My absolute favorite thing to see is always the Dragon and Lion Dancers. The Dragon Dance winds its way through the entire venue to the beat of the pounding drums. The dancers wield their poles with skill making the dragon look like it is a powerful, soaring, beast that chases away the evil spirits to protect the new year.

The Lion Dancers are teams of two that cavort and perform more acrobatically. They are very playful and fierce. Often the Lion Dancers perform with the Third Prince. Last year, Cutoff Crafts was very fortunate to have the Lion Dancers perform directly in front of our booth at the end of the show. 

There are activities on the main stage planned all day long. It is an absolute avalanche of incredible cultural displays. I am looking forward to hearing the Taiko Drummers and seeing the Hanfu Fashion Show.

The Spokane Lunar New Year Celebration will end with a marvelous fireworks display at 7:00 p.m.

We hope to see you there!

The 2025 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair has been Announced!

 

We are excited to announce that, once again, we are working closely with Jan Reid and Valley Vista to help share the news and provide a location of the application for their amazing craft fairs! And, while it may not yet be 2025, Valley Vista has announced their Spring Craft Fair! As always, they fly into May with a sonic boom hosting fun and shopping! The dates are:

May 3rd and May 4th, 2025!

With this event a week before Mother's Day, there will be fun for kids, music, food, and more that the whole family can enjoy! Also, it's the perfect time to shop the vendors for that amazing and unique Mother's Day gift!

Cutoff Crafts will be inside Big Red Barn that has Valley Vista painted on the outside. We will have our normal spot in a horse stall selling dice, pins, stones, crystals, fossils, jewelry, keychains, and so much more. Lots of items for your nerdy side!

We hope to see you there!

For Vendors:

Those who wish to sell their food/items at the 2025 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair, get your applications in ASAP! This year Jan Reid is offering discounts to those who apply and pay early. Jan Reid is the ONLY person able to accept applications and payments.

Booth spaces are 10’x10’.

The Early Bird Rate for a 10’x10’ booth is $90. Applications must be submitted, accepted, and the fee paid on or before Jan 31, 2025 in order to qualify.

Applications submitted after Jan 31, 2025 will be charged the full price of $100 for a 10’x10’ booth.

As always, there is an extra $20 charge for electricity.

To help all the vendors, Valley Vista will also be deploying wifi signal boosters to help vendors achieve stable internet connections for accepting electronic payments.

Click the image below to download the Application, and get started!

Winterfest At Post Falls City Hall

 

We are excited to announce that our final event of the year will be at the amazing Post Falls City Hall for their Winterfest on Dec 6 from 4-8pm! This event boasts a tree lighting, Santa Claus, roastng of marshmallows, vendors for last minute shopping, crafts, live music, and much more! It is a holiday party for the community and a delightfully fun experience!

According to Post Falls Parks and Recreation, the Winterfest is, "where the spirit of the season comes alive!" (facebook) We have done this event in the past, and we can certainly say, the spirit of the season does come alive at the Post Falls Winterfest! It's one of our favorite holiday events that we try to do every year.

Our traveling game store is coming to town! This year, you can find us at the Post Falls City Hall (408 N Spokane St, Post Falls, ID) under a big red tent. We will be featuring Mystery Loots, goodie bags, trading cards (including Pokémon booster packs featuring Evolving Skies), keychains, crochet toys, handmade jewelry, pins, dice, and much more. These items will make fantastic Christmas Gifts for friends, family, or yourself! 

Please Note: If you wish to make a special order and pick it up at the event, all special orders must be made by 8pm Thursday, Dec 5. We look forward to hearing from you!

We hope to see you at our final 2024 event!  Keep an eye out for our exciting events of 2025!

Featuring Our Dice Advent Calendars for Black Friday Week

We are celebrating Black Friday Week with a super sale on a gift that keeps on giving for 24 days! For all of those who have Dice Goblins they need to buy gifts for {or find one for themselves}, we have an amazing Dice Advent Calendar! 

How to use:
Each day, starting December 1, the Dice Goblin opens one door and receives a beautiful gift! By the end of the 24 days, the Dice Giblin will have received:

• ! liquid core set (7 dice)
• 2 complete colorful sets (7 dice per set: d20, d12, d10, d10%, d8, d6, and d4)
• 1 pin
• 1 Acorn with 6 pixie d6 dice
• 1 metal di

That is $140 dollars worth of dice for only $100! But, for a limited time, we are offering a 20% discount! That means these Dice Advent Calendars are 

$80!

This sale is for Black Friday Week only (11/24/2024 - 12/1/2024) and only while supplies last!

To get a fun Dice Advent Calendar, contact us using our social media platforms, our contact form, or email us at CutoffCrafts@gmail.com

Family Fall Festival will be Taking Over Rathdrum This Weekend!

Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Market is taking over Rathdrum Idaho the weekend with a huge Family Fall Festival! Get ready for live music, face painting, games, a bouncy house, karaoke for kids on Sunday, animals from Companion Animal Shelter, craft vendors, food vendors, and so much more! This will be the event of all events!

There will be some special events at the Family Fall Festival!

Need a pumpkin to carve or decorate? Family Fall Festival will have a huge pumpkin patch. All Pumpkins will be $5 regardless of size! Come find the biggest, roundest, or tiniest pumpkin for every member of your family at the Family Fall Festival pumpkin patch!

For this event, Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Market is looking to restock the Cup of Grace' shelves with some shelf stable food. For every item a person donates, they will get a raffle ticket with a chance to win an epic Pressure Canner! Bring a canned good, get a raffle ticket, bring rice, get a raffle ticket. Each item donated means your chances of winning increases and the shelves at Cup of Grace get filled!

On Sunday October 20, 2024 208 Cornhole will be hosting a Cornhole tournament1 Teams can compete for cash prizes! It is only $40 to join! Sharpen those skills for this weekend and prepare to compete!

Cutoff Crafts will be there!

As many of you probably figured out, we will be at Family Fall Festival featuring some amazing new items and Halloween goodies!! 

Some of the most iconic Cutoff Crafts items we will be bringing are...

1. Halloween Goodie Bags for $5 Each bag is filled with glow-in-the-dark stars, candy, a fidget, a mini toy, stickers, and a tumbled stone!

2. Halloween puzzles featuring the reaper and a haunted house! These puzzles are wooden, laser cut puzzles ready to be made for the holidays!

3. Our amazing Halloween Dice Advent Calendars will be featured at Family Fall Festival. Start opening on October 20th. By Oct 31 you will have a complete set of dice, a metal die, a pin, and 3 extra d6s! These are only $40 and are epic for the spooky season!

4. Fun Mystery Loot plushies! These include reversible Halloween creatures, adorable kawaii animals, cryptid creatures, and slimes crocheted by our own resident crochet artist, Ahsoka1

Family Fall Festival will be at the Rathdrum Lions club and run:

Oct 19, 2024 from 10am to 4pm
Oct 20, 2024 from 11am to 4pm

We hope to see you there!