The 20th Lilac City Comicon Was Amazing!

This year marked the 20th year celebration for Lilac City Comicon in Spokane, Washington. It was an absolute blast! We’re always thrilled to attend shows where we can meet new friends, hang out with fellow fans, and have an epic time. 

The cosplayers were out in FORCE! This year there was an absolute deluge of creativity! Check out our Facebook page Facebook.com/CutoffCrafts to see some of our favorite shots of people who came by our booth. Hands down our favorite cosplayers to see were the amazing Batman and Superman Mandalorians! Catch Scarlett, the Batman Mandalorian, over on Youtube @AuDHD Reviews.

This year we did a giveaway on Saturday! The top prize was a gorgeous set of titanium fogged glass dice worth $120. I feel like there’s a Druid in the future rolling some relic tier dice!

The energy, excitement, and enthusiasm from the crowd were incredible, we couldn’t resist doing a second and third place drawing! Everyone was having a wonderful time and when the whole crowd chanted the intro for Spongebob… you know what we had to do.

We gave away not one, but two DVD copies of 100 episodes of Spongebob! One lucky winner took their prize and booked it! The other hung around long enough for us to take their victory picture.

And if you missed out on the giveaway… don’t worry. We’re coming for you next, Puyallup! Catch us at Washington State Summer Con, June 19-21, 2026 at the Washington State Fair and Events Center! We will be there with the massive pin collection, the tables of dice, the Pit of Insanity, and so much more!

The Valley Vista Craft Fair is Returning for their 2026 Fall Event!

The Autumn wind wisps across the northern sky as a staple of the community comes to life. The smell of hay, the sound of music, and the joy of enraptured customers dances in the breeze. The Valley Vista Fall Craft Fair is back and ready to treat the community to food, fun, and shopping! 

This year, the Valley Vista Craft Fair is hosting their event one week earlier for ease of shopping and the hope of better weather. Featuring food vendors, artisans, crafters, and more, the Valley Vista Fall Craft Fair is the place to be in September! It is two days of bliss in the country!

Valley Vista Fall Craft Fair Information:

When: Sat. Sept 19 (9am-4pm) and Sun. Sept 20 (10am-4pm)
Location: Valley Vista Red Barn and Field, 459560 Highway 95, Cocolalla, ID
Contact: valleyvistacreations@gmail.com

VENDORS:

For those who are seeking to be vendors at this most excellent event, download, print, and and fill out the application for the Valley Vista Fall Craft Fair. Then send the application to Jan Reid at valleyvistacreations@gmail.com  Jan Reid is the only one accepting applications and money. We here at Cutoff Crafts are m 

Booth Size: 10x10
Booth Fee: $100

Outdoor event
Bring your own Tent, tables, and chairs.

The Final Countdown until the Cutoff Crafts Spring Pokemon Celebration

It’s TWO DAYS and NINE HOURS until the Cutoff Crafts Spring Pokémon Celebration?! WOOOO! I can’t believe it! This Saturday, April 18th, 2026, Cutoff Crafts will take over the Rathdrum Lions Club and turn it into an all out Pokémon Celebration! The party runs from 9:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. 

This will be our sixth community Pokémon party and each one has been better than the last! The Celebration is free to attend, there’s no parking fee, no entry fee, nada. It is open to all ages. Cutoff Crafts gives out tons of cards and swag during the show. There will be fun games, activities, intense battles, and of course, prizes! It’s a wonderful time to share off your collection, make trades, meet new friends, and hang out with people all enjoying the wonderful world of Pokémon.

Our End of Day Raffle will be a yellow card binder with some fun black star promo ex cards already loaded to get you started on your next collecting journey! We have collected black star promos for six powerful paradox pokémon: Gouging Fire, Iron Leaves, Iron Crown, Walking Wake, Iron Boulder, and Raging Bolt. Earn a raffle ticket just by attending! Earn another raffle ticket by liking and sharing our Facebook post! Earn yet another raffle ticket by picking up a party bag for $20. 

Party bags come with a whole cascade of goodies including a ticket to our exclusive Pack Battle Tournament where the Grand Prize Winner wins a Greninja ex and Kingdra ex sealed box! Not only that, but the prize pool INCREASES the more players who buy tickets! A ticket to join the Pack Battle Tournament can also be purchased separately for ten dollars. If we reach 200 players we will add a sealed Ascended Heroes Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box currently worth more than $450! 

The Pack Battle Tournament does not require any knowledge of the TCG aspect of Pokémon. It is an elimination style tournament. Packs are supplied by Cutoff Crafts to all players. Each player faces off head-to-head against an opponent. The victor is whomever pulls the higher valued card. The winner moves on to the next round, while the other is knocked from the tournament. However! Players get to keep all the cards from the packs they rip during the Pack Battle Tournament. This is one of our most popular games and the highlight of the show with all kinds of full arts, Illustration Rares, and even Special Illustration Rares pulled!

The wonderful 3d Printing Master, ENDER, will be returning! Ender’s Cozy Corner makes all kinds of delightful clickers, toys, and fidgets as well as fun crocheted pokémon amigurami! My Murkrow has not left his place of honor on my binder shelf.

The Hungry Squatch will be joining us for FOOOOOOD! We heard you! Games and fun make everyone ravenous! The Hungry Squatch offer glorious garlic cheese curds, delicious fries, and slabtastic burgers to feed even the hungriest snorlax!

Cutoff Crafts would also like to thank Poppin Packs down in Coeur d’Alene who supplied the lovely metal mini tins that we stuffed with swag. The first 20 people who attend the Cutoff Crafts Spring Pokémon Celebration get one of these swag mini tins for free! Swing by Poppin Packs on 510 N 4th St Suite B, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814 and say hi! They have a great selection of cards.

I hope to see returning friends and new faces at the show! It’s going to be amazing!

NOTE: due to the Pokémon Market, the cost per item is subject to change according to the market. Cutoff Crafts will not be responsible for the decrease or increase in price. We are simply stating an estimate. No cash or other items will be given for a loss or gain in market value.

Also, because of the market and depending on availability, prizes are subject to change.

Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration - What's in the PARTY BAG?

Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration is back by popular demand! Cutoff Crafts will be hosting the Pokémon Celebration at the Rathdrum Lions Club, April 18th, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mark your calendars! There will be games, contests, giveaways, trivia, trading, prizes, swag, and more! The Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration is free for all ages to enter, and has free parking.

As a super special for the Spring Pokémon Celebration, we are selling Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration Party Bags! These are a fantastic way to get that exclusive all day pass to unlock absolutely everything at our event. Each bag comes with a whole pile of goodies.

$20 Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration Party Bag Contains:

1 Pack Battle Tournament Ticket

1 Japanese Booster Pack

1 mini Pokéball with mini-fig and stickers inside

5 Official Pokémon Card Sleeves - protect those pulls!

2 “Don’t Say Pokéball” Sheets

1 Random Energy Card - An Extra Life for Team Rocket Battles

1 Vinyl Pokémon Sticker

1 Delicious Bag of Pokémon Fruit Snacks

1 Official Pokémon Coin

1 Official Pokémon Puzzle Piece

1 Official Pokémon Damage Counter

1 Extra Entry into End of Day Prize Drawing!

Let’s whip out our trusty Pokédex and get the deets on all these epic items.

1 Pack Battle Tournament Ticket - This ticket instantly grants the player access to the Cutoff Crafts Pack Battle happening April 18th, at the Spring Pokémon Celebration. Players go head to head in an elimination style tournament. Each round, the victor moves on to the next round. All players get to keep all the cards they pull from the packs provided. All packs are provided by Cutoff Crafts. The Grand Prize Winner will win a Sealed Greninja ex and Kingdra ex Special Collection box! This box comes with eight packs, two stamped promo cards, and one jumbo card. For maximum awesomeness, the Pack Battle Prize Pool increases as more people join! 

Individual tickets to the Pack Battle Tournament are sold online, or at the event, for $10. One is included in the Party Bag!

WIN ME at the Pack Battle Tournament!

1 Japanese Booster Pack - coming all the way from Japan, the home of Pokémon, these cards are printed in Japanese kanji and can have full art special illustration rares, just like the English packs! Japanese Packs are random, some lucky Party Bags may even have Ninja Spinner! This is the Greninja set that has not even been released in English yet! When it releases in English it will be called Chaos Rising. Who doesn’t want a sneak peak preview before it even hits the shelves?

1 mini Pokéball with mini-fig and stickers inside - they are adorable, they are tiny, they can hide ANYWHERE! These mini Pokéballs open up and have a cute little Pokémon fig inside as well as mini stickers.

5 Official Pokémon Card Sleeves - protect those pulls! These are enough sleeves to completely sleeve every card in a Japanese pack. Or you can customize and use them on some of the prize cards you win at the show!

2 “Don’t Say Pokéball” Sheets - gasp! Members of Cutoff Crafts are banned from saying the word Pokéball. Players with sheets can call out any member of Cutoff Crafts who slips up. Vigilant players gain Pokéball stickers to put on their game sheets. Fill the sheet to unlock prizes and extra drawings! A single sheet is provided with any purchase at the Cutoff Crafts booth during the day of the event. The Party Bag is special and comes with TWO! Each sheet can be filled and submitted for end of day prize drawings.

1 Random Energy Card - an extra life for Team Rocket Battles. Every guest who comes to the Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration is given special Fire, Water, and Grass energy cards to battle against the dastardly Team Rocket members lurking about. Players who beat Team Rocket in Fire, Water, Grass (akin to our Rock, Paper, Scissors) gain a random Pokémon card! Players who lose, lose that energy card. The Party Bag comes with an ADDITIONAL energy card for an extra chance to beat Team Rocket!

1 Vinyl Pokémon Sticker - incredibly resilient, these vinyl stickers are perfect for customizing your gear. My binders and thermoses are covered with them!

1 Delicious Bag of Pokémon Fruit Snacks - they are FRUIT SNACKS shaped like little Pokémon! They are delicious and hilarious. 

1 Official Pokémon Coin - these coins are great for those who play the Pokémon card game and for collectors alike. Some collectors keep entire coin binders to collect all of the unique coins!

1 Official Pokémon Puzzle Piece - mini tin collectors collect these puzzle pieces to make fun mini posters. 

1 Official Pokémon Damage Counter - fun little dice that are used in the Pokémon card game. They are also satisfying to just fidget and play with.

1 Extra Entry into End of Day Prize Drawing - at the end of the Celebration, entries are pulled from the great prize Pokéball. Players with matching ticket numbers can win pokémon cards, packs, official merch, stickers, swag, and more!

Each Party Bag costs $20. They can be preordered online at our shop: HERE. Party Bags can be pre-ordered in person at the Cutoff Crafts’ booth at the Rathdrum Craft and Farmers’ Market on April 11th at the Lions Club. Party Bags can also be purchased at the Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration on April 18th. All preorder bags will be available for pickup at the Cutoff Crafts’ Spring Pokémon Celebration. We made a limited number of these bags, get them while supplies last!

All prizes are subject to change and are based on availability.

April Fools Day Craft Show Surprise!

This Saturday, March 28th, Cutoff Crafts will be at the April Fools’ Day Craft Show in Rathdrum, Idaho. It is hosted by the Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Market at the local Lion’s Club. We’re hoping for beautiful blue skies as everyone gets ready for the spring time craft fair fun! Doors open at 10:00 a.m. and the show runs until 3:00 p.m. Parking is free and the show is free to attend for all ages.

We will have dice, pins, crochet toys, 100% nylon scrubbies, earrings, stone bracelets, keychains, laser cut wooden jigsaw puzzles, and of course… Pokémon trading cards! Not only will we have packs of cards, including the latest set Perfect Order, we will be selling tickets to the upcoming Pack Battle Tournament! That’s right, mark your calendars for April 18th because Cutoff Crafts is going to host another takeover of the Rathdrum Lion’s Club for a Cutoff Crafts Spring Pokémon Celebration!

You can buy tickets to the Pack Battle Tournament in person at our booth at the next TWO Rathdrum Craft and Farmers Markets, March 28th and April 11th. You can also buy them online from our shop over here: https://cutoffcrafts.square.site/product/cutoff-crafts-spring-pokemon-celebration-battle-tournament-ticket/ZO7BF7BRFJSWRBWRVEJVKBFD . The Pack Battle Tournament will be April 18th. The grand prize is a sealed Greninja ex & Kingdra ex Special Collection! All packs are provided by Cutoff Crafts. The prize pool increases as more people join the tournament. There is also a super special card that one lucky ticket holder may win. ZOOM!

So come swing by the Rathdrum Craft Fair and say "hi" to us. We will be in the Lion’s Club building. We will have our tower of $5 mystery loots and goodie bags, and our dig bucket spectacular of 2 for $5 toys. Our dice have a new addition, released for this April Fools’ show! The trickster dice are 2 for $5 and can be ANYTHING! You have been warned. We will also have sparkly mystery bags of laser cut wooden jigsaw puzzles for only $15 or 2 for $20!

We hope to see you there!

All prizes are subject to change and are based on availability.

The 2026 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair is Coming!

The 2026 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair is rapidly approaching! May 2-3, 2026, the historic Valley Vista barn and the surrounding land will once again be full of the hustle and bustle of a booming craft fair. All the colorful tents full of amazing wares will cover the field and stuff the barn to the brim! Live music will be playing, hot piping food will be dished up, and there will be tons of laughing, smiling, faces.

I adore this event. Like the vibrant purple and yellow crocuses bursting forth in a riot of color, the Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair really kicks off the craft fair season. It’s incredibly easy to get to the show. The Valley Vista barn is located right off of Highway 95, between Athol and Sandpoint. It’s an iconic landmark for the area. Every year, Jan Reid works with the Idaho Department of Transportation to provide a safe slowdown and turn section. This is deeply appreciated.

Kids have the option to storm the giant inflatable bounce houses, go on a pony ride, or even go for a classic hay ride. There is no entry fee to the Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair, it is open to everyone! Parking is also free. 

As this is the week right before Mother’s Day, the Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair is a fantastic place to find Mother’s Day gifts! There are tons of delicious treats like freeze dried candy; all kinds of handmade artisan crafts; cute custom signs; and more! Last year I got my mom a laser engraved wooden magnet. She loved it!

2026 Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair

May 2

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

May 3

10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Entry Cost - FREE

Parking - FREE

Mark your calendars for a weekend of fun at the Valley Vista Spring Craft Fair! It’s a free, wholesome, good time.

FOR VENDORS:

Any interested vendors need to submit their applications as soon as possible! There are only five booth spaces still available! Photos of the items you sell must be submitted with your completed application. The 3D Printed category and the Laser Art category are currently full.

Booth Info:
Booth Space:10x10
Booth Cost: $100

Setup times are provided for both Friday, May 1st, and Saturday, May 2nd.

Tear down begins on Sunday, May 3rd, after 4:00 p.m.

To apply for a booth space, send this application to Jan Reid: Click here for app.

Be aware of scammers! Send applications ONLY to ValleyVistaCreations@gmail.com.