Elephants Eleven

29/11/2025

Opening at noon, but some of us have already made sales! Git on out hereee y’all!

Booths are close/tight, we have one of the biggest at 10x13 feet! I won’t be taking pics or another video. Come out from noon to 6:00 pm, earlier is better than later with the cold front coming in! Lots of cool jewel, be sure to visit our friend Marty at ArchAngel Craft Emporium for one of a kind! Several vendors with clothing, t-shirts, belts, etc. lots of vendors here with cookies, candy, and other food items along with Red Pepper the best oriental food in town! Check out the anazing treats by Ashley at Creepy Creations! Lots of cool decorations already wrapped to give as gifts too. Come see Andrea Cotton, Zecret Zquirrel, with her pretty beaded itms of all kinds! Come see us, Elephants Eleven, in the corner! More new pillow prints today snd lots of playing card holders! Our prices tiday range from $5 to $20. Buy a bandana bag from us to carry all your goofing in. Be sure to checkout both rooms and the front hall at the ballrooms!

29/11/2025

29/11/2025

The game is over, a great finish! Now a little rest as Saturday morning early we will load up and head out to our final craft show for 2025! Come see us at the six hour show in the flyer below. This way you can purchase our inexpensive gifts for everyone you like, for stocking stuffers, for your kids friends and educators who put up with him/her, and your church folks along with your co-workers! $2 entry fee that goes to the Lawton Food Bank.
Elephants Eleven
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell
Dayna McDowell
Geary McDowell
www.elephants-eleven.com

27/11/2025

Our last craft show for 2025!
This weekend, forget Black Friday, come to the Stop & Shop Local event in the ballrooms of the Lawton, OK Hilton Inn Garden on 2nd Street from noon to 6:00 pm. A $2 entry fee and proceeds from that go this year to the Lawton Food Bank.
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Stop & Shop Local
80+ local vendors
Hilton Inn Garden on 2nd Street in Lawton, OK
November 29, 2025
Noon to 6:00 pm
We are in a corner booth this year.

25/11/2025

Holidays should be about family and the true reason for getting together. Some families may have sandwiches and tea for their holiday feast, others may have turkey, ham, chicken, BBQ, and all the trimmings, expanding their stomachs to three times their normal size. Some families give handmade gifts if any for Christmas, while others have a seven-foot-tall pile of gifts that often are not appreciated past the approaching weekend. Do what you need to do with family and friends; no need to overdo it, and yes, it is a tough lesson to learn and to teach. NO need to go into debt just to see someone smile for a few minutes, then toss it aside when the next item is opened. If you are going to buy friends and family gifts, why not get them something they truly will use often for the next year or longer? Our pillows, card holder, and bandana bags are inexpensive compared to what most people will spend on gifts, and they last a long time. The pillows can be washed and dried on a gentle cycle for years of happy and comfortable use. The cardholders are new to us this year, but think of all the many holidays and nights over the next year you can spend with family and friends playing various card games around a table, not having to spend any more money for fun and memories together. The bandana bags are three bandana handkerchiefs sewn to make a large carrying bag for toting things around or even shopping, like at Aldi's, where you take your own bags! Have a wonderful holiday season, relax, chill, do not let it stress you out, enjoy the family time while you still have them. Instead of spending money you don't really want to on Black Friday with overpriced and/or fake sales, come out Saturday to the Stop and Shop Local in Lawton at the Hilton Garden Inn. A #2 entry fee is taken and donated to a local charity every year. This year, it is the local food bank, I understand.
See you there, come out, chill, enjoy visiting with wonderful people who also care about others not just this time of year, but all year.
Elephants Eleven www.elephants-eleven.com
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell
Dayna McDowell
Geary McDowell

24/11/2025

My apologies to our friends who had booths at this last weekend's show, as I did not get detailed photos and information posted as I intended. I CANNOT do that on my phone, we don't get along well on Facebook LOL, and Michele's old laptop I was using is sooooooooooo sensitive that my big fingers and palm resting on the keyboard mouse make a mess and I get mad. You don't want Geary mad! LOL I have those photos, and I will keep them in a folder for that show for 2026 and use them in promos. Feel free to send me photos and details of your craft you would like shared and I'll add that to the folder to use in 2026. I hope to get more details on your craft the closer we get to that show next November, so I can help promote our friend's craft. Good luck at your shows over the next year or sooner if we work the same shows. Thank you for your friendship and for sharing your craft with everyone.
Geary McDowell, webmaster for Elephants Eleven
Peace Keeper in our house while we work on pillows. LOL

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24/11/2025

Speaking of shopping . . . our last craft show we are currently scheduled to participate in this year is the day after Black Friday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, that is next Saturday y'all! Come see about 80 local vendor in the ballroom area of the Hilton Inn Gardens on 2nd street in Lawton, OK Elephants Eleven will have all the pillows we have made up and ready to go at this show, a perfect time for you to stock up on those inexpensive, useful, everyone loves them, homemade with love, gifts for yourself, family, friends, neighbors, your child's (or grandchild's) teachers at school or church, school administrators, secretaries, custodians, cooks, assistants, your kid's (or grandkid's) friends, etc. Don't forget your favorite First Responder! We have police, firefighters, military, etc., pillows too. Remember, our pillows may be washed and dried on gentle too! We look forward to seeing lots of friends at the Stop and Shop Local show next Saturday! A $2 entry fee, proceeds for the event will be donated to a local charity, the local food bank, this year.
Elephants Eleven www.elephants-eleven.com
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell
Dayna McDowell
Geary McDowell

24/11/2025

A good show overall, not a record setter for us at this show, but it was getting there. The early arrival of the rain put a damper on the ending of the show, but everyone survived. More Monday, or Tuesday, three-fourths of us are exhausted, so we are going to bed! See y'all, but first, a BIG thank you to all who came by to visit and/or purchase one or more of our great pillows! We appreciate each of you. We made some new friends at this show, more later on that. And a great big thank you to our dear friend Jennifer Bowling for coming at closing time to help pack and load everything. It was chaotic as some people must have never seen rain or heard thunder or lightning! LOL Thanks Jen, you are greatly appreciated. Catch y'all later if the crick don't rise too much!
Elephants Eleven www.elephants-eleven.com
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell\
Dayna McDowell
Geary McDowell

Handcrafted and individually made pillows and other crafts made by the family.

23/11/2025

LAST DAY for the Big One, Fall Harvest Craft Show in Lawton, OK for 2025
Come out and check out over 200 vendors with a wide range of items, most are homemade, handmade, made in Oklahoma, and only a few are commercially made items. There are amazing Indian Tacos, Funnel Cakes, BBQ, and more in the food area.
FREE admission, clean restrooms, breezy with the Big Ass Fans (brand name) on hopefully low today, lots of friendly people to visit with, and happy to share their story of how they started their craft and why they are at this event hosted by the Lawton Crafts, Arts & Hobby Assoc. I've posted a few photos the last couple of days of some or our friends booths. Some are friends from years ago, and two are new this year. Food, jams, jellies, GREAT Salsa (A&J's Salsa), small decorations for the house or workplace, and larger decorations for your yard. We are open until 5:00 pm today and it looks like the rain will hold off until later tonight. Come join us and thank Jose for his great leadership in organizing this event in the past. We have new leadership after today, and we think she is going to be great as well.
Elephants Eleven Look for our new flag, you cannot miss it if you look up a little bit. ;)
www.elephants-eleven.com
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell
Dayna McDowell
Geary McDowell

22/11/2025

Cooler weather and BIG fans running in the Expo building, bring a sweater or light jacket when you come to the Craft Show Saturday in Lawton! Rain chances go back up Sunday afternoon, according to the local wx people. Come out on Saturday and be safe! ;)

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22/11/2025

A short but nice story at the 4:00 pm local TV news. Hi Nikki! We made the news! LOL

The Lawton Crafts, Arts and Hobbies Association kicked off this year’s Craft Harvest Craft Show Friday.

21/11/2025

A short video of our setup this year at the fall craft show at the Comanche County fairgrounds today through Sunday! See if you can find us! We did move the flag to the outer side of out booth!
Elephants Eleven
Michele McDowell
Kathy McDowell
Dayna McDowell
www.elephants-eleven.com