Local vendors will hold a Vendor Fair from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Quality Inn Conference Room.

There are currently 19 vendors signed up for the event. There will be a variety of types of vendors, including home fragrance, jewelry, cosmetics and crafts.

“There are going to be a lot of bigger names that people would recognize,” said co-coordinator Sarah Shelden, a Scentsy consultant.

Shelden and the other co-coordinator, Mirenda Caessens, a PartyLite consultant, started working on the idea of hosting a vendor fair back in September.

Shelden had attended a vendor fair in Gladish Community Center a couple of years ago. When she started selling Scentsy, she began looking for a similar venue because the event at Gladish was not a recurring event.

“We decided to set up our own event and invite local vendors to come work with us,” Shelden said.

Caessens and Shelden invited other vendors to join their fair by advertising on Craigslist, Palouse Ads, at their moms’ groups and by word of mouth.

All of the vendors are local, coming from Pullman, Moscow and the Lewiston/Clarkston area.

Caessens said they decided to have the fair during Dad’s Weekend because people could get a head start on their holiday shopping while they were in town.

“It’s going to be a good time to come get some holiday shopping done and support local vendors,” Shelden said. The vendors are going to decorate and put out holiday-themed items, and there will be holiday-themed music playing, Caessens said.

Vendors will be holding raffles and drawings at their tables as well.

In addition to the individual giveaways, the fair will feature a raffle for a basket full of items from about three-fourths of the vendors present, Shelden said.

Caessens said the basket will be worth a couple hundred dollars.

“Each time you make a purchase with any vendor, you get a ticket for the drawing,” Shelden said.

If the fair is successful, Caessens and Shelden plan to continue holding them biannually.

One fair would be held before the holidays, but not necessarily Dad’s Weekend, and the other would be held during Mom’s Weekend, Caessens said.