If you're in DC this week or next, make a trip down to the Mall to check out the sights at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. There's lots of music, food, and crafts.

Speaking of crafts, the Wales exhibit has crafts from a couple of companies from southwest Wales, one which hails from Pembrokeshire (Melin Tregwynt), and Corgi Hosiery Limited! Both companies produce interesting, colorful items which would make great holiday gifts (trying to think ahead here).

The only downsides are: the crappy exchange rate (the pound is about double the dollar), and that the Corgi company does not use a canine logo!

Both companies have online ordering.

Corgi Hosiery Limited
www.corgihosiery.co.uk

Melin Tregwynt
www.melintregwynt.co.uk