Linn Armstrong of Lebanon is one of the lucky ones who gets to combine her passion for sewing and cooking and make money at it.

Armstrong creates about 4,000 dried herb mixes a year that purchasers combine with mayonnaise or mayonnaise and sour cream for dips. Armstrong sells the mixtures at craft shows in handcrafted fabric bags.

Her mixes will be for sale at the 29th annual Holiday House Christmas craft show Friday through Sunday, Dec. 4-6, at the Yaquina Bay Yacht Club in Newport.

“I go to Holiday House because the girls are fantastic, there is a lot of camaraderie, and I make money,” Armstrong said. “The show is done in a boutique style so I don’t have to sit at a table all day.”

Martha Rathja of Corvallis also will be at the long-running show with her fused glass, which she has crafted for about 25 years.

She makes plates, ornaments, platters, heart window decorations and pockets for small flower arrangements.

The reasons she lugs her glass all of the way to Newport each year she said is, “I like the people, I’ve done well with my stuff there, and they do a good job of display. They bring in a hefty amount, and the percentage they charge consignees is fair.”

Sales for the three-day event have ranged from $12,000 to $16,000 a year for the last 10 years, said co-chairwoman Patty Johnson of Salem.

All items are homemade and juried, said Margo Hampton of Salem, one of the organizers. For sale will be jams, candies, cookies, breads, quilted wall hangings, table runners, appliquéd sweatshirts, dried apples, Christmas wreaths, lavender sachets and bundles, bath soaps, aprons, tea towels, photography Santas, angels and snowmen.

Johnson said “during the past 28 years, there have been 10 to 14 members of a core group who along with 20 to 30 consignees have made Holiday House a better sale each year. We blend different crafts by color and style — Victorian, Americana and Country — to give every corner of space a made-for-magazine designer look.”

For the first 26 years, the sale was in a home to show how items could be displayed. As the show got bigger, it was decided in 1999 to move it to a vacation home rental, and two years ago organizers shifted it to the yacht club, which is centrally located in Newport and offered better parking.

Managing members meet four to five times a year to plan and design the upcoming sale, she said.