Moss Cottage Christmas & Market
Saturday 6 December 2025
11am – 3pm
Moss Cottage Christmas & Market is presented by the Sooke Region Museum & Visitor Center at 2070 Phillips Rd in Sooke, BC. This festive event highlights the rich heritage of local food producers, artists, artisans, and entrepreneurs, while enjoying holiday traditions around historic Moss Cottage.
Listen to carolers, decorate a cookie, make a lantern and visit 30 local vendors with their unique wares. Check back here for a full list of vendors, performers and activities!
Moss Cottage Christmas & Market is an outdoors market rain or shine, it is important to dress appropriately and have tent sides.
Market Vendors for Saturday 6 December
Food
Trotter Bakes – gluten free bakery
Ryan’s Cookies – gourmet cookies
Bits of Bliss Confectionery – fun and old-school doughnuts, fritters, dessert bars and other treats
South Island Lunchbox – fresh fun foods, locally sourced ingredients (food truck)
Art, Craft, Jewellery, Fashion
Crochet Vibes Only – plushie toys and accessories
Samuel Borsellino – art/photography
Wood and Branch Creative Works – Artisan and jewellery – clothing, hand engraved rings, and welded goods
East Meets West Lapidary – cut and polished stones and jewellery
Driftwood Studio – felted animals, Christmas ornaments
Crochet by Hayley and Amazing Mandela Creations – handmade crochet items and Mandela dot art
Fine Art Photography – Bertrand Smith
Art by David Van Dyck – driftwood sculptures
Cece’s Dried Flower Art – necklaces, keychains, decorations, stickers, bookmarks
Blue Angel Creations – earrings necklaces and suncatchers
Woven and Wired – jewellery and crochet accessories
For the Home, personal products
Wick + Wave Candles and Home Fragrance – Soy based candles, home and personal fragrance
East Sooke Soap – Local, handmade artisan soaps made in small batches
LilAli Designs & Creations – crochet, knitting, decor
MeLike Market – Natural Christmas Décor, Floral & Seasonal Green Creations – Handmade natural Christmas décor – moss gnomes, evergreen wreaths, reindeer, and festive floral designs
Moonset Candles – soy wax candles
Community Group
Sheringham Lighthouse Society
Friends of Sooke Parks Society
Sooke Harbourside Lions
Moss Cottage Christmas
Music:
on the outdoor stage
Ben Goerner, 11am-1pm
Willis, 1pm-3pm
on the Moss Cottage porch
Sooke Community Choir, 11:30-12:30pm
Activities:
Gingerbread Cookie decorating ($)
Lantern making with Friends of Sooke Parks (free)
visit Moss Cottage to see how the people who lived there in 1902 celebrated Christmas (free)
