Lakes Area Gallery & Frame Shoppe - Lakes Area Gallery Events

Current Events (also see Links below to area attractions)

36th Annual St Patrick's Day Parade in Crosslake

The parade was held on Saturday March 13th at 2PM. The weather was cloudy and rain was a possibility. With a little Irish luck, the weather behaved!

Town Square hosted The SKATYRS Band. They played before the parade from noon to 2PM. Maucieries brought in a food and green beer garden into Town Square.

There were lots of "unique" and creative floats. Lots of candy for the kids and lots of events all weekend long. It's the one day of the year that everyone is Irish!

If you missed it, mark the following date for next year! The 37th Annual St Patrick's Day Parade in Crosslake will be Saturday March 12th, 2011 at 2PM. Hope to see you! Check out some of the the parade pics below.

7th Annual Crosslake Winterfest Feb 5th & 6th

We hope you didn't miss all the activities on Friday and Saturday. There was pond skating, smores, bonfire, ice scuptures, helicopter rides and much more!

And of course, the Soup Cookoff! Participating restaurants and merchants served soup for you to vote on the best tasting. All you needed to do was purchase a $2 commemorative soup mug and make the rounds!

That's right! We Bad! Again!! Lakes Area Gallery won! We won the Soup Cookoff with Kristi's Chicken Taco Soup.

This is our second win in three years. Stop in and see "The Golden Ladle" traveling trophy!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us. It makes all the work worthwhile. We made 3 large roasters of soup and ran out in 65 minutes! Thanks to the many tasters.

We served our soup with shredded cheese and crushed tortilla chips.

Click on this link to get the recipe for Lakes Area Gallery's Chicken Taco Soup.

The winner of the 2010 Winterfest medallion hunt was Jim M. Congratulations Jim!

It was hidden at the Robert Street public access on Cross Lake under an overhanging tree in the parking lot.

The pic shows all the prizes, gift certificates, etc. that were donated by Crosslake businesses.

Crosslake Lights Up The Town

Crosslake lit up the town on Saturday November 28th 2009.

The bonfire and s'mores started at 4pm in front of Lakes Area Gallery. Lots of kids (big and little) took part in making their delightful treats.

Santa arrived at 5pm by fire truck! The kids lined up to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas. Photos with Santa were available.

We served homemade cookies and wassail all day to our customers. More pics below.

Black Friday!!

Crosslake has Black Friday too! This is a pic of Rod N. waiting for Lakes Area Gallery to open. Not exactly the lines or trampling like a big box store but every bit worth waiting for.

We had fantastic store specials like "buy one, get one" plus Santa's elves in the back gift wrapping.

There's still lots of chances to get a great deal at Lakes Area Gallery. We'll be open every Thursday evening 'til 7pm up to Christmas (not Christmas Eve).

We'll be running specials every week and as always, free gift wrapping!

"The Gathering"

Our 8th annual event of "The Gathering" was held on Saturday October 11th from 4-8PM. We closed the gallery at 1PM Saturday afternoon to get ready for the big event.

We brought out many new items that our customers had not seen before! Lots of delicious appetizers were prepared and of course wassail!

Customers that had signed up at our gallery during August and September received an invitation in the mail. This invitation turned into a 30% off coupon if you brought an item for the food shelf.

Additionally, if you spent $10 or more, you received a free covered christmas dish valued at $12.95!! Now that's how to have a gathering!

Below are pics of the event. You'll see us preparing, the event, and finally Kristi and MaryBeth next to the two big boxes of food shelf items donated. Scroll down for the recipes.

Crosslake Days Chili Cookoff Sept 26th 2009

We didn't win but we had some "bad" chili. We were served it at a friends house. It was so tasty, we decided to forgo our winning "Boilermaker Tailgate " recipe and serve this one. If you are looking for the recipe, here it is, and if not, you gotta try this! JD's Lake Country Chili

Below are pics of the event. Perfect weather, great tasting chili, good times, what could be better!

As part of our celebrating Crosslake Days, we gave away a Darrell Bush canvas titled "Life's Rewards". Customers had been signing up for the drawing throughout the summer. The canvas is valued at $450!

Our winner was Bonnie B! Congratulations Bonnie. We hope it gives you years of enjoyment.

Artist Stephen Henning came to Lakes Area Gallery!

We are very excited to have Stephen Henning at our gallery as a guest artist. We have offered Stephen's works for several years and are forever awed by his artistic abilities and creativity. Stephen is an impressionist artist using acrylics, oils and oil pastels in his originals. Many of his works are available in Giclee Prints or Canvases.

Stephen joined us on Sept 26th 2009. Many art lovers came to meet a Minnesota artist with international recognition. Below are a few pics of the reception.

Below is our ad running in the Lake Country Journal. Stephen was featured in their magazine in the May/June issue.

We recently framed one of Stephen's works "Sylvan Glen"

Below is a small sampling of what is available. For artist's bio click here.

"The Gathering" Recipes:

Wassail 2009

Cayenne Pretzels

Spinach Cheese Pinwheels

Hot Corn Dip 2009

Festive Apple Dip 2009

Mother Lode Pretzels

Jack-O-Lantern Jumble 2009

Colorful Marinated Olive Kabobs 2009

Roast Beef Pinwheels 2009

Moroccan Hummus Cups 2009

Popper Pizzas 2009

More Lakes Area Gallery Recipes

There were so many people asking for the recipes, we decided to post them on the website. Click on the following links to take you to each recipe. (print with Landscape setting in your print preferences)

Kristi's Bars (April's most requested recipe!)

Artichoke Bruschetta

Four Layer Cheese Spread

Hot Cheddar Mushroom Spread

Apricot Kielbasa Slices

Hungarian Mushroom Soup

Twix Bars

Lemon Bars

Rhubarb Bars

Cheerios Holiday Nuggets

Check out these LINKS to area attractions and information!!

Whitefishchain.com

Crosslake.com

Whitefish Lodge and Suites

Crosslakemusic.com