MARYSVILLE — Those in the market for arts and crafts can shop to their heart’s content while supporting a senior center’s contributions to charity.

The residents of Willow Run Apartments, a senior housing complex located at 4900 80th St. NE in Marysville, are staging a swap meet and bake sale March 26-27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, to fund not only their own activities, but also their volunteer club, whose weekly efforts range from making quilts for battered women’s shelters to Christmas stockings for as many as 1,600 veterans.

Seven vendor tables will be offering their wares, which will include quilts, watercolor and other paintings, baskets, flower arrangements, rock-work and other jewelry, birdhouses and possibly even old-fashioned aprons.

Event organizers encourage attendees to come hungry, since they’ll also be selling zucchini and banana breads, as well as cookies, candy, fudge and pies. Dalla Cram will be serving up hot cinnamon rolls.

“People will definitely be getting their vitamins,” laughed Carol Ahlgren, organizer of the arts and crafts tables and a painting teacher at Willow Run.

Ahlgren paints on surfaces as unorthodox and varied as fungi and feathers, and she invited everyone in the community to attend her painting classes for free, which take place every Tuesday at Willow Run from 10 a.m. to noon.

Because Willow Run is reserved for residents who are either 62 years and older or disabled, many of them do not get out of their apartments much, according to resident Ina Watson-Dalbey. The apartments are subsidized by the Housing Authority of Snohomish County.

“We’re trying to get people in wheelchairs out and about,” Watson-Dalbey said.

For more information about the sale, call 425-870-3729.