COEUR d'ALENE - Carli Osika is 15 years old, but on Friday afternoon she didn't sing like a teenager.

She stood near the busy corner of Third Street and Sherman Avenue, guitar in hand, strumming songs for a small crowd. Her voice was powerful and resonant and carried a grown-up edginess to it, and people on the sidewalk could not pass Carli's corner without stopping for at least a minute or two, just to listen to that sound.

"This is like my favorite thing to do," she said. "I like it when little kids come dance and stuff."

The Lake City High sophomore, also a student at the CD'A Rock School in Dalton Gardens, started playing guitar in third grade. She favors pop and country songs, and throws in some rock or alternative on occasion.

"I'll pretty much sing anything," Carli said. "I sing all the time."

At the crowded Street Fair in downtown Coeur d'Alene, with spectators constantly coming and going, her musical talents were much admired.

"See you on 'American Idol!'" one woman yelled to Carli.

A short walk from Third Street, Mark Schrager displayed his glass bottles at the Dr. Vortex Traveling Medicine Show. Filled with water and other secret ingredients, the psychedelic vessels came in all shapes and sizes.

"No one has figured out precisely what I do," Schrager said. "And that's kind of cool. Kind of magical. Keeps your sense of wonderment alive."

Visitors picked up the bottles and shook them around. Like colored smoke, the liquid contents swirled and shimmered.

"I wanted one last year really bad," said Danni Bain of Coeur d'Alene, who celebrated her 22nd birthday on Friday. "So when I saw them this year I got real excited. They're really, really cool bottles."

Bain and her friend, Alix Welter of Coeur d'Alene, strolled the street fair's eclectic booths. From City Park to Seventh Street, vendors, artists and craftspeople sold their multifaceted wares.

Gemstones and seashells filled the tables at one tent. Miniature trees and figurines lined the shelves at another. Photographs, key chains, sunglasses, decals, candles, woodwork, apparel and specially-priced shoes could be found in other locations, all just a few steps away.

The Street Fair won't end until Sunday, so there's still plenty of time to browse for something new.

Need a denim Seahawks jacket?

That's easy to find.

A zebra-pattern purse?

Right over yonder.

How 'bout a carved wooden bear clutching a beer can?

Try that place near Sixth Street.

"It's awesome. It's more than we expected," said Joseph Erhard-Hudson of Moscow, a first-timer at the Street Fair. "What we particularly have enjoyed is that local storefronts have a presence out on the street."

He and his wife, KarlaRose, checked out the Northwest Artists booth before entering the shop itself.

"It's nice. We're visiting stores we never would have before," Joseph said.

For those with a healthy appetite, the Taste of the Coeur d'Alenes at City Park offered a smorgasbord of options. Barbecue brisket, steak sandwiches, gyros, elk burgers, salmon, shrimp, funnel cakes and huckleberry lemonade - just about everything was on somebody's menu.

"(The) food is wonderful," said Vanessa Alaniz of Spokane.

She and Susan Stearns both enjoyed salmon and steak from Leonardo's Catering. Their platters were piled high with fresh fish and veggies.

"And the kettle corn was great," Stearns chimed in. "It's one of the food groups when you're at one of these."