Welcome to Junuary – wearing my sweat shirt as I write this newsletter! I’m excited to say our upcoming class will be held in the warmth of the living room. We’ll be felting all kinds of mushrooms with Alison Webb – PhD of biology and a master felter with alot of humor.
IG @pnw_biology
Meet Dr Alison Webb, who is honoring Paul Stamets – the well known father of mushrooming interest in the PNW.
Alison will be leading us all to construct the mushroom of your choice ( or more ) with information from the science side of things as we craft. Guaranteed to be a very fun class
So many options to make!
Hope you can join on Saturday June 8th from 10 – 2
Click the link below to register – bring your lunch and enjoy homemade pie and tea or coffee with us.
Felted Mushrooms – Your Choice
Our next class at the end of June still has a few spaces.
Shibori Explored – Indigo Dye Weekend – June 29 & 30 with Elin Noble
Click the link above to read more and register
Elins vast knowledge of shibori and all kinds of dying, as well as her amazing textile art, provides us with a teacher rich in experience and so good at imparting her passion.
Folks return to her incredible classes.
This class won’t let you down! Bring your lunch and enjoy my homemade pie.
May and June are peony months as well as Viburnums and other spring delights. I may need to add this herbaceous peony to my garden – this is in one of Langley’s many fine street plantings.
Viburnum ‘Kern’s Pink’ is starting to get some size in my garden – not quite enough for me to pick but such a pale pink blush of pleasure!
The Itoh peony’s open before the herbaceous – Itoh’s are a cross between tree peonies and herbaceous and come in so many incredible colors. This one is Lollipop.
Nectoscordum siculum is now one of my grandchild Pasha’s favorite flowers – reminding them of their other favorite – enkianthus. Both wonderful striped bells.
This allium makes great cut flowers.
Our Summer Arts & Crafts Market is fast approaching and the vendors are working away to provide delightful items for you all.
More photos on the market page link above.
Amy Ocklander, of Forest Elf Farm on the peninsula, is new to the market this year. She has been exploring her Polish heritage and even went to Poland a couple years ago to take a pajaki workshop with a well known artist there. Besides her lovely dried wreaths she is using her flowers she grows in the pajaki’s – a new twist on an old craft.
Jill Yetman is a new ceramic artist this summer with mugs, vases, and more. Whidbey is rich with ceramic artists so it’s nice to introduce others to their work. More of Jills work can be seen on her IG @thelazyglazer
Happy to say Joey Guerra will return with his popular blacksmith items – can openers, candlesticks, andirons, garden ornaments, hooks, bells and triangles among other things. He’s on IG @northwestmetalarts
Check out his IG for a neat owl hanger.
I’m very happy that Renata Nguyen ( a sister in law to Leah ) will be joining us with her totally wonderful earrings and bracklets. From macramé and beads to all beads her work is so very well made and she’s excited to come our way for this market.
Lori Kane of @ritual_mischief will be back with her lip balms, soaps, salves and a broad selection of products crafted from plants she wildcrafts. She’s a steady and popular presence at our markets.
Britta Culbertson of @terrastoria.studio makes such unique jewelry using many northwest stones and often including maps in the silver work of where they are from. Many folks just want to collect her work! The last photo is her newer spinner rings that were very popular at the Winter market.
Laura Knaub of @lauraknaub will be back with her delightfully different ceramics made with heart and unusual patterns.
With my broken wrist I recently hired some help with larger projects I couldn’t handle – mostly included radical pruning on areas that had just gotten too big – the boxwood in the old nursery area and the Lonicera in front of the porch boxwoods, which I want to show.
So now I vow to keep up with my pruning once they look better!
My recent Ramilletta class was really fun and a great benefit for Pasha’s college fund. I even got to meet this woman who has VERY NICE fabric on line at Two Thimbles
She sells both contemporary and traditional patterns, quilt fabrics, and so much fun stuff it’s a real rabbit hole if you love fabric.
The pie class, also a benefit for Pasha, was fun and an especially delightful surprise was to have Riz Reyes attend with a friend. I sponsored Riz when he was 14 years old to be the youngest person to make a display garden at the Flower and Garden Show in Seattle. He’s now 41 I think and in charge of many things at Heronswood Garden. He’s a rising star in the plant world and we had a fun garden tour of my out of control old ladies garden! Many ideas to simplify – maybe a bulldozer is the way to go – leaving behind my favorite trees and a few select shrubs.
Hope we see some of you at the upcoming classes and the Summer Market!
July 27 9 am – 5 pm
July 28 – 9 am – 4 pm
Stay Well,
Mary Fisher
7568n Cultus Bay Rd
Whidbey Island
www.cultusbaygardens.com
360-622-6275