Dates
November 28, 29, 30 from 10 am – 4 pm
December 6, 7 from 10 am – 4 pm
Address and Parking
7568 Cultus Bay Rd, Clinton, WA 98236
There will be plenty of parking in the field adjacent to the market.
Event Details
Save the date for our Winter Holiday Arts & Crafts Market where you’ll find a wide variety of ceramics, blacksmithing, naturally dyed textiles, jewelry, clothing, unique tee shirts, wet felted wool work, wool yarn and roving, pine needle baskets, hand painted tiles, baked goods and so much more displayed throughout charming and rustic nursery buildings among the grounds of Cultus Bay Gardens. You’ll also find a wide variety of handcrafted body care products including salves, shampoo, lip balm, and perfumes. All of these incredible delights are handcrafted by local makers. There has never been a better time to support our local community of artists and craftspeople.
This year, Japonica will be serving rolls and poke bowls from 10 am – 2 pm on the 2nd weekend of the market (Dec 6 & 7). You’ll also be able to enjoy some of our homemade, hot spiced cider made from organic apples grown in our orchard.
Hope to see you during the market!
Meet the Artisans
Sasha Polonko • pottery • @girlpots
Sasha Polonko is a ceramic artist, wild clay explorer, and founder of Girl Pots Studio on Whidbey Island, Washington. Her work blends ancestral material practices with modern craft, using locally foraged clay and handmade glazes to create functional pottery rooted in place and ritual. She teaches private lessons, leads international workshops, and shares her process with a growing online community.
Jodi Reid • handmade wool felt items
Jodi is an artist and felt-maker who has been creating with felt since 1998. She is passionate about teaching felt making. Finding that creating your own textiles from scratch is uniquely empowering. She has explored a multitude of mediums from beading to metal-smithing, and brings this wide experience to culminate in her felt work.
Serena, Ruby, and Mariah Rundberg • Whidbey Island grown plant-infused body care • @ritual_mischief
We’re a dynamic queer little family operation brewing botanical mischief on Whidbey Island. Armed with clippers, clad in overalls, and respect and love for herbs, we craft small-batch body care goods using plants we grow, forage, and occasionally whisper to under the moonlight.
We honor old-school herbal traditions, trust our intuition (and the occasional crow caw for guidance), and do our best to leave the earth better than we found it. This is earth medicine with roots, soul, and a desire to honor living beings for their inherent self-worth.
Karin Bolstad • tiles and transferware
Hidden Hearth Ceramics is the work of Whidbey Island artist Karin Bolstad, whose original illustrations are fired on tiles and ware celebrating the flora, fauna, and folklore of the Pacific Northwest. Each piece is crafted in small batches with an eye toward sustainability and story.
Britta Culbertson • hand-dyed textiles, woven rocks • @terrastoria.studio
Britta is a multi-talented artist and scientist. Her primary job is supporting a program that sends teachers to sea on research vessels. She finds creative outlet in textiles (as well as rocks and metals), diving deep into natural dyes and resist techniques. She’s also been a high school teacher, a Peace Corps volunteer, and traveled extensively throughout her career. To say nothing about helping Mary keep sane by working on the website. Her dye projects have gotten high marks from Patti King – a well known textile artist, weaver, dyer and stitcher.
Sarah Benson • handcrafted brooms • @sunbunnystudio
Sarah is a broom maker and the primary artist behind Sun Bunny Studio based outside of Seattle, Washington. She has a background in fiber arts and printmaking and received her BFA from Arizona State University. Dedicated to a life of creating, learning, and skill sharing, Sarah began weaving brooms in earnest while homesteading in the San Juan Islands.
Debbie Dierkes • handmade accessories • @finasoleil
Fina Soleil brings imagination and whimsy to create thoughtful handmade accessories that are meant to bring joy. Artist and founder, Debbie Dierkes, has forever had her eye on the arts, her hand on texture and her heart bent to expression.
Mackensie Bennett • pine needle baskets & stained glass earrings • @gypsyy_gemss
Mackensie is a self taught basket weaver who uses self-foraged pines needles and local beeswax. Her stained glass earrings are made using the copper foil method and scrap glass from her suncatchers.
Mary Fisher • clothing, fabric lunch / ditty bags @maemaesew
Mary is an avid gardener / designer and lover of most handcrafts. With a textile major from CCAC, she’s excited to bring textiles and crafts back to the forefront of her life. Hosting the market for other craftspeople to show their wares and bringing community together around beauty and intention is her goal. Custom sewing available.
Randall Haller • seaweed prints
I’ve been a local naturalist here in the great Northwest all my life. I was raised in Edmonds and have always had a great interest of the flora and fauna of the Sound. I’ve spent hours beach combing and wandering the different beaches in Edmonds and on Whidbey Island. In college, one of my projects for Marine Biology Lab was to collect and wet press different species of seaweed. I kept the portfolio and a few years back friends prodded me into doing something with them—hence the merchandise you see here.
Joey Guerra • blacksmithing • @northwestmetalarts
Joey was mentored by the well known South Whidbey blacksmith, Jeff Holtby. He balances this work with another part time job as he becomes increasingly busy with special orders. Talk to him about specific needs when you see him, or message him on his Instagram page.
Katie Whitlock • small batch wool products including yarn, roving, & felting kits • @windyindigofarmandfiber
A lifelong maker and fiber artist, Katie tends a flock of Romney and Romeldale/CVM sheep on Whidbey Island. Every fleece and handmade piece is part of a bigger story—one of care, craft, and community. Wool isn’t just fiber; it’s a record of resilience, of survival, and of the bond between shepherd, sheep, and the people who gather around the work. Inspired by the textures and honesty of natural materials, Katie celebrates the slow, tactile beauty of wool and the connections it weaves between land, maker, and community.
Leah Nguyen • hand screened tee shirts with soul patterns of both the natural world and concepts for global consciousness • @planetpaintpeople
Kirstin Clauson • handcrafted organic herbal soaps, bath and body care • @theherbalworkshop
Kirstin started The Herbal Workshop when she first moved to the island in 2011 after working as a gardens manager in upstate New York and after her first soapmaking experience in a class at Angelic Organics Learning Center in Chicago. She fell in love with soapmaking and went onto biodynamic farm school and made more soap with a goat farmer there. She loves the healing aspect of creating all-natural bath care products and using the highest quality, clean, eco-friendly ingredients.
Ronlyn Schwartz • preserved foods & knitted hats
Ronlyn’s preserved foods, with the exception of citrus, are made from produce from her organic/biodynamic garden and the recipes used are strongly influenced by the many years she lived in England. Natural fibers have always been part of her life, finding expression in various forms. This year, the form is knitted hats, using various blends of wood, alpaca, silk, mohair.
Erin Vanhee • herbal medicine products • @trilliummedicine
Trillium Medicine features unique herbal remedies clinically formulated with traditional practices from wild and pristine areas of the Pacific Northwest. Maker and Herbalist Erin Vanhee specializes in small batch botanicals formulated to address physical, spiritual and emotional well being.
Rebecca Franz • terrariums • @the_tearrarium
Lindsay Kelley • soy and coconut eco-friendly candles •@scandicocandles
My journey into candle making started in 2020 with a passion for fragrance, met with a desire to honor some very special traditions of my Scandinavian heritage. Think essential afternoon coffee breaks, a great love of the outdoors and finding joy in life’s simple pleasures. These ideas inspired my initial fragrances, forming the foundation of Scandi Co’s Signature Fragrance Collection; Coffee Break, Outdoorsy and Hygge. Since then, my fragrance selection has grown to include a seasonal holiday lineup, summer and tropical scents as well as a vintage cocktail inspired collection.
Scandi Co. Candles is known for crafting a high quality candle, using a natural blend of soy and coconut wax and high quality fragrance oils. We proudly display the Made Better Badge, which certifies our commitment to sourcing clean and eco-friendly materials.
