FARM TO TABLE COUNTRY TEA is coming!!

Back by popular demand – the July Garden Tea Party!  This year’s theme is Farm to Table Tea celebrating the ongoing harvest of food and flowers from the farm that we can take to the table and to the friendship of those around us.  This second annual tea, with tea hostess Patricia Tawney  is scheduled for July 7th at 1pm.  This week-end is the last chance to make your reservation.  Join us.  The members of The Wade Creek House will be your servers.   Such fun!   Call 503-630-7556 to make your reservation.  Limited space.  Menu on previous post.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice that thorn bushes have roses…  Abraham Lincoln

JUST A REMINDER.....

THIS SATURDAY, June 23, is our ESTACADA FLEA MARKET at The Wade Creek House.  We have many vendors planning to make this a great day bringing tons of great junk finds.... my favorite kind.  Rain or Shine we will be there and it all starts at 9am..........   SEE YOU THERE!

What do leaves, gardens, fleas, and teas have in common?

What do leaves, gardens, fleas and teas have in common..

Some of our events this month!!

(Concrete Leaves, Wall Gardens, Flea Market, Farm to Table Tea)

That sounds kind of silly but we have some great events this month  and thought it would be fun to give you a picture tour of those events.   First up is Nikki's Beginning Concrete Leaf Casting.  Very popular.   It is Saturday (tomorrow) morning July 9 at 10:30 and the class filled up so quickly that Nikki added a few more spots.  I took this one last year...  I rate it a 10!  I had such fun.  I made more and gave them as Christmas presents.

For the beginner class, Nikki uses leaves 8 inches and smaller.  Her Advanced Concrete Leaf Casting is scheduled for August 11.  She uses bigger leaves,  teaches reinforcement, color, and more.  The beginner class filled up quickly so I am sure this one will too.  Call soon!

Then on June 16 at 11am, Linda is helping you make a Framed Living Wall Gardens.  It is beautiful, you can use so many flower combinations and you can reuse the frame next year if you want to change your theme.  Cost is $25, bring a spade and your gloves.

Jim has been working hard getting ready for the ESTACADA FLEA MARKET at The Wade Creek House.  Date is June 23 beginning at 9am.  The shop will be open early too.  Our acre will be filled with vendors and Amy is bringing her food cart.  We are soooo excited.  We still have a few vendor spots available so if this is something you are interested in, give the shop a call.  You can rent a 10 x 15 space for only $25.

This is a picture from our Second Saturday Sale a couple of years ago.  I can't wait to find more junk finds this year!!!  Don't miss it!  FREE Admittance.

On June 30th at 10am, Annette Reisbeck will be helping us make a Nuno Felted Spiral Scarf.  Annette is an amazing felter, and she will be teaching us how to combine wet felting fiber and a square of silk scarf to create a ruffly, spiral scarf when it is dry.  There are all kinds of color combinations to experiment with to end up with a finished scarf looking totally different from the original materials.  Wear casual or dressy - an all season scarf.  Cost is $55 - all supplies provided.  Extra material kits are available for sale because you won't want to stop at just one.

 

So that is June but there is one more event that you will want to put on your calendars.  Saturday, July 7th is our Farm to Table Country Tea.  RSVP BY JULY 1 REQUIRED!!  Here you will be treated like royalty with linens, china, and silver.  And that is only the beginning.  See pictures below.....   Cost is $25.  

~ MENU ~

Appetizer

Fruit scones with pear butter, lemon curd & devonshire cream

Salad

Spinach salad with pear, filbert & raspberry vinaigrette

Daylily fruit salad with strawberry sauce

Sandwiches

Cucumber pansy with herbed cheese

Chicken nasturtium with raspberry salsa on a croissant

Olives, grapes & greens

Desserts

French pastry surprise

Chocolate Mousse Cup

Seasonal berries with tarts & cream

Seeley Family Mints with violas

Complimentary Teas

Steve Smith Tea

Haney & Sons Tea

Any proceeds will be donated to the Estacada Food Bank.

RSVP by July 1

So if you have some free time, come and see us. 

We have plenty to keep you entertained!!

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."

 

 





A Great Day

Our Garden Event was very fun.  We hope you had a chance to make it.  Phyllis and Terry at Old Farmhouse Nursery and Kim of Kimberly's Nursery furnished the beautiful hanging baskets, plants, and planters.  Laura Eyer, Kelly Wallaert and Matt "The Mole Lady", Daisy Teske, and our Nikki Mantei and Linda Bonner really made the day with their gardening seminars.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your day with us. 

We have gotten lots of new merchandise including vintage garden, and outdoor furniture. It is that time of year

And with this piece you can use as a planter, is great filled with ice for those favorite beverages, or just wondeful to look at....

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Don't you just love Carrie's potting bench??  And Jim's greenhouse?

  

This cute sedum filled birdbath.  Easy care for the garden.   We can all use that





This table would look great anywhere.... A cozy porch,  your office, sewing room, anywhere...

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Imagine this in my kitchen...... oh, I mean your kitchen.   Don't think I haven't measured it ... this pie safe is a rare and wonderful find.

I could continue on but my computer is slowing down... or maybe it is me. But come and see us.  We have lots of wonderful items.

And check out Junes activities... June 9 is Nikki's Begininning Concrete Leaf Casting Workshop, June 16 is Linda's Framed Living Wall Garden Workshop and June 23 is our Estacada Flea Market where you can join us.  Sign up for a space and spend the day with us.  Details for these events are on the left side bar and at the shop.....

Bill & Becky, Carrie, Carol, Debbie, Deb, Don & Amber, Jim & Tracy,

Linda, Meridith, Pat, & Sonya

Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow

IT'S HERE..5TH ANNUAL SPRING GARDEN EVENT

You are invited to a Celebration of

Dirt and Dreams...

 FREE GARDEN SEMINARS •

HANGING  BASKETS & PLANTERS

PORCH & PATIO FURNITURE •

COUNTRY AND

VINTAGE GARDEN  DÉCOR

 Share the day with local, master gardeners 

and garden professionals

                                                                           

         10:00  Why Compost?  And How!           

               Laura Eyer, Master Gardener

11:00  Heirloom Vegetables.  - plus starts for

              sale      Organic Farmer Linda Bonner

12:00  Moles—is this a problem for you?   

              Kelly Wallaert, The Mole Lady

 1:00    Lavender—Growing, Propagating,

              Crafting, & Eating

              Daisy Teske, Master Gardener

 2:00    Microgreens: Nature's Superfood -

               It doesn't take much  time or space

               to grow them, let me show you how. 

               Nikki Mantei, Master Gardener

Drawings at each seminar....

Also featuring...

Kimberly’s Garden Nursery 

& Old Farmhouse Nursery

Offering a wide variety of plants,

,

 grasses, hanging baskets and

planters for your home. 

This is a fun day..JOIN US!

The earth laughs in flowers...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

HAPPY Mother's Day

                                           M.O.T.H.E.R.

"M" is for the million things she gave me,

"O" means only that she's growing old,

"T" is for the tears she shed for me,

"H" is for her heart of purest gold;

"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,

"R" means right, and right she'll always be,

Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.

- Howard Johnson


This day is dedicated to Mothers, Grandmothers, and Great-Grandmothers - we honor you, we appreciate you, and thank you for the love you have shared with us.   If you can't find that special gift at The Wade Creek House, remember that we have Gift Certificates....

  

AND THE WINNERS ARE .... drum roll please



Patti Turner won the wonderful chicken coop donated by PGM Construction.  She and her birds are very happy.  Jane Kirchhofer won the beautiful chicken mosiac window donated by Amber Carpenter,  George and Marily Stursa won the body products donated by Terra Casa.  George and Marilyn have 6 new baby chicks and were crossing their fingers for that coop. Time for Plan B.  And Mary Shearing won the starter kit donated by Wilco Farm Store.   CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS!!!

We want to thank all our sponsors again and also to thank you, who supported our wonderful local 4-H group.  We raised $600 for them with the raffle.  The 4-H is also having a fundraising garage sale at the Springwater Grange this Saturday from 7am to noon.  Springwater Grange #263 is located near Estacada at 24591 S. Wallens Road. Take Highway 211 south, out of Estacada, and turn right on Wallens Road. 

THIS IS THE PERFECT WAY TO START YOUR WEEK-END!  For you that don't know, the Springwater Grange hosts a wonderful $5 egg, bacon, biscuits, biscuits and gravy, and pancake breakfast  September - May.  It is held the first Saturday of the month.  This month proceeds from the breakfast go to the Ash Butte Grange, in Jefferson County , that burned down Easter morning.  No fire station support, no fire insurance so Granges throughout Oregon are trying to raise money to help rebuild.  SO you can attend a garage sale and have a wonderful breakfast all in the same place.  Then of course, come to The Wade Creek House to see what is new.  You will be glad you did!

Photo by Annette Thornton

The historic Ash Butte Grange Hall was fully engulfed in flames Sunday morning, after heat from a wood stove ignited material in the attic above the dining area.

A piece of Jefferson County history -- the Ash Butte Grange Hall -- went up in flames on Sunday, just a month before members of Ash Butte Grange No. 802 would have marked the post's 80th anniversary.

SO WHAT IS NEXT??   May 12 is to make a Live Herb Wreath (if Nikki's herbs perk up) or live sedum wreath.
Then May 19 is our 5th Annual Spring Garden Fair where we have speakers throughout the day talking about:
10am - Why Compost? and How!
11am - Heirloom Vegetables with plants for sale
Noon - Moles - Learn what to do from the expert
1pm - Lavender - growing, propagating, cooking and crafting
2pm - Growing Microgreens - Natures Superfood
All seminars FREE!
Kimberly’s Garden Nursery & Old Farmhouse Nursery will be there offering a wide variety of plants, grasses, hanging baskets & planters.

I will be posting a new tour of the shop soon.   See you soon!