Hygge for the Holidays Open House & Workshops
December 7-10, 2023

Come and experience all that 3rd Street Retreat offers during our open house and creative weekend featuring special workshops, art, home and hostess gifts to share in convivial gatherings during the holiday season and through the winter!

Hygge is a Danish term that is all about the lifestyle of creating conviial gatherings, coziness and contentment during the long and dark winter months. What a wonderful concept to explore in the Pacific Northwest during our grey months. How do we thrive through the winter?

For our open house, we will be open Thursday through Sunday from 11AM to 5PM. Come and enjoy curated fine art, home goods, and hostess gifts. Drink local, world class wines along with light nibbles. Learn and create with artists in their respective fields. Hygge with us at 3rd Street Retreat!

Location: 114 E 3rd Street, Newberg, OR 97132

Workshop/Event Schedule:

Thursday, December 7, 2023

10AM Coffee by the Fire and a Pit Packing Demo with Linda Workman-Morelli

12-1PM Woodland Mini-habitat Tabletop Garden with Weina Dinata

2-3PM Botanical Tablescape Demonstration with Paige Witte -Free

2-5PM Wine Tasting

Friday, December 8, 2023

10AM Unearthing/Birthing the Clay Works with Linda Workman-Morelli

12-1:30PM Preserving Flowers Workshop for Frame Gifts with Amanda Bayha

3-4:30PM Watercolor Winter Greeting Cards with Kerrie Savage

2-5PM Wine Tasting

Saturday, December 9, 2023

11-2PM Françoise Weeks' Wine Bottle Botanicals Workshop

2-5PM Wine Tasting

Sunday, December 10, 2023

11-2PM Françoise Weeks' Botanical Art Wearables Workshop and Portrait Session

2-5PM Wine Tasting

Workshops and Demos

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Françoise Weeks

Françoise’s studio is located in Portland, OR and her dynamic work has been featured in reknowned publications such as Nacre, Fusion Flowers, Modern Wedding Flowers, Huffington Post, Flutter and Milieu. Françiose has a new book, Wonder of the Woodlands, available for preorder and is our main feature on Saturday and Sunday.

francoiseweeks.com

Linda Workman-Morelli

Utilizing a variation of traditional methods that have been used globally for centuries, Linda has been making pit-fired clay works for the past four decades. No two pieces are alike and she is sharing her special pit fire process on the property for this event on Thursday and Friday. You don't want to miss this!

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Amanda Bayha

Amanda creates arrangements with fresh and dried flowers, herbs, branches and other goodies found in Nature. We'll be celebrating another year of abundance and beauty with this framed botanical project at her workshop on Friday.

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Kerrie Savage

Born out of a love for hitting crowded city streets or open country roads, Kerrie Savage's watercolor and ink series feature original paintings that capture popular northwest imagery in "plein air"

kerriesavageart.com

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Paige Witte

As an accomplished garden designer, Paige developed 3rd Street Retreat as a place for learning, growing, rest and rejuvenation. Not only is she collaborating with all of our amazing creatives this weekend, she is facilitating a workshop and doing a demo too!

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Michele Rosenbaum

Working primarily in painting and photography, Michele is an artist and creative collaborator. She has the honor and pleasure of working with Françoise Weeks workshop participants in creating special portraits of their fashion inspired botanical wearables.

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Jen Wilcoxon

Jen has a blooming botanical business with Florawood and creates one of a kind container and floral designs using locally sourced plants and flowers. Her unique Paper White and Amaryllis planters make amazing holiday decor pieces or hostess gifts and will be offered all weekend!

florawoodpdx.com

Gérard Phillippon

Gérard Phillippon, a native of France, owns and operates a beautiful French garden decor shop in Portland. Bringing a bit of French style to our wine country, market and picnic baskets as well as luxury wine bottle openers will be for sale and make a perfect gift.

versaillesgardens.net

Holly Freres

As Design Principal at JHL Design, Holly has worked her magic on high end residential and commercial interiors for the past two decades. She has followed her wanderlust across the world and draws upon a deep well of creative inspiration from her travels as she shares some of her handmade discoveries from Mexico for our open house.

jhldesign.com

Catherine Haley Epstein

Catherine Haley Epstein is an interdisciplinary artist, award-winning author, designer and psychotherapist. As an artist she is unconstrained stylistically and explores imagination, curiosity and the unconscious in her work. For this weekend, she is sharing three of her Carnet brand scent candles as well as her book, Nose Dive.

catherinehaleyepstein.com

Ali Lanenga

Ali's floral botanical photographs can be seen worldwide, from train stations in England to magazine spreads in Australia and luxury hotels in Boston. Come and see her new, finished masterworks on the walls of 3rd Street Retreat this weekend!

alilanenga.com

Wesley Younie

Complex, thought-provoking, and unapologetically beautiful, the paintings and sculptures of Portland-based artist Wesley Younie explore links between ancient and the modern, organic and the human-made. Come and see his amazing paintings featuring botanicals, birds and other natural themes.

wesleyyounie.com

Lyra Freely

From LA Fashion Week to Portland Indie Films, Lyra does hair/makeup styling to support the artistic vision of a creative collaboration. She also offers makeup coaching that empowers individuals to confidently apply their own makeup. Lyra will be working with participants at Sunday's workshop with Françoise and Michele.

lyrathemakeupartist.com

Augustina Cellars

A dream decades in the making, Augustina Cellars is the love child of best friends Diana Schultz and Lee McCollins. Diana and Lee met at a church camp in the mid-’90s and have been by each other’s sides ever since. This friendship was built on a foundation of compassion, service, and enjoying the good things in life, which continues to this day! We make wines that pair with home-cooked meals, good friends, and memory-making moments in time.

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Weina Dinata

Weina started her native-plant inspired botanical design studio, Poppy & Finch, to bring awareness of the beauty and important role of native plants for our habitat in the urban landscape. She inspires people to garden ecologically through her living botanical arts, educational hands-on workshops, and creative botanical solutions for small-space gardening.

poppyandfinch.com/

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Carrie Spurlock & Allison Williams

Carrie and Allison are attorneys turned real estate brokers who are hyper-focused on providing the best client care in the industry. In addition to helping clients buy and sell properties around the state, they’re community leaders who love giving back to organizations and small businesses who make our Oregon lives so wonderful. They’re co-sponsors of this weekends’ events and are giving away a special wine package from Ponzi Vineyards.

spurlockandwilliamsrealestate.com

Ponzi Vineyards

Ponzi Vineyards continues to set the standard for Oregon's viticultural innovation while maintaining an unwavering commitment to a tradition of winemaking excellence. For more than 25 years, this philosophy was carried on by the Ponzi family's second generation. We will have wine from Ponzi Vineyards throughout the weekend.

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Cliff Creek Cellars

Set in a refurbished Bank in Newberg, Oregon, their Willamette Valley tasting room is an easy walk from 3rd Street Retreat. Their Sam's Valley Vineyard is located just Northeast of Gold Hill and many of their wines are big, bold reds. Throughout the weekend, we will have their wines available.

cliffcreek.com

Hygge for the Holidays Open House & Workshops December 7-10, 2023

Workshops and Demos

Françoise Weeks

Linda Workman-Morelli

Amanda Bayha

Kerrie Savage

Paige Witte

Michele Rosenbaum

Jen Wilcoxon

Gérard Phillippon

Holly Freres

Catherine Haley Epstein

Ali Lanenga

Wesley Younie

Lyra Freely

Augustina Cellars

Weina Dinata

Carrie Spurlock & Allison Williams

Ponzi Vineyards

Cliff Creek Cellars

Hygge for the Holidays Open House & Workshops
December 7-10, 2023