Lavender Festival Vendors at the Farm

Entertainment at the Farm | Lavender Festival

If you are planning to join us for the festival this coming year, GET YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Sequim is a small town and fills up quickly. The festival is ALWAYS the third weekend in July...this coming year the dates are: July 18th, 19th and 20th, 2008. If you are planning a visit to Purple Haze as part of your Olympic Peninsula holiday, visit our links page to see some of our favorite places in our part of the Pacific Northwest.


Here is a list of the wonderful vendors that were at our farm this year! Many were returning favorites from previous years, but we also added a couple of new faces!

Barbara Doolittle-Barbara makes wonderful beads and jewelry from paper. She has been a Purple Haze favorite for many festivals.

Bathing Rituals Katrina's booth is always a favorite, she has a sensuous line of sugar rubs and bath fizzlers and a bunch of other wonderful goodies you won't want to miss and she always has plenty of testers for you to try!

Bell Bottom Beverages- Now open all summer long at the farm, starting in July serving our own gourmet lavender ice cream and lemonade!

Bowerman Basin Ltd.-Marie & friends have beautiful copper work and other fun treasures.

Creative Collection of Sequim Fiber Artists:

Unique As You- Renne Brock-Richmond of Unique As You creates colorful one of a kind handcrafted art, apparel, and textiles with individual style that is as distinct as yourself. Renne’s mission is to enhance people’s presence with asking, “What Hue Are You?” Her designs are original from inception with hand dyed yarn, to hand woven fabric made into apparel, and silk scarves with the distinguishing process of digitally printing with hand painting. No two are alike. Renne embraces the empowerment of brilliant hues and individualism expressed in appearance. www.uniqueasyou.com
Thistlehill Farm - Susan Kroll of Thistlehill Farm comes from a long line of working with your hands do-it-yourself-ers. She grew up sewing and knitting, then took up spinning her own yarn and weaving her own fabric once the nest was empty. Susan loves the systematic structure of knitting and weaving and the infinite choices for what to create made possible by exploring and combining different fibers, textures, colors, and weave structures. Each design is the simple and the functional: everything has to have a purpose and needs to work for that purpose. All the while being beautiful, too.
KJL Designs - Kathy Larson of KJL Designs began knitting when she arrived in Sequim 3-1/2 years ago, and is known as the "Scarf Lady" by her abundant production of scarves sold in local shops and bazaars. She started out with scarves, and has since added shawls, shrugs, wrist and leg warmers, and purses and bags to her collection of hand knit accessories. Kathy's talent is in combining different fibers and textures, along with color, creating unique, one-of-a-kind items. She does not duplicate any of her designs unless by custom order. Recently, Kathy took up beading and jewelry design as a complement to her knitting.
Fiber Treasures - Dixie McAndrews of Fiber Treasures draws inspiration from close fellowship with others and nature. She explores knitting, weaving, and felting techniques for transforming plant and animal fibers into decorative and useful textiles. Dixie feels that creating with the human hand helps to balance the mechanized and computerized world and allows her to create textiles that machines cannot produce. Her explorative nature often guides her beyond the traditional techniques and insures one-of-a-kind creations. In addition to quality construction, her creations are imbued with respect and joy that make them true Fiber Treasures to be used and loved forever.
Greenweave- Melissa Spaulding of Greenweave is passionate about wool – its texture, warmth, colors, versatility, and its “producer” – the ultimate in a renewable resource! Melissa surrounds herself with black sheep that often were unwanted, as commercial mills would turn down any fleece with even a stray black fiber that would show up as a flaw in any woven and dyed fabric. After marriage and children, she returned to weaving and spinning after many happy circumstances, connections, and discovers. For over 30 years, Melissa still watches new black lambs bouncing in the spring sunshine.


Essential Aura Oils - Kent McKay (www.essentialaura.com) will be doing essential oil distillation demonstrations each day of the festival. Kent is not only a master with distillation of lavender, but he has spent the winter in Costa Rica and can talk about distillation of many oils from more tropical clines. He'll bring his entire line of essential oils and hydrosols.

Fiddleheads-Fiddleheads is a home and garden shop in Port Angeles, WA. Vintage and garden accessories are tossed together in a Shabby Chic style. They dressed up our orchard nicely.

From the Heart Pottery-Handmade pottery with a "heart" theme.

Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants-The Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants are tea blenders and importers based in Portland, Oregon. Chuck and Heather, owners of The Jasmine Pearl, have methodically tasted and studied more than a thousand different teas, in search of the most delicious and interesting examples available. They hold events and trainings throughout the Pacific Northwest promoting their exceptional quality loose-leaf teas and herbal infusions. We worked with Chuck and Heather to make the wonderful new teas for Purple Haze!

John Tiechart Watercolors-With a detailed sensitivity to the forms in nature and building, John brings new life to his varied work. His understanding of natural subjects comes from his career with the National Park Service and U.S. Coast Guard.

Lavender Luvies - Gina Jordan was with us once again this year because we so enjoyed her handcrafted, lavender and herb-filled creations: aromatherapy sachets, eye pillows, warmers, dream pillows and custom products for weddings. She uses organic cotton and hemp fabrics - and wild-crafted herbs. She also makes those wonderful "Stress Balls" for us that have been so popular!

Lavender Skep - Ed and Winnona Giersch are Purple Haze's staunchest beekeepers and stitchers. They are the ones who supply us with the honey and hand sewn items we carry year 'round. They'll bring their selection of natural and flavor-infused honey and Nona's hand-sewn lavender creations to our Farm. Ed also be brought his observation hive and answered bee-keeping questions.

Linda Thorson Design-Cast stone, garden sculpture, architectural detail. (www.lindathorsondesign.com).

LSL Northwest-Lucy Dufoe makes some wonderful handmade/handsewn items and she even had teddy bears that say Lavender Festival 2006 that you can take home as a souvenir of your special trip.

Luna Azul-brings us once again their beautiful custom and one-of-a-kind jewelry, they do a wonderful job of giving each piece a unique and individual look.

MarSea Beads-Kiln annealed glass beads, focals, and jewelry.

Metal & Mud-Home & Garden sculpture by Dana Hyde. Originally a ceramic artist, Danya Hyde was introduced to metal work by her father at his welding shop in Brinnon, WA. She draws on her extensive knowledge of birds as well as her love and affinity for other animals to create her art. (www.metalandmud.net.com)

Natural Accents – Jeff and Jodi Stroh offer a wide variety of decorative home accessories including ceramic tile trivet/cutting boards, message boards, lazy susans, and spoon rests in a vast array of designs to suit any home décor. Jodi has also created a line of hand painted, water tight, ceramic wall pockets in an assortment of floral designs, including lavender, the festival favorite!

Rustic Moose Designs - These marvelous cedar furniture makers from Elma joined us once again with their furniture that is made to fit a human body AND you can safely set a glass of tea on their chair arms.

Steffany Barber & Debbie Bowers-Luscious Lavender Paraffin Hand Dips.

Teatime Linens - Wonderful Vintage English Linens and Hand Painted Denim Clothing will return with all of their great finds...what a fun group of girls to have for vendors!

Images by Thomasina-Thomasina has taken several beautiful photos of Purple Haze and we are proud to feature her work in our gift shops year round. She will also be available to take a photo of you in the lavender fields!(www.imagesbytina.com)

And, of course, THE BUSHWHACKER restaurant will be returning with their fabulous Provencal Chicken, organic greens featuring Purple Haze's own AWARD WINNING salad dressing, Tuscan bread and Eastern Washington corn on the cob. There also served Wild Salmon on the BBQ along with Polish Dogs, Brownies, Lemonade, Iced Tea, Gin & Tonic, Beer, Wine and the ever famous Lavender Margarita’s! The picnics and food will be on the new lower lawn to the left of the drying shed complete with live music from all of our great musicians!

DEMONSTRATION TIMES:

Friday
DailyOil Distillation
11:00 a.m.Weaving with Lavender Demonstration
11:00 a.m.Tea Ceremony with Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants
1:00 p.m.The Art of Needle Felting Demonstration
3:00 p.m.Tea Ceremony with Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants
4:00 p.m.Creating Fused Glass Jewelry Demonstration

Saturday
DailyOil Distillation
11:00 a.m.Wool Magi-Hand Felting Demonstration
11:00 a.m.Tea Ceremony with Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants
1:00 p.m.What Hue are You?-Color and Meaning Demonstration
3:00 p.m.Tea Ceremony with Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants
4:00 p.m.Brilliant Silk Scarf Painting Demonstration

Sunday
11:00 a.m.Kumihimo-the Art of Japanese Braiding Demonstration
1:00 p.m.Woven Lavender Hang-Up Demonstration
3:00 p.m. Aussie Locker Hooking Demonstration