For over 40 years, the Pittock Mansion has been transformed into a winter wonderland during the holiday season. This year’s festivities celebrate Christmas Around the World, with the mansion’s 23 rooms bedecked in global holiday cheer.
Deck your halls with this wreathmaking class at Portland Nursery. Take advantage of the myriad of greens, cut flowers and more available and learn to add your personal style to a basic holiday wreath.
The built-in bookshelves in the home-office-formerly-known-as-den have become battle grounds for a bloodless conflict I’ve come to think of as “Treasured Tomes Verses Titles Powells Won’t Buy.” In a family of four avid readers, the books come in, the books go out. Some are borrowed from libraries, others from friends, but most are bought, read, held onto a few years and then sold back to secondhand books stores, passed along to friends, or donated.
The Montavilla Farmers Market is having a special Thanksgiving Harvest Market this weekend so you can get all the fixin’s for your T-Day dinner from local farmers.
North Portland Preserve and Serve is giving a cranberry sauce class this weekend to brush up on your skills for the most iconic of Thanksgiving condiments.
Popsicle sticks make fine birdhouses. Just don’t expect to see any at the Portland Bazaar. Grace Bonney, founder of the Design*Sponge website and author of Design*Sponge at Home, is co-hosting the December event, and Bonney is an astute observer (and absorber) of good design. Spongelike, you might say.
Learn how to butcher and cook a chicken and truss and carve a turkey this weekend in preparation for next week’s Thanksgiving festivities.
Arts & Crafts architects are known for bringing the outside in to unite design with nature. In this encore presentation by the Architectural Heritage Center, CJ Hurley and Barbara Pierce will detail what inspired the visionary architects.
Boys Fort beckons. Wandering through the pop-up shop is almost as much fun as sneaking into the “No Girls Allowed” forts of childhood. Boys Fort is chock full of the kinds of things that beg closer inspection. Like desk lamps made from vintage cage front mechanic’s lights. Or birch bark containers that look as if they were just peeled from the tree.
The Williams-Sonoma Homestore in Portland inspires the ideal hostess in my head. She’s the one who graciously welcomes guests with drinks in Baccarat crystal chilled with chic and smart stainless steel “ice” cubes, serves hors d’oeuvres from the little wood-topped kitchen island, before settling back in an adorable little Parisian flea market chair to raise a glass and say “Cheers!”
