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|| Vintage Halloween || Herbal Food Fest || Start the Season at our Holiday Open House Weekend || Free Program: Herbal Hints for the Holidays by Kathleen Gips || Open House Every Saturday || Free Carriage Rides Through Chagrin Falls || Holiday Hours || 13th Annual Victorian High Tea || Tea Tasting Club || Fall 2006 Herb Classes || "How To" Garden Class || Holiday Herbal Craft Project || Fresh Herbal Wreath Class || Herbal Gift Basket || Herb Craft of the Month || Herbal Closet Sachet Bar ||

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Vintage Halloween

Did you know Halloween is the second biggest holiday for retail sales? Decorating for Halloween with vintage items is becoming increasingly popular. The Herb Shop searches all year for unusual and interesting Halloween items. Our displays include fall foods, pumpkin pottery, vintage reproductions, Halloween trees and ornaments, vintage carved pumpkins, witches hats and gloves, candles, and spicy rosehip potpourri.

• When: October 1 to October 31
• What: Every October Saturday: Herbal Halloween Party with Blackberry Sage Brew, Pumpkin Dip, Orange Hot Chocolate, Pumpkin bread. Wear a costume and receive a Halloween Treat!
• What Else: Special Brown Bag Discount Halloween Shopping every day in October. Fill our brown bag with Halloween items and get 30% off all items that fit in your bag (Halloween items only). One brown bag to a customer per visit please.
• October 28: Chagrin Falls Celebrates the Wizard of Oz. Oz day costume parade at 10 am. Take a carriage ride. Look for decorated scarecrows all over town. Meet an original munchkin. Enter the Auntie Em pie baking contest. See whose dog looks the most like Toto.

Herbal Food Fest
Saturday, October 21

• 11 am to 4 pm: Taste Foods prepared with our own gourmet Village Herb Shop food products and fresh herbs. Learn how to make quick and delicious foods for easy entertaining. Sample our favorite products during this food tasting event. FREE.
• 11:00 am to 12 noon: Herbal Cooking Class by Chef Sura in our upstairs classroom. Watch her prepare easy recipes for entertaining. Learn how to use fresh herbs in cooking. Taste Southwest Vegetable Cornmeal Pancakes with Sun Dried Tomato Salsa and Lemongrass Vinaigrette Salad. Seating is limited for the cooking session. Reservations requested. FREE.

Start the Season at our Holiday Open House Weekend
Friday, November 10 & Saturday, November 11 from 10 - 5

Join us to celebrate the Season and see our Holiday Gift selection.

Featuring...

• Wassail
• Herbal Refreshments
• Herb Basket Raffle
• Door Prizes

Receive a free holiday gift with your purchase.
(While supplies last!)

Free Program:
Herbal Hints for the Holidays by Kathleen Gips
Friday and Saturday @ 11:00 am

• Reservations Please. Learn how to use herbs to prepare for the coming holiday season. Taste easy-to-make herbal bread dipping blends, butters, and herbal vinegars. Clean your home for your guests with natural herbal cleaners. Try our easy recipes for simmering spices and potpourri. Nurture yourself with soothing herbal lotions, bath salts and aromatherapy sprays. Try an herbal microwave wrap. Keep germs away with anti-viral herbs. Stay healthy with herbal teas. Learn how to use natural scents throughout your home.
• 2006 Holiday Craft: Create a Reed and perfume Room Scent Diffuser. Come anytime. Friday or Saturday. $12.00 each, includes perfume scent, glass bottle, and reeds in a gift basket. Reservations please.

Open House Every Saturday

Visit the Herb Shop every Saturday leading up to New Year’s. We bring new Holiday items to our shelves every week. Join us for a different Herbal Demonstration each Saturday. We will show you how to use herbal scents to entertain, refresh and relax. Bring your friends and relatives. Let us create a custom gift basket for everyone on your list.

• Nov 18: Microwave Wraps
• Nov 25: Holiday Potpourri
• Dec 2: Giving a Tea Party
• Dec 9: Lotions and Creams
• Dec 16: Perfumes
• Dec 23: Candles

Join us for Wassail and Refreshments!

Free Carriage Rides Through Chagrin Falls

Stop in to the Village Herb Shop for your free carriage ride tickets with any purchase.
Carriage ride schedule, Thanksgiving to New Year’s, is available at any StepNorth merchant and at the Village Herb Shop.

Holiday Hours

• Monday through Saturday 10 - 5
• Sundays Oct 29 - Dec 17 12 noon to 4 pm
• Closed: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day
• Closed Sundays after Dec 24 to May

13th Annual Victorian High Tea

• Friday, December 1
• Three seatings: 11am, 1pm and 3pm

Join us for a formal tea featuring herbal and edible flower tea time sandwiches, breads, desserts, teas and punch. This is the Village Herb Shop’s most popular event. Invite your friends to begin the holiday season.

• Limited Seating.
• Reservations Required.
• Tickets: $18.00 each.

(This tea will be held at our off site location in Kathleen’s Victorian Home. High Tea Program will be given at each seating. Map, address, and directions will be sent with your ticket.)

Victorian High Tea Tickets

May be purchased at the Herb Shop, by mail with check: send your name, address, phone number, number of tickets requested, seating time requested, guests’ names and payment to Village Herb Shop or by phone with Visa/MC.

• Payment required at time of registration.
• Make your reservations early.
• Seating is limited.
• Reservations accepted after September 1.
• Tickets and map will be mailed to you two weeks prior to the tea.
• Cancellations policy: Refunds will be given if seats can be filled.

Celebrate the season and join us for tea!

Tea Tasting Club
Winter 2007 Session
Saturday, January 27

• Learn about tea
• Demonstrations of proper brewing techniques and tips on serving tea
• Taste a variety of teas: red, green, black, herbal
• Enjoy tea time desserts with friends
• Fee: $5 at the door for each seat
• Free admission if you bring tea time sandwiches, bread or dessert to share
• Two tea tasting seatings:
  • AM: 10:30 am to 12 noon PM: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
• Reservations Required.
• Seating is limited.

Join us to sip and savor! Would you like to have a Tea Tasting Party for your group? Ask us!

Fall 2006 Herb Classes

"How To" Garden Class
Wednesday, October 18

Learn to Prepare the herb garden for winter. How to do a fall clean-up, and organic mulching.

• Free.
• Reservations Required.
• Work in Gardens: 10 to 12 noon
• Free Lunch for Garden Workers: 12 to 1.
• All herb gardening questions answered.

Holiday Herbal Craft Project
Friday, November 10 & Saturday, November 11

Learn how to make your own reed diffuser gift kit! Follow our step by step directions to make a reed diffuser to add wonderful holiday scents to your home. Easy to make and easy to use. Let us show you how. This is a great gift idea. Choose a scent: Vanilla, Fig or Red Currant.

• Fee: $12.00 each
• Reservations
• Anytime 10-5

Fresh Herbal Wreath Class
Friday, November 17

This class has become an Herb Shop tradition. Join us to start the holiday season. The class will make a fresh herbal wreath centerpiece for the holidays. Fragrant fresh herbs and greens fill a circular frame of oasis to create a living wreath. This attractive wreath will stay fresh and grace your table from Thanksgiving to Christmas with minimal care. All fresh herbs, greens and supplies are included. Bring scissors. If you have extra herb cuttings from your garden bring six inch cuttings (optional). Herbal breads and tea will be served. This is always a popular class so sign up early and join us for herbal friendship and fun.

• All materials provided
• Bring a pair of sharp scissors
• Class size limited to 25 per session
• Workshop Fee: $28.00
• Morning: 10 am to 12 noon
• Afternoon: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Herbal Gift Basket
Saturday, December 9

Use garden herbs to make scented gifts for the holiday and home.
Attendees will make a complete herbal gift basket filled with scents of the season to take home. Basket will include a jar of fragrant Bayberry and Rosehip Potpourri, a Frankincense and Myrrh room spray, Orange and Clove simmering mix and a Balsam sachet. Recipes are included so you can make more baskets for holiday gifts. Class will fill, wrap, and tie gift basket.

• Extra baskets are $10.00 each
• Reserve materials to make extra baskets with your registration
• Holiday refreshments will be served
• Morning and afternoon sessions
• Workshop Fee: $16.00
• Morning: 10:30 am to 12 noon OR Afternoon: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Herb Craft of the Month
You Can Learn a New Herb Craft Every Month

Learn how to use herbs to make natural products to improve your health and home. No reservations are required. Complete directions provided. Look for craft table in our upstairs classroom. Fee: $5.00 Make your craft any time on any day we are open. Craft Schedule:

• October:
  • All Natural Instant Lemongrass Hand Sanitizer
• November
  • Lavender Sachet: make three lavender sachet to tuck into drawers and closets or give as gifts
• December
  • Scone Mix: a delicious scone mix kit to serve at your next tea party.
• January
  • Create your own herbal tea bags. Make a dozen tea bags.
• February
  • Natural Rosemary Lemon scouring powder
• March
  • Moth Chasing Herbal Closet Bags (make 3)
  • NEW! Purchase Herb Craft of the Month Volume 1 (2005) for $5.00 including recipes for all the herb crafts for last year. Volume 2 (2006) will be ready at the end of the year.

Herbal Closet Sachet Bar

Did you know many herbs contain essential oils that naturally discourage moths and insects? The herbs bay, thyme, lavender, rosemary, santolina, wormwood, southernwood, tansy, sage and cedar chase insects away. Use our simple hints below to remove moths from your home safely without chemicals or poisons.

1. Remove food, dog food or birdseed that contains the moths and larva.
2. Clean all areas with herbal vinegar. In a glass jar mix one cup of moth chasing fresh herbs in 3 cups white vinegar. Steep for one week and strain.
3. Use all natural moth traps to catch any remaining moths in areas where moths were seen (available at the Herb Shop)
4. Put bags of closet mix in the area.

We create our own Village Herb Shop herbal moth chaser sachet mixes, closet sprays and matching refresher oils. We offer Lavender Cedar, Bayberry Balsam, Moth Chaser (spicy cinnamon/sandalwood scent) and Dream Pillow (light rose) scents for$2.95 per cup. Herbal closet mixes absorb odors and give a fresh scent to closets, trunks, drawers, lockers, cars, shoes, linens and blankets. Place 1/4 cup of mix in an old hanky or 12 inch square of fabric. Or purchase our muslin bags at 50 cents each to contain the mix. Hang the bags in rooms to dispel musty or unwanted odors. Use our closet sprays for instant scent and our refresher oil when fragrance fades.