3597 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Over the summer we learned that Seattle-based Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches would be coming to Lafayette where La Boulange Cafe used to be and thanks to a reader for pointing out that the signs are now up. Check out their menu here.
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Saturday, November 19th, 2016
2:00 – 3:00pm | FreeJoin us for a musical afternoon of jazz piano with the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society. A variety of performers will play standards and new favorites for your musical pleasure.
3604 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
The popup store The Cashmere Sale has opened for the second year in a row in Lafayette, their only East Bay location. Their last day will be December 14th. Check out their website here.
The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
6:30 – 8:00pm | FreeSunset Magazine Garden Editor, Johanna Silver, offers behind-the-scenes secrets of the Ruth Bancroft Garden that every gardener will appreciate. Her book, The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden, offers glimpses of Bancroft throughout her life, and stunning images of her iconic garden.
Johanna Silver began at Sunset in 2008, managing the editorial test garden where she designed, built and maintained small gardens for publication in the magazine. By 2009 she earned a James Beard award for her online contributions to Sunsets’s One Block Diet project, a garden-to-table experiment.
“In 2016, she oversaw the creation of new editorial test gardens as part of the brand’s historic move from Menlo Park to Oakland and Sonoma. Her work has been featured in Architectual Digest, Refinery29, Popsugar, and more, and her collaborations helped earn Sunset The American Society of Magazine Editors award for General Excellence in 2014, and a nomination again in 2015.The Bold Dry Garden is an excellent holiday gift book!
Books available for purchase courtesy of Orinda Books
La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
Douglah Designs opened a showroom in La Fiesta Square in Lafayette late last year and they have now expanded next door where Caroline’s Salon used to be. Check out their reatil showroom page here.
Photo by Flickr user danmoyle
Thanks to local broker Brendan Moran with the The Simply Bay Area Team for the monthly real estate updates for Beyond the Creek.
Click the links below for a complete list of home and condo sales in Lamorinda (Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda) for last month, October, 2016:
Lamorinda October sales (Acrobat Reader .pdf)
3413 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
The Karate & Fitness Place closed in February in Moraga and they have reopened in Lafayette. Check out their website here.
Photo from Lafayette Juniors
Lafayette Juniors Rummage Sale:
Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church
49 Knox Dr, Lafayette
Saturday, November 5th, 2016
8:00am – 2:00pmLafayette Juniors 23rd Annual Rummage Sale Saturday, November 5th, 8 am–2 pm. Special Early Bird Entrance fee $5 per adult from 7 am–8am. Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Dr., Lafayette. Pre-loved designer clothes, baby and kid clothes, toys, children’s gear, furniture, household goods, and much more. Cash and credit cards accepted. All sale proceeds benefit local non-profits that serve women, families and seniors in need.
The juice, meal and snack company Urban Remedy opened last week in La Fiesta Square in Lafayette and while at the nearby Whole Foods I noticed a new section dedicated to Urban Remedy products.
3416 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Taylor & Jacobson Custom Jewelers is coming to the El Diablo Forge building in Lafayette next to where the Lafayette Art Gallery used to be. Check out their online gallery here.
From their website:
Catherine Galloway, the current owner and chief designer, has been in the jewelry business for 30 years. From working at the bench producing jewelry for other designer, to teaching the jewelry arts to hundreds of students, to running her own business, she has vast experience in many aspects of the jewelry business.