Let's Celebrate the Holidays In Historic Style

Community is a concept which really hits home as the Holidays approach.  Here at Thrasher Works, we are very lucky to call Winnetka Heights our home base.  Not only do we get to wake up each morning in a beautiful, historic home circa 1918, we get to live in a neighborhood which truly functions in a manner which is kin to a Norman Rockwell painting.  Well, maybe if the house was cleaner.  And I cooked.  But, you get the idea:  deep front porches, fifty year old trees, and neighbors that wave, talk, and are happy to watch your son as  you get an hour of much needed 'quiet time'.

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Thrasher Works is happy to support our neighbors who have generously agreed to open their homes and show off a bit of our City's wonderful history.  On December 7th, the Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association will be hosting their 27th Holiday Home Tour.  The event will ring in the holidays while celebrating our  Winnetka Heights neighborhood, which was designated as an historic district over thirty-two years ago. The neighborhood is one of the largest areas of historic preservation in north Texas,  as it has turn of the century gems showcasing Craftsman and Prairie style homes.

Bart and I have been fortunate enough to have landed here, in a home which, as I have written before, is very much identical to my childhood home.  It is a  typical American Four-Square with Craftsman details that I'd love to show one day when our home is on the Winnetka Heights Holiday Home Tour.  Well, that is once it's completely restored.  And clean.  And well decorated for the Holidays....who am I kidding?  That isn't going to happen.   Let's just enjoy the meticulous labor of others better than me!

Therefore, Thrasher Works will be participating in the Home Tour (just our second year) in the Silent Auction held at the Turner House. We have donated one of our handcrafted end grain chopping blocks. This isn't your everyday cutting board.  With artistic flare, we have combined quarter-sawn White Oak, Ipe, Maple, Poplar and Mahogany woods.  

This is actually our second run of boards.  This time we used a 'salad bowl finish' which offers more versatility and  and ease of care.  Plus, over this past year, we have been blessed with many different projects, allowing us to use a greater variety of wood species...all the more beautiful, right?  Oh, and I can't help but boast that these boards are also  available at the Dallas Museum of Art.

I encourage you to come down to Oak Cliff December 7th and see for yourself.  You may buy tickets at the website here or simply come visit the Turner House, a  Modified American Four Square style  home built in 1912 for East Texas Oilman J.P. Blake.  Great history!  We just love to be part of the historic fabric which created this fabulous pocket of Dallas; we give thanks for the community in which we get to raise our son.  


We wish the same for you and yours.  Happy Holidays!...a little early.  Now, chop up some sweet potatoes and let's dig in!