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With the help of Inland Northwest Bank, a stone engraving company moves forward despite a rough economy.

Airway Heights, WA: GardenStone Creations (http://www.gardenstonecreations.com) announced its expansion into a large custom storefront. This Spokane, WA area business has grown into its new accommodations despite the economic recession – and thanks to help and support from the local community. GardenStone Creations, a stone engraving company, began as a small division of sister company Cascading Creations (http://www.cascadingcreations.com) a landscaping, hardscaping and custom water features company.

 

Since its Inception, GardenStone Creations has unveiled an online store, expanded its product range and now, is ready to do business from a retail location the company built from the ground up. In an era where small businesses are failing due to a combination of poor consumer confidence and institutions unwilling to extend credit, the company has enjoyed improved business based on two factors: customer loyalty and the unwavering support of Inland Northwest Bank.

 

“It’s tough times for a lot of people, but we’ve been fortunate enough to be part of a great community,” said GardenStone Creations owner Kelly Tareski. “We have strong roots here in the Pacific Northwest. People care about us as a business and as people. I really have to hand it to Inland Northwest Bank for recognizing our potential and backing us up, even as other banks are leery of investing in small business.

 

“The Spokane Valley Insider has also helped us with a ‘buy local’ profile, and great people like our concrete contractor, Smiley’s Construction, have done tremendous things for us. Really, there are too many people to thank in a few short sentences.”

 

GardenStone Creations has kept a video diary of the store’s development on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/CascadingCreations. Visitors will be able to see examples of the company’s stone engraving, buy engraved garden stones and other decorations, and order custom work.

 

About GardenStone Creations

 

Airway Heights, WA based GardenStone Creations (http://www.gardenstonecreations.com) specializes in engraving stone for special occasions, landscaping features and indoor décor. Founded as a division of Spokane-area landscaping company Cascading Creations, GardenStone has grown into a distinct business offering personalized garden stones and other engravings featuring text and images, rendered in high quality by experienced artisans. Contact info@gardenstonecreations.com for more information about the company and its products.

 

*Web Site: http://www.gardenstonecreations.com

 

*Email: info@gardenstonecreations.com

 

Contact Details: GardenStone Creations

 

*Street: 1515 S Lyons

 

*City: Airway Heights, WA

 

*Country: USA

 

Zip Code: 99001

 

Telephone NO: (509)244-0900

Spokane Area Home & Garden events.

Fri-Sun, April 3-5 - Home & Garden Show at Spokane's new convention center. Fri: noon-9pm, Sat: 10am-8pm, Sun: 10am-5pm. Come get new ideas for your upcoming remodel or new landscape, or just to learn more about what you have now.

Saturday, April 11, 10am-3pm - North County Chipping and Composting Event at Fire Station 49, Hwy 395 & Monroe Road. Kids, come and meet Smokey the Bear! Bring in your natural vegetation for free chipping/disposal.* Attend a seminar on composting and you can receive a free home compost bin (one per household-bring ID). You can also learn about protecting your home from wildfires and find out about the new outdoor burning rules.

*The following items will not be accepted for chipping: branches over 3" wide and 6" long, stumps, root balls, soil, lumber, or trash. Please bring a shovel or pitchfork to help us unload your debris.

Saturday, April 25, 11am-2pm--Arbor Day Fair at Finch Arboretum. Attend composting seminars and get a free recycled compost bin at the end (one per household-bring ID). There are also worm bins for the kids to check out. Other local organizations will have booths and there will be a tree planting. Call the recycling hotline at 625-6800 for more info.

Saturday, April 25, 10am-3pm--Master Gardener Open House at the County Extension Education Office on Havana--next to the fairgrounds. Education clinic open for questions with many free publications. Plant sale, yard and garden sale, and displays and demonstrations throughout the building. Special features include cooking demonstrations, a gardening activity room for the kids, and tickets for raffle prizes with a horticulture theme are available. Refreshments are provided. For more info, call 477-2181.

Sunday, April 26, 11am-3pm - Earth Day Celebration at Riverfront Park. There will be live music and educational booths at the event. Bring the kids to the EnviroKids' Club booths to participate in many hands-on activities.

Five Ways to Use Stone Engraving in Your Household

A beautiful stone engraving just begs for a place in your home . . . somewhere. It can be a challenge to find a place for something with its signature visual impact. Here at GardenStone Creations we have plenty of suggestions to offer. Here are just five of them.

Address or House Stone: An engraved stone is a classy replacement for wood or metal street numbers. Plus, you can add your own names, or the name you have for your house. Nothing’s quite as welcoming than actually saying, “Welcome to the Smiths’” right on your porch.

Date Stone: One great custom engraving stone is a date stone façade. You see date stones whenever you visit old buildings, and see the construction date carved into their cornerstones. If your home has a natural stone exterior, consider adding a date stone to a prominent place. It may not be the date of construction, but it’s when you came to live there, and that’s just as important. Add your name to leave your mark on the homestead. Naturally, you can’t exactly rearrange the stones in a supporting structure, but you might be able to add a great granite façade. Ask us about it!

Garden Stone: Naturally, we’re going to recommend engraved garden stones. As you might guess from the name GardenStone Creations that’s kind of what we like! Seriously though, you can get a great effect out of adding an engraved stone to a cairn or other collection of rocks, especially if you can get a near-matching color. Add a wildlife theme or words you like, and they’ll merge seamlessly with the environment around them.

Gatepost: A gatepost is a great accent for a long driveway. It serves much the same function as an address stone. It stands at the foot of your driveway or path on a post – or if you feel like splurging, you can use a large stone on its own (that’s what we do for Cascading Creations). Add your address, family name or even just something you want to share with the world.

Mantel Decoration: This is a classic spot for a small stone engraving, like a wedding stone. The natural, one of a kind look goes well with classic wooden fireplace mantels, while the polished surface lets it fit in with smoother, modern designs.

Once you’ve made a choice, contact us. We’ll work to get exactly what you want on the stone, so that wherever you put it, it’ll be the perfect addition to your home!

Concrete for the Rock Shop

We are working Hand in Hand with our Concrete Contractor. Phil is one of the best concrete contractors in the Northwest and is available to take a look at your project.

Finishing the Floor at GardenStone Creations and the office of Cascading Creations.

Monte moved the bus (ok it was a trailer)

Here I am goofing on the show "Extreme Home Makeovers' when they say "MOVE THAT BUS"

Unveiling GardenStone Creations new store

Here is the Unveiling of the new storefront for GardenStone Creations and the office of Cascading Creations.

A great article from the Spokane Valley Insider.

We have spent some time getting to know our neighbors from Local Hands Northwest to the Spokane Valley Insider. It has been great to say the least. We are making contacts from our facebook profiles. Monte Tareski and Kelly Tareski are both on facebook and have been making friends all over the Northwest. We have started to spread our philosophy of "Buy local". The editor of The Spokane Valley Insider was gracious enough to give it a tab on his on-line publication for "Buy Local". See it for yourself and let us know what you think.

Cascading Creations at the Spokane Home and Yard Show

We showed off our talent at the Spokane Home and Yard Show from Feb 27^th to March 1^st. We’ve already blogged about this a couple of times. From the build to the show itself, we had lots of fun and met plenty of people. If we met you, great! But if you missed us and the show, that’s too bad. We hope to see you soon, or at our landscaping materials yard, where we can talk about both landscaping supplies and the services we can offer you.

Here we are, setting things up. Via Youtube (more about that in a sec).

Feast your Eyes on Our New Digs – via Youtube!

Cascading Creations and Garden Stone Creations now have a channel all about Washington landscaping and stone engraving – well, it’s all about us, at the very least. Right now we’re filming the construction of our big new facility, including our offices, stone engraving workshop and more. We’ve upgraded our presence beyond the traditional view of landscapers as “some guys in trucks” with our Spokane landscaping supplies yard – our enhanced office and work space takes that to the next level. Plus, we aren’t above having a little fun while we’re at it. See for yourself by watching the video!

As you can see later on in the video, even though it’s March, it’s still snowing – so it’s still time to call use for snow removal in the Spokane area. Remember that we’ve got instant on-site email, so even if we’re on the job, we can probably dig you out that day in no time!

Soon though, spring really will be here, and that will kick us into high gear as people put serious thought into getting landscaping and hardscaping jobs done for the season. Plus, the Spokane region will be full of all kinds of dirt and debris from the receding snow and ice. We’ll be out there to help you – all you have to do is call.

YouTube - CascadingCreations's Channel

YouTube - CascadingCreations's Channel

The Spokane Home & Yard Show 2009.

Wow
The Spokane Home&Yard; Show has come to an end for 2009 and We won an award for the most creative booth (ok I embellished a bit). It was a good weekend for both Cascading Creations and GardenStone Creations. We made lots of new friends and there are many people excited to see our new store when it opens in April.