Habitat for Humanity of Tulare County

Birdhouse Auction

If you come, We will build it!

Thank you to all who attended!!

Milla Wineries

Caccatore Winery

Engelman Cellar

Prospero Winery

Caryn Cain and the "Backroads Wineries" of east Paso Robles

Beer provided by Sequoia Beverage

Food donated by

Zhuo-The Marriott Hotel

Cafe 225

The Purple Gourmet

Tom's Fun Foods

 

 

 

Music By

 Members of "Wadaba AnnyeBen"

&

St. John's River Boat Jazz Band 

 

 

"Sanctuary"

Donated By Brian Pickens

Limited edition framed print


Thank you Brown's Custom Jewelery and all the merchants who donated silent auction items.

 
Auction Item 1

Glass Menagerie

By Chris Van Goethem

Chris started  working as a self taught lampworker in 1999. Years later he took a year of hot glass classes at Bakersfield College and two years at Fresno State. Chris is presently working out of his studio in Exeter and has had several exibits in Visalia and other cities in California.

 

Auction Item 2

Lighthouse

Donated by Centex Homes: Built by Tom Butts

Tom works for Centex Homes and loves to take his construction skills into the Art arena. He loves building very unique playhouses and built a ship facade into the alter of a  Church in Lemoore. This beautiful birdhouse is made from recycled construction materials.

 

Auction Item 3

Starling for Attention

By Jennifer Pinheiro

 Jennifer has made a birdhouse every year of the Birdhouse Auction. She works at Will Tiesiera Ford & Mercury as the controller and is a mother of two. Her creations are all made from recycled china.

Auction Item 4

  Row House

By David R. Griswold

“When one of my fences blew down 2 years ago, I could not throw away the good boards that had weathered over the past 20 years. My inspiration came from our very good friends and neighbors, Jonnie and Howard Lester who had given me a birdhouse as they packed up to move.“

Auction Item 5

Asian Getaway

By Jim Dinsmore

 Jim made this birdhouse out of a scrape piece of spruce from an old Piano that was creatively turned into a Bar for a Client. Jim retired in 1996 after being a Covenant pastor for several years. Jim & Jolene moved from Minnesota to Tehachapi after selling their property, and then settled in Tehachapi. He hand built most of the furniture in his new house in the mission-arts & crafts style, and then started doing fine inlaid work with recycled wood as a hobby.

Auction Item 6

Quetzol Temple

By Richard Arenas

  A native of the San Joaquin Valley, Mr. Arenas studied art at C.O.S. and California State. His work differs vastly from 7in bronze figures to 18 foot steel Mayan-inspired sculptures. He describes his work as ‘a variety of emotions’. Richard has taught sculpting and gives lectures throughout the valley.  This interesting piece was made in honor of the "Quetzol", a bird in mexico who's feathers are used to decorate traditional regalia.

 

Auction Item 7

Notin' But Natural 

By Peter Hickey

This very special piece was made from what could be a 3000 year old sequoia tree. The tree was probably cut down 75-100 years ago and the piece here was part of the unusable scape that was left in the forest. Peter split this piece along the natuarl fault lines, hollowed out a section for the birdhouse and then screwed the piece back together to look as natural as possible.

Just like nature would make.

 

 

 

Auction Item 8

Presidential Suite

By Newell Harum

This Lincoln log house has shingles that were hand made by Newel. He has been working with wood all his life and has taken on many projects for Christ Lutheran Church and other orginizations since retiring from being the Superintendant of Schools for the Visalia School District.

 

 

 

Auction Item 9

Nice Kitty

Marn Reich

This is the third birdhouse Marn has created . She usually works in uncolored stoneware, so creating the whimsical designs on this birdhouse was a rare delight. She began working in clay about 16 years ago and has taken classes and workshops all over California.  Her work has won ribbons from the Visalia Art League, the Tulare County Fair and she had a solo show in 2007 at the Arts Visalia Gallery. Marn is proud to say that there are pieces of her art in collections throughout the U.S.

Auction Item 10

Two Night Stay at the

Marriott Hotel San Diego

Donated by

Marriott Hotel Visalia

Auction Item 11

Catalina Cruise
DONATED BY
Executive Travel

 

Auction Item 12

One week stay at PGA West in Palm Springs Area
DONATED BY
LONNIE AND LAURIE TIESIERA
Will Tiesiera Ford Mercury

 


Auction Item 13

Sept 13 to Sept 20th, 2008 
Ko-Olina Marriott Timeshare in Oahu
2 Bedroom Timeshare right on the beach! !
DONATED BY
KYLE AND LORIE RHINEBECK

 


Auction Item 14

One week at Sea Garden

Mazatlan Mexico
2 Bedroom Timeshare right on the beach! !
DONATED BY
Jesse Flores

 

 

Thank you

Downtown Merchants and Arts Visalia for Displaying the Birdhouses

Link's Men's & Women's Wear

Brown's Shoe Fit Co.

Jet Boutique

Beverly's Fabrics N' Crafts

Mike's Quality

Pauline Collection

Main Street Coin Company

Suite Boutique

Mill Creek Miniatures

Special Thank you

Lonnie & Laurie Tiesiera 

Food link

BSE Rents

Mooris Levin & Son

Pine Recovery 

Roger & Karen DeLemos

Luis Nusery

Thank you for all the "Volunteer" Food Donations

Pizza Hut on Akers

Tahoe Joe's

Apple Bee's

Pick Up Stix

Koinonia

Vajar's Mexican Restaurant

 

Comittee Members

Deanna Saldana

Laurie Tiesiera

Venita Jourdan

Vicki Stasch

Monique DeLemos

Amada Lang

Wendy Rivera

Pauline Leedom

Liz Panell

Dan Merritt

Thank you to all the "Host Committee"  members for helping us sell tables for this event.

 

All proceeds from the event benefit Habitat for Humanity of Tulare County as we provide more low-income families in our community with decent, affordable housing.