CELEBRATE…FIVE FESTIVE FRIDAY EVES
CEDAR CREEK SETTLEMENT’S HOLIDAY EVENTS

November 21 & 28 and December 5th, 12, & 19, 2008 5-9 p.m.

Five Festive Friday Eves celebrates an exciting series of five, free, family-oriented, evening events during the holiday season at Cedar Creek Settlement. The Settlement features 25 unique shops; gift and specialty shops, antique stores, galleries, three restaurants, artists studios and the Cedar Creek Winery nestled in a restored 1864 woolen mill, festively adorned for the holidays with luminarias, natural greenery, garlands, beribboned wreaths and thousands of tiny white lights. Free Admission to all events.

Friday, December 5...10 am -9 pm "Christmas In The Country" is Wisconsin's premier, nationally recognized Christmas boutique, featuring some of the finest Midwestern folk artists and Christmas artisans in a juried show.

Peek into the Settlement Shops, several merchants will have homemade cookies with recipes for you to sample. ***The show/sale runs December 5-7. Admission: $3.00. Special homemade cookie sampling & recipes from merchants. Winter cookout. Luminarias.

Friday, December 12...5-9 pm "Santa's Workshop". The fourth in the 2008 series of free Festive Friday Eves holiday celebrations at Cedar Creek Settlement is "Santa's Workshop" Friday, December 12, from 5-9 p.m. This free special event for children and families will highlight a child's look at Christmas. Santa‚s Workshop is sponsored by the merchants of The Shops of Cedar Creek Settlement.

Santa Claus will be expecting visits from children (and adults) in his decorated holiday corner in the Cedar Creek Winery Cellar from 5:00-8:30 p.m. Letters and lists for Santa will be carefully read and treasured. Parents are invited to bring their cameras.

The holiday songs of famed balladeer and children's entertainer David H.B. Drake, in his Christmas Gnome finery, can be heard from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on the Settlement main floor landing where Bank Mutual will offer complimentary hot chocolate.

Mom and Dad will love the shopping and children can participate in free holiday workshops, including a Make & Take to paint Clay Bisque Holiday Ornaments, Cookie Decorating and just-for-fun Temporary Tattoos. Parents must accompany children under 10. At Jewelry Works, you can Mine Your Own Grab Bag for $5.00 and find complimentary Face Painting. Enjoy sampling dips, treats and cappuccino at Peddler‚s Corner.

The Settlement will also host an outdoor Winter Cookout featuring brats ($2.00) and hotdogs ($1.00) in the outdoor courtyard, alight with twinkling white lights, greenery and luminarias.  Visitors are also invited to enjoy complimentary cider and cookies.

Cedar Creek Settlement shops, restaurants ˆ Anvil Pub & Grille, Cream & Crepe and Tomaso‚s and Cedar Creek Winery are open daily and welcome you with the old-fashioned good cheer of a Cedarburg Christmas.
PREMIER SPONSOR: BANK MUTUAL

Call: 262-377-4763 or 866-626-7005 for further information.

Friday, December 19…5-9 pm "A Taste of Christmas". The fifth and final event of Cedar Creek Settlement‚s Five Festive Friday Eves Celebration begins Friday, December 19 from 5-9 p.m. with „A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS‰.

The evening is designed as a romantic evening shopping getaway for grown-ups who are searching for unique „knock-your-socks-off‰ last minute gifts. There will be lots of live music throughout the evening, including The Lakeshore Saxophone Quartet, in black-tie, from 5:30-8:30 and the spirited group, NRG, a Milwaukee Showcase Chorus of Sweet Adelines, who will be strolling throughout the shops from 5:30-8:30.

Grafton High School Chamber Singers will be dressed in Madrigal finery as they sing holiday songs from 5:30-6:30 p.m. followed by the Cedarburg High School Choral Singers singing carols from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

A Cooking-with Wine demo and tasting will be in Cedar Creek Winery, along with complimentary Wine Sampling. Complimentary munchies will be provided by shop owners, as well as the famous Outdoor Cookout. (Brats $2/ Hotdogs $1). Bank Mutual will be on hand to serve complimentary hot chocolate.

***This year is a difficult financial time for many families. With that in mind, the Cedarburg Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a non-perishable food drive to benefit Family Sharing of Ozaukee County at the Settlement shops on this evening. From 5-9 p.m., for every donated food item brought in, the donor will receive an entry form that can be filled out and deposited in various boxes for a chance to win one of several decorated prize baskets, brimming with gift items donated by Settlement merchants.

Bank Mutual and the merchants of Cedar Creek Settlement are proud sponsors of the 14th annual Five Festive Friday Eves holiday series. The Settlement‚s 1864 limestone buildings are home to 25 shops, artists‚ studios and restaurants where you‚ll find original, creative and collectible gifts in a sparkling, holiday setting. Just 20 minutes North of Milwaukee. I-43 to Cedarburg Exit 89 (Pioneer Road). Right on Washington Avenue to Bridge Road.

FOR INFORMATION: 262-377-4763 or 866-626-7005

THANKS TO OUR PREMIER SPONSOR: BANK MUTUAL
FOR INFORMATION: 866-626-7005 or 262-377-4763
Washington & Bridge, Historic Cedarburg
I-43 North. 20 minutes N. of Milwaukee