Hailey and Becké had a great time at the All Dressed In White Bridal Show this weekend! It is always exciting to see peoples eyes light up as we explain that, yes the hotel does look like the model, and yes the rooms will be as spectacular on the inside as they are the outside. Working on the inn everyday, we sometimes forget just how special it really is!

We will be on the road again in February, on Saturday the 23rd, for the Swank Wedding Show at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver. I hope we get a chance to see you there!

The boys were working under cover today (sort of) as they installed the teamwork under the eaves of the North Star tower of the Hazelnut Inn. It was definitely tricky work. It took three guys (all hooked in of course) to do the task. Two held the piece while the third quickly fastened it into place. The tricky part was fitting into the lift basket. It is amazing how much better the tower looks with the detailed pieces in place! Tomorrow, the weather is forecast to improve some which will make the last pieces a little easier to install. I can hardly wait to see it all done! Stay tuned…

Hailey and Becké had a great time at the Westin Bayshore Hotel last weekend for the 42nd Annual Wedding Fair. They had our model on display and chatted with two or three hundred brides to be (and one groom). Everyone agreed the Hazelnut Inn will be a magical honeymoon spot (and the groom really wants to hold a Dungeons & Dragons tournament in the Under Hill suite).

The Copper Crown has a roof at last! It is a complicated roof with a variety of pitches and a couple towers to boot and Howie’s Roofing crew has done a wonderful job! Now we had better get busy building the finials to finish it off!

Large structures always dominate the working space in the Imagination Corporation’s shop, making it hard to walk from one end to the other without carefully picking a winding path between them. That certainly describes the shop these days! The Copper Crown’s castle tower and roof are two large pieces. They are almost ready for the spray insulation which will be done shortly. Then we’ll finish the interiors of both pieces and put the shingles on the roof. That will make them ready to lift into place, hopefully by the end of next month.

Today was a big sculpting day as the crew did the complete castle tower exterior of the Copper Crown Suite in the Hazelnut Inn. Outside was a blustery winter day (cool, rainy and windy) while inside we worked in comfortable shirtsleeves. Next week we’ll lift off the top cone to do the shingle work and also begin the paint work on outside of the tower. The inside will be sprayed with insulating foam and then we will do all of the interior finish work prior to lifting it into place as a complete unit. That will save a lot of time on scaffold and ladders!

If you look close at the half round panels over the windows you will see an interesting detail. Above each of the four windows there appears an initial. HS, PS, JS and HS. These are the initials of the Sawatzky family members; Hailey, Peter, Juniper and Henry. One small detail of thousands we will lovingly incorporate throughout the Hazelnut Inn.