About The Wildwood Cottage

The first thing you notice in a visit to The Wildwood Cottage are the gardens. The Wildwood Cottage is surrounded by beautiful perennial gardens and towering pine trees. There are a variety of different perennials from daylilies, black-eyed susans, and hydrangeas, to joe-pye weed, butterfly bush and different types of sedums. But, our favorite by far are the hostas. There are over 200 hostas of various sizes and types throughout the Wildwood Cottage gardens. It's a gorgeous setting. Nature presents a serene, inspirational, peaceful setting and the perfect place to relax and create a new craft.

The Wildwood Cottage was created out of our love for art, stenciling, and crafts in general. We enjoy learning new painting techniques or trying out a new craft project. We've taken classes on a variety of different craft techniques including, one stroke painting, stenciling, mosaics, polymer clay, and stained glass. We've tried out various stencils, stencil brushes, acrylic paints, fabric paints, mosaics and general craft supplies over the years.

We've listened to how frustrated other crafters were by the overwhelming selection of craft supplies available. It's difficult to decide what to buy. So we decided to offer our crafting tips and techniques for creating unique arts and crafts projects. When were not working on a new craft you'll find us in one of our wildlife gardens.

Where did the name Wildwood Cottage come from ?

The name Wildwood comes from some of the history of the surrounding area. The Wildwood Cottage is located in beautiful White Bear Lake Minnesota. There was an amusement park named Wildwood on the shores of White Bear Lake back in the 1920's. The Wildwood amusement park was the highlight of the area at that time. The Wildwood Cottage just seemed like the perfect name for our company.

The Wildwood Cottage is a web site that provides tips and techniques, ideas and inspiration for unique art projects and crafts.