Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.

Fiction Book Club - Wednesday, November 12th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm

November’s fiction book club features “A Guardian and a Thief” by Megha Majumdar.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.

In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, containing their treasured immigration documents, has been stolen.

Set over the course of one week, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe.

A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.

Buy a copy in store, use our libro.fm site to download the audiobook while supporting the shop, or grab a copy at the library!

The Yellow House is excited to be a vendor at the third annual festive Mount Hope Farm Sip & Shop!

About the Market

Join us at historic Mount Hope Farm as we welcome the holidays with this special event in our beautifully decorated Barn. Discover unique gifts and seasonal treasures from a variety of local vendors, perfect for checking off your holiday shopping list. Enjoy an evening of holiday cheer as you sip on signature cocktails from Two Gals Cocktails and savor delicious bites from Wedge Cheese Shop, Mason & Twine and Seb's Woodfired Pizza. Take in the festive atmosphere and stroll through our gardens, sit by our solo stoves, soaking in the beauty of the season while you enjoy the company of friends and family.

Vendors Include: M.EYEimages, Susan Troy Cloth, Therapy Boutiques Co., The Yellow House, Fenwick & Oliver, Fruitcake Designs, Simply Chickie, The Robins Egg, Violet Drury, Aucoin Designs, Lizzytish Designs, Coastal Creations, Sealevel Creations, Owl &Hive Apothecary

Tickets:
Pre-registration is encouraged, and a tax-deductible donation to Mount Hope Farm, a nonprofit organization, is greatly appreciated.

Tickets will also be available on the night of the event for a $5 fee.

Come celebrate the magic of the holidays at Mount Hope Farm and find something special for everyone on your list!

The Yellow House will be selling copies of Stefanie Foster Brown’s debut release, “My Heart Speaks Kriolu” at the New Bedford Art Museum Family Storytime.

Where: New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA 02740

When: Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 2pm - 5pm

Free admission / Storybook afternoon with author Stefanie Foster Brown, copies available for purchase from 2pm-5pm.

About the book:

On Saturday walks with her grandfather, a young girl connects with her Cabo Verdean heritage while learning about the true meaning of home in this moving debut picture book.

Papa always speaks of someday bringing his granddaughter back home to Cabo Verde. But the young girl has never set foot on their ancestral island’s faraway shores. And each time Papa urges her to speak Kriolu, the Portuguese creole native to the West African country, the girl’s tongue betrays her, and she stumbles over her own words. If she can’t even get the language right, can her grandfather’s home ever truly be hers, too?

But each Saturday afternoon when she helps guide her sight-impaired grandfather through their close-knit Massachusetts community, the girl swears she can smell, hear, feel Kriolu. And each Saturday she comes closer to discovering where home truly lies.

About the author:

Stefanie Foster Brown is a fourth-generation Cabo Verdean American whose grandparents were the last in her family to speak Kriolu. A former school psychologist, Stefanie lives in Connecticut with her family. My Heart Speaks Kriolu, inspired by Stefanie's memories of taking walks with her Papa in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is her debut book. Visit Stefanie at StefFosterBrown.com or on social media @StefFosterBrown.

Keisha Morris is an illustrator living and working in Maryland. What she loves about her illustration process most is creating characters whose personalities jump off the page. She earned her BFA in illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and mentored with illustrators such as Sean Qualls, Selina Alko, and Dan Santat. When she is not drawing, she loves spending time with her wife, daughter, and two wild cats Elphie and Ollie.

The Yellow House will be selling copies of Stefanie Foster Brown’s debut release, “My Heart Speaks Kriolu” at the Gomes School Library Day of Celebration.

Where: Alfred J. Gomes Elementary School Library, 286 South Second St, NB, MA 02740

When: Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10am - 12pm

Book reading at 10:45 am, copies available for purchase from 10am-12pm.

About the book:

On Saturday walks with her grandfather, a young girl connects with her Cabo Verdean heritage while learning about the true meaning of home in this moving debut picture book.

Papa always speaks of someday bringing his granddaughter back home to Cabo Verde. But the young girl has never set foot on their ancestral island’s faraway shores. And each time Papa urges her to speak Kriolu, the Portuguese creole native to the West African country, the girl’s tongue betrays her, and she stumbles over her own words. If she can’t even get the language right, can her grandfather’s home ever truly be hers, too?

But each Saturday afternoon when she helps guide her sight-impaired grandfather through their close-knit Massachusetts community, the girl swears she can smell, hear, feel Kriolu. And each Saturday she comes closer to discovering where home truly lies.

About the author:

Stefanie Foster Brown is a fourth-generation Cabo Verdean American whose grandparents were the last in her family to speak Kriolu. A former school psychologist, Stefanie lives in Connecticut with her family. My Heart Speaks Kriolu, inspired by Stefanie's memories of taking walks with her Papa in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is her debut book. Visit Stefanie at StefFosterBrown.com or on social media @StefFosterBrown.

Keisha Morris is an illustrator living and working in Maryland. What she loves about her illustration process most is creating characters whose personalities jump off the page. She earned her BFA in illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and mentored with illustrators such as Sean Qualls, Selina Alko, and Dan Santat. When she is not drawing, she loves spending time with her wife, daughter, and two wild cats Elphie and Ollie.

Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around two powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.

Non-fiction Book Club - Tuesday, October 28th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm

October’s non-fiction book club features “A Marriage at Sea” by Sophie Elmhirst.

“A beautiful meditation on endurance, codependence, and the power of love. A dazzling book.” – Patrick Radden Keefe

“Stark, elemental, and sure to be a classic.” —Hampton Sides

“An enthralling, engrossing story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit.” —Bill Bryson

The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He’s a loner, awkward and obsessive; she’s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream – as we all dream – of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?

Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But Maurice began to study nautical navigation. Maralyn made detailed lists of provisions. And in June 1972, they set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves.

What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can’t run away from themselves.

Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

Join Michi for a Fall Tarot Reading Session at The Yellow House! Pass through the snake curtain into our back room and be transported into another realm for a beautiful session with Michi. Each 20 minute tarot and oracle card reading session begins with a mini cleansing/protection meditation. Book ahead with Michi (@mich_tarot) or drop in on 10/25!

When: Saturday, October 25th, 12pm-4pm

Where: The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI 02878

Cost: $35 per 20 minute session

About Michi

Michi (@mich_tarot) is a reiki certified energy worker, witchcraft practitioner, and professional card and rune reader with a tarot room in an artist collaborative in Westport, MA. Her thousands of readings focus on empowerment and positivity, with an extra dash of magick and intuitive wisdom. With a Master’s degree in Education, sessions center around safe and sacred exchanges of information, symbolic interpretations of messages, and creating goals and affirmations aligned with each individual’s unique story- come sit a spell.

Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around two powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.

Fiction Book Club - Wednesday, October 15th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm

October’s fiction book club features “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans.

“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett

A woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how—through letters—in this charming, laugh out loud debut novel about a life fully lived.

“Dear Ms. Van Antwerp,
There is a movie coming out this month and I saw the trailer and it made me think of you. It’s about an old woman who lives alone like a hermit.  She is eccentric and rude….”

Sybil Van Antwerp is a mother and grandmother, divorced, retired from a distinguished career in law, an avid gardener, and a writer of letters. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books. 

Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. But as Sybil expects her life to go on as it always has, letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life.

Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel that is a testament to the power of the written word.

Join Gina of Studio Big Rock at The Yellow House on Saturday, October 11th! Flowers vs the Frost is a celebration embracing the end of our beautiful Farmcoast growing season. Let’s bring all the remaining flowers together for one last joyful arrangement before the frost takes them away. This will be a collaborative installation using flower petals to create images on the lawn of The Yellow House. This unique collaborative craft was inspired by the Day of the Dead floral imagery in Mexico that happens every year on November 2nd.

Join us! Participation is free. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any flowers still left in your garden to add into the mix.

We will also have another FarmCoast Folks pop up tent on the side lawn! You can purchase a kit ($20) to take home and build or you can build it on site if you want a little guidance or inspiration, we just ask that you bring whatever outfit you’ll want to use for your creation! We will have some hay for stuffing available on site. Keep your FarmCoast Folks up for the month of October and send us photos of your creations if you want them shared online!

The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton Four Corners

Join us for a delicious pop-up from the good folks at Middletown based Doughpamine Bakery at The Yellow House on Saturday, 10/4 from 11am - 2pm. There will be an assortment of delicious bagels and pecan caramel popcorn for sale!

Doughpamine Bakery is a woman-owned micro-bakehouse nestled in the heart of Middletown, Rhode Island.

Fully cottage‑licensed, they handcraft every loaf of bread and bagel using simple, wholesome ingredients, no unnecessary preservatives or chemicals. Their commitment lies in traditional baking methods and pure, nourishing ingredients that deliver flavor and quality in every bite.

PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT!

The first ten pre-orders are eligible for 10% off using code POPUPYELLOW10. Use this LINK to shop.

It is not necessary to pre-order but it will ensure you can grab some bagels or popcorn!

They will be in store from 11am - 2pm or until they sell out! Swing by to meet the bakers, shop local, and support small businesses!

Follow them on Instagram at @doughpaminebakehouse

Follow them on Facebook at doughpaminebakehouse

Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around two powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.

Non-Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, Sep 30th 6-7pm

September’s non-fiction book club features “The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life” by Helen Whybrow. Set in Vermont's Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.

We’re kicking off a new autumn tradition! The Yellow House and Studio Big Rock invite you and your family to celebrate the month of October by building your own FarmCoast Folk scarecrow(s)!

How to participate:

1. Pick up your kit at the Yellow House (3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI). Kits are available for $20 from September 20th until early October. Kits have detailed instructions.

2. We will be hosting a pop-up FarmCoast Folk scarecrow building event with Studio Big Rock on Saturday, 9/20 from 12-3pm. You can swing by - watch the team build scarecrows, purchase a kit, begin crafting your own under the tent, or take a kit home to build! If you’d like to craft your own at the pop-up just bring $20 for a kit and some clothing/wardrobe for your own build!

3. Choose your favorite character, tale, or let your imagination run wild when crafting your own scarecrow.

4. Display on your lawn during the month of October.

5. If you completed your piece and would like us to post it, stop by The Yellow House to chat, email photos to hello@theyellowhouseri.com or tag us on social media @theyellowhouse_ri

Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads discussions around two powerful new releases. Sign up for the book club in store or by emailing us and get 10% off the purchase of the featured book.

Fiction Book Club - Tuesday, Sep 16th 6-7pm 

September’s fiction book club features “Culpability” by Bruce Holsinger. A suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.

Join our bookseller, Andrea, as she leads story hour in our children’s nook! Sign up in store - our first ever story hour will take place Wednesday, September 3rd from 10-11 am. Andrea will read from two to three great picture books, come join us! Appropriate for children 2-5 years old, all children must be supervised by their parent/caregiver during the story hour.

Join LitArts RI on Sat, Aug 23 from 12pm-4pm for a community write-in at The Yellow House, a bookstore located in Tiverton Four Corners. Gather with fellow writers from across Rhode Island to work on your individual project in a community setting. Browse books and settle into The Yellow House’s event space (limited interior seating), or bring a blanket or chair to write outside in the nearby sculpture garden. Four Corners offers inspiration for writers, from the bookstore to nearby art galleries, and food from local cafés like Groundswell, The Cheese Wheel and Four Corners Grille to fuel your writing! Meet fellow creatives and spend time generating work in an inspiring environment.

When: Saturday, August 23rd from 12pm-4pm

Rain Date: Sun, Aug 24, 12-4pm

Cost: Free!

RSVP LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-corners-write-in-at-the-yellow-house-tickets-1419742360619

What to Bring

• Chair or blanket (if you wish to write outside)

• Notebook and/or charged laptop

• Writing utensil

• Water/beverage (no alcohol please)

• Food/snacks

• Sunscreen

• Bugspray

• Headphones

Location & Parking

The Yellow House

3842 Main Rd.

Tiverton, RI 02878

Parking available at The Yellow House, behind The Four Corners Gallery, and throughout the area.

Portapotties are available

Accessibility

Please note that the bookstore is in a historic house that is not wheelchair accessible. LitArts RI is actively committed to cultivating a community that values and reflects diversity, equity and inclusivity and to providing programming that is accessible to all attendees. Please let us know about any accommodations we can make to allow you to participate in this event.

Flower Pounding (Hapa Zome) with Studio Big Rock! Drop In Outdoor Crafting Event!

Sunday, August 17th, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm

• Event length: 20 minutes + (feel free to stay as long as you like!)

• Drop in event!

• No experience needed! All ages (kids with adult supervision)

• $20 per person (leave with your own fabricated bandana, tea towel, or wine tote bag)

Join us for a drop in event on our side lawn! Did you know that if you hammer a flower onto a piece of fabric it can produce a beautiful design? The hammering transfers the color and pattern of the flower, actually dying the fabric with gratifying results.

If this sounds interesting to you, come join our community of crafters in this very therapeutic session. Not only will you work out any aggressions through group hammering, but you will leave some lasting impressions.

We will show you which local flowers work best (we’ve tried many). You will also learn how to make the natural dye more permanent. We will have some samples and give you some ideas on how to approach your design. You will leave with a lovely tea towel, bandana, or wine gift bag imprinted with local blossoms.

Provided:

• local flowers and plant material

• 2 prepared textiles (One for practice and another for keeps)

• Guidance and encouragement

• Good music

Bring:

• A hammer (if you can, we will also have a few to use)

Optional: Ear protection if you have it

Optional: Some flowers and leaves that you might like to experiment with.

About the Instructor:

Georgina Melone of Studio Big Rock comes to us from a vibrant design career in the Toy and Entertainment world where she has spent her adulthood tinkering with beloved brands such as Playdoh, My Little Pony, Transformers, and so many more. Most recently, Gina has led the Futuring Team at Hasbro and served as the Global VP of Innovation and Design.

Gina has now entered her “Third Act”, where she is pioneering her role as the Chief Creative behind Studio Big Rock. This mischief-making includes inventing, lecturing and consulting with individuals and corporations.

Also, as a RISD grad, Gina has always enjoyed giving back by teaching and lecturing at RISD, URI, Pratt, Ringling School of Design among others.

So now, at Studio Big Rock she is passionate about sharing the joy of creating by inviting everyone to become makers through teaching meaningful craft experiences.

“At Studio Big Rock, we believe that everyone has the innate ability to create. Come and play with us and reconnect with your maker self.”

Please join us for a reading, Q&A, and signing with local translator Bente Hoegsberg as she presents her newly released book, “The Mountain Gardener”.

• When: Tuesday, August 12th @ 4:00 pm

• Space is limited. First come, first serve.

• Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

The Mountain Gardener:

Written by Elisabeth Sparstad, Vang i Valdres, Norway

Published as Grønn Lidenskap, Landbruksforlaget 2000

Translated from the Norwegian by Bente Y. Hoegsberg

Illustrations by Julienne Alexander

Photographs by Tanaquil Enzensberger and Nils Leine

This book is about a dream and making the dream a reality. Elisabeth moved to a small mountain community. A place rich in natural beauty but with fierce weather. A microclimate conducive to growing herbs and to destruction by natural forces. Becoming a gardener in this place is an uphill battle. The readers follow the early steps, - and failures, of the new gardener’s attempts to make things grow. Slowly she gets the hang of it and within a few years she opens the doors to a plant nursery.

In this process, we the readers, also learn a lot about plants. Did you know that lovage (Levisticum officinale) was used against snake bites and also a love-potion?

It is a story about life and people. We get to meet the aging mother who moved in when her mind started living a life of its own. Then there’s the intern, a cautious young woman who has experienced a little too much in her life and keeps a distance to other folks. Yet, the two become friends.

The year the Chernobyl nuclear plant spewed radioactivity over all of Europe was a dark one. Vegetables and herbs were left to rot on the fields. Livestock was put down.

The reader gets treated to trips into the mountains to pick lingonberries, cloud berries, and seeds from mountain arnica. Delicious recipes are scattered throughout the book. We learn to make alcohol infusion with St. John’s Wort, a fine taste and a ruby red color, sure to lift your spirits!

About the Translator

Bente Hoegsberg has Scandinavian roots and lives with her husband in Little Compton, RI.

Body, Word, and the Writing Muse: An Encounter in Nature

With Author Paula Sager

 Saturday August 2, 9:30am – 12:30pm 

in the Sculpture Garden, Tiverton Four Corners

Join author Paula Sager for a writing workshop immersed in nature. Paula will interweave simple embodied and contemplative practices as she guides participants into and through a writing process. 

Is there something you’re longing to write?

Is there something you’re already writing and you long to go deeper?

Do you have an intuitive sense that writing will support your longing to stay connected with an experience of losing a loved one?

 In her book The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All, nature is both inspiration and witness to Paula’s experience of accompanying her father through illness. Nature continued to be a supportive presence after her father’s death and through her writing of the book.

 Please bring a journal or notebook and your preferred writing utensils. Also, in relation to your longing to write, bring an object or photograph that has meaning for you. 

Details:

Date: Saturday, August 2nd

Session: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (3 hrs)

Location: We will start and end at The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI - the workshop will take place outdoors in the Tiverton Four Corners Sculpture Garden.

Skill Level: Open to all skill levels / novice to advanced writers! We encourage everyone to read Paula’s book, The Watch, ahead of the event, copies are available for sale at The Yellow House.

Fee: $125/person, two spots are “pay what you are able”. Register soon as space is limited.

Email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

About the Instructor:

Paula Sager is a teacher of embodied and contemplative disciplines whose writing flows from the deep perspective she continues to develop through her own practices. She is the author of the recently released book, The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All. With a special focus on the Discipline of Authentic Movement, Paula is co-editor of the collected writings of Janet Adler—Intimacy in Emptiness: An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness  (Inner Traditions, 2022). She grew up in Toronto and now lives in Rhode Island.

Paula Sager takes the reader on a deep dive into the mysteries of memory and intuition, exploring what it means to be human and what it means to love one another. Beautiful written and deeply wise, this is a story we can all learn from.

- Elizabeth Shick, author of The Golden Land, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel

Please join us for a reading, Q&A, and signing with local author Kathryn Ford as she presents her newly released book, “The Aperture Effect”.

• When: Saturday, July 26th @ 5:00 pm

• Space is limited. Seating can only be guaranteed with a paid book pre-order - email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to pre-order.

• Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

The Aperture Effect:

Couples often ask, “Can people really change?” A better question is how do people change? In The Aperture Effect, psychiatrist and couples therapist Dr. Kathryn Ford doesn’t just tell you how—she gives you simple tools that will immediately begin to transform your conversations, your communication, and your relationship. With the radically simple approach of Aperture Awareness, Dr. Ford integrates mindfulness, Western psychology, and neuroscience to help couples shift their dynamics when in distress, turning their difficulties into lasting connection.

Filled with on-the-ground examples and effective exercises to nurture relationship growth, The Aperture Effect will show you how to:

• use small moments to make the changes you want now;

• reframe frustrating debates as open dialogues that create connection;

• bring out the best in your partner and yourself;

• and turn problems into opportunities to learn and love more fully.

Developed over more than two decades, Dr. Ford’s Aperture Awareness approach has helped hundreds of couples reverse the downward spiral of relationship crisis—and prepare for a lifetime of learning and loving together.

About the Author

Kathryn Ford, MD, has been one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most sought-after couples therapists for more than twenty years. Her work integrates her traditional training, meditation practice, and the latest neuroscientific research. Dr. Ford has served as a consultant and director for Tavistock Group Relations conferences, and she continues her work with organizations and corporations as a consultant with Upstart Logic. She has taught therapists and couples in a variety of settings, including Stanford Conti nuing Studies, Stanford School of Medicine, Santa Clara University, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University). Dr. Ford is a regular contributor to Psychology Today, mindbodygreen, and other online publications. She splits her time between the Bay Area and Little Compton.

Habitats for Toads and Fairies

Would you like to escape for a few hours with a whimsical craft class this summer?

Perhaps you’d like to welcome the beneficial toad into your garden with a custom made home?

Or would you rather embrace your inner child and create a fairy house for your resident fairies?

 If so, you are invited to join us as we make homes for these wee creatures both real and imaginary. We welcome the experienced artist or novice crafter alike.

We will provide:

• Natural building materials foraged from our South Coast.

• Shared tools

• As much friendly help, guidance and inspiration that you might need to create .

We will also have some tools to share but please bring if you have them:

• Your sketchbook and pencil

• Garden nippers

• Crafting scissors

Any natural embellishments that you may want to add. Special shells, pebbles, or any interesting miniature accessories. We will be roughly working at doll house scale and smaller.

Note: Please wear crafting clothing or an apron because fairy construction can get messy. This class will be held outside if the weather permits so dress accordingly. Emergency indoor rain location nearby will be announced in case of bad weather.

Details:

Date: Sunday, July 20th

Session One: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (2.5 hrs)

Session Two: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (2.5 hrs)

Location: The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI (in the back yard if weather permits)

Skill Level: Open to all skill levels / novice to advanced crafters!

Fee:

Adults (18+ up) are $100/person

Kids (8-17) are $60/spot when booked with a participating adult guardian ticket ($100). Fun for grandparents or parents + kids!

Email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

About the Instructor:

Georgina Melone of Studio Big Rock comes to us from a vibrant design career in the Toy and Entertainment world where she has spent her adulthood tinkering with beloved brands such as Playdoh, My Little Pony, Transformers, and so many more. Most recently, Gina has led the Futuring Team at Hasbro and served as the Global VP of Innovation and Design.

Gina has now entered her “Third Act”, where she is pioneering her role as the Chief Creative behind Studio Big Rock. This mischief-making includes inventing, lecturing and consulting with individuals and corporations.

Also, as a RISD grad, Gina has always enjoyed giving back by teaching and lecturing at RISD,URI, Pratt, Ringling School of Design among others.

So now, at Studio Big Rock she is passionate about sharing the joy of creating by inviting everyone to become makers through teaching meaningful craft experiences.

“At Studio Big Rock, we believe that everyone has the innate ability to create. Come and play with us and reconnect with your maker self.”

Four Corners Gallery in Tiverton Four Corners presents Dawn Tripp, author of “Jackie”. This is the first local event celebrating the release of “Jackie” in paperback! The Yellow House will be selling books at the event.

Please email us at hello@theyellowhouseri.com if you would like to pre-order a copy.

Location: Four Corners Gallery 3838 Main Road, Tiverton, RI

Date: Friday, June 27th

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Meet friends and neighbors, paint, and relax at the shop! You'll make your own paint by number artwork - these kits are all lovingly artist designed and fabricated.

Details:

Date: Saturday, June 21st

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (2hrs)

Location: The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI (in the back yard if weather permits)

Skill Level: Open to all skill levels

Fee: Eight spots are available at $50 per person. Fee includes your own paint by number kit, you will have four to choose from. A complimentary beverage is included with each ticket!

Email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

Please join us for a reading, Q&A, and signing with local author Maggie Jackson as she presents her book, “Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure”.

• When: Sunday, June 8th @ 4:00 pm

• Space is limited, please RSVP at hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

• Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

Uncertainty: A Path to Flourishing (and Survival) in an Age of Angst 

In an era of rising flux, uncertainty seems a byword for angst and inertia. But contrary to popular assumptions, this mindset offers a proven path to adaptability, creativity, and even resilience – the cognitive skills we need most in tumultuous times. Today, wielding our unsureness well is the secret to thriving. 

Join former Boston Globe columnist and acclaimed author Maggie Jackson for an interactive talk on her timely new book Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, nominated for a National Book Award and named the Independent Publishers of New England’s “Nonfiction Book of 2024.” 

Drawing on deep research and vivid story-telling, Jackson will reveal how strategic uncertainty can help us think insightfully under pressure; tame our anxiety; start healing the divisions of our day; and curb the rising risks of increasingly powerful AI. By harnessing our unsureness, we can face the future with wonder and curiosity, not dread and fear. 

About the Author

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author known for her prescient writings on social trends. Her latest book, Uncertain, was named a Top 25 Nonfiction Book of 2024 by the Next Big Idea Club led by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink and Adam Grant. Uncertain also was chosen as a best book of the year by Library Journal, Greater Good magazine, the Artificiality Institute,and the Independent Publishers of New England. A former Boston Globe columnist and past AP foreign correspondent in Asia and Europe, Jackson contributes to major publications including The New York Times. Her acclaimed book Distracted (2nd ed., 2018) sparked a global conversation on the costs of fragmenting our attention. Jackson has advised leading executives, scientists, educators, and change-makers worldwide and her work has been translated into multiple languages. She divides her time between New York and Little Compton and is an enthusiastic year-round ocean swimmer.

Save the date! The Tiverton Four Corners shops and galleries will be extending their hours for a neighborhood stroll. More information to come ☀️

WHEN: Saturday, June 7 from 3pm-7pm

Please join us for a presentation, Q&A, and signing with local author Mary Thompson-Jones as she presents her newly released book, “America in the Arctic, Foreign Policy and Competition in the Melting North”.

• When: Sunday, June 1st @ 4:30 pm

• Space is limited, please RSVP at hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

• Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

Presentation:

As climate change accelerates, the Arctic has become a frontline of global competition.

Melting ice, rising temperatures, and swelling seas have made remote regions newly accessible but also rife with new dangers. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has embarked on a substantial military buildup in the Arctic. China has declared itself a “near-Arctic nation” and is also building an aggressive presence, and President Trump has brought new attention to the region with his talk of "taking" Greenland.

Drawing from her newly published book, America in the Arctic, Mary Thompson-Jones will make the case for a much deeper -- and broader -- U.S. commitment to a region threatened by climate change and major geopolitical rivalries. She will briefly trace the history of the U.S. presence in the far north from the purchase of Alaska through the Cold War and suggest lessons from the past that should inform America’s relationships with its Arctic neighbors today.

About the Author

Mary Thompson-Jones is a professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. As a member of the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative she has presented on Arctic security panels in Denmark, Norway, and Greenland, and teaches an elective course, “Imagining the Arctic.”

She is the author of America in the Arctic, Foreign Policy and Competition in the Melting North (Columbia University Press 2025), and To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect (Norton 2016).

She is a former Foreign Service Officer who served in diplomatic posts in the Czech Republic, Canada, Guatemala, Spain, and Washington, D.C. She retired with the rank of Minister-Counselor.

Mary also teaches diplomacy at the University of Rhode Island. She holds a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, a master of arts in law and diplomacy from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science from California State University.

She lives in Tiverton, Rhode Island, with her husband, Robert Sturdy.

Craft your very own tiny book jewelry with local artist Andre Lee Bassuet. You'll make a set of two tiny books using the drum leaf binding method. You can keep it as is or turn them into a wearable piece of jewelry, like a necklace or earrings. 

About the Instructor:

Andre Lee Bassuet is an artist, designer and educator based in Rhode Island. She completed her MFA at Osaka University of Arts and a Bachelors from New York University. As a book artist, she reuses materials that have been discarded or forgotten to explore themes of trauma, resilience and belonging.  She is currently teaching the Art of the Book at Brown University. Check out her recent work @andreleebassuet on Instagram.

Workshop Details:

Date: Saturday, May 31st

Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM (3hrs)

Location: The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI

Skill Level: Open to all skill levels

Fee: Seven spots are available at $125 per person. Fee includes materials. You will leave with your own handmade, hand bound book jewelry!

Email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

Honey Bee Class- A Bit About the Bees and Crafting with Wax

The industrious Apis Mellifera (The Honey Bee) provides humankind with much more than honey!  Let’s celebrate spring together by engaging all of our senses while learning about the honey bee.

This session starts with an overview of honeybees and beekeeping throughout the 4 seasons of our beloved South Coast. Then we will get buzzy dabbling with wax crafts such as rolled beeswax candles and bee wraps. Lastly, bee students will be able to sample some of our local honey.

Our instructors David and Gina of Studio Big Rock have been keeping bees locally for over 20 years and will be eager to share with you this fascinating hobby.

This class is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn more about bees, as well as those who may be interested in becoming beekeepers themselves one day.

Students will leave with a deeper understanding of bees and beekeeping as well as their own handcrafted beeswax candles and food wraps.

Workshop Details:

Date: Saturday, May 24th

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (2 hrs)

Location: The Yellow House, 3842 Main Road, Tiverton, RI

Skill Level: Open to all skill levels

Fee: Six spots are available at $80 per person.

Email hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

Please join us for a reading, Q&A, and signing with local author Nancy Stanfield Webb as she presents her newly released books, “A Woman of Marked Character”.

• When: Sunday, May 4th @ 4:30 pm

• Space is limited, please RSVP at hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

• Pre-order your copy by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

In Book One 1812-1848 of this sweeping historical/biographical novel series, Sarah Ridge, the surviving daughter of a prominent Cherokee tribal leader, tells her story amid the tragic resettlement of her people from Georgia to Indian Territory during the 1830s, and its ensuing, heartbreaking aftermath.

Book Two 1848-1891 presents a different look and feel to the reader. Sarah, having left her Cherokee life and strife behind, is a divorced, independent woman living in antebellum Galveston, Texas. In 1856, she marries again and moves with her three children across the Bay. As a determined pioneer on a coastal cattle ranch, she encounters a bitter land encroachment, the privations of the Civil War, cattle rustling, and heartbreaking adversities that rip her soul.

“In her historical novel, Webb blurs fact and fiction, animating the subject and era. Well-educated and decisive, Sarah took on the role of family matriarch ... while managing her own household amid a frequently fractious marriage. The first half of Sarah' s life, which [Book One] depicts, occurs during the most tumultuous and tragic chapter of Cherokee history. ... [F]or such an important period of history often overlooked in historical fiction, this is a welcome addition. " — Kirkus Reviews

Nancy Stanfield Webb is a writer, painter, and photographer who has devoted three decades to researching and writing the two-part biographical fiction series on Sarah Ridge. A great-granddaughter of Texas pioneers and now living in Rhode Island, Webb's essays and interview articles with visual artists have been published in Southwest Art magazine and various regional magazines. She is an associate member of Western Writers of America and the recipient of a writing residency to Millay Colony for the Arts. The author of Book One of A Woman of Marked Character, in Book Two, Webb concludes the series.

Independent Bookstore Day is almost here - Saturday, April 26th! Come support your local bookshop and enjoy cookies, sales, and more!

Please join us for a reading, Q&A, signing, and haiku writing session with author Holly Thompson as she presents her newly released book, “Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker”.

• When: Sunday, April 13th @ 4:30 pm

• Space is limited, please RSVP at hello@theyellowhouseri.com to reserve your spot.

• Pre-order your copy of Listening to Trees by emailing hello@theyellowhouseri.com

Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker (October 2024) is a poetic and moving picture book biography celebrating the life and work of the visionary Japanese American woodworker George Nakashima.

 Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, George Nakashima began a love story with trees that grew throughout his remarkable life as architect, designer and woodworker. During World War II, George, with his wife Marion and their baby daughter, endured incarceration in Minidoka prison camp, where he drew comfort from the discipline of woodworking. Once free, George dedicated the rest of his life to crafting furniture from fallen or discarded trees, giving fresh purpose and dignity to each tree, and promoting a more peaceful world.

Author Holly Thompson narrates Nakashima's life using haibun, a combination of haiku and prose, which twines smoothly through Toshiki Nakamura's earthy illustrations. A foreword by Nakashima's daughter Mira and robust back matter will deepen young readers' understanding of woodworking and poetry and offer added insights to the work of a master artisan.

Praise

"A moving story of family, resilience, and sustainability."—Booklist

 A 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book

About the Author:

Holly Thompson (www.hatbooks.com), longtime resident of Japan, is the author of three verse novels for young people: Falling into the Dragon's Mouth; The Language Inside; and Orchards--winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. She is also author of the picture book biography Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker; The Wakame Gatherers about a girl gathering seaweed with two grandmothers; and the poetry picture books Twilight Chant and One Wave at a Time. She edited Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction—An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories featuring ten stories in translation. Holly is a graduate of the NYU Creative Writing Program and is a Regional Advisor Emeritus of SCBWI Japan. Now based in Massachusetts, she writes and translates poetry, fiction and nonfiction for children, teens and adults; teaches writing at Yokohama City University, Boston's GrubStreet, and UC Berkeley Extension; and visits schools in Japan, the U.S. and places in between.