Wandawega Blog Archive

Spiked hot chocolate on the Icerink out back (the old canned ham we scored from a hunter in upstate wisco for $500 is a great warming station- it makes the pilgrimage from the field to the frozen lake on occasion) .thank you @mindysegal of @hotchocolatechicago and @davidtsay (shooting for @betterhomesandgardens )

December 1, 2018 • Published by Tereasa Surratt

First holiday in the new house – time to break out the embarrassing large stash of vintage Christmas ornaments In the attic. #HoardersWithoutBorders. .Photos @theamericanswede @merrittogren

November 26, 2018 • Published by Tereasa Surratt

The crew @sanborncanoe are sportsmen in all weather. We are so excited to finally have the chance to collaborate with them! (More on that soonest) .#sanborncanoe .Photos by @sanborncanoe @theamericanswede @merrittogren

November 25, 2018 • Published by Tereasa Surratt

Staying Young.We thought this would be a flash in the pan. Just a single season collaboration. So when the line launched with Land of Nod, we stashed a second set of everything in the attic (in the hopes of gifting to future grand babies)We would never have believed then if someone had told us that so many years later, part of the line would still be alive and kicking (in stores, online, and still on Charlies short list to play with). And yet – somehow these little wooded forest friends, her favorite sleeping cabbie canoe (and sometimes dog bed) – her dollhouse, and hideout tent are still surprising us in our feed.I hope she never gets tired of playing with them, because then (as Peter Pan and Winnie the Poo have taught us) she will have grown out of them, grown up.So here we are with all of her cousins, back at the family farm – sucking up every last minute of her#StayLittle@CrateAndKids

November 23, 2018 • Published by Tereasa Surratt

TODAY WE ARE THANKFUL FORA few days off work to spend time with family exploring midwestern tourist stops, in often overlooked parts of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.The 99-year-old proprietor of the oldest souvenir shop in Mo. who shared her stockroom of deadstock with us.The proprietors of the Nauvoo Hotel for keeping it a time capsule you can sleep in.The extra whipped cream on the hot cocoa at the landmark Starved Rock Lodge.The owner of art/thrift resale shop shop that sold us an 1850s oil landscape (for less than the cost of a family dinner). Having our daughter explore the same caves that Samuel Langhorne Clemens did when he was her age.

November 22, 2018 • Published by Tereasa Surratt