Sharing happy moments of distraction.(I need to be heavily distracted right now).So – sharing pretty, Inspiring, creative things from pretty, inspiring, creative humans. @ponnopozz gets married and rings up @rosewoodwed to help her throw a shindig and calls in @foreverhellofilms to take the pictures. I find that sharing creative things made by creative people make sometimes helps us heal Also, I love that she made a banner for people of honor. Seems like a good aspiration for us all.
November 7, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Our camp neighbors and friend at @fieldnotesbrand @coudal just released our favorite series yet: The 64th Quarterly Limited Edition for fall, 2024 : The Birds and Trees of North America Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (18691960).A blast attending their launch event at the Field Notes headquarters (gorgeous offices, gallery & showroom)They also made an incredible short doc telling the story of Rex & his work (a must-see) on their site.@heidimcoudal brought another great spread with her @bigdeliciousplanet team and @solemnoathbeer @hiddenhandbeer stocking our Wandawega Georges Nickel Ale alongside our other favorite brew: the New Field Notes Charming Beer. (Were obsessed with the design of the can, the webbed chair. The tote bag, every detail nailed.) Weve been fans of Field notes brand for too many years to count. So much that we partnered with @ClaytonandCrume to make leather journal carriers for our own customized Wandawega Field Notes that they made for us. ABOUT (the newest – and we think best yet) SERIES:Rex Brashers artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of Americas bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insightful descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds. By the late 1920s, Brasher nearly 60 years old was finally satisfied with his paintings, and set out to publish a collection of his work. Unhappy with color printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-colored all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932. Weve carefully reproduced six of Brashers colorful illustrations on two 3-Packs of Field Notes Ruled Memo Books
November 4, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Woke up to this text from a bestie yesterday morning What I shared the first time @theworldofinteriors shared our story :Be still my heart.If you know me, you know what this particular magazine means to me.@theworldofinteriors is the only mag Ive ever saved every issue of. The one I wont set a drink on, or put in my bag without first wrapping it obsessively, swaddling it in a t-shirt (really).Its the one that even fancy hotels / home castles cant influence their way into. They cover the unique stories – that also have interesting interiors that tell those stories.Not all of the spaces they cover have proper interior-designed pedigree. But all have a layered backstory. Many of their articles show things that other magazines with interior in the masthead wouldnt dare.A disheveled bedroom.A sink piled with dirty teacups.But thats the thing thats always drawn me to them.The real. The messy. The unexpected.In the same issue youll find a story on Andy Warhols Life Box hoarding collection followed by some obscure book on the history of Lithuanian textile making.Every issue is a masterclass in design. Written by people who can see the backstory and beauty in everything, regardless of pedigree. Even a little Midwestern summer camp.WOI is the last place I ever dreamed would acknowledge Wandawegas existence, let alone want to feature it.Heres the unlikely way they found us:A stranger wrote us: my husband and I have a one year old baby. I havent slept in months – Im exhausted. I need a quick get away – and Im drawn to what youve created. Is there any way youd consider having me as an artist in residence?And that was it.He drove 6 hours, and we were fast friends. Like the kind that you meet and think havent we already known each other for a lifetime?He wanted to shoot the corners in rooms that everybody else just walks past. Like my embarrassing shelves of overflowing stacks of jars & tins that Ive dragged back from far flung markets because I love the labels.Thank you @theworldofinteriors for making us feel seen.Shot by @taylorhallobrien written by @donnasalekThanks @finney____finney for the morning message.
November 3, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
So much fun last night with everyone who came out to our new shop launch inside @orderandexperimentation & to celebrate the launch of the new @accidentallywesanderson with drinks by @hendricksgin, custom WES pastries by @delsur.bakeryA few snaps of The costume contest winners congrats @carleighconnelly and @croches on your first place costumes
November 1, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
TONIGHT Teaming up with @accidentallywesanderson for their book launch party and to celebrate the opening of the Camp outpost Wandawega Bureau Of Tourism inside our favorite @orderandexperimentation. Fun to get to work with our friends at @marthamae.beautifulthings for a little convo (about why my first-ever camp business card reads proprietor & Janitor).Raiding the Camp Wardrobe Dept. to snag this 1940s GSA director uniform for the costume contest tonight (the winner gets a free stay at camp, and other winners get some serious swag from our Order & AWA pals)..Thanks, Heather of @vavoomstudios for the fairly accurate portrayal of the life working at this joint: (burnt smores, spilled beers, a mangy raccoon missing most of his toes & our perpetually broken archery equipment).
October 31, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Nothings as easy as we think its gonna be around here. (Squeezing in our last few grounds projects before snow hits).After 3 years, artist cabin (sycamore house) is finally getting its backyard lounge. Lay your own stone patio they said.Its easy they said.3 tons of flagstone,2 tons of sand,1 ton of gravel later- we finally got it done. It takes a small army (or at least 3 of us, a ditchwitch, tractor trailer, UTV pug with dump bed, a week and lots of Advil).We rarely show our work in progress shots, cause its never pretty (and we just wanna spend the time getting it over with) but we figure sometimes it helps to show that its never as easy as a phone call to a contractor. (Im still digging gravel out of boot treads).It could have turned out more perfect -But we saved almost 80 percent of the cost by DIYing it – And gained some new character callouses.
October 29, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Halloween creeping in at camp -Wrapping up a little fall project : Finished up our artist cabin grounds shed. (Cause tiny spaces need love, too).Make-your-own Ingredients :- start by commissioning the Wisconsin Mennonite community to construct the base.- source antique cottage windows & door – dead stock 1930s blinds (courtesy of @deconstructioninc – add a barn light, planters- trip to the rock quarry for flagstone – mix in one reluctant daughter to wield an axe and give best Halloween face
October 28, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Happy birthday to our little Charliegirl. Where has 14 years gone?Slipped into a time travel rabbit hole this morning over the years at camp with our favorite little human in the whole world. Not so little anymore (that last shot is from last night).I pray she never gets too old to hold my hand.Time is vapor.
October 27, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
If this isnt my future. I dont want it ..Zoom in to this first pic I wanna be friends with this lovely bird dressed up in her girlscout best. Just hanging with my friends in the craft cabin on an autumn afternoon. @ponnopozz – still obsessed with how you gather/host / share your creativity & world with F&F…@foreverhellofilms – great pic
October 26, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
Good night with good friends @longmanandeagle Cheers to:Executive chef @bmotyka91 Chef De Cuisine @alexandria_onfire Bar Manager @jaywcullen (Thanks @_lyndonfrench_ for joining us & capturing).@tincupwhiskey
October 25, 2024 • Published by Tereasa Surratt • Instagram
