Our friend Jon Oye drew a new map for Camp Wandawega. Jon is a dear long-time friend of ours- a full-time illustrator @ Ogilvy Chicago, and a long-time camper at Camp Wandawega. He has an amazing talent for illustration– especially with fine line work. Check out his blog here(and scroll down to see samples from his baseball series. I’m a little obsessed with them).
Every year for 9 years running, we’ve hosted friends and their kids for KIDS CAMP. The only good reason to buy a crazy run down camp is to share it with friends. 1. 80-foot slip n slide (thanks Bill, Joe & Ben) 2. Firetruck with ear blasting speakers. 3. Fireworks so big that the police came (not kidding) 4. Heritage bikes bringing the coffee & breakfast coffee keg. (thanks, guys) 5. ParaNorman in the outdoor theater under the stars 6. Campfire songs on the beach (thanks Joey & Laurie) 7. 25 XXL pizzas (thanks Pete & Nicole!) 8. Smores,…
Just went live this morning!Yay! …. Featured in a series of short stories written by Emily Fiffer for Daily Candy’s national channel. The brain behind the THETASTYNUGGET.US… Nathan Michael.Co-conspiritor and food genius… Heather Sperling. (We love you, Emily – for such a beautiful recap.) check out the main post here-And all 8 individual stories featuring all of the different collaborators.
… To announce the launch of their new Fall line. check it out. Holy *($#%!… do we love this. Somehow, when talented designers, filmmakers, photographers like these folks- come to visit, they see this place through an entirely new lens. David & I (as the default caregivers of this communal space we call home) sometimes fall victim to focusing on our reality of just keeping the roof up. Days and evening spent trenching out broken water pipes, swapping out rotting landscaping timbers, repairing ripped screens, fixing geriatric bed frames with duct tape and prayer….. it’s akin to painting the golden gate bridge….
I know we always say ‘nothing is ever too far gone’… but his one gives me pause. So much, that it’s actually been sitting in storage for two years already because it’s such a mess. It’s a 1959 Jetstreak Crestliner aluminum boat. There are sites out there dedicated to nothing but these things.So while I’m excited to dig in, I fear that it may be a money pit.(Stay tuned for the ‘after’ — we hope to have it done by this summer.) We picked this model because it looked durable.Able to stay tied up to the pier and weather the…
Um…. this is amazing. Graham Kostic, you sure know how to throw a party. We’ve had a blast working with Glossed & Found on different collaborations over the past few years: HOLIDAY CRAFT SERIES 1HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING EPISODE 2CAMP TOUR Come back any time!
We had seen his work on boats everywhere.He’s an old-school original. He letters everything by hand and a can of one-shot.So we were happy to hear that he was game to come pay us a visit to camp and letter on site for us. He started with the door of the canned ham trailer.And this week, he’s doing the doors to the fire truck (check back to hear more about this new toy!)
We are super excited to host a dinner for our favorite entertaining magazine, KINFOLK. We have been picked as a curated group of locations to hold one of their coveted dinners(this month’s dinner span from Norway to NY to England to Japan) Want a seat at the table? HERE are the details.(they just went up this morning, and went so fast there might not even be any left by the time im done typing this 🙂 more to come. stay tuned. Thanks to our sponsors and partners: Illinois Sparkling Co, Estra Style Fleur Chicago Whole Foods Solemn Oath brewery Julia…
We love their product, their folks, their culture. So we were super happy to host a party / photoshoot for them at camp recently for a new line- The full pictorial hits soon, so in the meantime, here are some behind-the-scenes for what was an incredible shoot. the video in instagram feed the FB posts the tweets the flckr gallery
in 1973 four girls hit the road on the most epic road trip they would experience in their entire lives. 40 years later, they revisited that road trip by way of a nostalgic excursion to camp wandawega. As I we were pulling into camp last weekend, we caught them packing up their cars, their stay with us had come to a close. I could see from across the parking lot that they had a big stack of vintage magazines- (always intrigued by anyone who brings vintage magazines to stay a stay with us, i had to get nosy and see…