— when the day’s work is over, the farmer’s wife provides a grand meal for these friends,-Such an occasion is described by the Latvians as a “Talka. … Sometimes five or six farms will be visited before the party returns home.” This coming April 30th we will be hosting our annual TALKA, with 30+ friends coming to help us paint, plant, repair, and open up our dear Camp Wandawega for another season. Here are some highlights of the chain gang (we mean ‘work party’) from years past.(thanks erik law for always having his camera handy!)
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at summercamp, you will find no shortage of these.slates from the turn of the century, easels from retail stores from the 20’s,even the tiny garden variety used to mark herbs. I use them for literally everything from way-finding to menu boards.(as seen here for a past halloween party) but my typography is sorely lacking compared to this brooklyn artist. My friend william sent us her link and we are IN LOVE! BE STILL MY HEART.
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I was digging through one of the attic boxes of god-knows-what,and found one of our old wedding invitation packages…Hatch show print used a chunk of an old wood block print from a Hank Williams show poster to print them… check out their fabulousness here: countrymusichalloffame.org
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a teeny impromptu babette shower hosted by the fabulous william boys.aka: guncles. drunkles. fairy godparents…(we love you guys!) yes, this is nearly 4months ago. but pink never goes out of style.highlights:vintage champagne glasses of chocolates, 3 kinds of champagne cocktails @ a champagne tasting bar. busbybakes take-home cookies on a homemade 3-tier cake stand.
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a kickstarter film long-overdue is in progress: “OLD FASHIONED- The Story Of The Wisconsin Supper Club’ check it out here
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1. whip up a big ole’ campfire. 2. snap a graham cracker i half, and add a chunk of a hershey bar. 3. Stick a marshmallow on a stick (we like to use a long green tree branch with a wittled tip) 4. Hold it over the hottest part of the fire you can find. 5. turn turn turn. (or, if you’re adventurous, let it catch on fire & blow it out) 6. shove that lovely mess in-between the cracker + mallow. 7. sandwich it all together. 8. squeeeeeze the grahams together, pull out the stick. 9. Wait a bit…
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A few years ago, a bunch of friends and i did shot-skis at an old lodge-themed bar in northern Michigan, and I’ve been wanting to make one ever since. Shown here are: me, David, our neighbors and our homemade shot-ski. Here’s how you make one: 1. Lay ski down and apply space out shot glasses equally along the whole ski, once you have decided where you would like to glue them make a small mark for reference. 2. Get glue out and apply to bottom of shot glasses individually, place and hold firmly where you marked on the ski. 3….
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Odd. I know.But i started collecting other people’s vintage photo albums,and found that most had at least one shot of a picnic.here is a small sampling of my growing collections.In here are folks picnicking over the past century inArgentina, London, Spain and the Czech Republic.(Makes me want to pack a basket!)
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So I’m planning the next Wandawega winter excursion…and have been warming up the camera (my photo lessons are starting to pay off, thanks to my dear friend Julia (juliastotz.com)Here are a couple dishes i shot that my friend Christine (busbybakes.com) made, and we plan on serving up. Yummmmm.
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