after buying camp wandawega, we found tons of old photographs of images shot there dating back as far as the 1920’s. i started finding the locations on the camp and shooting these overlays. a ‘then and now’ study. very little has changed….
PARTS N’ PIECES: THE BOX: handmade by an organization who employ adults with disabilities. (designed to be replicas of the pine shipping crates used during prohibitionPACKING: wood shavingsLABEL: (beneath the bottle) describes the sources for syrup. the story behind the newspapers, the syrup, the source)BOTTLE: it took forever to find these, (Grosch-style flip-top dark amber bottle)TWINE: vintage leather twine (until i ran out, used natural cord)HANG TAG: printed by accucolor on heavy craft board stock.(designed by eric ellis)BOOKLET: offset printed, saddlestitched, one color, (also accucolor)
we are finally gettin’ some snow!the scene at camp at the moment is pretty white
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!)
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.
I’ve been obsessed with antique cuckoo clocks –so I’ve been collecting them since i first learned wewere expecting and I knew i wanted a installation in the nursery. I found them various places, via FOUND FREE & FLEA, & rang my g’friend Emily to help me paint them (& install new residences for each– a little bunny, deer, bear, chipmunk, etc.) (thanks erik for making our little video)- Charlie girl (the petite babe) loves watching the clocks-so it was all worth it 🙂
We love Grand Wagoneers.have had 5 in the past decade. It seems that as of late, everyone else loves them too. tommy hilfiger, Ralph Lauren,even the New York Times. While it’s great to see more of them on the road and saved from the scrap yard,its also fun to jump off the band wagon once in a while… so we’re upgrading by downgrading.we’re retiring the faithful GW to move into the cooler big sister the OLD SCHOOL Wagoneer. (the stripped down, vintage original with power nothing and much more retro everything, including the interior, simplified exterior, and a HELLUVA lot…
i found this lovely wedding on the AMAZING blog: oncewed.com (and they found it HERE)
PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS for tabletop:i got a new lens.have no idea how to use it.so they told us to bring some items to shoot…i brought some wandawega honey!(stay tuned to see if the image quality improves, or if i give up entirely)
Bob spent some time at wandawega recently and shot an amazing photo series- (we love you, bob!) check out his fabulousness here: coscarelli.com