About last night… Photos : from #campwed tag & @campwed feed with @cherrybevents @onefinedayproductions @april_mae_creative @laurelynsavannah @hudsonink
Some lady bosses from all over the country have descended on camp this week and are creating some pretty amazing things. (Nerding out to have @spoonflower here and @ponderosa_and_thyme giving a workshop among some other girlcrush creatives) photos by: @blissfulskystudio @onarosefloral @starrmercer (this year + a couple past) #campwed
Last weekend these girls threw themselves a party. (Sure beats the weiner roast we typically have). // Last photo in scroll (of the dock) photographed by @missnortherner //
Its starting. By this time tomorrow, @campwed will be in full swing. Workshops and talks. Chef dinners and creative classes. Gearing u to give a talk to the fifty+ creative attendees on 360 Creative Living -Photos from #campwed tag & @cherrybevents, @onefinedayproductions @lexiafrankphoto @saffronavenue @starrmercer @spoonflower
SUMMER IS SLIPPING AWAY… (This might be the best home movie of a summercamp weekend thats been shared with us so far ) @matt.scheffer – yall know how to have a good time
We have found Northwoods paradise, and its called @CoonsFranklinLodge. Think Dirty Dancing in Wisconsin (if Kellermans where originally a logging camp from the 1880s turned lakeside resort) /// First up on our research trip of 4 days of 12 historic Wisconsin Northwoods lodges, lakeside retreats, summer camps & fishing/hunting camps ///Coons is a throw-back to 1930s heyday of the lakeside resort. Our cabin – and the entire 200 acre resort – is literally a time capsule, running 126 seasons and counting. Coons was not manufactured to emulate a historic experience It is the most historically accurate preserved place weve ever seen. A time capsule timber clubhouse with ping pong, billiards, and the longest old hickory rocker lake porch weve ever seen. Log cabins lining the lake. an ice and firewood boy delivers every morning. a server & dining room table assigned to you in the main lodge for your stay.You are required to dress up for dinner.No credit cards. In keeping with throwback lodging tradition.Upon acceptance of your reservation, you must mail in a deposit check. (a personal fav old school detail)The heater1940s – in mint condition, a beautiful, functional museum pc.Resort standard in 20s-60s, One weeks stay is required. (unless you can snag one of the rare 3-day windows that occasionally pop up)No negotiating, no discounts, no trades. (they have never advertised. don’t need to) Its blissfully in the middle of the northwoods. (They dont even get the newspaper)Its Classic 1940s American Plan you eat every meal at the lodge. as a whole- in our estimation, pretty damn perfect.We met some unexpected families that we soon discovered have a common denominator: theyve been return vacationers for many decades. Coons is known for being fiercely protective of their guests privacy.Suffice it to say their library is stocked with books written about their guest families. Many of the regulars are household names of the past century (from the pages of text books, printed on beer cans and carved into monuments). We felt damn lucky to have snagged a last minute cancellation
Anybody looking for an internship? #CanUseMoreHelp (scroll down)BTS shots of #WandawegaHillhouse for a mag feature coming out this summer.Who loves fall? From the view of a wisco camp- autumn appears to get more popular every year.Bracing ourselves for the next six weeks: back-to-back brand photo + film shoots, talks, company creative retreats with Jim Beam, Lands End, Chevy, Adobe, Apple, Gensler Architects, CampWed, KidsCamp, Reliable Co, Ogilvy, Good Beer Hunting, one special wedding, then squeezed in between: back-to-back cabin bookings (& holds with Fairibault Woolen Mills, CB2) and one more mag shoot before we can start winterizing some cabins… and… exhale. (Weve never been more ready for snowfall in the first week of September)#LetsGoFall #LetsDoThis #AnyBodyWantToIntern?? //// Really. let us know. DEETS: 6 weeks with accommodations, min wage, 35 hrs /week, misc camp projects (depending on your skills) email jessica@wandawega.com //// pics by: @sarahcglick. & bath pics (with our fav @caldreaco) by @bobcoscarelli.
Slide for the befores. Cleaning out old pics this morning, found a little reminder of where we started in the #WandawegaHillhouse when we first got it the basement walls where caving in (among everything else caving in) so we had to lift the whole house, completely replace the foundation, then drop it back into place – then resurrect it from the ground up. There was more than one contractor who told us to tear it down. That would have saved us time, money, and migraines…but it would not have saved this little fishing cabin that was built almost a century ago.So we will probably continue to make bad business decisions – but its ok to sometimes invest with your hearts.#preserve #savetheoldonesPhoto 1&4 by @bobcoscarelli architectural design : @cargo_ north #mcguirearchitecturalinteriors
“SQUIRREL CHOWS DOWN ON WEDDING CAKE BEFORE RECEPTION”… (And other inconvenient truths about the risks oftying the knotat a summercamp)– in this past Sunday’s@NYTIMES Style section // “Camps are evocative of a childhood they are nostalgic for” (We talked pros & conswith reporter @stephncain aboutwhy on earth folks want to go back to camp long after they’ve outgrown their Girl Scout days). In 2004 we got married at Wandawega because it was the only venue we could afford : ) So many of the buildings were still nearlycondemned sowe just locked most of the doors, white washed exteriors where we could, and got a big ol’ tent to protect people from what turned out to be an all-day downpour. Here’s to all the lovebirds who are about to roll the dice & get married at a camp. If you get rained out, too, just remember that A knot tied wet never comes undone. #SilverLiningsWedding portrait of these two amazing women @kaleandolive @lmartier at their camp nuptials by @bonitagabrielle & @lms_photo
yesterday was our 14th wedding anniversary. we both forgot it. (& just got reminded late last night by a great aunt ritas annual congratulatory email)-life has been getting so cray that were finding that someof the most important things are the things that we somehow let slip through the cracks.-they say that for a 14th (15th?) wedding anniversary youre supposed to celebrate by getting an expensive crystal bowl as a symbol of your clear and sparkling marriage. Weve never really been the cut-crystal types. The fanciest thing on our little registry was a chainsaw ( #BestGiftEver )-buta friendtold meabout this thing called Kintsukuroi- it’sthe artof repairing brokenpotterywith gold dust mixed into the glue.As aphilosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise embracing of the flawed and imperfect by highlighting the cracks and fixes as simply an event in the life of an object – putting value on its marks of wear.-so happy (belated) anniversary, Love. And to our 20-plus years of adventures together, & counting.Iwouldnt trade this broken-restored-gilded glue life with you for all the crystal on the planet . #IreallyDoWantAkintsukuroiBowlTho #SubtleHint#LoveYou-Much to friends for the pics over all these years:anniversary1: by @chrisstrongphotography year 3: by robjillsonanniversary7: by @bobcoscarelliAnniversary 10: by @pauloctavious
