Starting today: @Rejuvenation #REJUVENATIONpartner shares our collaboration with the #WandawegaHillhouse. A dream partner on our little passion project – were so excited to start breaking it in with guests- we have our first few events planned for the upcoming season to help usher this old fishing cabin into its second life. // First priority: getting the landscaping in order. @nathanmichael. @rejuvenationchicago
thanks, @BritandCo for the shout out! Your Inner Child Will Love These Adult Summer Camps (a friend just shot this over to us, we missed it, but never too late to share)Also in this round-up, Kellermans from ‘Dirty Dancing’ (on our bucket list to go stay there)
Power to the Ladies! Love to see groups come here and get creative. A few of the inspiring women who paid us a visit a few days ago: a tattoo artist. Ceramicist. Painter. Photographer. Chef. Stylist. Vintage boutique owner. Creative coach. // Looking forward to talking to like minded girls like these tonight at @EvolveHer – and talk about how women can empower, inspire & support each other- on a panel discussion led by @theeverygirl_ _ // portraits: @jackxli from @lostgirlsarah
Find your own : “SECRET CHICAGO: Your Guide To The Hidden City A pocket magazine in the @ChicagoTribune this weekend- (Always happy to make reccos for my favorite spots in our town and beyond)MY MUST SEE LIST:Golden Teardrops (in the basement of @lonesomeroseforever )- the latest from our fav humans at @landandseadept ) @TheFrostHouse (thetime capsule of our friendsin photography & companions intravel) The best part of the day job: getting to go to meetings at SCJohnson (&as superFRANKfans. -serving on the @flwtrust board makes it a real joy)Honored to be in the company of Iron chef : @stephanieizard StephanieIzard / @karamanndesign / Bill Curtis / James Beard Chef tony @spiaggiachicago/Naomi, curator of @MCAchicagophotos: @bobcoscarelli & others
Woke up this morningtoa surprising piece of newsfromfar away…. andsent it to my little brother. (who’s a lineman for the county, and the only one I know whois also up long before the sun). It’shearteningto knowthatlong after we’ve lost someone when were looking for ways to hang onto their memory – that their legacies can live on sometimes in the most unexpected ways.The book about him being published overseas was not one of they ways we ever expected.Shown here: The House tree when it was alive, then when it died of Dutch Elm.My crazy little brotherswinging 40 ft up, cutting it’s limbs down… (but leaving dad’s tree swing in tact) After he hung it, dad would only make it back to camp one more time,for our wedding.Dad had never been to France, or anywhere a truck couldnt take him (he drove a rig). He wouldnt admit it, but I think even he might be curious about what French kids are gonna think of a midwestern treehouse built out of scrap wood.His lesson is that the smallest things we do can impact others years later in ways we dont expect. The last line in the book: And somewhere, way, way, way up above, the Grandfather looked down and smiled. (andyes, Sam – it does make the heart feel good.)
Stop No. 3 on the #WandawegaTour: The 59 Friendship Canned Ham, of Friendship, WI. // Fun fact: we got her for @ $900 from a hunter in the northwoods of Wisconsin. In addition to annual deer hunting trips, he used it to sell t-shirts out of it at hot rod shows. : @bobcoscarelli of @thefrosthouse
