THATS A WRAP! Another successful retreat donated for a worthy cause: supporting the arts //. The Salondawega 2017 film hot off the cutting room floor. ( what happens when you mix art, music, theater, booze and inspired creatives with a lake and woods) #salonathon. @willyv @janebeachy and the talented film maker Zoe Lubeck @cityzenzoe
and — I literally almost started crying when walking into the big scary lobby of @RandomHouse NY tower lobby recently because it hit me how unlikely it is that that our little story about my dad, our daughter and her treehouse is now somehow being published by the same folks who brought us Dr Suess & The Golden Books. (We cleaned out Dad’s old house this thanksgiving and took home a few things that remind me of him: the books he used to read us).We got some much-needed happy news yesterday: Our editor called super excited that Publishers Weekly gave it a nice review (learned that PW is “the bible of the book business since 1872 for booksellers/ librarians/agents/authors). Holding our breath, we read that they called it “A sweet and inspiring ode to the draw of nature and the power of communityIts taken @donnalukecp @nicolaslater Phoebe Ye & a small team of dedicated women at @RandomHouse nearly three years to get it to this point, so today we are counting our forever blessings. (Bonus that it made Charliegirl happy to see that she can get it @Target, which is the only place she wants to shop) “A fresh twist on Shel Silversteins The Giving Tree based on a real tree in Wisconsin that became something more . .”
Camp signs (This weekend we found a 70 year old ‘sign shop’ from an old hardware store.stocked with 10 styles of Hand-silkscreened water transfer letters). Winter project will be lettering new-old-stock typography on all things camp.
Found this feature on @junebugweddings (it was a much-needed reminder that our home is a place that folks come to have fun & celebrate life …. and if our job can be providing a place to make folks happy- that is our measure of success) more of the beautiful @thejourneynotes by @madelinedruce on our blog
Saturday Obsession with matchbooks. (Making our own reproductions from the 50s) and hoarding collections… love these old graphics of all these businesses that are long gone… Craft From anything.More at #wandawegacustoms
Home for the holidays at the old stomping grounds : family trail ride, visit my brothers horse farm, stopped by our old gradeschool, and paid a visit to the motorcycle mechanic who works out of an old house-turned-shop – trying to get Davids 1940 Indian Chief to fire up. / no place like home
ON THIS DAY. HERE’S TO GIVING THANKS. Thanks for then: for the dad we had for 61 years. (Ts Mom & Dad circa 1976 on the farm where us 5 kids were raised) Thankful for now: our little family of 4 (yes, dogs count as family) HAPPIEST OF THANKSGIVINGS TO ALL OF YOUR FAMILIES…. those with us – and those who are with us in spirit today. // : @thussfarrell
UNEARTHED.Davids dad was part of the Latvian volunteer crew who built our beach retaining wall nearly 50 years ago. this season, we hadwhat they called a ‘100-year-flood’- washing out the beach. In restoring it, all sorts of stuff came up out of the ground – remnants from the original builders. It took a alot of beer to finish this thing. (Pictured here with shovel in hand is David’s dad-pitching in for the repairs 5 decades later) He may have added another can as a time capsule for the new wall… for the next time this gets washed out, we’ll all likely be long gone by then. #Hammpion @hammsbeer @schlitzbrewing @oldstylebeer
