Wandawega Blog Archive
Traveling Journals: A Scrapbooking addiction
Nothing makes my heart happier than seeing Charlie scrapbook on the road. It’s something David and I have always done on our own, and I’ve dreamed of doing with her someday. A few of our That one time i water colored every single loaf of break I could find in france. and all of the ‘sweater weaving designs’ found along the Irish coast. receipts and Olive branch head wreaths from Rome. pressed flowers from paris. trying like hell to master a quill & ink – (and typography from local signs of spots visited) collaging flea market find photos from…
Sorry lonely lifeguard chair. We’ll use you again someday soon. We wait all year for the ideal snowmobile snow – and its heeeere!
??? We have absolutely no business being included in this group of folks that we crush on. (So we’re equal parts surprised + humbled @crainschicago – thank you so much for supporting the little mom & pop entrepreneurs trying so damn hard to make little dreams into something) // @ryanplett : they used your family portrait : ) – story on today’s profile line.
There’s a chill in the air here tonight, but we can’t complain out of respect for all of our friends back in Wisconsin.
… part of Charlie’s “winter walk” series – touring all the cabins at camp, on the hunt for hibernating chipmunks . #TinyHousesOfWandawega
Our frozen canned ham is looking forward to getting thawed out in the spring. #TinyHousesOfWandawega
Charlie hikes up to the little cabin tucked in past the buried tennis court. (We found this one roadside a few years back- it was being used as a junk storage shed, but was once one of a row of tiny tourist cabins that sat alongside Lauderdale Lakes until it’s mothership lodge burned down- leaving this little orphan that we found 80 years later). #TinyHousesOfWandawega
Stealing an Eskimo kiss from Charliegirl at first snow / Our showerhouse was originally a 4-kid outhouse designed by mid century master architect #HARRYWEESE back in the 1950s (he designed several epic lodge buildings for camp Juniper Knoll… and also this shed as a mini roof prototype study for a larger project) commissioned by @GirlScouts – We found it in the woods abandoned at Camp Juniper Knoll – they donated her because it had become a danger to the campers and was going to be demolished. So we moved her to camp, put her back together and turned her into a 2-stall shower shack — we found out months later that David’s Mom was a camper at #campjuniperknoll in the ’50s – and remembered it! / it makes our hearts happy to give the forgotten ones a second life- even the most humble of buildings- the lowly outhouse. #TinyHousesOfWandawega
