Wandawega Blog Archive

FAIL hard. Shake off the dirt. REPEAT. (Part of the talk David & I gave at the D Show yesterday) Thanks for having us, Detroit. We loved swapping war stories with the extended creative community. (And fully geeked out to share the stage with our girl crush @michellewilliams & creative shop crush Facebooks @ajkeller70 @chauaustin and @beingmarcecko // link on profile / #MotorCityRocks @adcraftdetroit / : @bobcoscarelli

TALES FROM THE INKEEPERS

“FAIL hard. Shake off the dirt. REPEAT.” …  (Part of the talk David & I gave at @TheDshow yesterday) Thanks for having us, Detroit.  We loved swapping war stories with the extended creative community.   (And fully geeked out to share the stage with our girl crush @michellewilliams & creative shop crush Facebook’s new CD @Andrew Williams ) as well this whole line up of inspiring folks: https://www.facebook.com/MRMMcCannDetroit/videos/1253400331397879/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE     some of the feedback (thanks for our friends and hecklers!)

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Can’t wait to build the annual ice rink and haul the “Ice bar” out // BTS at the @betterhomesandgardens feature in the December issue with friends @mindysegal and @mrskellymariet

That one time Theron paid us a visit and invited the world’s sweetest hound to chill on the dock one afternoon. // from the series ‘Maddie on Things’ by @thiswildidea

Home for the holidays on the farm and my little brother is trying to convince us that camp needs one of these Penny-farthing / High Wheel “Bone Shakers” for guests – what do you think?

Latest project: The resurrection of a 1940 Indian Chief. David & my brother Sam found her in a farm shed – her crypt since the early 1960s. // The last owner got it for $50 and a shotgun barter. // One of the benefits of Sam being a lineman for the county is that he gets access to the most remote corners that time forgot. We promised the widow of its former owner that once it’s put back together and running, we’d find a proper place to put it on display to share it with others. These old machines need to be shared #IdeasWelcome #indianchief #indianmotorcycles

We spent the day with the family at Abe Lincolns tavern yesterday. The place he would belly up to the bar after a long day as a surveyor/ postmaster and running the general store. #CountryBoy // This is why we have a lounge at camp called “the Lincoln Room” // #NewSalem

THANKSGIVING always takes me back home …And it makes me realize how much we sometimes take it for granted. Just around the bend from my rural hometown is Lincoln’s old home of New Salem… but I haven’t been here since the first grade.We wanted Charlie to see where and how our greatest president lived as a young man. Visiting on a fall day with the whole family- we had the whole village nearly to ourselves. :/Hanging out at Abe’s first retail business – A general store next to his cabin (it would fail as a business after just a year – a great reminder and lesson for our kids to never give up. And to be proud of your roots) My roots are firmly planted in the corn fields of rural Illinois