Wandawega Blog Archive

A surprise!

Charlie opened the mail today and found a surprise! CHARLIE: My house is here! ME: Where? CHARLIE: Here! (As she hurls the pages open, already sticking together with juice box spills at this point) The latest issue of Flea Market Style has apparently  hit the stands. The feature is titled “COOK, CRAFT, CREATE”. This 10 page story was a labor of love because I got to work with some dear and talented friends: Emily Monroe for the amazing crafts (over a dozen in just this story) Stephen & Anne Truppe of TRU STUDIO (the beautiful photography) & Kelly-Marie Thompson of Fleur for food styling (an…

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AWWWW… they made our rescued mascot a cover model :)

  This philosophy of rescuing other people’s junk is something we find more rewarding than anything. Case in point- when we found our 1971 International Harvester TravelAll, she was a mess. She was so rough she couldn’t even make the 10 hour drive to us, so we had to trailer her in. Much of her paint was missing on the hood, doors, panels– it looked like acid had eaten away her pretty green paint job. She was, well- super ugly. The hunter who had owned her before us used her as an overnight camper, so the back area was all…

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