we are humbled + super happy to find camp wandawega featured as one of the top 10 summer lake getaways in the midwest. check out the full story in the new issue of Chicago Magazine. THANK YOU David Robert Elliot for the great swing shot,& Bob Coscarelli for the fab tent + porch shots–and a huge thanks to Jan Parr for the Fab write up!!! here are some shots & a sneak peek: our favorite line:“Here’s a fun idea: get a crew together and rent the whole place for a weekend. We’ll join you.” let’s do it!
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when david’s grandparents purchased their home in the early 50’s, they found a large lidded vase in the basement. they kept it for decades, and when the building was sold, david’s aunt kept it, also for decades. last weekend we were given the vase & the first thing i thought was ‘what a fantastic cookie jar’. then we started digging online to find the source.it was a chamber pot. SOME STRANGE HISTORY.A peculiar form of chamber pot, the Bourdaloue, was designed specifically for females. The oblong rectangle or oval shape of the vessel, sometimes with a higher front enabled the…
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we love designtripper!and they love the treehouse 🙂
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a selection of local wisconsin favorites- set up in the dining room at camp wandawega last weekend for a visiting group of 20. nothing says ‘welcome to the dairyland’ like a big fat cheese curd, ya’ll! WELCOME REFRESHMENT TABLE – TASTING MENU: CHEESE selection: an assortment of local cheeses (cheese ball, cheese curds)BREADS: Artisan selection from organic bakery in East TroyBEERS: an assortment of the infamous Wisconsin beers, from New Glarus local apple ciderMEATS: venison summer sausage: (from a wandawega deer!) don’t be scared. it’s amazing.SMOKED TROUT: (local!) on toastsWISCONSIN FUDGE: a local favorite!FRUITS: apple holler.PRESERVES: the farms down the…
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in 1946 a teenage girl had a baby in a refugee camp in Germany.she & her parents had fled her home in Latvia (they had found themselves in the middle of the Russians and the Nazis). this camp was about survival, the bare minimum essentials.so they made do. she would make her wedding dress from the lace curtains hanging in a communal building.her newborn daughter’s dress would be made from remnants of hankies (with its delicate scalloped edges). her name Janina Bikulcs.she was David’s grandmother, who died march 22nd at age 83. her baby girl was Anna, David’s mother. the…
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check the story out here: http://tinyurl.com/3kgpudr There’s nothing like the thought of hanging out in a tree house to get a bunch of adults excited. Throw in some mad carpentry skills and big ideas, and you’ve got the story of how Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez got their very own tree house built on their property in Wisconsin’s Sugar Creek Township—a 1920s resort they call Camp Wandawega, which we featured in our May/June 2009 issue. It started, naturally enough, with a tree. Not long after the couple purchased Wandawega seven years ago, Surratt’s father, who was sick at the time,…
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julia stotz & bryan guido shot some freaking amazing images for the clothing company HOUND — which we don’t have just yet to post, but they did share a couple amazing ‘making of’ shots… here are a couple of behind the scenes shots from Jen Beeman of HOUND: AND… some of the designs that i heart: coming soon: some shots from the new look book they shot there….
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MY SUNDAY MORNING 5:30 am: rise + shine to set up to feed 23 fleabags (the comefleawithme/brimfield tour group- new post on that super fun event to come)7:30-10:30 elkhorn antique flea market (had to get a fix!)1:00 – 3:00 book signing at the Lake Geneva May Days4:00 – back to tear down the campground, flip boats, pull in piers and pack it up.7:00 – head back to chicago to pass out. here are a few snaps of the book sale / signing. met so many fun folks.Lake Geneva is just a gorgeous place!Chicago Home & Garden Magazine sponsored this event-…
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my favorite time of year.this is the official THIRD ANNUAL , and it keeps getting better every year. CAMP WANDAWEGA partners up with POST 27 to bring a curated group ofsculptors. painters. jewelry makers. textile designers. furniture designer / builders and visionary designers from all disciplines together. here are some scenes from the last few years art camps and check out post27’s post for even more:http://outpost.post27store.com/?p=1451 and the story that CS interiors featured on last year’s art camp:http://tinyurl.com/4x9jmco
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the store off of grand ave (milwaukee ave) is the mothership of chicago.its gets all the shipment donations and disperses the most of the others in the city. if you’re going to make the excursion, go on tuesdays-thats the day they mark large items down that have been sitting on the floor too long. last week I found a 1930’s wooden kitchen cabinet (with metal drawer liners and original handles) fantastic condition. $30.00. a 60+ year old shipping crate for a dozen bucks, and this AMAZING wood swivel- adjustible drafting chair for a song. here are all the SA’s in…
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