their love story strikes me as the real-life version of the movie UP. the 100+ year old victorian house was little more than a shell when she first saw it and told him she was in love and had to have it. so he saved it from the wrecking ball.for $1500.…loaded it onto a trailer & moved it to a little hilltop perch that he built special for it,nestled in some trees in a quiet little grove of 100 acres in southern illinois. they started resurrecting it together, with painstaking detail.the gingerbread, period fireplace mantel tiles, refinishing each wooden spindle…
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yes. i cant help it.this posting is all about gratuitous shots of charliegirl.starting from the bottom up: month one: in the woodpilemonth two: on the sheep hide.month three: all up in her face.month four: in her new nursery.month five: yesterday in the clover. đ
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as we prep for the big COME FLEA WITH ME / BRIMFIELD / CAMP WANDAWEGA flea event… couldn’t help but post a few teaser shots of what’s in store for the guests. the “WANDAWEGA SUPPER CLUBâ menu-in-progress to include: gather in the lodge at 6pm sharp for some down-home camp cooking… BRAT BAR: from the mushroom farmer (who supplies Rich Bayless Frontera grill)Sheboygan-Style Beer-Soaked âBratsâ BEEF: from Deitzel farms (supplier to Publican, avec, 4 seasons, charlie trotters, david burke primehouse among other 4star restaurants)Beef Tenderloin with Garlic Horseradish Cream Smoked Trout and Arugula Toasts from rushing waters fishery (elkhorn, wi)…
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RIPPED OUT: the ceiling, the floor, and half of the south wall.INSTALLED: a terraced deck made of salvaged boyscout tent platforms. french doors on clearance from home depot.SPENT: a couple of weekends, a whole lot of elbow grease & a lot of time since lounging on the new deck…
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congratulations(pulitzer-prize winner & all-around nice guy)Blair Kamin on your new book. LOVE IT:we fell in love with Blair when he wrote in Dwell about how we filled our house with thrift store furniture.we fell in love with his wife (Barabara Mahaney) when she wrote in the Trib about saving a little cottage that my dad loved. BUY IT:http://tinyurl.com/43fwqtl READ IT: the opening line:“there can be no seperation between our architecture and our culture. nor any seperatino of either from our happiness.”- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT * chapter five, the ultimate ‘before and after’- our “horse stable to home”.
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not just because you asked Frankface what his favorite past time is for your blog,or because you put our AstroTurf front yard on your cover.but because you make some cool freaking housewares. check it! (the house is unrecognizable in these shots, but it was fun seeing what they did with the place)
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everywhere you walk, you stumble across (& into) amazing bars like this one last year.untouched for god knows how many decades. ITS ALL IN THE DETAILS.the layers of old foreign bills papering the walls.antique absinthe dispenser on the bar.the name inlaid ceramic tile in the entry. lovely !
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be still my heart.we heard of this place, but don’t know a thing about it-yet. stay tuned….
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more shots from our fav photographer dennis:
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he said the news wasn’t good. âits like cancer– you don’t know how bad its gonna be until you cut into it.â the rust, that is. this is brandon, breaking the news. my friend at performance auto on grand avenue. he operated on one of our other wagoneers a few years ago. in woodyâs case, it had metastasized. rocker panels. quarters. fenders. doglegs (the piece between the rocker & quarter, shaped like its name). lets just say that shes getting more cosmetic surgery than micky rourke. as it turns out, one of the hardest colors to…
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