ANCIENT TAXIDERMY. VINTAGE SLEDS. OLD SCHOOL FISHING RODS. WALL COLLAGE OF ANTIQUE FRAMES. ORIGINAL SILVERWARE IN CHEESE BOXES. I love love love all things lodge! (These are some shots of Camp Wandawega from the new book FOUND FREE & FLEA)
Odd. I know.But i started collecting other people’s vintage photo albums,and found that most had at least one shot of a picnic.here is a small sampling of my growing collections.In here are folks picnicking over the past century inArgentina, London, Spain and the Czech Republic.(Makes me want to pack a basket!)
So I’m planning the next Wandawega winter excursion…and have been warming up the camera (my photo lessons are starting to pay off, thanks to my dear friend Julia (juliastotz.com)Here are a couple dishes i shot that my friend Christine (busbybakes.com) made, and we plan on serving up. Yummmmm.
It’s finally available for sale, kinda! Pre-orders now available at amazon.com! I’ve been working on this book since we purchased Wandawega Lake Resort aka “Camp Wandawega” (wandawega.com) back in 2004. And by “working on” I mean collecting all things camp, cottage, lodge and cabin to fill its 65-plus rooms. And, simultaneously – obsessively documenting it. The book features 150 collections of the over 200 we’ve amassed through the philosophy of “found, free & flea” much to my husband’s dismay : ) I think I’ll start posting individual collections (at least one a week) starting, well, today I guess. Happy hoarding,…
I’ve been obsessed with antique cuckoo clocks –so I’ve been collecting them since i first learned wewere expecting and I knew i wanted a installation in the nursery. I found them various places, via FOUND FREE & FLEA, & rang my g’friend Emily to help me paint them (& install new residences for each– a little bunny, deer, bear, chipmunk, etc.) (thanks erik for making our little video)- Charlie girl (the petite babe) loves watching the clocks-so it was all worth it 🙂
We love Grand Wagoneers.have had 5 in the past decade. It seems that as of late, everyone else loves them too. tommy hilfiger, Ralph Lauren,even the New York Times. While it’s great to see more of them on the road and saved from the scrap yard,its also fun to jump off the band wagon once in a while… so we’re upgrading by downgrading.we’re retiring the faithful GW to move into the cooler big sister the OLD SCHOOL Wagoneer. (the stripped down, vintage original with power nothing and much more retro everything, including the interior, simplified exterior, and a HELLUVA lot…
a dinner for a dozen (including frankface, the beloved wandawega lake resort camp mascot) MENU:cranberry orange stuffed pork tenderloin, glazed roasted brussel sprouts, rum cake with orange cranberry compote, crocks of baked pasta and queso with crumble top, homemade pecan toffee. thanks to alexei, mary, will, will & heather for cookin’ up a storm!and thanks to cost plus for the amazing $4 retro crocks.
INSTANT BAR:ingredients: 1 toboggan, a ton of booze, some thrift decanters (these were $3-$8 each)some resale MCM glasses) some vintage stir sticks, some bar nuts (in our case peanuts, cashews and walnuts) in decanters. optional: animal hide instructions:grab a couple saw horses (or in this case kitchen bar stools)-top with all other ingredients- bottoms, up, ya’ll. * thanks, desiree and bill for modeling your mugs!* lenny and me resale store on milwaukee ave. for the freaking amazing vintage toboggan ($90)* cirlce of friends thrift in elkhorn for the brass and walnut antique bar tray ($15!)
THIS WEEK’S THRIFT FIX got us:a stack of silver, antique books, some freaking fantastic heavily embroidered Jesus Christ Superstar dish towel, a 50’s pitcher set, 2 MOM ice buckets, and on and on and on…. under $60. WE HEART Circle of Friends junk charity shop in Elkhorn, Wisconsin my fav: 9 antique books for .50-$1 each, add a belt for $.25 =a few bucks gets you a bedside stack of books for a guest room.
it was freaking coooold this NYE in wisconsin.so we stayed in and took it old school: boardgames.bearskin rug: FOUND $250 on craiglistFREE: puzzle at church thrift shop (gift with purchase from some nice old ladies)and…david surprised me with this little open sleigh that was designed to be pulled behind a snowmobile-he scored this one, called a ‘sprint’ circa 1960s- found on craiglist * thanks to ben for letting us take his picture commandeering the sled.