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BOOK LAUNCH PARTY video

thanks so much to everyone who came to celebrate book launch no.2! AND especially those who help with the launch: post27 for hosting william sherman and will golden for party planning and- all of the amazing photographers who contributed to this book: matt gore julie stotz david robert elliot jacob hand bob coscarelli vince cook aimee herring bjorn wallander chris strong greg gillis * erik law for video (watch for a follow up post on his footage) * t harrison hillman for shooting (watch for a follow up post on his images) also, tater, charlie, britt, erik for their support…

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A POST FROM POST27- ‘what you should be doing tomorrow eve’

“the debut of: FOUND FREE AND FLEA.  A visual feast of coveted collections to inspire and entice. We are so proud to be hosting her launch party here at Post 27 tomorrow night, where you will be able to pick up a copy and have a cocktail.  We hope that you can swing by – you won’t be able to miss it as you drive down Grand Ave, as a collection of vintage cars and trucks will be parked out front! See you tomorrow – no need to rsvp, we are going to be packed anyway”

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RESURRECTING THE LOST ART OF THE TRAVEL JOURNAL

We all do it. take a million digital photos, with the best of intentions to make the photo album ‘when i get back’…  and then suddenly it’s 5 years later and the photo CDs are collecting dust in a shoebox at the back of your closet.  but we still seem to avoid scrapbooking because it typically conjures up pictures of your glue-stick wiedling geriatric aunt in at her kitchen table.  not really your thing.  but theres a more fresh way to do it. and it doesnt involve stickers and premade journaling kits. How to embrace the art of journaling the…

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YOU ARE INVITED!

friends of Camp Wandawega, please join us for vintage cocktails & music to celebrate the launch of the Random House – Clarkson Potter book FOUND FREE & FLEA Creating Treasures from Vintage Collections thursday, August 11th POST 27 Store 1819 Grand Avenue 6-9pm please RSVP to campwandawega@gmail.com by 8/1

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1000 ways to please a husband. really.

every wife should have this book.but good luck finding it. I can’t even remember where i found it.(common, given that on any weekend I’ll fill a box at a thrift store and then forget to unpack it until months later) this book offers 1000 (recipes) for the newly wed wifey to do her wifely duties – of cooking. so we decided to make her biscuits and see how a 70-year old recipe holds up. not bad, as it turns out (evidence below, photo courtesy of myself & friend julia)biscuit courtesy of christine busby. (and this is mary, who makes loves…

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when it rains, it pours (fleabaggers)

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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FOUND. in the bottom of a trunk in junk store in Prague.

I cant read Czech, but it appears that home decorating / planning could have been part of the high school curriculum in the Czech republic. I am digging her room layouts, fabric swatches & inspirational scrap. along with this book was another one for biology (complete with hand colored renderings of the native plants of the area). so much more creative than the high school classes i remember.

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TERROR AND WONDER.

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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