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PUREWOW. some love for the Steppenwolf project…

LOUNGS ACT. STEPPENWOLFS NEW HANGOUT thanks: masters of transformation & willing accomplices: William Golden, Lauren McDonald 486 and allie armstrong for her awesome graphic design skills. Ogilvy for letting us all do this project. (and amalie for the nice write-up!) check out the story HERE  excerpt:  Ad executive and constant dreamer Tereasa Surratt is a master of transformation.  The Ogilvy & Mather creative director turned her flea market habit into a book and an old lakeside camp into asummer playground for her artistic friends. And her latest project, with Steppenwolf Theatre, converts a bare swath of concrete garage into a chic place to relax before or after a…

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82 HOURS IN TULUM….

stayed in a hut. on stilts. on a rockside. overlooking the ocean. no electricity…. but great ziplining, cave snorkeling, ruins touring, local neighborhoodexploring and– here is a partial repost of some OCD travel journals. 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…

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anthropologie CAMP WANDAWEGA workshop

mark your calendar! THURSDAY APRIL 5TH. more details to come… ANTHROPOLOGIE STORE CHICAGO AVENUE. hosted by co-camp counselor: EMILY MONROE maker of jewelry. counselor of campers. co-host of WANDAWEGA CRAFT WORKSHOP! check out her etsy site here   About Hello! I am a jewelry designer living in the Windy City who grew up in Wisconsin & Texas. My fascination with glass began on the shores of Lake Michigan where I began collecting sea glass that washed up on the beach. Since then I’ve been working with glass of all types. My latest jewelry collection combines fused glass with slices of…

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new project: AIRSTREAM TRAILER RESURRECTION

we were all set to go pick her up. an early 60’s SHASTA trailer (the cheaper version of an airstream). we had already speced out the materials to restore the interior…  and the- the dude sold it out from underneath us. alas. i guess it means there is a better one out there that we were meant to adopt.  so– david is back on her daily treasure hunt to find that one that we will adopt and add to the Wanda family. anybody out there have one to sell cheap?  we are looking for one that needs to be gutted,…

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CHEATER.

remember the request ‘before and after’ project, CHEATER? HERE IS A VIDEO OF THE STORY (the time capsule of a car that we dragged out of a barn after 50 years & put back on the track) the story hit the hotrog blogs and message boards. and before we knew it, we got a call from ROD AND KULTURE magazine, who came out from California to do a story on her. (watch out for the spring issue for the photospread) that led to a phone call we got from the folks at TORQUE FEST. a car show that features original…

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Wandawega design projects featured for GLADE

this was a fun little project– SCJohnson’s home scent brand GLADE is launching a new home fragrance line, and needed contributors to an online home design magazine- they featured my ‘Winter wonderland’ soiree (we build an icerink at camp every winter)- and also a series on collections. (a how-to guide of tips and tricks) sign up for and download the magazine HERE. THE ART OF ARRANGING from designing color backgrounds for your collections, to simple no-fail tips for arranging, here are some easy ideas to accentuate the mood of a room. and for a sneak peek of some of the…

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post 27store, harry weese, and discoveries that make us :)

this morning i logged onto my friend angela’s  (of post27 store) blog and found this great post: a beautiful building cantelevered out over a cliff– designed by mid century modern master HARRY WEESE. be still my heart. here are some other designs by WEESE: the flap copy from the new book on his works:  THE ARCHITECTURE OF HARRY WEESE This study tells the story of one of America’s most gifted architects of the postwar years.During a career that spanned half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Weese produced a large number of significant designs ranging from small but…

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Designtripper in the house!

check out the most recent posting here their story: “Tereasa from Wandawega emailed me a few months back after reading the post about the Red Welly in Wales, saying that she was “so getting a teepee.” And true to her wildly ambitious, girl-who-never-sleeps form (see her treehouse for proof), she had the thing ordered, erected and decorated in a month’s time. It’s officially the coolest designtripper-inspired spawn of the year. Tucked away in the woods, just past the Boy Scout tents, the Craigslist-snagged teepee is kitted out with seagrass flooring, a futon, and vintage cooler, antique hurricane lantern and Navajo rug from her…

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VIDEO: how to move a cabin… (err… crapper )

it teeters precariously on a very unstable perch. it takes out trees, nearly blows off the trailer on the highway, almost squashes somebody- and gives us a serious case of anxiety. (check it out) THE STATS: Dimensions: 8×8 (@12ft tall) Weight: heavy enough to kill you if it fell on you. Birthdate: 1956 Birthplace: Camp Juniper Knoll (outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin) Job description: A four-seater outhouse Materials: tin roof, pine floors, wood siding Time it took to relocate: 4 hours Number of people it took: 4 men, a dog and one anxious female. Parents: Could this be the only known outhouse designed…

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Wallstreet Journal Interview

….in today’s WSJ-  They wanted to know what it feels like when your neighbors tell you that they hate your home… and, how to build a house on a thrift budget. Some pull quotes: “owning an unusual house requires a thick skin. Neighbors and bloggers can lash out at houses that look very different.” “Fits in wonderfully with the downtown parking garages” (one blogger’s comment– which is actually pretty damned funny) Needless to say, since building our house, we’ve acquired (the very necessary) skin of steel. Here’s an excerpt from today’s story: For architect Jeanne Gang, a 2011 MacArthur Fellow,…

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