Little Gray Camp

As I posted about before, my husband and I have bought a small lake camp. And despite the rainy week we have had this week so far, we have been able to enjoy the lake in recent weeks with some beautiful warm fall weather we have had here in NH, and this coming holiday weekend looks like another warm one so Woo Hoo! So here's some things we've been doing at camp.

My mother in law gave me a bunch of pictures recently and there were many of my husband as a child at his childhood camp. So I wanted to display them somehow at our camp without having to frame them all which seemed too formal for this little home. So I took an old door, stripped it, added eye hooks on the back, strung some twine in a criss cross pattern on the front, painted "camp" on top and clipped a bunch of pictures on it.

Here's a shot of another door I had for a previous project. Unfortunately the door I used for the picture project was missing the trim on the sides. I got these doors many, many years ago from a cousin of mine who ran a retreat house for the diocese locally. They were renovating the kitchen in the large building they were in and were throwing out these wonderful doors which horrified me at the time. I rescued a couple of them and have been hanging on to them ever since. I wish I could have rescued them all.

 I made a black board with the other door a couple of years ago.

And it's amazing what a little power washing will do for a neglected porch. This is the entrance of the camp and I think it makes a much better impression now, don't you?

And as for the question is a cottage, which is what I was calling it, or a camp, which is what my husband was calling it, it seems it has now settled into it's camp title.

As for me, I'll be on the porch. Note to self; got to get a sewing machine here.