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Posted on February 25, 2015September 7, 2018

Memories | My mom, the family filmmaker

Hollywood's got nothing on my mom. The 25 8-millimeter films above are all Joyce Friese productions, shot on an old Kodak Brownie movie camera between 1963 and 1973. Isn't she cute? Mom didn't own the movie camera yet (in fact, she wasn't even a mom yet) when the above photo was taken (I believe in …

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Posted on February 18, 2015September 7, 2018

Decorating a home theater

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.... ... by which I mean, in August of 2014, in Milwaukee .... ... my son and his girlfriend moved into their first apartment together and decided to decorate it in a movie theater theme. I made the Now Showing sign for them that I blogged about earlier. …

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Welcome to Wisconsin Magpie. I’m Lisa, the creator of this site.

A history nerd and profligate collector, I spend way too much of my free time at thrift stores and garage sales, salvaging other people’s castoffs. When I’m home, I’m attempting to use power tools I have no idea how to operate and undertaking craft projects well beyond my skill level. Sometimes they actually turn out.

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