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THE RUSSELL GROUNDS JOURNAL
We're figuring this out as we go — so we thought we'd document it.
The projects, the gardens, the little barn, the ideas, the gatherings, the things that work... and the things that definitely don't. 😂
A little behind-the-scenes look at our family discovering what The Russell Grounds could become.
Come follow along. 🌿
Well, We Did It! Our First Content Days at The Russell Grounds...
Well, we did it! We hosted our first-ever Content Day at The Russell Grounds. Actually, we hosted TWO! And can we just say, the content creators showed up, and the SUN absolutely understood the assignment. I honestly don't even know where to start, other than to say we loved every single moment! Watching new friends wander the property, discover little pops of colour we hadn't even noticed ourselves, find the perfect pocket of light, or capture their favourite humans basking
Melissa Melnychuk
2 days ago4 min read
WE BUILT A SWING 🛠️ THIS WEEKEND (And Fixed A Little Bit Of Everything Else)
It's not just "make it pretty for photos." Anyone can style a corner and make it look good for thirty seconds.
Melissa Melnychuk
Sep 143 min read
FALL & WINTER PHOTO SHOOT SPOTS AVAILABLE NOW! 📸
If you've been following along at all, you already know The Russell Grounds is our special little project. We bought this land in Conestogo about a year ago with a pretty simple idea: build a place where people gather, create, and celebrate... and name it after someone who would have loved every second of it. That's the whole story behind "The Russell Grounds." A space to gather. A place to remember. And a place to keep making memories in real time, mess and all. Since then i
Melissa Melnychuk
Sep 112 min read
BURN🔥 BEFORE BEAUTY 💐
Apparently, step one of figuring out what to do with the barn was... lighting a whole lot of stuff on fire. So, we have a barn. A cute little barn, actually may be a barn shed, but we are branding it as our barn 🤎. From the outside. Cute (but will be cuter as we go..) The inside? FULL.. and well, NOT cute. Old furniture. Wood. Random things. Things we could identify. Things we could not. Things we kept looking at and saying, “Do you think we could use this for something?” B
Melissa Melnychuk
Aug 313 min read
WE'RE DOING A THING... 🤎
Last year, Cavell and I (more on who we are in another blog... 😅) were incredibly fortunate to find this beautiful little property in Conestogo to call home. And pretty much from the beginning, one of our favourite things about living here has been having people over. Friends. Family. Kids everywhere. Food outside. Music playing. Sitting around the fire. Celebrating things. And usually people staying much later than anyone planned. Somewhere along the way, we started looking
Melissa Melnychuk
Aug 312 min read
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