Ann Marie Scheidler

NOTHING BITTY ABOUT THIS BALM

Frustrated with the lack of clean and simple beauty products available on the market, Maggie Schmieder took ingredients into her own hands and made Bitty Balm. “I’M NOT A PROBLEM SOLVER,” Maggie Schmieder says. “I’m a solution ﬁnder.” Never was a truer statement said by Schmieder of herself—a Jane of All Trades, full-time special education

AND THE READERS ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Barrington’s Katie Shober inspires a love of reading through her wildly popular Instagram account Beach Reads & Bubbly. When Barrington’s Katie Shober was a little girl, she loved to go to the library with her mom. “It was the greatest thing,” she recalls with her signature sparkle. “I remember thinking I was so rich. I

COUNTRY HOUSE TRANSFORMATION

The Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society prepares to unveil the organization’s 20th Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens—perhaps the most spectacular and significant one to date. THE 2025 LAKE FOREST SHOWHOUSE & GARDENS will be a celebration of our organization’s 20th showhouse—and it will be one of most astonishing transformations our guests have

GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY

Gardening 2 Grow—the newest parent organization recognized by District 67—is overseeing the implementation of gardening into the elementary and middle school’s curriculum. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when Lisa Walsh’s youngest child was at Sheridan School, she co-founded a garden club for its students. It wasn’t long before the garden was producing enough vegetables that Walsh, who

CRAFTED BY NATURE

Mariani Landscape’s Tony Lobello collaborates with a Barrington Hills family to bring Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision for a native landscape design back to life. After Dave McArdle purchased Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fredrick House in Barrington Hills, he tapped Mariani Landscape architect Tony Lobello to help revitalize the exterior. Lobello was thrilled. “Dave truly has a

FROM A DAY DREAM TO LATE NIGHT DREAMERS

“I told my sister, Taylor, at the end of 2023, it’s now or never. Let’s just do this,” says Alex Peck. By this, Peck was referring to the pajama company she and her older sister Taylor Boardman had been discussing since 2020. With five kids between the two of them—three for Peck and two for

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