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lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
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lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Lake Minnetonka Magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Enjoy a look back at some of our iconic covers from the last two decades. Through stunning, in-house photography and art direction, local residents, businesses and events have been promimently featured. We hope you continue to enjoy discovering each month—who’s on the cover!
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lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Hollie Blanchard helps clients visually express their décor and personal narratives. Attributing a positive outcome to being in the right place at the right time can feel a touch trite, a bit clichéd, but when Hollie Blanchard tells the story of how her business, Art Girls, came to open in Deephaven at the end of last year, her words hit the mark—bullseye. “To be opening my first studio in Deephaven is so very surreal and yet feels so right,” Blanchard says.
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edinamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Presented by:Local company specializes in expertly designed landscaping and entertaining spaces. Over 50 years ago, equipped with his landscape design degree, David Kopfmann launched Kopfmann Landscapes Services, which successfully evolved into Yardscapes, Inc. in the 1990s. Today, the full-service landscape design and installation company and its talented team of designers and installation crews, work across the Twin Cities.
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Apr 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
For readers—voracious or otherwise—the biannual book sale hosted by Wayzata Friends of the Library is an ideal event. And for those who embrace stacks of books as décor elements, here’s your chance to procure some lovely items for spaces that require a little literary-inspired vignette. The spring event is planned for 9 a.m.–4 p.m. April 26 and noon–3 p.m. April 27 for the $5 bag sale at the Wayzata City chambers room, 600 Rice St. E.
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Apr 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Welcome to this month’s homes issue. As always, our writers develop articles with you, Readers, top of mind. The goal is to not only highlight local businesses and people, but to offer doses of inspiration and creativity for your lives. This month is no exception, and I hope you find fresh ways to make your homes restful, joyous and more of what you want out of your nest.
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Apr 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Woodcarver’s work embraces a sense of enchanting timelessness. Consider the possibilities when a school fieldtrip ignites and inspires a student’s imagination. When he was a child, Erik Wyckoff’s interest in wood carving was piqued while touring historic homes, including St. Paul’s James J. Hill House. “I was fascinated by the carved mantels, doors and stairs,” he says.
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Apr 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Symmetry equates to beauty in winning image. Christine Neff Kojetin’s photograph Deephaven Docks was taken on an uncharacteristically warm December day. “The docks were obviously empty, but the water was still open and completely still,” she says.
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Apr 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Madeline Kopiecki |Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Restaurants around town are celebrating moms through a variety of brunch options. This has to rank right up there on the special occasion stress meter: It’s the eve or day of Mother’s Day. Frantic dialing or online booking attempts ensue, but, alas, there’s not a dining reservation to be had. Now what? Prepare a special meal at home?
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
lakeminnetonkamag.com | Renee Stewart-Hester |RenÉe Stewart-Hester
Podcasters remember iconic 1984 movie during a live podcast. John Bender, Andrew Clark, Brian Johnson, Allison Reynolds and Claire Standish served detention, and many of us had a big screen view of their teenage angst on that sequestered Saturday in the Shermer High School library.
