Cadillac ATS for the Snazzy Driver
As the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant prepares to debut the Cadillac ATS, a new compact luxury vehicle, you might be wondering if this is the new car you’ve been waiting for. During a media preview, Capital Area Women’s LifeStyle Magazine was lucky enough to be able to sit down with Kathy Trusty, General Motors quality launch manager for the ATS and...
Continue ReadingAll that Sparkles and Glitters
You’re engaged, you’ve picked a date, you’re excited! Planning a wedding and reception is a glorious time. The challenge comes when it’s time to tackle the nitty-gritty details and staying on budget, all while trying to stay true to the vision you had in mind for your day. I have my sister Molli in mind while writing this, her wedding is October of...
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Buy your tickets here for CAWLM’s 80s Flashback Fundraiser!
Who: Capital Area Women’s LifeStyle Magazine, community members, business owners, 80s lovers and more. Plus, the popular 80s cover band Starfarm will keep the crowd rockin’ all night long! There will also be finger foods, a cash bar, big-hair station, video game room, poker and much more! What: Second annual 80s Flashback Fundraiser. When: Saturday, March...
Continue ReadingFirst Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then the Real Fun Begins
Weddings are wonderful, but marriages take work. This month has prompted a lot of memories of my own wedding. It was a beautiful, fairytale wedding with my closest friends and family. It’s amazing what you learn about relationships and what’s really important after you’ve been married for a while. I had no real idea of how hard marriage would be. I am...
Continue ReadingWith a Capital EM: Memories Heal a Broken Heart
My heart is broken. For the first time in my life someone really close to me has passed way. On Jan. 11, 2012 my grandfather, Jim Fitzgerald, left this world — with any luck — for a better one. He was 85 years old and lived one of the richest lives imaginable. The second oldest of five siblings, he grew up in Port Huron, was recruited into the Army and...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: Matters of the Heart
Okay guys, one of the top five special days for your sweetheart is right around the corner. I’m not talking about the Super Bowl or President’s Day or even Fat Tuesday. I rank this day as the third most important day you can never forget, right behind your wife’s birthday and your wedding anniversary. Yep, it’s Valentine’s Day. They make it easy...
Continue ReadingWired Wedding Planning
You’re getting married! Congratulations! Now what? It’s been a long time since I had anything to do with planning a wedding, so if you are looking for checklists of everything you need to do, you aren’t going to find that here. However, I was chatting with Tiffany Swartz from Dimondale and she explained that social media was a very important factor...
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Recipe of the Month: Homemade Cheese Crackers
From the kitchen of Leonie Hintze. Ingredients 1 cup salted butter, melted 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (for best results, buy a chunk and grate cheese yourself) (important is the equal distribution in 1/3 of each ingredient, you choose how much) 1 egg yolk spices of your choice (basil, caraway seeds, sesame seeds, curry, lemon pepper,...
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Horizon Conference is Your Opportunity
Speak to almost any successful business woman and she’ll tell you that her success was thanks to a number of opportunities. Of course the presence of opportunities does not ensure success; it’s what one does with those opportunities that matters. When Tiffany Dowling, CAWLM publisher and president of Motion Marketing & Media, was presented with the...
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Beyond Entertainment
The cast of "Bare." “We believe in the power of art and using that power to make positive changes,” Artistic Director Dennis Corsi said. Corsi is explaining the mission of Touch Your Soul Productions, a new theater and video production company that is run by Michigan State University students. The idea for Touch Your Soul Productions emerged...
Continue ReadingThis February, Fall in Love with You
It is amazing to me how much baggage each of us carries around (myself included). As an image consultant, I work with remarkably talented and successful people on a daily basis. I am, quite honestly, astounded at times when some of them seek my services because they seem so put together. What I have found is that many of us have the same underlying insecurities,...
Continue ReadingDating Department: Let me Google that for You
Growing up in the information age I always had a means of finding answers. If Ask Jeeves couldn’t tell me in 1996, it probably wasn’t worth knowing. Today, with smart phones and the wonder of Google, there’s immediacy to unanswered questions. Why on Earth would I go another minute debating the year Sam Cooke died when I could just look it up on my iPhone? There...
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