5 Steps to Start Saving
If you’re anything like me, you overspent (again) during the holiday season and vowed to get your finances back on track as one of your 2012 resolutions. Resolving to save more money is one of the most common resolutions. Now that January’s passed, and some of us are already losing motivation to stick with our savings resolutions. Here are a few easy steps...
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Kristin O’Lear: The Battle of a Lifetime
Many women dream of their wedding day years before it happens. The dress, the flowers, the location and, perhaps most importantly, their loved one waiting at the altar. In all the wedding fantasies a woman could ever dream, no one ever imagines having to plan a wedding in three weeks because they’ve been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and their fiancée...
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Wedding Wear
Special occasion shopping can be stressful. Our advice? You when receive a save-the-date for a wedding start dress hunting then and there. We realize that can’t always happen and so we’re here to help. If you’ll be attending a wedding this spring we have a few suggestions of what you might want to wear, even if you’ll be attending in an official capacity...
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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Cleaning for a Reason
Kaitlin Cameron, Ryan Morgan, Darlene Blinn & Saundra Berryhill When Darlene Blinn of Lansing was diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time, friends and family wanted to help — as they usually do. Some offered to run errands or cook meals — all extremely nice, except for the fact that it meant that Blinn’s home was going to be visited often....
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Local Women: Wanda Degen
Wanda Degen served as the performance coordinator for the East Lansing Art Festival for 25 years. Although her position was removed, she stays busy with her folk music doing performances and teaching classes and is thankful for the extra time to commit to both. Q: What did you primarily do as performance coordinator for the east lansing art festival? A: I...
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Local Women: Autumn Luciano
Autumn Luciano has such a passion for what she does that she lives it every day. As a vintage photographer in Lansing, not only does she provide the look and styling for her customers, but she loves wearing vintage clothing and designed her house to match. Q: How did you get started with photography? A: I wanted to be a filmmaker originally, and I went through...
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