We came home from shopping at Winter in Detroit with lots of goodies, including my new favorite lip gloss from The Lip Bar. 

The store is on Agnes in Detroit but they also have a setup in the Holiday Market at 1001 Woodward through the end of December. 

My daughter...

I bought my Birch Bark cuff bracelet at City Bird (obviously) but Bettula also has a website and an Etsy site with lots of cool birch bark jewelry. 

The bracelet is $40, has an amazingly strong magnetic clasp, and they are all made of birch from fallen trees - no trees...

My trainer, Jaclyn, introduced me to Dauphine Beaute and I love that it is botanical and natural and there aren't a ton of products required with multiple steps - who has the time for that?

I was nervous about using an oil-based system since I have combination-to-o...

Did you know that over 500,000,000 plastic straws are used (and thrown away) EVERY DAY in the United States?

Did you know that there is a company in Milford that is making cool, reusable glass straws?

Check out Strawesome. They make lifetime guaranteed, reusable, and ado...

I don't always get to Happy Hour with my friends. Sometimes it's with my 16-year old son and our favorite place to go is Social in Birmingham. We split an order of their amazing fries, he gets a coke and I get their Ghostpepper Margarita. 

I came across a Diane M Jewelry trunk show at Hersh's in West Bloomfield. I love jewelry that's made by hand. You know it's unique and that no one else will have anything like it. This gorgeous bracelet was $100. I have very large hands (I suspect the Man Hands episode...

We have a lot of Shinola products in our house. Our Christmas last year was pretty much sponsored by Shinola (not really, but it felt like as we all got at least one item from the store). My husband uses a journal for work and asked for a new leather cover. My daughter...

I found this pillow at the BitchinStitchin booth at the Rust Belt Market in Ferndale and had to buy it for a friend going through a hard time. I wish I'd taken more pictures in Cathy's booth, but you can see her work on her Instagram. 

I especially love that the flower...

I've been buying Go Cat toys for years without knowing they were made in Michigan. We love Da Bird and have awesome videos of our kittens chasing one for hours. 

When I wanted to send a gift to my friend who loves her cat I picked up one of their Catnip Pillows....

I try not to get too caught up in beauty trends but when I read about microblading - a semi-permanent tattoo-like procedure for eyebrows I started looking around for a place to get it done. I believe eyebrows are important and I am still not very good at filling in my...