All Blog Posts Tagged 'traverse city' (50)

Elizabeth Edwards Second Annual Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour is a Huge Success!

The second annual Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour is history—and everyone involved from the tour-goers to the designers agree it was historically fabulous. I was able to make it to 10 kitchens between Traverse City and Charlevoix and at each kitchen I overheard exclamations about how much fun people were having. It was so energizing to see so many folks finding their way to these kitchens scattered from Manistee to Petoskey. I was able to make it to ten kitchens from Traverse City to Charlevoix.… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on October 26, 2009 at 8:39am — No Comments

Elizabeth Edwards Second Annual Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour is a Huge Success!

The second annual Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour is history—and everyone involved from the tour-goers to the designers agree it was historically fabulous. I was able to make it to 10 kitchens between Traverse City and Charlevoix and at each kitchen I overheard exclamations about how much fun people were having. It was so energizing to see so many folks finding their way to these kitchens scattered f… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on October 26, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Renee Supermodel for a Day

When I was a little girl, I played dress up with my sister all the time. We put on my mother’s make up, curled our hair, and let the camera roll with music in the background as we pretended to be models. We put on dresses that were too big for us and high heels that we could hardly move in, batting our eyelashes for the video camera and perfecting our model walk. For a part of my childhood, I was a supermodel, in my own make believe world, and I perfected that job (along with singer, teacher, gy… Continue

Posted by Renee on October 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Jeff Smith Of Buses and Salmon

I’m a semi-regular bus rider—gone through a couple of bus punch-cards in the past six months or so traveling between Cedar and Traverse City on the BATA. There are lots of things I like about the bus, like being able to chat with friends on the way to work, or being able to just zone out in the seat in the early darkness, since I don’t have to drive. But the other day I discovered a new thing to like about the bus. This good thing has to do with the part of busing that involves walking to the bu… Continue

Posted by Jeff Smith on October 14, 2009 at 8:39am — No Comments

Elizabeth Edwards TileCraft Sponsors the 2009 Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour

Indulge me in a little story that illustrates why I love tile and why I’m thrilled that the Traverse City tile store TileCraft is a sponsor of the 2009 Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour. When I was 6 years old, in 1964, I went with my family to the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. My father was a University of Michigan doctoral student and we’d been… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on September 25, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Jeff Smith Northern Mettle and Beer

Have to say I’m so proud of the Northern spirit after seeing the big turnout at the Traverse City Microbrew and Music Festival Saturday evening. The day couldn’t have been worse for an August outdoor event. Rain began sometime early in the a.m. and came down hard and steady all day. Sure, occasionally there was some brief reprieve, but that only seemed to give the storm time to gather more water from somewhere, somehow. Truly, the day was one of the rainiest I’ve seen in years, and the sky neve… Continue

Posted by Jeff Smith on August 31, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Rachel North traverse city microbrew & music fest draws thousands from northern michigan & midwest

Northern Michigan, you are unstoppable. In perhaps the worst weather I’ve ever seen on an August day in Northern Michigan, thousands of you came to the Microbrew and Music Fest. And why not? It was a great event in a great place! If you missed it? You missed out! Check out our MyNorth Community Photos to see if your friends were there and what their favorite brew was.… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on August 30, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Elizabeth Edwards Make it a Day: The Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour and a Glass of Wine at the Wooden Hammer Annex in Traverse City!

Put this date on your calendar: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, October 24—the day of the Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour when 25 professionally designed kitchens from Manistee to Harbor Springs open their doors to tour goers. Got that one down? Now add this footnote: plan your day of kitchen touring so that you end up at the brand new Wooden Hammer Annex in the Ca… Continue

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards on August 26, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Jeff Smith Traverse City Microbrew and Music Festival

I caught up with Sam Porter of Porterhouse Productions and asked him to fill us in on the Traverse City Microbrew and Music Festival that he has planned for Saturday, August 29 at the Grand Traverse Commons. Where’d the idea co… Continue

Posted by Jeff Smith on August 16, 2009 at 12:57pm — 2 Comments

Rachel North lights and dark, in search of traverse city style

It’s dark in my kitchen. The ballast in my kitchen light fixture is broken. And the dark has me thinking a lot about lights. In the last year we’ve been working hard to arrange and replace light fixtures. We’ve been taking advantage of some trends, setting our own style and pouring through copies of Northern Home & Cottage. And I keep an eye out for things I like along the way.… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on August 13, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Rachel North sunday at the traverse city state park beach

Well it's not "Sunday Afternoon at the Park with George" but it is a pic… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on August 5, 2009 at 3:25am — No Comments

Rachel North finding treasure in traverse city—antiques, stories, memories

I remember the day my mother and I started collecting Rookwood vases. She’d found an eight inch blue green Rookwood at the church rummage sale. It was neglected among kitchen things until a professional pricer hired by the church marked it $40. Listening to her say, “Oh that’s valuable,” my mother bought it that night.… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on August 2, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Rachel North technology traverse city style

On the banks of the Boardman River in Traverse City might have been an unl… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 28, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Rachel North start the countdown to summer's end in northern michigan

It was Wednesday, I think when I heard them in Traverse City. A shudder went through me. A deep breath and I decided to dismiss the omen, thinking that's for here, in town. My house is still safe. And then today three times in Suttons Bay, that unmistakable whine of the locusts. When I lived in Missouri, the thirteen year cycle of locusts overlapped with the 17 year cycle. We were overrun. This was a once in a millennium kind of synchronicity and had more than a few folks keeping an ear out for… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 25, 2009 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Rachel North traverse city lunch out of the office

Of course we work hard. Folks come in early, stay late, work weekends. W… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 24, 2009 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Rachel North art goes glamourous in harbor springs d'art benefiting crooked tree art center

Did you miss your opportunity to snatch a great… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 17, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Ali Peterson Horse Shows By the Bay in Traverse City

The first week of Horse Shows By the Bay was a success, flying by for both competitors and spectators. The first weekend was filled with a few spectacular events both beginning and ending with a Prix and the Derby Classic in between. The show, located about 40 mins from my house, was easily found my first trip out on Friday to watch the Welcome Prix. The $10,000 Welcome Prix is a Grand Prix course set at a range of 5'-5'6 feet high. A Grand Prix does not have a judge, instead the round is based… Continue

Posted by Ali Peterson on July 16, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Rachel North nina, pinta in escanaba

If you missed the Nina and Pinta in Petoskey, like we nearly did, you can catch up… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 15, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Rachel North and a time to dance at kickin cancer barn dance july 18 ellsworth

Primarily, I write about my desire to squeeze the greatest possible joy out of our lives in Northern Michigan. And so today I might talk about the handful of citrus-colored nasturtiums in the pop-bottle-turned-vase that nod over my desk. Or I might drone on about the handfuls of blueberries that ruined last night’s pot of strawberry jam by adding too much flavor. Instead I’m going to talk about phone calls, loss and a dance. The… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 14, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Rachel North brides, grooms and the petoskey pier: a wedding up north

Overheard while I was snapping these shots of a lovely wedding party at dusk on the Petoskey pier, “I was looking at my mom’s wedding pictures. They were funny. The guys were wearing velvet bow ties.” “Do you think we’ll look back at these photos someday and laugh about so… Continue

Posted by Rachel North on July 14, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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