Leland gal Stories

Last year, we started a challenge of creating teams for the annual Fishtown 5K race.  It brought some friendly competition among shopkeepers and staff, and helped all of us make a goal of completing a 5K, while supporting one of our favorite causes, the Fishtown Preservation Society.  Here is our...

Remember this beautiful picture I borrowed to show the beauty of framing fabric patterns? How much of a small world can it be, that I am now featured on this designers blog? Jana Bek is a designer that I found on Houzz, and connected with about our similar tastes and...

"You always post "We" or "Our" when writing about Leland gal, so who else is involved?" People do ask me this question from time to time, and it's really a hard one to answer. This is how my summers in Leland, Michigan started. That's me, the tiniest one in the...

My cousins and I had a great trip visiting with my Grandmother, Janie. We heard some great stories, chatted about family, drank martinis, and talked interior design. When you are talking with someone who was born in 1913, the range of subject matter is vast, and the weight of issues...

While most folks take a trip for the spring, there is one special person to me that stays and endures all of the elements of Leland year round, and that is my Grandmother Janie.  Janie turned 100 in June of 2013, and she is truly a marvel. In fact, she...

While resigning to continue to build my own business was the best feeling on the planet, I will always be passionate about teaching, and the importance of the arts in schools. It would be my dream to someday build this business enough to have a product line created to help...

OPEN OPEN OPEN. This is what I see now that I must be to all new things. If you told me 3 years ago that I would own my own custom designed fabric business and lifestyle line, I would never have believed you.  Teaching a new curriculum of Graphic Design...

Michigan is not for sissies. We all knew that already. It's part of what we, as Michiganders are proud of. A love of nature that isn't always easy. If it was easy to live here, more people would. Here is my parents house today in Leland, and that snow is...

Since it's freezing where I live, I need to find inspiration in the little things. I thought I would give trending dark nail polish a try before the holidays, and I just could not have felt more drab. I know it is January, but going back to OPI's "Cajun shrimp"...