Have you come across friends Instagrams …. Snapchat stories…. captions that say “BAE” – well for some num nuts its considered to be a lazy ghetto slang for those who do not want to fully pronounce the words baby or babe. In reality its an acronym !
BAE = Before Anyone Else
This could be a boyfriend or girlfriend or just a friend that you feel knows or gets your attention before anyone else!
xx
Wise words of Lshawtay
Ann Arbor is famous for the annual Art Fair that takes place every year in Mid July since 1960 !
This is one of Top 5 favorite sculptures in downtown Ann Arbor ! It is located directly across the street from the University of Michigan’s Student Union on State Street. Throughout the week I will post my other favorite Public Art Works on the blog 😀
Don’t forget to stop for a moment and take a look around you …. you may just see something you didn’t before
xx
Lshawtay
Art Sculpture , Ann Arbor 2014
Do It For Detroit – one of my most favorite “Isms” per say.
Today I’d like to share an Article from the New York Times that was published on July 11th 2014 ” The Post-Post Apocalyptic Detroit “.
In 2011, I worked at Quicken Loans in Downtown Detroit. The HQ had recently been relocated downtown Detroit in Campus Martius right off Woodward Ave. Did you know Woodward Avenue was platted a road in 1805? or that the location of the first mile (1.6 km) of concrete roadway in the country was WOODWARD AVE ? Later on in the summer i’ll post about the Woodward Dream Cruise.
Okay Okay — back to the article about Detroit – because what else do you have to really be doing right now !!?
A quote I took from the article to get you intrigued enough to click the link above that discusses the WORK PLACE ENVIRONMENT. I’d truly prefer to never have to work in a closed off grey cubicle … as for the QUBE thats a whole different story… !
“Above the workers hover decorative, spacecraft-like orbs, in peach and pink and aquamarine, matching the colors of the cabinetry and carpeting. The overall atmosphere resembles “The Wolf of Wall Street” as art-directed by Dr. Seuss. “
This line made me laugh because I worked with the design team to invent this awesome area ! The group now goes by D POP check out the gallery photos from the Qube !
You spend about a third or more of your day in your office, studio, classroom, lab or what not … odds are you sit for most of it too. dPOP is what you’ve been dreaming of ! The team beats down old boring blahhhh offices & bumps them up! If you didn’t click the link from above … Do It Now.
One of my 2014 Things To Do is DO IT FOR DETROIT ! Meaning I will go to downtown Detroit at least once a month ! Today I chose to share a bit about the D via the New York Times ...
#DetroitHustlesHarder
Yeahhhhhhhh….. !
Lshawtay
#BBOTD – Bumping Beat of the Day
To kick this off my new trend of “BBOTD” Bumping Beat of the Day! Today this is what i’m feeling …. a Kaytranada edition of ” Wrote A Song About You”
Be sure to Bump this track on this Lovely Lunes for an Eargasm !
xx
LshawTay
Orange Supreme !
I’d like to think of my self as a Chef or one in the making ! I have a lot of fun in the kitchen , last year I made a few YouTube Videos about What’s In My Bag : Grocery Store Edition, which i’ll post later this week. One of the great things about living in Ann Arbor is there is Sur La Table just outside of Downtown! On my Instagram account you can find pictures from the classes I have taken : Croissants as well as Macrons. While I cannot say I’ve mastered either or could make them 100% perfect at home, I’d give it a try ! Photographed in this blog you’ll see photos from my Knife Skills course.
Photographed first we have the Orange Supreme, which was actually the last thing we did in the class. This was an interesting trick that I never even thought about. Unfortunately I have an allergy to oranges and the squirting of the juice makes me break out in hives, but thats for another day! It kind of reminds me of how oranges come in a can, which I think is vile.
I would love to demonstrate this trick for friends of mine, I feel like it is a very fancy look for an orange slice!
We learned about the different parts of the knife and how they are made and put together. NOT ALL KNIVES ARE THE SAME! You may see a famous Knife brand on special sale, but it is for a reason!! It is not the same high quality of the original line thats full price.
Sharpening your knives is very important ! Granted the women who taught the class is a professional Chef and has gone to Pastry School, I do believe her advice. She has been going to the same guy who is like 80 to sharpen her knives for over a decade!
All of the ingredients photo’d surprisingly turned into an amazing Pico De Gallo!! We learned to to properly chop a tomato – this was another troubling one for me as I have an allergy to them as well ! I did wear gloves which were very helpful and I would recommend any one would for the sake of cleanliness & smell. Came in handy for doing the onions as well 😉
Pico!
Not Photo’d is the Bread Knife with ridged edges !
My Pot Planter from Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden
A have a bit of a green thumb these days, ever since I posted about decorating your desk at the office or at home! I was inspired to bring life into my life in a way other than having a baby. I have always eyed out the plants at Plum Market, and on the eve of my 24th Birthday I thought why not just buy one already. I unknowingly purchased an Aloe Plant – which has so many uses you wouldn’t believe. YES this is where the Aloe comes from to help your sun burns, if you break off a branch of your Aloe plant, you can keep it organic and not buy some weird goo from the drug store.
Meanwhile, I have been keeping this little cactus plant on my desk since the end of April 2013, a resident of my building where I work gave it to me as a gift that he brought from home in Arizona. My desk isn’t the closest one to the window, so I deprived this cactus from proper sunlight for about a full year, it looked weak. My new co-worker has an extraordinary green thumb, and advised me on how to bring it back to life, the first step being put it by the window! DUH – cacti are from the desert where it is hot as balls and filled with sunshine.
I began to feel a need for more plants and more oxygen – I traveled down to the Eastern Market in Detroit with 2 friends and we traveled from Shed to Shed ( IF YOU HAVEN”T BEEN YOU GOTTA GO …. on a SATURDAY!) Walking and walking, kind feels like you are a cow in a heard with all the people down there, we found ourselves “starstruck” by the GIANT SHiNOLA watch hanging from the ceiling, as it matched exactly to the one on my friends wrist. Conveniently this was in front of a plant booth – and I found my perfect little plant that I have NO idea what it is, but that I like its looks – I instantly purchased it for $2.25 ….. pocket change.
I was so excited by something so small, I carried around for the rest of the afternoon in a small paper bag as this little plant including the pot is smaller than my hand.
Organic Cactus Mix from Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden $3.9
I re-visited the Eastern Market two Saturdays later to buy 2 more cute little plants, I will have to post photos of them later when I transfer them into more fabulous pots.
The other day I was noticing my Aloe plant was lookin’ not so haute and I showed it to my green thumb co-worker. He said that it had a big sprout popping out the top, but its tentacles were looking slim and crispy. Therefore, it was time to upgrade its home !! We walked over to the Downtown Home & Garden shop on S. Ashley in Ann Arbor. Here I found a lovely blue pot – that went along with the cacti theme & its just my favorite color. He instructed me to purchase Organic Cactus Mix aka soil bag of stuff to re-pot my plant, because in a bigger home obviously would need more and fresh soil. The bag of soil was $3.99 – pretty cheap and it can assist in all of my 5 plants getting a new home !!
You have to fill the bottom of you pot with rocks, to help with drainage of the water that you pour in once a week for your plant. I conveniently got these from the ground outside. FREE ! wahoo! Apparently, cacti family plants like to have their soil patted down firmly to them. My Aloe plant used to live in the Photo’d cactus plant’s new home. It was easy to upgrade both of their homes. I can’t wait to upgrade my other 3 plants to their new homes once I find a fabulous pot for them.
Added benefits of having plants in your home is that they are eating up all your CO2 and pumping out Oxygen. This is a great thing for yourself !!
YAY ! My Cactus from my tenant & my Aloe plant from Plum Market
Breathe in the light around you and breathe out the darkness inside of you ❤
Hey ! Me in front of the stacks of Hay at the Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden Space on S.Ashley & Liberty St
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/09/how-to-make-ramen-crust-pizza.html
This is a rather interesting and intriguing combination … I Don’t see Dominoes adding this to their menu any time soon…
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