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CUT & RUN

155 GARLAND ST., STE. 101, TRAVERSE CITY

Coffee, cocktails and plenty of co-working space in a downtown setting across the street from the bay. Plus, fresh pastries delivered daily from Bay Bread Co. cutandrun.co

TILLIE’S TAFEL ICE CREAM PARLOR

435 E. MITCHELL ST., PETOSKEY

The beloved bakery known for its cinnamon rolls has expanded next door, adding an ice cream parlor exclusively serving Moomers. The shop will also sell Grand Traverse Pies. (Get a pie flight!) tilliestafel.com

Sanctuary Cinema

101 S. SECOND AVE., ALPENA

A new three-screen movie theater opened its doors in May with state-of-the-art projectors and sound systems. The cinema’s name pays tribute to Alpena’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, an underwater preserve that protects historic shipwrecks. alpenamovies.com

A REASON TO CELEBRATE … 100 YEARS: A.R. PONTIUS FLOWER

SHOP

592 E. MAIN ST., HARBOR SPRINGS

In 1923, Arthur Pontius and his wife, Florence, grew award-winning gladiolus and lilies in the lot behind the shop, selling them in the same location the store is today. Now owned by Jamie Beth Platte, the floral shop offers arrangements for weddings, special events and everyday occasions. pontiusflowers.com

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Technically, Sweetwater Floral’s new contemporary-cool flagship store in the heart of the village of Walloon Lake is a flower shop. There are, after all, flowers for sale: botanical lovelies and woodsy whatsis chilling in coolers, singular seasonals popping from stout glasses on the walls, and garden-like piles of petals and stems strewn over wooden tables, being bibbidi-bobbidi-booed into wedding bouquets and centerpieces.

But thanks to the vision of owner, educator and fairy-godmother-like florist Kalin Sheick, this latest incarnation of Sweetwater Floral is so much more. Sheick calls her 2015-founded biz a “flower-focused lifestyle brand.” And if that means sipping “fluffy coffee” while shopping her plants, garden goodies and Sweetwater swag; sprawling across a couch while whispering your wedding-day dreams; or taking one of her many virtual and in-person workshops—foraged and found fall wreaths, DIY planters, hand-tied bouquets, anyone?—it’s exactly the kind of lifestyle we want to cultivate.

Watch what’s blooming and the refreshingly real lifestyle guru Sheick (often fresh-scrubbed, make-up free and in a towel turban; always funny and frank) in action by following Sweetwater Floral on Instagram, or visit the shop at 4128 N. M-75. - L.T.W.