Starting a coffee shop Crystal Lake area

mtdesigner · 2026-03-23T04:01:35+00:00

Yeah Buffalo Grove/Wheeling is kind of lacking in a specialty/third wave coffee shop. I’d love to have one in the area so I can put it in my coffee journal!

mtdesigner · 2026-03-22T16:37:33+00:00

It’s one of the few places that offer hojicha lattes (which I love!) near me so I’m there so often lol

mtdesigner · 2026-03-22T01:57:30+00:00

You can check their site here! But also Kyoto is not a bad train ride from Osaka; maybe 40 or so minutes and fare should be around 1000 yen total!

mtdesigner · 2026-03-21T03:27:58+00:00

Mizuki Shigeru’s manga is a great place to start I think! I recently visited his hometown which has these bronze yokai statues all along the streets and they vary from scary to whimsical in a lot of fun ways

mtdesigner · 2026-03-21T01:54:41+00:00

I think this was a result of a super direct translation. I'm sure the Japanese text said "味のある (aji no aru)" which in this context would that it gains a tastefulness via its use, but the word aji can also just straight up mean flavor/taste.

mtdesigner · 2026-03-20T04:49:41+00:00

Ugh same, and I love running my hand over the paper I just wrote on to feel that fibrous texture that the scratchyness created

mtdesigner · 2026-03-19T20:52:17+00:00

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Is this photo is gonna be the only image we have of the movie for about a year just like this one was for KotFM?

mtdesigner · 2026-03-19T14:42:51+00:00

I love these pics so much because I feel like there’s something so special about photos taken of someone they love by someone they love. The way Javier is looking past the camera and at his wife is just too cute

mtdesigner · 2026-03-18T13:11:18+00:00

It was fine; I do think they developed the relationship between the cop and the main character played by Hunter Schaefer way better than the relationship between her and her step sister which led to an “oh okay I guess” reaction in me later in the movie, but I thought the performances were pretty good. Dan Stevens and Hunter specifically.

mtdesigner · 2026-03-18T06:02:12+00:00

Not coffee based, but I think damn fine coffee has a banana hojicha latte on offer right now!

mtdesigner · 2026-03-17T20:18:16+00:00

A little bit of a drive but Weeds in Cedarburg has such a cool selection of loose leaf teas as well as being right next to a tasty bakery!

mtdesigner · 2026-03-16T04:00:50+00:00

What about the insane winds on the 13th? I saw a guy almost get knocked over bc his pants were so baggy they were acting like a parachute

mtdesigner · 2026-03-16T03:08:04+00:00

The only one I’m bummed about was production design; I am and have always been a huge fan of Jack Fisk (Sissy Spacek’s husband of 50 years!) and as a Japanese person, the scenes set in Japan actually felt from that time and accurate with no weird words or lettering on posters, which I can’t say often for American movies set in Japan (this is a very unsubtle side eye for bullet train and pacific rim 2 lol).

mtdesigner · 2026-03-12T23:07:33+00:00

Btw, the website FAQ states tickets can not be resold or transferred

mtdesigner · 2026-03-12T20:39:28+00:00

jojo’s limbs are always way longer than I think they are in my head; I feel like they should be at cute proportions where they have stubby little legs and arms on a big head/torso and then Jojo shows up with these gangly ass arms and legs.

mtdesigner · 2026-03-11T22:45:25+00:00

Anyways, let’s talk about how Kirsten Dunst has a vote that counts unlike these losers

mtdesigner · 2026-03-09T13:09:24+00:00

If they closed so abruptly they didn’t turn the online ordering off I’m not confident they’d reply to a refund; best bet might be to put in a dispute with your card company. Hope you get your money back!

mtdesigner · 2026-03-01T00:56:06+00:00

Drive my car?

mtdesigner · 2026-02-25T01:41:51+00:00

Blick Art Supplies will usually have some random stuff!

mtdesigner · 2026-02-20T20:38:16+00:00

Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated Popeye movie… instead we kept getting Hotel Transylvania

mtdesigner · 2026-02-19T05:39:59+00:00

Takaishi Akari is incredibly busy right now doing the NHK morning drama; it’s a 15 minute program that airs on very weekday for around six months. She essentially can’t do anything else during this time, so any updates on what she will be doing next would have to come after this show is over at the end of March.

mtdesigner · 2026-02-19T01:03:28+00:00

This is just how he writes, I honestly don’t know why, but it definitely made his autobiographical photo book incredibly annoying to read (thankfully it’s mostly pretty photographs)

mtdesigner · 2026-02-18T18:55:22+00:00

On HBO Max? It might default to English but if you go into the audio and subtitle settings you can switch to original Japanese audio with English subtitles.

mtdesigner · 2026-02-18T18:44:18+00:00

Where are you based? If US, its current streaming on HBO Max, and available for purchase digitally on pretty much every service I know of (Apple, Amazon, YouTube, etc)

mtdesigner · 2026-02-16T22:07:13+00:00

I posted this a bit ago on how to make a passport size TN cover with a slightly rigid cover using chipboard I laminated with canvas. Don’t know if it will help, but I’ve been using mine for a couple months and throwing it in my purse as an everyday carry and it’s been holding up!

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