by Kelli Donley | Aug 26, 2009 | Domestic Art, Earth Mama, Goals, Happy Hippie
It’s really Finny’s fault I started gardening. She’s always showing what she’s growing, cooking and eating and my goodness — it is incredible. I thought I could do the same, nevermind she lives in the Bay area and I’m in the desert....
by Kelli Donley | Aug 25, 2009 | Faith, Journal, Media
My faith journey is quite a bit like sewing — a bit of perceived progress here, a bit of seam ripping there. Your comments to Sunday’s post about the “Novelist as God” have spurred me to once again consider what I believe and why. I’ll...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 24, 2009 | Domestic Art, Journal, Kitchen Talk
I love grocery shopping at ethnic stores. One of my local favorites is the Baiz Market. They have some of the best Middle Eastern food in town and aisles full of the most exotic ingredients you could imagine. The first time I visited, there were families preparing for...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 23, 2009 | Community, Faith, Media
I listened to this week’s Speaking of Faith podcast twice because the idea of authors creating a new perspective of God and faith through novels struck my fancy. I’d never considered how literature influences spirituality — how a novelist’s...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 21, 2009 | CAOK, Domestic Art, handmade, Happy Hippie
Rosie had a stupid thing happen — her purse was stolen this summer when she was on vacation. We met in Denver soon after the incident. When she lamented her new handbag had just arrived before she’d taken it on vacation, I knew good karma must soon be...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 20, 2009 | CAOK, Domestic Art, handmade
My friend Chris asked me to make him a Chevroleg bag months ago. I’ve been dragging my feet because it required going to Ikea, which is the equivalent of REI or Costco for me — $100 at a minimum seems to disappear on purchases that really don’t make...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 19, 2009 | Earth Mama, Happy Hippie, Journal
The pumpkins are growing at amazing speed, in part because I keep forgetting to turn the water off and they’ve received gobs of liquid love during the last month. Even those little African seeds have taken off; I swear there are days I come home from work to...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 18, 2009 | Domestic Art, Handmade goods
My first custom order completed. Kate Spade, watch out. (ha!) ~K
by Kelli Donley | Aug 16, 2009 | Community, Happy Hippie, Journal
We have this date palm at the community garden that came from two congregants who visited Israel in the 1970s and brought home a date. Needless to say, the palm is now giant and has a bunch of babies (shoots) around its trunk that are ready to be transplanted. I know...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 14, 2009 | Community, Domestic Art, Goals, Happy Hippie
A television station in Japan contacted me this week to see about an interview for how a typical American is changing her lifestyle since the great economic nonsense of 2008. Raised in a frugal, creative home — I’d say I’m lucky to have learned early...
