by Kelli Donley | Jun 17, 2009 | Domestic Art, Faith, Journal
Matt and Stephanie are bringing Noah and Ezra home today. What joy and relief to have their two little boys home after waiting for their adoptions for so long! Stephanie and I have become blog friends during the last couple of years. When she sent me a photo of their...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 16, 2009 | Faith, Journal
So, the thing about God is that He isn’t necessarily fair. A friend of our family died in an odd accident a little over a month ago. She was beautiful, young, newly married and her death makes me want to go to the top of Camelback Mountain and scream at the top...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 16, 2009 | Domestic Art, handmade, Happy Hippie
What to bring one of the sweetest little boys when visiting? Considering Mr. Roscoe has just about everything he could ever wish for, including a gaggle of adoring family, an African parrot and a kitty that regularly put up with his loving ways, perhaps something...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 15, 2009 | Domestic Art, handmade, Happy Hippie
Bamboo handled totes are a perfect fashion note for summer. Last week, I decided to sew a few for girlfriends. With a few minutes to kill before a meeting, I headed into a thrift store to see if I could find any older bags with these handles to recycle for this...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
In lieu of visiting Oregano’s this week for one of my very favorite thin crust pizzas and a glass of chianti, I played around with that pizza dough recipe one more time and came up with something worthy of repeating: I figure I saved at least $40 by searching...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 11, 2009 | Faith, Good to Great, Journal
I spent an hour this morning walking around Tempe Town Lake, watching the sun rise over the Superstition Mountains, the wispy white low pressure clouds scatter across the morning sky, a class of white cranes gather the edge of the water, waiting for a slow learning...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 10, 2009 | Happy Hippie, Journal, Kitchen Talk
Summer dinner: spaghetti squash from a community garden in Tempe, with sauteed vegetables — they weren’t so blurry in person. ~K
by Kelli Donley | Jun 9, 2009 | Correspondence, Domestic Art, handmade, Journal, June Cleaver
I was the kid at summer camp who always came home with a stack of addresses and managed to write a dozen pen pal letters in the first week, chronicling life in suburban Arizona as though it was dramatically different from the other WASPY childhoods of my new friends. ...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 8, 2009 | Journal, Kitchen Talk
Happy dinner guest. ~K
by Kelli Donley | Jun 7, 2009 | Happy Hippie, Kitchen Talk
Basil and tomatoes from the garden, mozzarella and artichokes from the market — a modified margherita pizza Yesterday was an odd blur of a day; I am trying to get back in the swing of long runs on Saturday mornings. To run this time of year, without having to...
