by Kelli Donley | Oct 25, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, Journal, June Cleaver, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
I have two friends who are new moms and have been saving their baby food jars for me. I have a vision of making a path of tea light luminaries through my garden this winter. In the meantime, we are all about celebrating autumn, pumpkins and cooler weather for the time...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 23, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, Journal, June Cleaver, Media, Uncategorized
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then in a single melancholy week may seem like a...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 22, 2008 | Happy Hippie, Journal
A Twitterer I follow (okay, the language for that site is just nuts. Twitterer makes just as much sense as Tweet or Twit.) mentioned the other day that she prefers beer and a game of pool to wine and art. It made me stop and think. Where do I fall on that scale?...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 21, 2008 | Happy Hippie, Journal
In honor of my brave mama being stronger than I can imagine 29 years ago today, (at the ripe age of 24) — a list of adventures, joys and lessons that have so far made this wild ride incredibly enjoyable: 1. My family. From my Aunt Karen in Pennsylvania to my...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 20, 2008 | Faith, Goals, Journal
{In my last post on faith, I received several very thoughtful comments — including one from Crumpet. She mentioned being an atheist and feeling like she regularly had to defend her choices. I am a United Methodist and sharing my faith is very new and pretty...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 17, 2008 | CAOK, Domestic Art, Journal, June Cleaver
I sewed a bunch of zippered pouches last night. They have wildly colored zippers and even crazier colors inside. A few ended up monogrammed with a rubber stamp. Of course there was a small problem with a clipped corner… Zipper fail. Otherwise it felt really good...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t seen Nacho Libre, it is my new favorite movie. I don’t know exactly what about it makes me laugh like a little kid, but it does the trick every single time. My friends were oh-so-confused by this when I subjected them to viewing it in the...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Are you absolutely horrible at hobby you still love? For me, this is bowling. Poor Salty didn’t know what he was getting (or better yet, not getting) when he asked me to play in his bowling league last year. Matt and Rebecca regularly kick my butt, as does the...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 15, 2008 | Faith, Goals, Happy Hippie, Journal, Uncategorized
Just goes to show you, you can take the girl out of Africa, but you can’t take Africa out of the girl. Look what I found one morning walking along the beach in Mexico? I was looking down, listening to a podcast and enjoying the crisp morning weather when voila!...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 14, 2008 | Arizona, Community, Journal, Politico
I took a friend to see a lawyer yesterday. About a decade ago, when she was a small girl and far too young to know what poor decisions were being made on her behalf, her parents left Mexico and drove the family to the United States illegally. They settled in Arizona,...
