by Kelli Donley | Oct 31, 2008 | CAOK, Domestic Art, Journal, Kitchen Talk
Ikea, Martha Stewart, Target. Thoughtful gifts from friends, feeding my cooking frenzy. If I have a kitchen fetish, it’s bowls. Maybe the word fetish is too strong, since my affection for bowls is not all that comparable to anything you’d be likely to find...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 30, 2008 | CAOK, Domestic Art, Get Fit, Goals, Happy Hippie, Journal
This truly is the week of focus. It’s working! Not only did I get that market bag done and wrapped, I started reading a new book for NaNoWriMo and got a fair amount of plotting done for novel #2 this morning. I did not, however, swim. I’ve got to do...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 27, 2008 | Domestic Art, Get Fit, Goals, Good to Great, Journal
Tea towels for upcoming sewing projects. I drive/bike by an elementary school each morning near my office. The marquis message changes each Monday, featuring a new life skill they are teaching for that week. This week: “effort.” In the past, the lessons...
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 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...
