by Kelli Donley | Jan 10, 2008 | Goals, Good to Great, Journal, Media, Uncategorized
I want to be a novelist because I have this story rattling around in my brain. I can see the characters. I can taste the food I’m describing. I can smell the smoky air in Mozambique and the pollution in Phoenix — my settings. I have conversations with the...
by Kelli Donley | Jan 9, 2008 | Community, Correspondence, Domestic Art, Goals, Journal
I smiled at the number of email I received yesterday reading, “Why doesn’t my Target/community/country have Frida Card Day? No fair!” Guess what? It easily could. Follow these easy steps and you too can have an organized crafting community, no matter...
by Kelli Donley | Dec 21, 2007 | Domestic Art, Goals, Journal, Recipes, Uncategorized
I wish for new challenges. For example, baking bread. One cheap Dutch oven + one pretty awesome recipe + one January/February 2008 issue of Cooks Illustrated for a bit of cajoling = my first edible loaf of bread. I paired it with pumpkin apple chestnut soup and salad....
by Kelli Donley | Nov 28, 2007 | Get Fit, Goals, Good to Great, Journal
Spicy tuna roll, diet coke, pool-side chaise and I’m in carb heaven. I’ve recently started a new weight-lifting routine. I’m hesitant to even talk about it here because I seem to bore everyone in my personal life with nutrition/health/athletic...
by Kelli Donley | May 4, 2007 | Domestic Art, Goals, Journal, Media
Turquoise from Santa Fe, new beads from the shop down the street — a crafty weekend ahead. Did you ever see the SNL skit featuring Stuart Smalley when he looks into a mirror and cheers himself on by repeating, “I’m good enough. I’m smart...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 30, 2007 | Domestic Art, Goals, Journal, June Cleaver
Perhaps I’m taking a cue from Mother Nature, with pollen in the air and warming temperatures — I am itchy for change. My wanderlust is thankfully being fed with tickets to Africa in May and South America in August. Yet in the meantime, my daily routine...
