by Kelli Donley | Mar 22, 2012 | Colorado, Happy Hippie, Heirloom Homestead
Bonnie, Clyde and Pearl will be coming home to roost soon. (Technically they have hatched. So I am counting them!) ~K
by Kelli Donley | Mar 21, 2012 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, Heirloom Homestead
I’ve been trying to talk myself into doing some larger patchwork projects. Not quite a quilt, but I have several larger projects in mind I’ve been plotting. Also, I have a growing pile of scrappy pieces of cute fabric that need a good home. Sometimes I go...
by Kelli Donley | Mar 19, 2012 | Colorado, Community, Happy Hippie, Heirloom Homestead
How many of you have heard me say, “I just want a couple chickens?” Most, I’d guess. For years, the story went a bit like this: I want a garden, dog and a couple chickens. Also? I’d like to live closer to my brother. Well. Chickens are all that...
by Kelli Donley | Mar 17, 2012 | Domestic Art, Heirloom Homestead
Standard chocolate chip cookie recipe + coconut + cashews and almonds + cardamom + cinnamon. The Everything Cookie, to rave reviews ~K
by Kelli Donley | Mar 13, 2012 | Arizona, Colorado, Heirloom Homestead
The color of the Arizona desert is not brown or taupe or saguaro green. Nor prickly pear ruby red, nor eggplant Superstition purple, or even the color of the golden omnipresent sun. It is turquoise. A vibrant series of hues found in backyard swimming pools, jewelery...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 15, 2012 | Colorado, Community, Domestic Art, Heirloom Homestead, Kitchen Talk
The Crazy: I celebrated Valentine’s day by throwing a small, simple dinner party for a couple friends. Fine. It was a choreographed, triumphant dinner party, with seven courses for more than a dozen friends. The older I get, the less ability I have take the easy...
