by Kelli Donley | Feb 8, 2012 | Celebrate!, Journal
When I was 14, I moved to Torreon, Mexico to study my sophomore year of high school with the Rotary International program. This included living with three families during the year, and oh — learning Spanish. (Yep. If you’re a childhood friend, you are...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 6, 2012 | Domestic Art, handmade, Journal
My mom is an award-winning quilter. I’ve rambled on about her amazing abilities here before. This time, I’ll let the photos do the talking. A few of her recent projects, some of which are still in the works: (That colorful, shabby chic one on top is for...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 5, 2012 | Journal, Travel
As the winds of a snowfall that broke a century-old reocord began to rattle the windows in Denver, I was curled up with a plate of smokey barbeque and the family dog in Texas. Somehow I have been able to avoid the major storms during my first winter in Colorado....
by Kelli Donley | Jan 19, 2012 | Colorado, Journal
I flew to Phoenix this week for work. It was a turn-around trip in one day – some 19 hours door-to-door. This is the new bar for exhaustion. The standard used to be post-marathon. Or at least post-time zone/hemisphere/continent jump. Alas, with a plantar...
by Kelli Donley | Jan 15, 2012 | Daily Sass, Journal
You know those women you have in your life who are always put together? Not in a sense of perfect makeup or blown out hair, or even looking like a catalog. Truly stylish. Women who carry themselves with a sense of personal flare that is different from anyone else you...
by Kelli Donley | Jan 12, 2012 | CAOK, Domestic Art, handmade, Journal
I like having journals around — to collect prayers, notes, and odd observations. Sometimes they are filled with grocery lists. Pretty much all of them end up unfinished because I get distracted with the bright and shiny of a new journal! New year, new paper, new...
