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...
