by Kelli Donley | May 21, 2013 | Domestic Art, Good to Great, Happy Hippie, NJ + NYC
My new kitchen is full of color, and is my favorite room in the house. It is wacky, fun, and space-challenged, but all together perfect. I’m not working yet, and so each afternoon looks a bit like a scene from a 1950s television show. I usually wear a dress and...
by Kelli Donley | May 20, 2013 | NJ + NYC
One of my closest friends from college comes into NYC for work on occasion. We were able to catch up last night, with a bottle of wine and far too much food at Manzo. I was so excited for Emily and D to meet; they’d heard a lot about each other. As soon as Emily...
by Kelli Donley | May 17, 2013 | Domestic Art, NJ + NYC
There are a few things that make a house feel like home. My mama’s quilts on the beds, and the back of the couch — some of them worn thin from more than a decade of decadent napping. My brother’s pottery on the bookshelves, wedged between stacks of...
by Kelli Donley | May 16, 2013 | NJ + NYC, Photography
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by Kelli Donley | May 15, 2013 | Happy Hippie, NJ + NYC
Nelson and I have been moping about for the last week, trying to find a rhythm to this new life. I’m fairly certain he misses his partner in crime, Chaco. I’m also fairly certain I’m reading too much into it. (Hey! I’m at home all day with him...
by Kelli Donley | May 12, 2013 | NJ + NYC
We are living in a cottage house on a property with 10-plus acres of groomed grounds. There are giant trees hundreds of years old, sweet neighbors, and a winding drive that goes from one home to the other. So the story goes, there is a resident groundhog named Phil,...
