About

Kelli is:

– a 27-yo happily married WAHM

– the proud mama of 2 wonderful boys, ages 6 and  almost 3, and KaHokuMakamae (“the precious star” in Hawaiian),

– a scrapper at heart, but also dabbles in rubber stamping, knitting, sewing and whatever tickles her fancy at the given moment
– FINALLY going back to college in Fall ’10

Scrapbooking started as a hobby, grew to a collector’s obsession, and finally evolved into what it is now… art.  I love art… from scribbles on the floor (or carpet!) by the baby or letters and numbers on the wall (no paper, just wall!) by the big brother, to stuck in an album or pieces framed and hung around the house… anything goes!

Outside of crafts, I love:

  • hip hop music, clothes, art – the culture in general,
  • neo-soul, jazz, 90′s r&b, dance/club/booty-shaking music,
  • korean music, variety shows and some dramas/movies,
  • japanese culture and anime,
  • new age spirituality and my Wiccan religion,
  • the color green… but i have taste!!!  just because its green doesn’t mean it’s NOT super fugs!!!

Yeah, I’m random.  You could even call it crazy, but that’s why you love me, right? (correct answer here is YES!) And while cussing is prevalent in my everyday vocabulary I promise to try to keep it somewhat clean, but sometimes you need the effin emphasis.  I am active on two completely different message boards… my civilized mother personality dominates when I’m at Splitcoast Stampers (SCS), and my more true-to-self, semi-grimey personality shines when I’m at bboy.org.

Same person, split personalities =o).

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12 things you may not need to know about me (but deep down you’re kinda interested):

1. i was born on november 5th and until a few years ago, i hadn’t met a single person that shared my birthdate.  and i don’t remember who shares it so we’re back to not knowing anyone who has the same birthday as me.  unlike the hubs, who shares his birthday with my grandmother, ex-coworker and one of my good, good friends.

2. since i was small, my realistic dream was to have my PhD, although i probably didn’t know that it was called a PhD.  i just wanted to be super smart and teach people how to be smart like me.  and i’ll be back in college 3/4 time Fall ’10 so i can work towards that (possible) PhD.

3. making music was my dreamer’s dream.  music has always been my savior and my escape.  slap on headphones and stick in a good CD (back when sony walkman cd players were COOL) and i was in my own little utopia.  i passed up the opportunity to sing professionally in high school, and while i wouldn’t trade anything for the life i live now, i sometimes wonder what it would have been like to live out my dream dream.  and no, i won’t sing for you now.  not only have i lost my nerve, i haven’t trained my voice in over 10 years.

4. i have also always kind of known that i wanted to work for myself.  i was never one to take orders or respect authority growing up, and i growed up and learneded  that sometimes, authority is a good thing and should be respected where it is deserved.  especially when i am the authority.

5. i have looooooong struggled with depression.  therapy helped a little, medication definitely didn’t, and i am finally at a point where i am just trying to work through it on my own.  and it’s a rough transition… some days i just plain do not function, but little by little, i’m having more good days than bad.  little by little, we’re figuring out as a family what works and how to deal with me when whatever we try doesn’t

6. one christmas, back when i was in 4th or 5th grade, i asked santa for a pet mouse.  a tiny little white mouse.  he brought me 2 little kittens.  I WAS PISSED.  but as you can tell, i got over it.  nowdays, i am definitely a cat person.

7. i love to sleep.  you’d think that with 2 kids and a house and garden to tend to and a business to run and a life to live, i wouldn’t find the time to sleep 14 hours.  but you’d be wrong.  granted, i don’t sleep that long every day, but when i have the chance to (and the hubs is gracious enough to provide the opportunity waaaaay more than he should), i take it.

8. i love lists. and i make them alllllll the time.  partly because i never remember where i put them and partly because i’m semi-neurotic.  fine, i’m a little bit crazy.  but they say it’s when there’s too little or too much of something that it goes wrong, so a little bit crazy is a good, healthy thing to be.

9. i want a HUGE family.  it’s probably a combination of being an only child and seeing my SIL’s wonderful brood of 5 kids grow, but i definitely want to add to our 2 boys.  the only problem for me is i have hyperemesis gravidarum and the first 6-ish months of pregnancy is traumatic and just plain hard to handle for me.  if HG wasn’t an issue then i would definitely want 5-ish kids of my own.  and i plan to adopt later on in life.  when the hubs married me i made it clear that it was something that was important to me and he’s almost fully on board.

10. i recently found my inner housewife.  the baking and cooking and i’m working on the housecleaning part.  my poor family have to taste test my new recipes and concotions and they’re 80% good.  but that still means they’re 20% bad.  haha.  always on the lookout for new recipes and still trying to figure out cakes.  they don’t like me too much.

11. my 10 (maybe 5, maybe 20…) year goal is to open a non-profit company that works with seniors, people with disabilities and people with long-term illnesses.  every single person in this world is important to someone else and has a story to tell and a legacy to pass on and i want to help them find the beauty and the joy in themselves through art, music and possibly dance.  this idea is a tiny little something in my heart and i have to nurture it and let it grow into what it’s supposed to be.  and i’m looking for just about anyone who will help me make this possible.

12. these days, my dream is to be a good mother, good daughter, good wife, friend to the earth, and to create things with my hands and give my ideas life.  i want people to see the beauty in the everyday – in the things around them, the things they do, the people they share their life with, and most importantly, themselves.

13. i am not very religious, but i am very, very spiritual and communing with nature and the metaphysical is an everyday thing for me.  i wasn’t always like this… but within the past 5-ish years i have gotten in touch with my soul and it has been refreshing and reinvigorating.  but i try to keep the spiritual speak toned down.