Welcome Hailey Meyer Liechty!!

I'm so excited to have Hailey Meyer Liechty as a Guest Mom this week! I met Hailey through her husband Christopher, a designer and all-around good person that I worked with on occasion before I moved to New York. And I'm so happy he introduced us, because Hailey is just the kind of artsy, creative, interesting, in-the-middle-of-everything kind of woman I love to have in my life. And as you might expect, she's busy. So I had to beg her and beg her to be a Guest Mom. But she finally relented, started her own blog, and is here with us this week — hooray!

One story I have to tell you about Hailey: she is constantly learning new and wonderful things — and always from the best sources she can find. On one night, years ago, she contacted the pastry chef at Sundance (as in Robert Redford's resort that hosts his film festival with the same name) and asked her to teach a class in Hailey's home. The pastry chef agreed and Hailey invited the women in her life to the class with everyone contributing to pay the Chef for her time. I loved it and was so glad I knew someone like Hailey who would think to organize such a thing. I know you'll love Hailey as well, and you can keep up with her at her fine blog The Letter of the Day.

As you know if you've been reading for awhile, I ask Guest Moms to write up a little something about themselves. Here's Hailey's bit.

-Inventory: 1 lover/husband/penguin-style design dad, 5 children, 6 Llamas, 4 ducks, 4 bunnies, 1 beloved tan & white Beagle. 2 youngest children (6 & 3) are deaf. Both have cochlear implants.
-Title on calling card: "Mother" in Engraver's Gothic, small caps.
-Christopher says, "Watch out!" due to some advocacy work I've done for deaf children.
-Love to listen to loud funky (cow-bells, early jazz, funk, cow-punk) music!
-Been known to dance with children & friends outside of parked cars...
-Love the alphabet (calligraphy & fonts), felt, embroidery, beautiful fabric, clay, drawing and ... GLITTER.
-No longer enjoy cooking, although some think I do.
-Hate cleaning the kitchen — cleaning anything.
-Love clean places/things.
-Crazy about spinning classes.
-Favorite Appliance: The Fellows Paper Shredder.
-Favorite Places: San Francisco (my hometown, sniffle sniffle); Union Square, NYC; Sundance, Utah; my home.
-Favorite Camera: "Precious" Leica C-Lux 1
-Advanced degrees in Mess Making --> MFA in Studio Art from BYU, BFA in Drawing, minor in Ceramics from CCAC (now CCA)
-A Blue girl in a very Red state.
-Can't sit still long enough to watch a movie.
-Best Portrait by "Chez DMV."

Welcome Hailey!!