Welcome to Kelly Wilkinson!

It's a great new week at Design Mom. I'm back from the wedding in Boulder (more on that later) and I've got an incredibly talented Guest Mom that I get to introduce today. Actually, I think she might be our first official Guest Aunt. Which is equally fun. But maybe more fun, because it's new and exciting. Her name is Kelly Wilkinson of the tremendous Make Grow Gather blog. And she is absolutely over-flowing with creativity, talent and style. Here is a little bio in her own words:

I grew up in a renovated barn in Virginia, the middle of three sisters. Now I’m married and living in San Francisco, but I’m always trying to bring some elements of our creative, rural upbringing to our apartment lifestyle. It turns out that San Francisco is a great place to straddle these worlds: I can walk out our door and catch a train downtown, but I can also grow vegetables in the backyard, and (very soon, fingers crossed) keep bees. I just joined the San Francisco Beekeepers’ Association – it turns out there are a lot of hives stashed up on rooftops around this city!

During the day, I work at the local NPR affiliate as a reporter. On most evenings and weekends I usually take over the the dining room table with some combination of a sewing machine, fabric, paper, found objects, glue, scissors, pins, yarn, etc. My goal for projects I create is to take simple, readily-available materials and use them in fresh ways to create modern DIY accessories. I’ll share some of those projects this week, along with some of my favorite places for inspiration.

Thanks so much for having me – I’m thrilled to be here!

Kelly, welcome to Design Mom. We're thrilled to have you. Yay! Thrilling all around.