On blogging

Whilst I was holiday-ing on Vancouver Island with my family, the lovely and talented Ambika of (Into) the Fray tagged me with some thought-provoking questions about my foray into blogging. Here's the dirt on this blog:

1. What's the story behind the name of your blog and your nickname?


Do you all remember the post I did about my daily lists of inspiration? Well, one day, early on in that experiment, I began brainstorming names for my blog. Since I have a true love and deep fascination for whales, kelly LOVES whales popped up very naturally during this exploration. I started going by kelly LOVES whales on flickr just to try it out and I ended up really digging it.

2. Why did you start blogging in the first place?

I began blogging as a way to manage my creative goals. I referenced my goals for 2OO7 in that first post: 1. keep making daily paintings;
2. begin to sell online (hopefully by opening an Etsy shop); and
3. loosen up my buttons a bit about my art and just let it happen.
I must say that the blogging has been a brilliant way to facilitate these (and newer) goals. Yay!
Also, blogging seemed a really organized way for me to begin to put my art out there for the universe to experience as well as a keen way to connect with other creative types online.

3. What has been your best blogging related experience? What about the worst?

The best blogging experience for me has been the outpouring of support for my art from total strangers and friends alike. Sometimes I just cannot even believe it!!

I have not really had any bad experiences blogging (yet). There were definitely days when I wondered if anyone was reading or would ever read my blog, but I think that worry has fallen by the wayside.



4. What do you think will happen to your blog in 2008?

Oh, dears, I am so excited for all of the fun times we will have in 2OO8! I plan to keep blogging daily, to begin expanding the coverage of the blog (suprises for you) and to keep this little blog vibrating as positively as possible!

What fun this was! Thanks for tagging me, Ambika! I am tossing this question out to a couple of fascinating bloggers,

Betty the Geek

Camp Indigo Soul

Elegant Musings

Ten weird things.

The dear and delightful Bethany of Qwingk tagged me! Now, darling readers, I have been charged to write ten weird things about myself.

1. I am obsessed with condiments. So obsessed am I that when I had to turn in some biographical information about myself at the start of law school, I thought that declaring my undying love for *ROOSTER* sauce was absolutely necessary in order for anyone to know anything about me. (That and that my favorite Michael Jackson album is and will always be "Off the Wall.")

2. Since I began working from home about seven months ago, my daytime socializing happens in a flickr group called Wardrobe Remix. Wardrobe Remix is a do-it-yourself street fashion community. A hip gal named Tricia Royal started WR in 2005, and it is over 5,800 members strong today. Even though I rarely *have* to get gussied up for the office or court, I think I work better when wearing something a bit more together than pajamas or yoga clothes, and the remix has inspired me to get a little crazy with my old stand-bys and start up my thrifting habit again.

3.
I'm not even going to describe what I think is weird in this photo. Let's play a game: name as many weird things as you can find in this photo, taken about 10 years ago. Oh, yes, that is ME on the left.

4. I mentioned this last week, but I have almost NO YELLOW in my closet! In contrast, I have over twenty green-hued tops. (No comment on how ridiculous that second tid-bit might be. I mean, who needs twenty tops?!) After meditating on some of my experiences with the manipura chakra (yellow-solar plexus-third chakra), I decided to integrate some more of this POWER color into my life, but just a little bit. For the most part, I think that my anahata-chakra tendencies are pretty okay.

5. My favorite shows on NPR are Morning Edition, All Things Considered, This American Life, Fresh Air and The Splendid Table. Additionally, my favorite public radio stars are Daniel Schorr, Lakshmi Singh, Nina Totenburg, Scott Simon, Kai Ryssdal and Juan Williams. I am a public radio junkie. I'm presently a member of Colorado Public Radio and donated a car in addition to my regular pledge last year.

6. Young coconut water is my second-favorite drink behind regular water. Getting to the coconut water can be a labor of love, but it is SO WORTH IT.

7. I was a girl scout from first grade through high school graduation. At girl scout camp, I learned how to build three different kinds of fires, portage a canoe by myself and execute a two-week bike trip.

8. My first grown-up job after college was teaching Montessori school. Not weird, just little-known.

9. I belonged to a "stitch-n-b**ch" during law school. A couple of my gal pals and I would meet up once a week to chat while we knit. That sounds like a great idea right now. Maybe I'll get back into that.

10. My favorite two yoga poses are viparita karani (legs up the wall) and parsva bakasana (side crane). The perfect combinations of effort and grace.

Now, someone (I know I'm supposed to do 10 people, but I get shy about these things) to tag. How about--

Funky Bewster