This week’s Humpday Blog Love goes to Domestica, a lovely shop in Des Moines that holds such fabulous art, design and accessories.
Domestica is always on the cutting edge of fun and funky handmade items. They carry June Craft, from Cedar Rapids, who just a bit ago was [...]
I’ve been working with a local blogger who wanted to launch a bigger and better version of her blog. She curates and posts about local Des Moines vendors that cater to wedding needs. The website: Des Moines Wedding Savvy.
We began talks a couple months back, and after chatting about the [...]
This week’s Humpday Blog Love goes to an awesome local lady — the one, the only, Laura Palmer. Her blog is called “A Love Letter to a New Year“. My favorite recent post is about her fandom of Glee — she even called herself a total GLEEk.
Her [...]
Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve done a Humpday Blog Love post.
This week’s Humpday Blog Love goes to one of my favorite local ladies: Kristin from Iowa Girl Eats.
Kristin has been on a fabulous vacation in Italy for the last several days (I’m so jealous!), but she is [...]
This week’s humpday blog love goes to my friend Adria, who ironically thinks I’m mad at her because I haven’t had a chance to talk to her for a couple weeks. But no, I am not! And I realized my blog love post was about her blog this week (I schedule them all in [...]
This week’s Humpday Blog love goes to my friend Steph Hertel’s Turtle Soup blog. Don’t confuse her with the yodeling sensation, Stefanie Hertel.
I don’t even know where to start! Steph is pretty much the perfected version of what I do at my blog … she makes things … creates things [...]
This week’s Blog Love goes to my friend Steph for her blog 33% Disaster.
Steph is a web designer at a local company and does a lot of photography on the side. She’s also getting married to a wonderful guy next May and I’m going to be a [...]
Love goes to Des Moines local Cara Hall this week and her ironically titled blog, Failed Feminist.
I met Cara last year through Craft Saturday in Des Moines. In her own words, Cara “is a writer in Des Moines, Iowa (which is cooler than [...]
This week’s installment of Humpday Blog Love is dedicated to Designing Daily, a blog about creativity, inspiration and design’s impact on everyday life. Heidi Miller is the author of this blog. She’s a fabulous designer and photographer that loves great design, pretty things and has, if I do say so myself, fabulous taste.
This week’s featured blog is look a little closer. My friend Kim who lives in NYC is the author of this blog. She’s an artist, a volunteer and an all-around amazing person. We’ve collaborated on some album artwork a couple of times.
I met Kim back in [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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