Podcast with The Amazing & Fabulous Kelly Buntin Johnson

[Note: you have to scroll allllllll the way down, past all the photos, to hear the podcast. Sorry about that, but the photos are worth it, I think.]



Kelly is just amazing. You've heard me talk about her before, and she contributed to my About Creativity project here. She also contributed to my book, Living the Creative Life, and we did a profile of her and her work in Art Doll Quarterly, which is how we met (sorry, but I don't know what issue that was and can't tell from the website).

 These three are photos from her blog, and I love them.

 This photo makes me happy. She says it was taken on her birthday. Perfect.

Then, last year during our Big-Ass Eastern Road Trip, she and her husband, Rhett, invited us to visit their home and studios. Amazing. Just amazing. The Ever-Gorgeous Earl took a lot of photos, thank goodness, so I can go back and re-live standing in Kelly's studio: it's so overwhelmingly marvelous that there's no way you can see everything. Hence: good photos. The rest of these are The EGE's photos.

Their house.

Kelly's studio

Her garden--this was over a year ago, so I'm guessing it's bigger now.

Rhett's studio

Their pond-- love this little mown path

 Rhett's sculpture

Rhett's sculpture

Inside Rhett's studio--you could hang out here ALL day long, I swear

Inside Kelly's studio, downstairs storage

going up the stairs

 light by Rhett

 some of Kelly's conservation beadwork

 Some of the smaller work Kelly sells in cool shops like Doodlet's in Santa Fe, one of my favorite places to shop--so you can imagine how I squealed the first time I saw something of hers in the glass display case there.

 more of Kelly's work

creepy baby dolls always creep me out, but they're cool anyway~~

 I absolutely adore this bracelet. No, I did not abscond with it. I just touched it a lot~~

Walking down the street in Lawrence, Kansas. I love this photo--that's Aimee Dolich on the left, Traci Bunkers in front, Kelly next, and me over on the right.

Go visit Kelly's website here. Visit her blog here. Visit Rhett's website here--he's not only a fabulous artist, he's also a really nice guy with a great sense of humor. They're just the kind of people you want to hang out with and talk to about living a creative life.