Kelly shares her journey about discovering art around the world by creating textiles and other products with her hands. She is a textile designer and founder of Cardamom Collective. - www.cardamomcollective.com/

Cardamom Collective is a socially conscious textile and home goods company. Kelly works with artisans and other small business owners to design and collaborate in an effort to create treasures to be purchased now, and passed down later.

Music: SoundImage - soundimage.org

Photography: Natalie Jennings- www.nataliechampajennings.com

More info & view slideshow at http://www.afaceproject.com/podcasts/ep12-kelly/

NOTES:

• [4:00] Kelly talks about coming from a family of quilters
• [4:50] Talks about realizing her love of textiles
• [5:25] Kelly talks about grad school in Sweden for the first time
• [7:00] Kelly talks about her experience going to Cultural Cloth
• [7:40] Speaks about the work and stories that go into handmade pieces
• [8:00] Kelly goes to Norway
• [9:10] She talks about becoming aware of where textiles are really from
• [10:15] Kelly talks about going back to Egypt
• [11:05] She talks about her life in Minneapolis and what she thinks about success
• [11:45] Kelly talks about making her “life work” be her work
• [12:25] Talks about doing something just to do it
• [13:15] First mention of Cardamom Collective
• [15:50] Kelly talks about shifting perspectives of where you spend your money