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Amazing how quickly you can create Friendship Charms for you and your BFF!
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I know it's new...tho just love the look. In a store window in Paia, Maui. Just up the street from really fine gellato.
Pam Yee was back in town w/DH...and played up a storm! She led a repousse' chunky book using stamps & aluminum to decorate rounded corner 4x4 masonite front & back cover. Several weeks later, she and Debbie West, treated us to an all day workshop at Rubber Stamp Plantation. They were full up this year for the 2 book projects that everyone walked away with.
Surf amazing at Ho'okipa, Maui. One of my favorite places to park myself. surfers, kite boarders, windsurfers... used to harvest ogo for my garden when I lived in Haiku. If you're in the area, be sure to have dinner at Max World Bistro. Truly a gem and well worth the adventure finding it!
Emily & Andy joined us on a driftwood expedition. Needless to say, they had a blast, and we got some great wood for displays. Prepping for Made in Hawaii festival coming up in Aug.
Happy feet! Finally taking a break from craziness...
Easiest of methods...We used lots of perfumey/stinky old fashion cheap shaving cream & whatever little ink bottles were lying around that were driving me crazy. Was able to lay quite a few to rest! Always satisfying to finally burn through some of the supplies that keep accumulating. Don't know why they multiply!
Mary and I went to check on her vetiver plants at beach edge in Kualoa. They're thriving in salty, sandy soil. My eye caught the picnic table out back...
Lilla will be leading this book making project for stampclub. She suggests you bring an old calendar with pictures that you can use in your book. We will have magazines to cut up and the collage folio to peruse through.
Bras on the way to Hard Rock. We had 2 car loads & a truck with all the display items. Goose bumps/chicken skin...all the lei we had. Thank you Hard Rock for donating them!
One evening, Kristen & children, Precilla, Debbie, Darrell, Katie, Mary, David & I unpacked, numbered, labeled, cataloged, & photographed (then repacked) 80 bras. Took us an astounding 3 1/2 hours. Well oiled machine! we learned to keep all the paper work with the corresponding bra until the very end! fun matching names with bras!
you can't imagine the utter joy that filled our workshop when the artists began bringing in their bras...along with their daughter's, friends', coworkers', & classmates'. The Allied Health Program at LCC & KCC participated as their community service project this semester. Big Mahalo fo' dat!
jenny arrived with 20 bras...we busted out the boxes and counted 40! Bras up to the ceiling, bras under the tables. This was sooo much fun! Treasures came in the mail, were delivered from the North Shore... I'm just sure some came via donkey:)
Just a quickie to give you a glimpse of what we'll be making at Stampclub this Monday nite. 5:30-8p at Rubber Stamp Plantation. $5...all materials and tools included. Come with a pupu and make as many as you like! Rendy will be leading this project!
Candy at Parker Ranch Store in Kamuela on the Big Island makes amazingly great stuff out of reclaimed blue jeans! Look what she did with our Tropical Craft Stencils! Be sure to say "hi" when you stop by. They have an eclectic array of "made in Hawaii" products, including a whole room filled with yummy eats. Many are unique and specially made for Parker Ranch!
I'm tickled. Another surface has yet to escape me! Shopping at home depot for hose clamps, netting with blue glass bathroom tile threw itself upon me. I dragged it home thinking I would etch it with Tropical Etch glass etching stencils. I heard Miami in my left ear screaming "what ARE you THINKING?!?!". In front of me were over runs of our new mini decals...for cars, laptops, cell phones, notebooks, etc. and now....MAGNETS! they're sooooo kewl!
What does your pencil holder look like? This is just one of mine. I keep forgetting to turn around. I'm bound to find exactly what I need in one, if not another. I just counted 5 of them on and around my desk. I think I could survive on a desert island with what's in just this one of my "pencil holder" type thingys. Inventory: exacto knife, paint brush sponge, ruler, tweezers, bull clip, 3 spoons, 2 fork, black cord with shell pendant, lip balm, glue stick, drawing pen, glue pen, the ever necessary lip liner, stipple brush, lead pencil, pencil with bumble bee to entertain me, metalic gold paint pen, several ball point pens, orange pencil, several #2 pencils, mini box cutter, mini container of 12g of Tajin "salsa en polvo", and a pokey wooden ceramic tool/cuticle pusher back.
Letterpress paraphanalia is just another one of those things. Nalani signed me up for a ceramics class. looking fwd to playing with these and a bunch of other stuff hanging out in baskets.
Sometimes my attention span is that of a flea. I'm not sure what generation of Bodacious Bangles I'm on, tho this one surprised me! Rubber Stamp Plantation's temporary tattoos! What's being marketed as "water slide transfers", are simply temporary tattoos. How fun is that! They need a good clear coat prior to finishing, tho the bracelets need one anyway! I decided I love the new Luminarte Shimmering Mists so well, that i had to leave a good majority of this batch simply painted. Embellishing seemed to take away from their beauty. They were a hit at the Merrie Monarch Festival Craft Fair.
This is one of the neatest projects I've tried in a while. I invested a slew in bezels from Amate and have been putting my tattoo designs and some doodle art in them with an epoxy resin. Stunning with a great neckline!
One of the highlights of my trip to Japan in January was my day with Sadao. Subways, walking, temples, shrines, cookies, mochi, sushi, & washi! I lugged around a 3 foot roll of washi all over the city. At the end of the day, laughed over a beer with Sadao that the washi had quite the walking tour. I should have thought to take photos of it in front of all the sights...kind of like the Travelocity Gnome! next time!
Sprays of green orchids were stunning! We went to the Mother's Day Orchid Sale at Kauai Museum. 
I cant resist the chickens and roosters on Kauai. 
