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Hawai‘i Craftiness

goodies from the Honolulu Craft Expo
Sometimes living in Hawaii, I feel far away from all of the crafty mainland communities in Los Angeles, DC, New York, Chicago, etc... But a few weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to stop by the annual Food and Craft Fair at the Blaisdell in Honolulu. The above pic displays our small purchases.
On the left is shorts made from a rice sack. I love this! She also had fabulous aprons with CALROSE RICE plastered across the middle, which I'm planning on getting sometime after Christmas.

rice sack shorts

In the middle is a lavender plant from Ali‘i Kula Lavender, which is located on Maui. Check out their tours if you are visiting Maui, that's what I'm going to do!
Next to the plant is two bottles of marinade from Ohana Seafoods. We bought the Teriyaki Miso Sauce and the Korean-Style Sauce. They're both good, but I have to give extra props to the Teri-Miso Sauce. Yum! You can get this sauce at Don Quijote formerly known as Daiei. If you're not from here and haven't heard of either, you should click here to see what has appalled and amused local grocery shoppers for the last few months.
Finally, I got a flier from Island Fishtales, a company that screenprints beautiful gyotaku (fish prints) on children's clothing.
For more Hawai‘i goodness, bookmark hapa | hale. This site has made me consider buying a kayak. For Hawai‘i Crafty goodness, there's always Myra's blog, My Little Mochi, which I'm sure everyone's already bookmarked.

As many a bumper sticker reminds me: "Lucky you live Hawai‘i!"

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[info]flyingsouth

December 20 2006, 01:16:22 UTC 5 years ago

Well Hawaii isn't as far away as Australia! But still, we have a niec little crafty scene going on here too, I think :) Look slike you got some nice goodies there :D

[info]mlesnapshot

December 20 2006, 20:53:04 UTC 5 years ago

You do have a good crafty scene! One day I'd love to visit! It is some nice goodies, we've planted the lavender plant out back already. We'll see how it does...

[info]jeumie

December 20 2006, 03:00:25 UTC 5 years ago

Daiei's not there anymore?? : 0

I just caught up on what you've been up to -- Wow! Love your projects! And Poki! What a sweet face...

Thanks for sharing your great finds!

[info]mlesnapshot

December 20 2006, 20:54:26 UTC 5 years ago

yeah, can you believe it?

Thank you so much! I just recently got the magazines from you, thanks so much! I really love the Vogue, I'd been eyeing it at the magazine racks for some time...
She is sweet. ;)

It's always good to hear from you! Have a very Merry Christmas!

[info]jeumie

December 22 2006, 02:59:16 UTC 5 years ago

I'm so very embarrassed by how long it took me to send those magazines. I'm so sorry!

Merry Christmas to you, too! : )

[info]slateblu

December 21 2006, 05:18:47 UTC 5 years ago

great stuff you got! i just checked out the fishtales site...the clothes and especially the kids are so cute!

[info]mlesnapshot

December 22 2006, 02:23:34 UTC 5 years ago

thanks! yeah, isn't fishtales great? I met one of the designers at the craft fair and she was really sweet. The clothes look even nicer in person. Your kids could be models for this, they're so cute as well!
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