My sister Gina and her husband Mark came to visit. They stayed in Poipu in a condo on the beach,but we were together almost every day. It was a blast! We did a lot of snorkeling and hiking and shopping and eating and...did i mention eating? SO MUCH FUN!
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| starting the 2 mile hike from Kee beach on the Napali coast.... |
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| hiking.... |
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| hiking.... |
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| down and up and down and around again...... |
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| and around...again and again.... |
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| slippery rivlets... |
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| steep hills |
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| see the farthest mountain? we are going around THAT to get to the end... |
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breath taking views when you aren't swatting bugs or clearing the stinging sweat from your eyes....
...a warning....
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| one final rocky river to cross... |
.....those who haven't made it...... . |
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the goal.
Big Deal.
....another beautiful kauai beach. |
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| a nene (hawaiian goose) |
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| Mark cracks his first coconut - from one of trees... |
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Gina and Mark enjoy coconut chai tea at Mermaids Cafe in Kapaa....and the yummiest ahi wraps!
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| dinner at Calypso with lance and I.... |
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| at kealia beach |
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| the hindu momastery |
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| a purple Radushka bead berry.... |
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amazing anthuriums
...on another note, Lance has finally left Hawaii for the mainland - his first time in 10 years! he has flown to Colorado to look at some properties. He likes the Westcliffe Valley and Trinidad.
So yesterday I mowed and did the frond pick up all by myself. Which I didn't mind doing- I actually LOVE to mow (I sing, I say rosaries, I plan projects)....but I MISS Lance.
..I've been working in the shop - not as much as I should be....I think my muse went to Colorado with lance....
. I am working on a line of sterling silver spoon cuffs. Here's one with a bronze hand and a bronze eye (this is the last bronze eye I have - so no more of those in anymore projects)... |
I just started one with a serving spoon, so it will be bigger - maybe man-sized! I'm going to put a winged skull on it. I finally figured out how to successfully rivet. Hallelujah.
I have also finished my skull rosary. It is a full rosary, with ceramic skulls from Peru for the Hail Mary's, pearls capped with bronze skelly hands for the Our Father's, a bronze centerpiece with an eye on one side and a spider in a web on the other ....with skelly arms as connectors, and a bronze gothic cross with hands holding a quartz crystal blessed by the Hindu Guru Brody here on Kauai. The other side of the cross has a large bronze skull. The bronze wings are riveted onto the cross. It is so long, that I added a short chain with a bronze bird dangle which has a skelly hook and eye closure to shorten the rosary into a double stand so it can be worn as a rosary. All of the bronze work was done by me. Oh. red garnet blood drops hang from the cross.
...a silly pairof earrings...vintage glass blossoms.drop garnets and sterling heart chain.
I am also working on a winter solstice gift exchange..for the last 2 years we have exchanged gifts for Hanukkah, but this year 3 people had to drop out, so we changed the theme. I am trying to get all my Christmas shopping done early...uh,huh. every year I say I am going to be wrapped and shipped with 2 weeks to spare so i can kick back unstressed and bake and enjoy the holidays...as yet i have never made the deadline...haha...but this year my boys are coming to visit, so i for sure want to be relaxed and ready form them!
yah, right.
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