October News

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!

starting the 2 mile hike from Kee beach on the Napali coast....

hiking....

hiking....

down and up and down and around again......

and around...again and again....

slippery rivlets...

steep hills

see the farthest mountain?  we are going around THAT to get to the  end...

breath taking views when you aren't swatting bugs or clearing the stinging sweat from your eyes....

...a warning....

one final rocky river to cross...

.....those who haven't made it......

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the goal.
Big Deal.
....another beautiful kauai beach.

a nene (hawaiian goose)

Mark cracks his first coconut - from one of trees...

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....

at kealia beach

the hindu momastery

a purple Radushka bead berry....

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.