Made In Hawaii this weekend!

John and I have been busily preparing for our biggest craft fair of the year, the Made In Hawaii Festival. It starts on Friday at the Blaisdell Center. =) Here's a sneak peek at one of our new products we'll be debuting at the fair. Maybe we'll see you there!

Stupid big fat SUV vs. our Prius

Thanks a lot, driver of a stupid big fat white SUV with broken side mirror that's being held together with packing tape. While parking your monstrosity of a vehicle, you rammed our car from behind. I guess your gas guzzler is so large that it must have cushioned the impact because you didn't even leave a note acknowledging the damage you caused to our bumper. Oh, and it was nice and thoughtful of you to reverse a full 2 inches to give us room to pull out.

Our Prius seems to be a magnet for abuse because it's also been already keyed, scratched, and even had one of its mirrors knocked off. =( And it's not even 2 years old.

Pimping out a friend!

I have an awesomely talented friend, Kristen, who I've known since high school. She loves birds and cookies & cream ice cream, has the same shoe size as me, shares birthdays with Barack Obama and my sister-in-law, and is the only person I know who follows dinner with 'second dinner' before dessert. (And she's skinny, that lucky girl!) She's also way too modest to pimp herself out so I'm going to do it for her. I'm just going to let the pictures speak for themselves.

Amazing, isn't it?

Trekking to Kaena Point...

We must be crazy since we've done this hike three times already in the last two weeks. Why do we wake up at 4:30 a.m. to do this hellish 5-mile hike in the exposed sun over a rocky dirt path with one area I've lovingly nicknamed the 'scary part where I could die'?

For this maybe?

Some tips:

1) A hat, frequent and liberal applications of sunscreen, and tons of water are a must. This is a hot hike that probably isn't for anyone who doesn't like the sun or getting tan. If you're a goth or an albino, pass on this one.

2) I like to bring slippers because once you reach the point, there's sand. TONS of it. It's much easier for me to walk around in slippers than in shoes that I constantly have to take off to shake the sand out of.

3) Use the bathroom before you start this hike. There aren't any facilities out there, unless you count rocks and naupaka leaves as toilets and toilet paper.

4) The 'parking lot' at the end of the road is a high theft area so be aware that you may come back to a car with broken windows or even no car at all. I've seen two guys in a truck hanging out there more than once. This last time, one of them was checking out an unlocked Jeep.... Not just looking in but opening doors and checking under seats and stuff.