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Peacocks & Paper Cranes
These past three weeks of my free time I had spent creating beautiful accessories with special meaning and symbolism. Earrings and pens made from beautiful and vibrant Tibetan peacock feathers symbolizing beauty, grace, enlightenment, protection, renewal and good luck… Inspired by my lucky peacock decor that hangs in my living room, I wanted to share Continue reading
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Love & Happiness
Are you happy? Happiness is a choice. Choose it. It’s not hard. Just live life as if everything is magnificent, a miracle. Look beyond the imperfections, the teeny things that don’t matter because there’s bigger more important things that do. Enjoy, seize and love every moment. In reality it’s not really what you have that Continue reading
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New Year, No Resolutions…New Attitude
Merry new year my darlings! Mahalo nui loa for all my amazing friends and family who greeted me on my 26th Birthday this past Thursday, Dec. 27th. Hugs & Kisses from yours truly! 2013 is fast approaching and everyone is getting their New Year’s resolution lists in time to begin midnight Tuesday. No resolutions for Continue reading
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The Honolulu Academy of Arts
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” -Oscar Wilde Back in April I had the opportunity to chaperone my little sister and niece for a museum tour (and art lessons) at The Honolulu Academy of Arts. “The Honolulu Museum of Art is Continue reading
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Aloha Beautiful! – The Transit of Venus
A rare and beautiful astronomical event will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5th, 2012. The planet Venus will be in transit…. passing directly between the Sun and the Earth and becoming visible to us as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun. photo from ecorazzi.com The only planetary transits observable on Continue reading
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Dear Diary…..
Needing inspiration to last me for the next few days and needing to keep this peace of mind going even though it is absolute madness around me, I go through my old writings to move me and I found this in an old online diary…. *** We all encounter life differently. The world is cruel Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Doc!
In honor of everyone’s favorite Doctor + Children’s author, Dr. Seuss, Read Across America will be observed on Friday, March 2, Dr. Seuss’ birthday. (Also the opening day for the much anticipated animated film The Lorax.) Read Across America is celebrated throughout the country, bringing children, teens and adults together. The nationwide observance promotes reading Continue reading
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eternal sunshine
I was browsing through my online album and I came across one of my favorite photos. Taken five years ago by a talented aspiring photographer at the time, Keoni Kitagawa, this photo captured a candid, yet blissful moment. It was nearing a day’s end in beautiful Hawaii nei, with the sun setting behind me. The Continue reading
About Me
A thirty-something-year-old girl living in a beautiful rock in the middle of the Pacific. Welcome to my little island of happiness. Sweet confessions spoken through blahblahs in this crazy, but beautiful world of mines.

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