Every once in a while, Debbie and I take our hardworking shop girls out for adventure.  we had friends visiting Hawaii so this time we decided to take them somewhere they had never been.  can you believe that Rachel and Danelle had never been to Valley of the Temples to the Tranquil Byodo - In Temple.  so late one Saturday afternoon,  the girls headed out to Kaneohe with our Koi food and bread to feed the birds. did you know that if you hold the bread up in your fingers, they will land at your fingertips and eat the bread right there.. we also figured out that if your shirt is a boring black (like mine) the birds ignore you they much rather go to someone in a bright color like pink or red. and the Koi fish go crazy for pellets and splash water all over….

We then headed to Haleiwa Joes at Haiku Gardens where we explored the gardens to our delight found paths that we never knew existed and were able to show our friends Rosa and Fernando our tropical folliage they saw sleeping grass for the first time and took a video of it!  after the adventure, we had a nice dinner together and shared some very sinfull desserts

the next week, we went to our favorite breakfast place Cinnamon’s in Kailua can you say Red Velvet Pancakes? yum yum! counting the days until we go back!! basically, we like all the crazy fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, went to stalk the Black Pearl what an exciting event that was, dannelle and rachel and my daughter love love love the movies and wanted to take as many picures as they could . they were even scheming ways to distract he security gaurds..

so after all of the adventures our CBY girls came back refreshed and creative!

This weekend at Ward Wharehouse was the Soft Flex bead show, now I have to admit, I rarely every go to these type of shows, mainly because I am a slave to the shop and rarely venture out and because I really don’t need anything.. but as a Swarovski Ambassador, I decided it was time to check out the show and besides, my friend Andrew Thornton http://www.andrew-thornton.blogspot.com/ was going to be there selling for Green Girl studios. Dannelle aka Bruiser and I set off to the show looking for something to tempt us.. we looked at tables and tables of semiprecious, china metal, crystal rivolis, handmade glass beads, bruiser settled for a cupcake bead from JuJu beads, and I settled for a little bag full of fairy charms and beads by Green Girl ,I have to be honest and say, at this show I did not see anything different enough that really caught my eye.. I ran into Micheal V. who is an amazing jewelry designer he bought a cool dragon necklace made with wireing and a glass dragon it’s an art piece. we ran into several customers who were surprised to see us and in our street clothes and not the CBY uniform we left the show spending less than $75.00 and we headed downstairs to visit our friends at the wedding cafe and then to find lunch and head back to the shop where they were super busy YAY!!

Saturday afternoon my family and several friends headed out to Mailae Kahana beach which is a really long drive we chose that beach (as if we arn’t surrounded by beaches right?)because of the circle island drive it would take us on and It’s not crowded.. when
I got there, my sister handed me a beautiful purple shell. she said there were quite a few here and there in the sand as the ocean washes them up so right away, I set out for a walk in the sand to find my own, I am in the process of reading a novel called Remarkable Creatures, which tells a tale of finding shells and fossils on the beach on the east coast beach in the early 1900’s my little helper and I found a whole handfull of them with the clear bubble animal attached and a few that were empty.. we took pictures ofo them and showed our friends then we put back all the shells with animals back into the ocean so they could continue to live.


the sky was picture perfect but it was really windy and the ocean tide was very rough so all the babies had to be bundled in warm towels and jackets..