Awesome Day For A Farm Tour
Amazing day Up-Country Maui
Started in Paia, Ho’okipa… Back roads
Ulupalakua, Maui’s Winery, Kenaio…
Wow, was so windy that side gusting 40 plus mph…Wild and beautiful.
Met Paula Fuga at AKL Maui…
Awesome walking tour w Harrison
Surfing Goat Dairy w Loc (He’s good)
Delicious flight of cheese.
Pineapples, mango, apple bananas …
Pineapple wines… Raspberry dessert wine…
Lavender tea and scones for later…
A delicious day on Maui.
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Marilyn Jansen Lopes
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http://www.amaryllisofhawaii.com
Yesterday… on Maui
Maui No Ka Oi
Maui da best
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Wish you were here…
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Under The Acacia Tree
So relaxing in old Puunene, Maui
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Marilyn Jansen Lopes
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Easy Painting on Tees ((it’s happening))
My DVD is finally complete.
Sarah Webb, a friend of Judi Riley did the work of formatting my movie into chapters. She did an excellent job.
Now you can skip around if you like from the intro to “Painting Roses” or “How to Detail” with ease.
I’m excited to share with you. I’ll have it up on the web-site soon.
You can pick one up at my Maui Open Studio this weekend Feb 12 & 13.
It’s a really exciting time on the island of Maui, folks…
~Aloha and hope to see you…
Esterita Austin Hand-Painted Quilt Class
Let’s talk about inspiration. I wanted to get back into my sewing and quilting. A friend on Facebook had shared her gorgeous Passionfruit Hawaiian quilt design and I had asked her to keep me posted on upcoming classes at The Maui Quilt Guild. Last week Esterita Austin presented Four Bowls and Spoons, a class using hand-dyed fabrics and batiks enhanced with paints to create quilt tops in a two-day class on Maui.
Esterita has been published worldwide and also appeared on the Sally Jesse Rafael show.
What an exciting way to jump start my creativity.
The two-day workshop began with about a dozen women meeting and setting up our supplies on our own long tables.
Setting up our supplies
Esterita provided the kit which included the pattern, transfer paper, misty fusible which was used to adhere the fabric and the parchment paper (used to iron inside of, to prevent the Misty fuse from ruining the iron or other materials).
As you can see, Esterita had supplies available for purchase which are also available at her website. www.esteritaaustin.com She began with an introduction about herself and showed us the beautiful book, Under The Tuscan Sun, that had been created for her at the workshop she teaches in Italy. Fabulous story of cooking, quilting and dining in a villa for a week.
She once taught in Spain to women that didn’t speak a word of English. All they needed to know was “Good” or “No way” in reference to whether or not a fabric would work. We laughed often at her witty comments and easy going teaching style.
We used gorgeous Batiks and hand-dyed fabrics to compose our quilt tops. We layered stacks of beautiful fabrics then cut our first pattern piece to reveal an opening in which to lay over our fabric and visualize how the lights and darks would work most effectively. By flipping through the pile you could see which fabric popped.
By cutting out sections and placing them back on the pattern, we were able to view what the finished piece would be. As we cut our shapes, we also cut a piece of Misty Fuse material and ironed the pieces within parchment paper to adhere.
It was so exciting to watch everyone’s bowls appear. All the cut fabrics were placed on a black background fabric then fused with the hot iron to complete the project. Some of us added borders of stripes or complimenting batiks. I chose to create a mitered border and one of the girls, Shana helped me with that.
Shana ironing her black background.
Shana’s piece. It’s amazing…
Donna fusing her bowls onto the background.
Day Two: We painted
After all the tops were assembled we watched Esterita demonstrate how she enhances the bowls to bring out the highlights and the darks to really make it pop. We taped our quilt tops to the walls and everyone got to work painting on their own piece. What a wonderful sight to see all these ladies painting on quilts.
- My piece
This is my piece getting ready to be painted…and below is my piece painted…
Voila,
Now it’s time to take it to the sewing machine. I’ll post again when my quilt is complete.
It was a fabulous class.
Be sure and check out the Maui Quilt Guild for upcoming classes and sign up for one. You don’t have to be a member to participate. Maybe you are visiting and would like to enjoy meeting some really great women. I truly enjoyed this.
~ Marilyn
Maui Garden Pickin’s
All photos are by Marilyn Jansen Lopes and photos of others are posted with their permission.I have received no compensation to mention products or companies on my blog.
Saturday Night Date @MakenaResort
Here we are again at Zen-Zen…
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Enjoying Saturday Night Out!
Okay, so I got a little crazy posting my Zen-Zen Photos over and over and you’re thinking what is she doing?
Rather than delete them and link you to a blank page I decided to keep things as they are and learn from my mistake. After a password change, my iPhone wasn’t recognized by my Posterous server where I love to send all my photos to be posted at Twitter, Facebook, Flicker and Blogger simultaneously. I realized it was necessary to change my setting in the phone to correct the problem. So please excuse the duplications and my over excitement about Zen-Zen at The Makena Beach and Golf Resort. See www.twitter.com/makenabeach for more of the excitement.
~ Marilyn
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@jamarilyn at Zen Zen enjoying the fruits of our labor!
Folks, sorry for the repeat photos…There were some issues with posting that seemed to have cleared up with password assistance and all posterous photos were sent!!!
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and The Winner is:
Aloha Everyone,
I had so much fun meeting tons of new friends and visiting over 40 blogs in the list of over 2,000 blogs. I definitely will be revisiting the Mr. Linky list to meet more of you in the future. Thank you Liza of http://www.amauiblog/ for gettin me to join The Ultimate Blog Party 2010 #UBP10 at http://www.5minutesformoms.com/
Dah da da dah! And the winner of the gorgeous set of Five cards
by http://www.muratadesigns.com/ is:
http://www.inspiredgifts.com/
I know it is a coincidence that one of the three ladies who are the creators of inspired gifts lives on Maui. They are three moms who have put together a gorgeous idea for moms by creating personalized books of your photos.
Thank you everyone for visiting The Artful Hawaiigirl and please join me on my facebook fanpage Amaryllis of Hawaii too! You can click on the fanpage button to the right to get there.
For those of my followers who were not involved in the Ultimate Blog Party, it is back to business as usual, posting all about my Passion for Maui and making every day a work of art.
http://www.inspiredgifts.com/ please contact me here or via DM on twitter www.twitter.com/jamarilyn to let me know where to send the five gorgeous Japanese cards by Ruth Murata of The Maui Music Conservatory.
Aloha friends,
Thanks again for your support and all the fun.
~ Marilyn
It is a beautiful day to live on Maui.
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All photos are by Marilyn Jansen Lopes and photos of others are posted with their permission.I have received no compensation to mention products or companies on my blog.
Gardening is Good For The Soul
Have you ever been homesick? If so, you know the ache that comes with a longing for home. Anything can trigger a memory that is fond to us. While watering in my garden or weeding sometimes, though it is extremely beautiful here on Maui, I am always taken back to my previous gardens in California. The scent of basil takes me to Topanga, California where I see a dusty hill and rugged Oak trees in the Canyon thinking of my little old dog Blackie who used to go everywhere with me. Then I’m led to memories of Sassafrass Nursery where I learned all about plants. The first day in the nursery Pamela the owner took me all throughout and had me name the plants I knew by heart. She was impressed. I am self-taught from visiting nurseries and experimenting all my life.
I began in my twenties planting gardens in Sun Valley, California, Malibu, Topanga, Pine Mountain Club, California and then Hawaii. Everywhere I have lived came a burning desire to plant. I have to dig in the earth and plant beautiful things. I love herbs and pansies, violas, johnny-jumpups, lobelia, cosmos, sunflowers, zinnias and bulbs like dahlias, irises, daffodils, ranunculas, anemones, ixias and tulips. In Hawaii I plant dahlias among my herbs and green onions, thyme and gingers. They become huge blooms I mix with tropical bouquets of other scented spider lilies and gardenias.
Here I am writing about the plants I love while dreaming of California gardens.
I have come full circle in beautiful Maui where all year long I can plant my orchids, native ferns and I totally enjoy having bananas growing in my path and papayas, a yard full of house plants. But at times I long for the cold weather different types of flowers that love the mountains of The Los Padres National Forest (my real home where my roots are)…my poppies that reseed themselves on my property there, the yarrow that has gone native, the penstemmons and lupine, the lilacs and pine trees, sagebrush and hollyhocks are so nostalgic and country and I think of quilting and baking pies and all the things that make me feel happy like taking care of my family there, too. I miss my house and my mom and sister and the mountains. The quiet nights, the crickets, the wind in the poplars are memories so sweet in my heart. A good smoky fire in my BBQ in the back yard. I love to burn wood and sing my camp songs til after dark… Well all these memories just from watering and weeding in my Maui garden.
Gardening is a joy, and weeds are a chore, but so enriching to my soul as I wait for the tiny lettuce leaves to emerge, and wait for the peas to sprout and the dahlias to shoot. The cosmos are two inches tall and by summer will be three feet high. My tomatoes are taking off. Sweet basils are scattered throughout to ward off tomato worms. It works every time. Someday I’ll be back planting in California, but for now I will just have to enjoy Maui, Hawaii. Pink plumerias coming soon and lilikoi vines to pick all summer for jam & jelly and juice for months.
So, I’m home in my spirit but here on Maui and gardening is healing to my soul and spirit.
My new garden is coming along with lots of vegetables and flowers so I will keep you posted soon.
Aloha,
Marilyn Jansen Lopes
Author of Amaryllis, Amaryllis, How Does Your Garden Grow? “Organically Of Course!”
http://www.amaryllisofhawaii.com/
What are you growing? A kitchen garden, window boxes with herbs and potted plants, tomatoes?
All photos are by Marilyn Jansen Lopes and photos of others are posted with their permission.I have received no compensation to mention products or companies on my blog.
Alii Kula Lavender Farm
Presentation IS everything and Kula Lavender Farm does it so
beautifully in everything they do. Food products include syrups,
jams and jellies, lemonade and even brownies with lavendar purple
frosting. They make a lavender spice blend packaged in a tin that is excellent
as a rub for meat dishes. Everything is created with attention to details in
packaging.
YouTube – Anthony’s Coffee Company – Paia Maui
@AlohaBruce created this nice video at Anthony’s Coffee House at the
Maui Tweetup:-)
Nice job Bruce!
Great meeting you and @Alohayaling!
~ Marilyn
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Viewpoints Gallery Makawao
Beautiful painting by Robena.
Lily painting a gorgeous T-shirt
Even Hawaii people need a get-away! Wai`anapanapa Hana, Maui
Ten Things I Love About Maui
They move quickly taking on magnificent shapes in the sky and by mid afternoon daily there are always clouds heading up Haleakala! (Our mountain)
• Hana is a touch of old Hawaii. I worked as a nurse for two and a half years in Hana by the sea. I felt a true sense of belonging here because of the friendliness of the people. Within two weeks people were calling me by my first name at Hasegawa’s store.
• Maui is small but yet it feels spacious. There is room to breathe. The small town feeling makes it comfortable and the proximity of everything makes life simple.
• Elegant Resorts: One can visit the most elegant resorts minutes away then return to the down to earth lifestyle of Maui having experienced the best of both worlds in Hawaii.
How will you inspire others during this economy? PRIZES!!!
Up-Country Maui Day!
