ABC11K11 - Letter K
Is for Kukui Nut . A kukui but was used In each beginning and ending of each lei
CT0519 - Graduations
Hawaii Graduations has a culture of Lei giving . Strands of Aloha or aka Love . It represents a never ending love .
WORD0519 - LIFE
L -Leis and Love
I - Indigo Blue and Islanders Culture
F - Fuzziness and Federal Currencies
E - Eyelash Yarn
USEIT2019 - Use It
These eyelash yarns been sitting and waiting for some years now . My daughter was into making these leis when my second grandson graduated along with so many of her cousins . So to save she went out and brought every colors of each of thier schools and made each lei while I made their cards. And it's been sitting in a plastic container all these years . She is into a new type of lei now and so I took pitty on These yarns and gave them loving!!! Matched all the school colors I could and others I just combined to complete a full Lei. (What I think many of you call garland. We call Leis of Aloha) in the old Hawaiian days they were made with fresh local grown flowers. Gosh how the years has evolved to every and anyway but loose lol then again it can get lllse too !!
Each of the Eyelash Leis Begins and ends with a Kukui Nut. Except for the Money one . it's begins and end with Kukui Nut as well and between every dollar bill.
Enjoy!! I had a lot of help with these projects and getting them done in time due to my Eye surgery. Mahalo Fairy Much Darlin Daughter Destinee!! Especially the folding
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Sun, Jun 09, 2019 @ 11:50 PM
Your leis are fabulous, but I LOVE your painted kukui nuts!
Glad you mentioned the name...I had forgot what they were called...after all, it has been 30 years since we lived in Hawaii. My husband is still good with Hawaiian word pronunciation, but I chalk that up to his working and hearing it all the time; whereas, I was a stay-at-home Mom during our three years there! Maybe not a good excuse?!
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Fri, Jun 14, 2019 @ 5:58 PM
What an incredible work of art this is. I didn't even realize this was money because I was so busy looking at these fancy folds you did. This is just terrific sis! ~Karen.