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5/4/2013

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that I have been working on for the last three weeks.  It was a present for our friends over at Kana Girl's Hawai'ian BBQ for their grand reopening.  Kana & Keoni are amazing people, the kind that make everyone they meet feel like ohana (family).  To me they kind of epitomize meaning of the phrase on this piece. 
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I had to play with my lighting to get the right effect & still couldn't get it.
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The actual background color is somewhere in between these two pictures.
For many of us transplants, this phrase, "Aloha spoken here" is a mantra we want to live by.  

Basically it means that no matter who you are, we will welcome you into our homes, businesses, lives & treat you as more than an equal.  We'll treat you like one of our own, welcome you with open arms & call you 'Braddah', ''Sista', 'Auntie' or 'Uncle'.  

It means we are continuing the traditions passed down from our ohana with each generation, of welcoming friends both old & new.  It is, to me, what I would like my life to be.  When I am gone & someone asks my children what kind of person I was, aside from smiling & wryly telling them I was randomly "Mawsome" (a title bestowed upon my by The Squab), I'd like them to say that in my home Aloha was spoken.  

So, this piece is an 11 x 14 canvas colored with water color pencils in shades that remind me of the ocean (I was actually trying for turquoise, but couldn't get it to come out the way I wanted).  The lettering is from magazine articles about Idaho & (mostly) Hawaii, stained with a caramel alcohol ink.  The state of Idaho & the plumeria are water color pencil on scrapbook paper.  I titled it "Wherever I go..." because as I stated before, that's the kind of people I made this for.  Wherever they go, they bring their Aloha with them to share.

If you're in the Boise area, stop by Kana Girl's Hawai'ian BBQ.  Sit, eat, talk story & don't forget to tell them I sent you.  

Aloha,
-Clare
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5/5/2013 03:22:46 am

Lovely job on the sign, Clare! Love the blog post and what you wrote about aloha, and how it's so important that we speak it everywhere.

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