Chaotic Coffee Klatch (tea also available)

[Mrtenant]

 

[Ingenue844]

That's cool - I am always fascinated by the journey's people take through life - how they ultimately ended up where they are in the moments I am getting to know them. Some people (either as individuals or as families, have taken some pretty amazing journeys).

Me too! I love learning about the migration of peoples and how DNA is starting to blow all that wide open.

In the Show Us Your Face thread I posted this pic and someone asked me about my necklace. A close friend made it for me with Hawaiian beach glass. The big piece for the Big Island, our ancestral home for centuries. And Oahu where my Great Grandfather moved to find work. Wound up starting a family and my Aunt/Cousin/Cousin’s 4 kids still live in the Kaimuki home he bought.

Green is because I’m a commoner in Kanaka Maoli society. Yellow is our royalty, the Ali’i, and Red is for the equivalent of the noble class.
*poof

https://imgur.com/PmNwdNC

 

[BrendaBear]

Me too! I love learning about the migration of peoples and how DNA is starting to blow all that wide open.

In the Show Us Your Face thread I posted this pic and someone asked me about my necklace. A close friend made it for me with Hawaiian beach glass. The big piece for the Big Island, our ancestral home for centuries. And Oahu where my Great Grandfather moved to find work. Wound up starting a family and my Aunt/Cousin/Cousin’s 4 kids still live in the Kaimuki home he bought.

Green is because I’m a commoner in Kanaka Maoli society. Yellow is our royalty, the Ali’i, and Red is for the equivalent of the noble class.

You’re so pretty!

 

[Ingenue844]

You’re so pretty!

Awe, thanks Brenda!

 

[Paul_Chance]

Thanks very cool - I know very little about the stories of the Polynesian peoples - and what I know is probably wrong and more influenced by popular culture and the State of Hawaii's marketing team. And maybe ancient aliens LOL

 

[Strixaluco]

How’s yours

I've been all lazy. Until after 11pm I realise I haven't wrapped the presents that are going to my sister's family - hopefully in my mother's luggage and I will see mom tomorrow morning!

Now it's all wrapped up and I can finally relax again. The kids got a few tricky items to wrap - like a fedora, and a not quite small plush bunny (an angry bunny, actually... My niece is just on the verge of teenage, still liking plushies.)

 

[cascadiabound]

All my family wrapping is done too.
I'm following @Photog1rl and @LupineOne to tropical climes for December vacay.
I'll be dropping in as I can, but am planning to nap with the sound of surf in my ears.

 

[Ingenue844]

All my family wrapping is done too.
I'm following @Photog1rl and @LupineOne to tropical climes for December vacay.
I'll be dropping in as I can, but am planning to nap with the sound of surf in my ears.

I can’t get my wrapping done because I can’t find my fabric.

 

[Ingenue844]

https://imgur.com/lt6sQkz

https://imgur.com/eB9xjF3

We all have our own fabric and don’t bother with tags. We just unwrap what is in our pattern.

 

[Strixaluco]

I still have my Dom's presents to wrap. And I haven't even decided on what to give to my chosen daughter. I might need to visit her to get some ideas... Her true parents aren't very supportive. She's barely 18 and has moved out already 2 years ago. I'd guess she doesn't yet "have everything" as older people do.

 

[Strixaluco]

We all have our own fabric and don’t bother with tags. We just unwrap what is in our pattern.

I LOVE that! And then reusing them, of course.

For many years most of my presents have not stayed close enough to do that... I have just reused some wrappings that I've got myself.

 

[Ingenue844]

I LOVE that! And then reusing them, of course.

For many years most of my presents have not stayed close enough to do that... I have just reused some wrappings that I've got myself.

I love reusing things. It gets this old miser

 

[Strixaluco]

I love reusing things. It gets this old miser

Me too. When I was younger I even wrapped without using tape - keeping the paper in its place with just wide satin ribbon. The paper was easier to reuse that way.

 

[Ingenue844]

Me too. When I was younger I even wrapped without using tape - keeping the paper in its place with just wide satin ribbon. The paper was easier to reuse that way.

That’s why fabric works great. Twisting and tucking and tying

 

[Strixaluco]

That’s why fabric works great. Twisting and tucking and tying

Yes. And then you can just iron it tidy again. The idea just wasn't around 20-25 years ago, didn't even think about it.

How big are your fabrics?

 

[Strixaluco]

Cats had warmed up my bed for me

 

[Ingenue844]

Yes. And then you can just iron it tidy again. The idea just wasn't around 20-25 years ago, didn't even think about it.

How big are your fabrics?

They came as 2-yard pieces (I think). A few are cut

 

[rjr_1954]

Hi! How's everybody?

 

[rjr_1954]

I think it's going to be a quiet night, or morning.

 

[BrendaBear]

I think it's going to be a quiet night, or morning.

Looks that way to me. I confess, I stop checking in when it is so dead, because it’s kind of depressing to me.

 

[WerdNerd]

Looks that way to me. I confess, I stop checking in when it is so dead, because it’s kind of depressing to me.

I still check even though it is a little depressing when it's so slow here.

 

[rjr_1954]

I still check even though it is a little depressing when it's so slow here.

I'll remain viligent and watch. I can't use the word depressing or people here will tell me to take my meds!

 

[BrendaBear]

I'll remain viligent and watch. I can't use the word depressing or people here will tell me to take my meds!

…only because we care.

 

[PlanetaryNebula]

These eyes… do do do doo doo

 

[PlanetaryNebula]

Are crying