Ella Dela Cruz of Ellaments is just an eighth grade home schooler, and already launched a great line of gyotaku note cards and hand-stamped fabric art (so good, even Sheri Sanchez Holcomb, the organizer from Marriott’s Kaua‘i Vacation Club of the Children’s Miracle Network Craft and Products Fair, had to get some pieces).
Ella Dela Cruz of Ellaments is just an eighth grade home schooler, and already launched a great line of gyotaku note cards and hand-stamped fabric art (so good, even Sheri Sanchez Holcomb, the organizer from Marriott’s Kaua‘i Vacation Club of the Children’s Miracle Network Craft and Products Fair, had to get some pieces).
Ella makes gyotaku of her dad’s and uncles’ catches, and paints them in to form masters for her line of note cards (can’t really shrink an ulua down to note size).
Additionally, using one of the first lessons when she entered home school, Ella designs and hand-carves the stamps for her fabric printing, having the goal of working with that O‘ahu artist who does everyone’s gorgeous fish gyotaku…go, Ella!
Tese Lugo had some infant-sized neck pillows (they don’t just work for airline travel!), and award-winning quilter Toni Wass (the big quilt show at the Kaua‘i Society of Artists gallery is coming up real soon!) brought out some of her fancy creations to “test the market” at the Royal Sonesta Kaua‘i Resort Lihu‘e, where one of the shoppers said Jeff Haigh of California is working to complete his Mele Kalikimaka creation in time for Christmas Eve and serve as a backdrop for the countless numbers of selfies that’ll head to areas of the cyclone bomb.
Orange is the color of hunger, and kudos, Wes Perreira and all those volunteers, on getting out a food distribution for 250 families with the help of a Kaua‘i United Way grant just in time for the holiday weekend! Mahalo, all!
Mele Kalikimaka, Kaua‘i. Stay safe, Stay well!
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 808-245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
