Feng Shui Hawaiian Style: Lighten Up Your Life With the Fire Element
By Marta Barreras, Master Feng Shui Practitioner Have the stresses of life got you feeling burned out? Has your passion for living, your joi de vivre, become a distant memory of the past? Would you like to rekindle a sense…
Inspiring Visions in Glass: Artist Calley O’Neill Teams with Stained Glass Artisan Lamar Yoakum
By Catherine Tarleton If eyes are windows to the soul, then windows must be the eyes of a house’s soul, particularly a house of God, where stained glass windows cast cascading colors to illuminate the people. In the quiet little…
Let There Be Light! There’s Power in Photovoltaics
By Mike Moore It’s been said that the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth’s surface in one hour is enough to power the entire world for a year. Given that within the next 25 years our world’s energy demands…
Building with Bamboo
By Noel Morata Of the fastest-growing and reusable materials, bamboo is becoming a viable building material to be utilized in a tropical environment. David Sands is one of those passionate individuals who advocates and evangelizes the use of bamboo for…
Feng Shui Hawaiian Style: Metal for Clarity, Strength, and Success in the Year of the Tiger
By Marta Barreras, Master Feng Shui Practitioner Have you sensed a feeling of change in the air lately? As 2010 marks the commencement of a new decade, Chinese astrology claims it to be the Year of the Metal Tiger. Symbolizing…
An Amazing Thing Is the Humble Gourd: Ipu and the Rediscovery of an Art Medium
By Fern Gavelek With no pottery, metal or glass, early Hawaiians found a myriad of creative ways to use gourds. From water carriers to ossuary urns, from musical instruments to canoe bailers, they could be plucked from a vine in…
Feng Shui Hawaiian Style: Earth Energy for Stability and Success in a Changing World
By Marta Barreras, Master Feng Shui Practitioner Have you noticed a rising sense of anxiety in the air lately? Changes in jobs, changes in economic status and especially changes in our Earth’s atmosphere are provoking millions of people to be…
Art Under Foot: It’s More Than Just a Rug
By Karen Valentine Walking barefoot inside your tropical Hawaiian home gives you an appreciation for the floor covering that’s more than esthetic. The tactile sense now becomes as important as the functionality, maintenance and appearance. One option that may not…
Feng Shui Hawaiian Style: Water for Living with Balance and Prosperity
By Marta Barreras, Master Feng Shui Practitioner There is a beautiful gift that the ancient Hawaiians have passed down through generations: the ability to live in harmony with nature. For centuries, the Hawaiians of old lived with a deep interconnectedness…
Motifs in Polynesian Design
By Ma‘ata Tukuafu From the earliest European voyagers who traveled the vast Pacific Ocean in the 1500s to the vast numbers of visitors who spend their savings on touring the Pacific islands, the lure of Polynesia has always been present.…
