Cooking on the Beach!

The kitchen

Cooking with coconut husks.  That is the turtle pond in the background. 

Baracuda steaks and garlic tostones

Look who is begging.  I wish I could take this dog home with me, I love her so!

Little Corn Beads

The hair clip I did not make- it is made by Huichol Indians in Mexico.  I am really looking forward to going there sometime to study the beading.  The hair clip is my friend Laetitia´s.

These ones are butterfly inspirations.

More Fire!

Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

Beach I was running on every morning.

Beach Shack!

Coconut Grove

Peace and Love

View from my tent

 

Finca Neblina del Bosque, Nicaragua

Now I paint murals!! This was probably only my second time doing a mural and it came out well.  Others firsts at the finca- using a bike to power a pump to bring up water from a well, lots of horse-backriding, motorcycle riding!

Birds, orchids and butterflies.  The turquoise bird is a beautiful motmot, but I couldn´t fit in its distinctive feathers that are really long.

Blue morpho butterfly with mangos

Toucan with plantains, mangos and toña, the national beer here.

 Some students from a college in Washington who got earrings and the hat in the middle.

Those are cashew fruits in the center which I like alot. 

Eduardo and Oscar.

Back view of the hat Edua got.

Waterfalls

Awesome Funky Hat

 I met this girl from the states in Lago de Yojoa but I don´t remeber her name.  She was traveling with her dad who lives on Roatan.  She got this hat the same day I made it which was great because I was wondering if anyone was going to want this hat because it was a little crazy.  Great taste girl!  Cant get this at k mart!

Salamander Hat

This is Trujillo, Honduras, which I really liked.  This is a Garifuna canoe and that is a horse in the water.  I also saw cows and pigs on the beach here.  I ate a great fried fish with fried plantains, coconut rice and beans on the beach here and later enjoyed traditional drumming and dancing, called punta.  Walking around the town I stumbled into a yarn store with a great selection of colors and ended up getting more yarn!  Below are the colors I picked.

Here is how the hat came out.  I made it sitting by a waterfall.

Right after making the hat I found this little beauty in the same turquoise, gold and brown colors! Nice confirmation.

More Travels, More Friends

Cleffer, of Sambo Creek, Honduras, modeling some new ones.

Big up Confi Studio!  Rastafari!

Recognize the guy on the right from a previous post?  That is Kevin, of Canada who was pictured with Johnny Depp and Melanie in Lanquin, Guatemala.  Here he is with Jaime, of England, who got the green fade!

My current stash!

Feathers!  Fire and Water

Eva of Tahoe, CA, looking nice in yellow.  It has been hard to let these beautiful feathers go!

Utila Friends and Hats

Here is Viktoria Low of Humboldt, Co. CA wearing her dread hat in gray with maroon and orange fade.

This is me with Krista, of Canada who designed the one she is wearing which is dark purple with navy and gray stripe.

Krista got going making her own hat after we hit the yarn store together.  I made this other grey fade for Gabriela, of Switzerland, below.

Krista looking pretty with her finished hat!

Beach Art

Flip flops in Roatan

This salt container came from the Dominican Republic

This is a bottle of cleaner that has washed up from Medellin, Colombia.

Barettes I found

What I collected to make mobiles with.

This was the best find of all:  these are seeds called Corazon de Mono, or Monkeys Heart.  I cant wait to drill them and maybe even paint them, although they are so beautiful on their own.  Some are almost as big as my palm.  I especially like the really flat ones in good heart shapes.