Found the first clove seed!

I think it was Wednesday, actually. I went out in the back yard for my Wednesday morning round, pick the lilikoi from the back yard - my lilikoi get picked up on Thursdays -, do some weeding, check whether the one avocado is still on the tree (it was, I got to check again, I don't want the rodents to get it, I want it myself), and pick up whatever cloves the tree dropped (not good enough for selling but good enough for me). And there it was, a big brown clove seed with all its pulp. I don't know how soon there will be more but it looks like there will be an end to the wait that's already over a year long for some. As always, I'm not going to go strictly in order of the waiting list. Larger orders will have to wait until there is a good number of seeds coming in daily, and those who are going to have frost sooner will be notified sooner.

In other news, Team Hilo Etsy is getting a bit more active again, I ordered some new seed beads and some brass cable chain as well as some amethyst fan bead sets but neither of those have arrived yet, and work has me as busy as ever (I was going to put a smiley here but I'd have to use somebody else's script for that so: :)). I didn't make the Trash Art Show this year (haven't even looked at it yet) but I hope to be at the Hilo High School Craft Faire again, it's on Dec. 7 this year, but I haven't sent in the paperwork yet.

Still no news on tiare seeds but there are some pods getting bigger.

And an Etsy Treasury by my fellow Team Hilo Etsy team member Marsha Swanson:

'Team Hilo Etsy Part Two' by MRSButtons

More samples from the shops of Team Hilo Etsy, a collection of East Hawaii Island artists/crafters/curators.

Aloha - Love - Driftwood - ... TheWhatNaught $16.5	Turquoise & Shark Teeth Earr... stoneandbone $45
Hawaii Island Coconut Mango ... SapphireSoap $12	Men's Boxer Briefs X-Lar... 2tiedye4 $16
Black Spinel and Fine Silver... FinchandFlower $52	Hawaiian Hula Dance History ... MaiAloha $12
Czech Glass Button - 31.5mm LavaLampwork $6	Slimline Koa Hand Mirror UpcountryDesig... $70
CUSTOM FLAG BANNER - Made to... STUDIOofWHIMSY $25	LAUHALA Woven Flower Pendant... /span> SmittenForYou $12
Men's Shirt Infinite Cir... HexAppealCloth... $20	Cat's Eye Marble origina... Hokulewa $125
Hand Carved Hawaiian coconut... DesignsbyGypsy... $24	Solid Curly Koa Cutting Boar... rightanglewood... $99
Burgundy and light gold colo... hilobeads $45

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Brief update, and I thought I'd post at least a treasury ....

Just a very short update: if the bees are doing their job there will be clove seeds some time this fall or winter, but they're still months away. I'm also waiting for a few tiare seed pods to get ripe but I don't have any of those again yet either. I'll probably post here, but definitely on Facebook when that happens.

In the meantime my lilikoi seeds made it into another treasury:

'Passion Fruit Salad' by BlueMagpieDesign

PASSION FRUIT - Leather clut... LeahLerner $80	Beaded Beads Necklace Four L... SarahRobinL $35
Hawaiian Lilikoi seeds - yel... hilobeads $7	Brooklyn Fine Art Print 8x10... GwenMeyerson $20
Orange Peel Square Knitted C... knitBranda $26	Kraft Tartar Sauce Art on 5... PeyLu $28
Orange Silk scarf hand paint... DEsilk $75	Art nature print Flowers - f... LouiseArtStudi... $25
Purple Weeping Willow with a... Intres $59	CIJ ChristmasInJuly SALE Ame... KapKaDesign $91.8
Hexagon Necklace Violet Purp... JoannaFelt $12.5	Art print, Time is Running, ... TheJoyofColor $21
Passion Fruit Fragrance Oil SaharasSupplie... $9	Passion Fruit Rose Soap Vega... KiyiKiyi $3.5
CIJ Sale 10% Passion fruit N... svsoaps $4.05	Original watercolour paintin... DaffodilStudio $160

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Yes, I'm back

I'm back, have been for over a week, and we did visit with our daughter for a few days (finally publicly admitting that we went further than Kona this time :)), but I can't really say I'm caught up yet. Getting back sick and having to do some extra work at work doesn't help :) I'm working on it ... I am planning to order more seed beads, really this time as I'm running out of some colors, slowly getting caught up on drilling mgambo seeds, but no new tiare seeds or clove tree seeds yet. And no pictures this time, but I hope to post some vacation pictures sooner or later.

I'm going to be away again ...

Late notice, sorry. I'm going to be away again from the 15th (Wednesday), in the morning, so I won't be able to ship anything then, may still be able to get to Ag inspection tomorrow though, and possibly later than "before work". I'm coming back on the 29th and will try to get all orders that came in in the meantime on the 30th. As I have been included in an Etsy Treasury again, yellow lilikoi seeds this time here it is:

'Aloha!' by mamushkahandmade

Cute Little Brooch ... IrenkaR $30	Lampwork Earrings Y... hawaiibeads $39
Toe Thongs (pair)- ... TropicalToeTho... $32	Yellow Hawaiian Flo... LisaKerleyJobe $24
Vintage Hawaiian Ma... zestvintage $68	Sugar Scrub Soap - ... Sunbasilgarden... $5
Vintage Ralph Laure... downhomedarlin... $22	Wire Wrapped Hair S... Nikita551 $29.9
Nuno felted flower ... feltinga $19.9	Fun Vintage Yellow ... thelittlegrass... $28
White blossom hair ... BeautyJewelryG... $19	Dress 1960s Vintage... BombshellShock... $34
Backpack Purse in O... Flowercreek $10	Vintage Brooch Enam... vintagebythese... $18
20 Lilikoi seeds - ... hilobeads $7	Beaded crochet neck... DolgovaSvetlan... $117

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Very limited availability of tiare/gardenia taitensis seeds - and update on other seeds

For the past several years I had access to tiare seeds pretty much year round. The bushes I got them from were cut back, including all the seed pods. There are very few more bushes that go to seed here and none of them are anywhere near ripe. They were put on the invasive list before because "people are selling them on Ebay" - and I managed then to get them off because the people who were selling them on Ebay then got them from me and the person who put that on the list is somebody who I'm on a mailing list with. I'm keeping them on Ebay off and on as long as I have some that are still fresh. There will not be any listings on Ebay, Etsy or anywhere for large numbers of them.

While being in Kona in late March I tried to find new white bird of paradise seeds but those weren't ripe yet. As we usually only go to Kona in March these days I'm not likely to get any from there this year. There are (or possibly were) some in Hilo but as I'm not usually on vacation while at home I may miss them.

As I didn't post for so long, here's an Etsy treasury from February which has a lei of mine in it:

'******COLOR OF THE W??NE********' by aytulgift

Formal Ball Gown Pr... CelestialDress... $235.00	Original Burgundy W... MyLilSweetieBo... $19.95
The Rose that Lasts... Steampunkitis $14.00	Medusa .. Opaque Ma... ImpulseCo $6.99
Dark Red Garnet Kan... KanzashiHairFl... $22.00	Chunky Macrame Brac... Mikaylove $11.54
Tie sided Harem Pan... Tribalvibe $34.00	Burgundy Queen Anne... anils $40.00
Bridal Clutch Winte... bellafiore2009 $46.00	Burgundy and light ... hilobeads $45.00
NEW Color- Ruffled ... MesBellesFleur... $11.99	Embroidered flower ... Zigettasstyle $38.00
Turkey Burgundy rub... Scarves2012 $14.00	Burgandy little gir... LilShopofCuten... $12.00
Arm Mittens Glove /... gloveshop $25.00	Ruffle scarf ,Pash... SenasShop $18.90

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