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Season’s Best Craft and Gift Fair, Dec. 18

By Bruce Asato

Dec. 18, 2016

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In the E. L. Woodworks booth, Eric Loo holds up a handcrafted wooden Chinese Dragon design that he made that has 17 moving parts, left, while his brother Ernest Loo plays a handmade tenor ukulele he styled after an Explorer or Kelly electric guitar at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items. Ernest's uke featured a cedar top, African mahogany sides, ash neck and tiger wood fretboard and bridge.
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Aina Flask's Dee Yamamoto, second from left, and helpers, (l-r) Kalena Basug, Cheryl Dela Cruz and Kendra Rowe, in the booth featuring the popular stainless steel hydroflask water container with 12 different UV printed designs by local artists that are scratch resistant at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items.
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Aina Flask's Dee Yamamoto, in the booth at far right, and helpers, (l-r) Kalena Basug, Kendra Rowe and Cheryl Dela Cruz, in the booth featuring the popular stainless steel hydroflask water container with 12 different UV printed designs by local artists that are scratch resistant in sizes from 18 oz. to 64 oz., at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items.
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In the E. L. Woodworks booth, Ernest Loo plays a handmade tenor ukulele he styled after a Randy Rhoads "V" electric guitar at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items. Ernest's uke featured a cedar top, African mahogany sides, ash neck and tiger wood fretboard and bridge.
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Cassie Sos models one of the handmade Venetian masks made of papier mache adorned with hand painted designs, gold foil and real feathers at Marika Scalisi's Italian Murano Glass Jewelry at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items.
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Susie Hipolito of Crafts by Susie, with one of her air plants in a hanging teardrop glass enclosure at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items.
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Jason Sanchez holds a couple of "Attipas" which he described as soft "sock shoes" for babies and toddlers at the Happy Tots Hawaii booth he ran with his wife, Chantelle, at the Season's Best Craft and Gift Fair, in the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall, Sunday, December 18, 2016. This was the second year for this craft and gift fair which featured 253 vendors from Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island offering a multitude of items including foods, clothing, artworks, holiday crafts and items, beauty, health and wellness, jewelry, footwear, accessories, collectibles, sport accessories and pet items.
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