Mama's Girl Market

Being an active duty Coastie and my mother being an Army vet (WAAC), makes me love seeing veteran's starting businesses. This young lady is an Army vet who is creating clothing and other items for Female Veterans Lady Brigade   has some unique items.  Lady Brigade is running a GoFundMe campaign. Read her story here . If you have a few bucks to spare and love to help out veterans this is a good opportunity . 

Mother's Day giveaway!!!  (handmade soap, a pocket mirror and a special note)    There are 9 ways to enter to win, Follow @CoastieCreation on Instagram,  Coastie Creation on FB,   Mama's Girl Market on FB, follow Mama's Girl Market blog and leave a comment at any of the above.                               What makes your mom so special?                                                            Ends May 3 8pm pacific

I am excited to share with you my friend Warren Grimes. He has currently started a kickstarter to raising money to start his own small business. You can read all about it here . These are a few examples of what he can created. You can follow him on instagram @Islandengraving

My friend Skyler was leaving for a Coast Guard trade school. She is going to go for MST, that is a marina science technician. We thought we should go on one more trip before she left. So we  headed off to one of our favorite places MONTEREY. While we were there we thought it would be fun to go diving. SOOO we did what any mermaid would do but go to the local dive shop, rent some gear and went diving.  The weather was a perfect 80 degrees. The water temperature was a freezing 50 degrees.  (Just a little cold) Here are a few pictures of the dive. This was a large Sea Hare Slug. He was close to a foot long  (Fun fact they can grow up to 16in long) I have not seen so many sand dollars in one place.  It was a really neat thing to see. That little white speck is an octopus (Just a baby) That's me That's Skyler We also went  looking for Mermaid Tears (sea glass, found a good amount) and did some shopping...

I would like to share with you my friend Elise Nicole . Her work has been seen all over Hawaii and in Southern California.  If your looking for fun ocean art to fill up your beach house, you should check out her art here. I own a couple of her pieces. And love them. She had customized a lovely piece for me a few years ago, that is still one of my favorite pieces of art. Mermaid 1 Aloha! My name is Elise Nicole and I live in Kailua, Hawai'i with my best friend and love, my one and only super handsome guy John, and our beyond beautiful daughter Harlow and our wise old soul son Taj. I myself am an earth adoring, art creating, teacher of yoga, traveling explorer, and most of all passionate momma. I have a 'life list' that I gaze at daily, and plan to cross off every last item I have written on it. Most days I am the epitome of a goof, and I love that about me, Harlow is just like momma, I assure you Taj will be too. My career as an artist started in 2004 wh...

I would like you to meet my friend Randy Greer Randy is a Composer, Private Music Instructor, Studio/Live Sound Engineer, and a Personal Trainer. Randy's information regarding being a composer and some work of his work can be found at his website ( http://www.randygreermusic.com/ ) Randy has been a private music instructor for 7 years. He teaches guitar, bass, voice, and beginner piano. Randy has several students and have maintained good terms with all of his clients. Randy is currently a college student finishing up his B.S. in digital audio technology with a focus in production. He works live sound at a large church on weekends. Randy  has worked on live music, speech, multimedia and theater. Randy is well versed in audio production including music and sound design for artists and various forms of media including commercials, film, games and radio. Randy also trains clients in the gym when he is away from his work in music and audio. He currently has eigh...

Hello everyone, With Christmas coming, I want you to meet some of my friends. They each have unique talents. And I thought this would be the perfect time to share. I hope everyone is as excited to meet them through out the upcoming weeks. And hope you look to them for your holiday and other needs. As a small business own I feel that its important to promote other small businesses.  Laura