About Me

Aloha! I'm Charlee. Think pink Charlee, not blue Charlee; yes, it's short for Charlotte.

This blog started in the autumn of 2010, three months after we landed on Oahu with three girls under six, a husband in residency and our first house, a fixer-upper, after nine years of renting. I could finally put holes in my walls, and I did: holes in walls, in cabinets, in windows. I was attempting to bring a little of the Aloha attitude into my own home and life. Just breathe. And relax. And have a little more fun. Smile. Love everyone. And eat good food. That sentence is still the whole plan.

Since then we have moved around the world a couple of times, the three girls became four kids, and the projects changed with them: the ruffled lamps and doll beds turned into birthday parties, then into the parties the kids ask for by name. Harry Potter nights with the cocktails at one end of the table and the pumpkin juice at the other. A Hunger Games marathon for a premiere. A full moon watched from the yard with the right snacks. The crafts never stopped; they just got printed and taped to bottles.

Everything here was attempted in an ordinary kitchen and a normal-sized living room, and the good ones made it to a page with the recipe, the printable or the steps. The older tutorials are here too, under the archive, pictures and all.

The line in the header is Albert Einstein's: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. It was on the first version of this blog and it is the most honest thing on it.

If you made something from a page here, I would love to see it. Send a picture to charlee@attemptingaloha.com, or tag the blog, and it goes on Your Aloha.

Aloha,
Charlee