Maui Made

About Maui Made

Update June 2015:

Mahalo to all my faithful MauiMadeBlog followers, and welcome if you are new here.  I started this blog two years ago as a way to help promote locally made items, locally owned companies, and unique local events.  This is a fun project for me, something I come back to with more regularity between my PR clients.  If you’ve been following along for a while, you may have known that I was the Marketing and PR manager for Dazoo Restaurant for the past year and a half, but sadly, Dazoo has been sold to new owners.

So I am once again a full-time mommy and a hobbyist blogger.  I’m using this summer to make some connections (starting with last month’s Startup Weekend!), hang out with my kids (ages 4 and 7) and take some ME time (with a week at the Women’s Maui Surfer Girls with my fellow Seabury alum Dustin Tester).  I’ll also be hitting up the mainland to see the folks in Maine, and spend a couple days reliving the memories in San Diego on the way back.

In September, both kids will finally be in school 5 days a week (at Carden Academy, where I am also a Board Member), so I will start poking around for work in the fall (so keep me in mind for some projects!)

In the meantime, I’m always open to blog post ideas – keep them coming!  Contact information below.

Photo by Kristy Copperfield

This was the original text from 2013:

Maui Made Blog will be a review of Maui’s best products, locally owned businesses and unique Maui events.   Maui has a plethora of talented artists, designers and entrepreneurs, and the end goal of this blog and facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/MauiMade) is to get state-wide and national exposure for these amazing products coming from the Valley Isle.

You can connect with Liz through this blog, Facebook, or by emailing  mauiliz77 (at) yahoo (dot) com

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If there is sufficient interest, a companion database website, listing products, shops and events by category, will be created.

Feel free to submit recommendations or products for review.  Standard blogging disclaimer guidelines will be followed.

About Liz Smith

After five years managing the publicity (and a couple years of marketing) at Maui Ocean Center, Liz Smith set up her own freelance PR company to stay home with her kids.  She is now taking a break from the corporate world, by blogging about the corporate (and crafting) world.

In her other resume highlights, she taught windsurfing for HST for two years, taught big boat sailing, marine biology and windsurfing with Sail Caribbean for a summer, and  spent several summers teaching small boat sailing to children at junior yacht clubs in Maine and Massachusetts.  She was fired from Milagros Restaurant in Paia, which resulted in her first date with the man she eventually married.

She grew up in San Diego, Annapolis MD, and Maui, spending many summers with her grandparents on the Maine coast.  She also spent two summers in Hood River, OR, perfecting her jibes and enjoying her first scorpion bowl at the age of 16.  (Glad to say that didn’t start a trend – she now only drinks legally and prefers beer).  Liz is a graduate of Seabury Hall (on Maui) and Connecticut College (BA Environmental Studies).

She enjoys the beach, cooking, taking her kids to Maui Ocean Center, social networking, meeting people actually in person, and writing about herself in the third person.

You can connect with Liz through this blog, Facebook, or by emailing  mauiliz77 (at) yahoo (dot) com