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Beyond the Bags: Luna's Jungle

We shot the photos for our first Baggu collection, Luna’s Garden, in the summer of 2020 at a stunning “Hawaiian chateau” as I like to call it, on Tantalus. The property belongs to my father in la...

Lemonade + Sunshine: About our Collaboration with Make Lemonade Project

I myself really had very little to do with this collaboration. Kelsey, the amazing and passionate creator of @makelemonadeproject messaged me sometime in the middle of last year when we had a lot ...

Lolo and the FLF

When we rescued Lolo Mango C Mynah (and Lulu Angel Mayjah Mynah, RIP) I didn’t really think it through. . . I thought we would just be able to hand him off to the “bird rescue people,” and that w...

Women in Bloom

Both Fighting Eel and Jana Lam are women-owned, women-run businesses in Hawai‘i, and that makes me proud.  So one of my main objectives for the Ohana Collection was to make a print that embodies ...

Under a Coco Moon

For a long time I have wanted to make kids/baby clothes and accessories. If you scroll way, way back you may see two year-old Lyon sporting some black and white pineapple leggings.  I went so far ...

Full Circle: The Story of the Ohana Collection

Black Friday 2010 marked the beginning of Jana Lam the brand.  Prior to that day, the day I put my newly conceived, hand-printed, hand-sewn (all by me and my mom) clutches and pillows on consignmen...

Janacorn

I started this unicorn back in January. My plan was to do my own version of a drawing by Lyon (a unicorn creating a rainbow), for my Powwowworldwide mural. After talking it over with my team thou...

Of Plans and Papayas. . .

It’s my 40th birthday today.  It’s a big one. In 2019 I anxiously awaited 2020 and started filling it with big, fun plans. I didn’t have a specific agenda for this day but I was excited for what w...

MEET ‘AE in Rainbow and SEASHELLS

We are super excited to bring these two prints to you.  They are our first creations since pivoting back toward making bags and other accessories again, so it has been a breath of fresh air to mak...

THE VOTE TOTE

I’ve never considered myself a politically involved person.  The signs my family have hung on or planted in the ground in front of the wall lining our property during election season have always ma...