Article: Crafting up recipes

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YOU WOULD THINK that talk at a potluck involving shared recipes would center on food, but you'd be wrong. At a table filled with recipe collectors at Hawaiian Electric Co. headquarters downtown, the chatter was all about crafting -- embossing, which die-cutting machine works best, and the ins and outs of creating the perfect ribbon bow.

The recipes were incidental to the real project, scrapbooking.

It all started when HECO accounting clerk Kelly Kanja participated in her first scrapbook recipe swap with friends and wanted to do the same with her co-workers. The women had all traded ...

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