HOME EVENTS

Home and Garden Workshops, Home Depot's how-to clinics for November: "You can have fun with faux painting," 7 p.m. Fridays; "You can lay ceramic tile," 10 a.m. Saturdays; "You can update your bathroom cabinets and fixtures," 2 p.m. Saturdays; "You can install moulding and trim," 1 p.m. Sundays; "You can save money on your energy bills," 2 p.m. Sundays; "You can enhance your home with holiday lighting," 7 p.m. Thursdays; all workshops are free at Home Depot stores: Iwilei, Honolulu, 521-7355; Pearl City, 455-1200; Kahului, Maui, (808) 893-7800; Kona, Big Island, (808) 326-6013; and Lihu'e, Kaua'i (808) 632-2740.

Clutterstompers (formerly Clutterbusters) Support Group meets 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Harris United Methodist Church, Komuro Lounge; annual $10 membership fee, $1 fee per meeting. 735-2986, 941-4800.

"Homes & Land," TV show displays homes and land for sale in the Islands, noon weekdays on Fox affiliate, Channel 2 (broadcast) and Channel 3 (Oceanic Cable). 591-2222.

Furniture Workshop Tours: Learn about the history and craft of Hawaiian furniture, tours between 9 a.m. and noon Wednesdays, Martin & MacArthur Workshop and Showroom, 1815 Kahai St.; free. 845-6688.

GARDEN EVENTS

Make your own holiday angel using dried materials from the garden, 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Wahiawa Botanical Garden; FHBG members $10, nonmembers $12; call for reservations. 522-7064.

Home for the Holidays StyleIn: "Room To Room's" Barbara Suzuki will present a free hands-on holiday decorating session with practical, affordable, festive ideas, 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Pacific Home; free wutg wine, soft drinks and light pupu. 596-1805.

Scenic Hawaii general membership luncheon, with speaker, Jon Van Dyke discussing "Political and Vehicular Signs,"11:30 a.m. Nov. 18, Hale Koa Hotel, Waikiki Ballroom; $20. Reservations. 737-8327.

Create a holiday candle wreath with dried and live seeds, pods, leaves, pinecones and plant parts 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 19, Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden; FHBG members $25, nonmembers $27. Registration: 537-1708.

Garden tour: Guided tours offered at 1 p.m., Mondays-Saturdays, Foster Botanical Garden; tours included with admission of $5 general, $3 kama'aina, $1 children ages 6-12. 522-7066.

Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens tours, narrated 45-minute tram tours of the Kane'ohe garden's flowers, plants and trees, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 1, 2 and 3 p.m. daily; $14.50, kama'aina discounts available. 239-6775.

Lyon Arboretum self-guided garden tour, view and identify plants at the arboretum, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, except federal and state holidays; free. 988-0461.

Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden guided tours focusing on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during Polynesian migration), 1 p.m. Wednesdays; also, tour highlighting Native Hawaiian medicinal plants, 1 p.m. Fridays; $5; free tour about native and introduced plants 10 a.m. Saturday, $15 taro cultivation workshop 9 a.m.-noon next Friday, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Mamalahoa Highway, Kona, Big Island; call to register. (808) 323-3318.

Self-guided garden walking tour, View more than 50 native Hawaiian and tropical plants and flowers surrounding the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. Tour pamphlet available at concierge desk. 923-7311.

Send announcements, with name and contact phone number, to: Island Life, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com, with "Home & Garden Cal" in the subject line; or fax 525-8055.