However, some mothers and daughters manage to overcome their differences and bond by sharing hobbies or activities, from paddling to hula to shopping.

We found two artful pairs who have connected over accessories. Not shopping for them — making them. No mother-daughter strife and drama in these families.

Pompons and acrylic

Fae Yamaguchi of Manoa is one of those fearless artists willing to try anything. In her hands, sculpture, video art and mixed-media innovations take on a life of their own.

Now her 5-year-old daughter, Rose Sheldon, is following in her mother's footsteps, to the mock horror of tutu, Evelyn Yamaguchi, who watched Rose drawing one day and exclaimed, "Oh, no, she's going to be an artist too!"

Rose and her mom have always enjoyed creating and crafting things together. Their latest venture is making jewelry, not necessarily as a collaborative effort, but side by side.

Fae Yamaguchi's line is called "The Rock Collection from the Ice Age." It consists of bracelets, necklaces and earrings made of acrylic "rocks" that she drills pukas into and strings with complementary beads. She sometimes wraps the "rocks" with wire for a different look.

Figuring out how to turn the rocks into beads has required lots of prototypes and months of experimenting.

Why go to all the trouble? "I don't know, really. I'm so attracted to them. They're just so pretty," Yamaguchi said.

Yamaguchi, who teaches art through the Honolulu Academy of Art's Academy To Go program in the schools, said the jewelry line helps support her passion — video art combining puppetry and live action.

Rose sits beside her mother and strings just about anything she can get her hands on, artfully combining shapes and colors with style and panache.

"When you're an artist and you do mixed media, you have a lot of stuff lying around. Rose will string anything. She has an interesting sense of color and putting things together," Yamaguchi said.

Rose started by stringing macaroni, combining different shapes to form innovative designs. Why? "It's my favorite food," she grinned.

Now she has graduated to pompon necklaces in bright colors and interesting juxtapositions which have become the signature accessory of Honolulu artist Kandi Everett.

"The Rock Collection" is sold at the Contemporary Museum gift shop and online at www.mysterydinosaur.com. For more information, write to fae@hawaii.rr.com. Earrings are $24, bracelets $36 and necklaces $72.

Rose's pompon necklaces are not available to the public — yet.

Handbag bonding

Artist Mapuana Schneider of Hawai'i Kai, best known for her bold, bright watercolor and acrylic paintings of hula dancers, is taking her art in a new direction. In an artistic collaboration with her daughter, Mani Schneider, the mother-daughter duo is producing a line of handbags called Pu'olo by M & M.

The two also share day jobs as president and vice president of Fine Wine Imports. Now they spend their evenings making artful bags.

Mapuana Schneider came up with the idea of hand-painting handbags "out of the blue," Mani said. "One day she just said, 'I have an idea. Let's paint purses.' "

Mani Schneider always loved crafts, and said joining in was natural for her. The daughter shopped for resources and handed over several wooden boxes to her mother, who discovered that the bags offered her an opportunity to calm down and enjoy a quiet evening with her paint brushes.

Mapuana Schneider paints whatever she is feeling on a given evening: hula dancers, pink ginger, monstera leaves, 'ilima lei. While her fine art is growing increasingly abstract, her bag art is more representational.

Mani Schneider adds Hawaiian print fabrics to the inside of the lids, embellishes them with shells and vintage buttons, and coats the bottoms with beach sand.

The most challenging part, the daughter said, has been how to make the handles unusual and beautiful but also strong. She was struggling with what materials to use when she had a dream that her tutu, the late Harriett Kaho'opi'i Baldwin, who was a full-blooded Hawaiian, came to her with a lei. When she woke up, she realized that her tutu's lei could become her handbag's handle. She worked out a way to crochet the cord for strength and the yarn for beauty and voil‡ — a sturdy handle was born.

The mother and daughter work independently at their respective homes in the evening.

"I don't try to control what she's doing, and she doesn't try to control what I'm doing," Mani Schneider said.

Pu'olu bags sell at Riches Kahala for $200.