Who are The Bonsai Babes?

The Bonsai Babes are characters that Lora had invented years ago, when she was doodling one day.  She thought it would be really cool to create cartoon girls with bonsai tree hair to represent her Japanese heritage.  She decided to put her rough sketch on some t-shirts, which were soon sold at a female-owned boutique in the Fairfax District of LA.  But once the shirts were gone, she put away the concept of The Bonsai Babes, went on to get her Masters in Social Work, and forgot about them, until several years passed when a life experience inspired her to write a book, a children’s book for adults, honoring unconditional love and our ability to transform.  She needed characters, and remembered The Bonsai Babes from several years earlier.  Unable to find the right illustrator, she ended up learning to illustrate on the computer and recreated the original rough sketch on her own.  She soon realized that The Bonsai Babes’ tree hair not only represented her Japanese heritage, but the very transformation she wrote about in her story.  Just as the bonsai tree must transform to reach its state of ultimate beauty, we, and The Bonsai Babes must also go through our own transformation to reach our true potential.  It is not where we begin, but where we end that holds all of our meaning and beauty. The Bonsai Babes have become the mascots of her empowerment work, and also validation to her that we sometimes create in the present time, not knowing what our creations will become, but we should have faith in all our creations, as they are seeds whose purpose, will reveal themselves at the right moment.  To transformation, faith, and love…