Dominic Balli was here on Maui...

and my brother took my son and his son to go and listen to Domini Balli at the Queen Kaahumanu Shopping Center right here in Kahului Maui! It was a free concert, I'm not to sure who hosted or sponsored it but I believe my son said it was the Calvary Baptist Church? Whoever it was, Mahalo! My son thoroughly enjoyed the concert and what a treat!

My son, Richard, bodyboarder extraordinaire, was so excited as he related the story of this night to me. Mom! We were RIGHT NEXT TO HIM! He introduced himself to us! He patted Josh's head! He introduced us to his family! He called us up on stage and we had to sing!!! Me: You actually went up and sang and didn't faint? Richard: Yea but I was nervous but we had to go up!

Oh my how I wish I would've gone now, pictures! I need pictures! LOL!

I'm so happy he had a chance to go and meet Dominic Balli *:-D BTW, I think Dominic Balli is my older nephews friend so that may be why Richard and Josh got so much attention but I don't know for sure *;-D I can only speculate.

Sorry I gotta do this folks, I gotta put in a plug for our Natural Maui Ohana Etsy Store on all my blog posts as that is the way I get paid to be able to post about whatever it is I want to post about so Mahalo! for looking at our sea glass jewelry and shell jewelry creations where we put a lot of Aloha into it from the collecting to cleaning to choosing which sea glass and shells we're going to use and finally to creating it! We hope the Aloha passes on to you! Mahalo!

The Many Hues of Blue Sea Glass

 When using blue or aquamarine blue sea glass to make jewelry it’s always hard for me to define the color. They are all a hue of aquamarine or blue but not the same. Some are lighter, so I call it light aqua, some have a greenish hue so I call that teal green, if it sways more to blue than green I call it teal blue.

The 2 pieces of sea glass on the left have a greenish hue to it, those I call teal green, the second top left I call aquamarine, the one next to it on the top I call dark aquamarine, the next one I call soft aquamarine, so many many hues! This is not all I have!

So when trying to pair colors up for earrings, especially having to also pair up with shape as well or at least size, sometimes it might be just slightly slightly off.

Take last night. I wire wrapped 2 pieces of aquamarine sea glass for earrings and after I finished and was taking pictures I noticed that one aquamarine piece was slightly darker than the other  So I put it aside so when I find another piece to match both, I can complete the earrings.

I Love these colors of blue. It reminds me of the sweet ocean it came from. It reminds me of how happy I am when I’m collecting beach glass, in full meditation mode 

I hope that when you buy a sea glass jewelry from me that feeling reaches you as well. I hope it’s not just a jewel to adorn, I hope it’s more, something that can’t be seen, the mana, the mana of Maui.

Everything's Coming Up Yellow...

accept sea glass…

Wouldn’t you know it! One of the hardest sea glass to find, yellow sea glass. Maybe some places it’s abundant or maybe someone on Maui is lucky enough to find a bunch but I hardly find it. When we first started my son founded a really nice yellow sea glass and I made a pendant for my oldest daughter with it. After that we never really found any jewelry grade yellow sea glass 

I just ponder on that because I collect sea glass and make sea glass jewelry but one of my other interests is my personal spiritual growth. The path that I’m on is taking me to study about our Chakra’s, the colors associated with it and the Sofeggio Frequency associated with each chakra.

For my personal growth I’m working on my solar plexus which is associated with the color yellow and the 528Hz Solfeggio Frequency. So naturally, I’d like to wear more of the color yellow and since I mostly use the jewelry I make I’d like to wear sea glass jewelry that I make but no yellow. A comforting thought is that I can use amber, a light amber, which might be a good substitute.

But speaking of yellow, now, I just made me a peanut butter and lilikoi butter sandwich. Lilikoi (passion fruit) butter is yellow. That didn’t dawn on me at the time until I started to look up the recipe which I found one at LavaLily and have every intention of making it as soon as I get my hands on some lilikoi’s 

My niece made Lilikoi Butter as a baby shower gift to ohana.
I ate mine already it was so ono!

After I found this recipe I checked my facebook and saw that Whole Foods Market Kahului got in a shipment of white pineapples and CLICK! I was like, hmmm, I wonder if there’s such a thing as pineapple butter LOL! Google and yes! there is and THAT’S when I began to think, lots of yellow going on here. Talk about Law of Attraction!

For those of you who are interested here’s the link for the pineapple butter recipewhich I also intend to make 

While we don’t have any yellow sea glass jewelry we do have other beautiful color sea glass which we find ourselves here on Maui and which we transform into, with Aloha, exotic and elegant jewelry ~ Natural Maui Ohana Etsy Store

Sea Glass Jewelry Creations with Feathers, Puka Shells, and Pipipi Shells

Natural Maui Etsy Store

Fly Away ~

 Sometimes I think…if I could gather enough feathers I could make us some wings and we could all just fly away ~

Then I think physics and block myself from coming out of the paradigm
and come to the conclusion that, hey! that’s nonsense!
We can’t fly!!!
And I proceed to use the feathers
to make earrings instead 

I can always daydream
that we’re flying
while I’m collecting sea glass and shells
*;-D

At least I made use of the feathers!

Feather Earrings using sea glass, puka shells, pipipi shells, freshwater pearls to accent.
Now available for purchase at our
Natural Maui Etsy Store

 

 

Sea Glass Jewelry, Sea Glass Charms, Create Your Own Jewelry Pt. 1

 Pictured above is a charm bracelet using puka shell charms, metal charms, and sea glass charms.

I came up with the idea of offering many different charms that customers can use to mix and match on a charm bracelet, hoop earrings, dangle chain earrings, just anything that charms can be attached to. I came up with the name "The Many Charms of Natural Maui" thinking Maui is a charming place but my daughter Rel came up with the idea "Create Your Own Jewelry" which I really like too so we've decided to say "Create your own jewelry with the many charms of Natural Maui!" There, we got it now!

So we wanted to share a couple photos of some sea glass, puka shells, and metal charms that we used to make a charm bracelet and then used the same charms on a pair of small hoop earrings and then on a dangle chain earring.

Here we go:

Here is a charm bracelet that you can receive free with an order of $20.00 in charms.
You can specify what size you would like.
This one is 7 1/2"
Toggles may vary

Here are the charms we picked:
3 Puka shell charms
1 dark olive green sea glass
1 white sea glass
1 aquamarine sea glass
1 lt. sea foam sea glass

To put the charms on, first count how many links in the bracelet there are. Hang the center charm in the middle than determine how far apart you want to space the rest of the charms.

~.~

I decided to add some nice silver colored metal charms to this bracelet just to show a full look.

Here we have:
2 each of:
starfish charms
honu charms
1/2 moon charms
snuggled in between the puka shell and sea glass charms.

~.~

Took the puka shell charm off the charm bracelet and now using it on a small hoop earring, free with purchase of $20.00 worth of charms.

Here we are using the silver colored metal honu charm.

And here Rel is using the aquamarine sea glass charm and puka shell charm on a long dangle chain earring, free with a purchase of $20.00 worth of charms.

 Just a few of the many and versatile ways to use our charms. You can even use them on hoops or other jewelry you already own. Each charm can also be used as a pendant. Have fun creating your own jewelry!

Treasury Lists on Etsy

I joined Etsy a few years ago but never did anything with it until recently. Trying to find a venue to sell my sea glass jewelry and shell jewelry creations, I decided on Etsy rather than eBay. How I discovered Treasury lists I don't even remember! But I did and I thought hmmm I'm gonna make one and so I did!

Sea Glass Jewelry by Natural Maui Ohana on Etsy

First I thought of a theme, hmmm I Love Christmas 24/7 so I made that my first theme. Then I looked around Etsy shops for Christmas items that I liked, Favorited them, and proceeded with my Treasury list. Ok, that was fun and I plan to make more Christmas lists too but that was a sort of test to get to know the "art" of making a Treasure list.

Lucky for me I added a couple of Etsy handcrafters to my circle and so I receive updates on the Treasury lists they create or favorite (another sellers Treasury list). To me, they are actually creating works of art, combining color, imagery, with a well thought out theme for each Treasury list. This inspired me!

But keeping to who I am and what fascinates me I continued to pick themes that I liked and that interested me. Two lists I especially like are ~

Sea Glass Origins
Fibonacci Fractal Mystery

Sea glass origins I like because it fascinates me whenever I look  for sea glass and discover where it could possible originate from. Then I start to picture the whaling ships that came to Maui long ago.

Fibonacci Fractal Mystery because I use shell pieces that still have the curl or that have been washing in the surf and coral for who knows how long and the mysteriousness of it all!

I started to get views and comments and actually it is like making "friends" at Etsy so I decided to make a "One is Silver and the other Gold" list :D

So far though, my favorite Treasury list is of these paintings from different artists of the sky, each one so brilliant in color use, all of them, visions that I have while praying! I wish I could have each and every one!

I named this Treasury list "Knowing..." and the theme is from a quote by Neale Donald Walsch that he used on a video while being interviewed ~

"Thank you God, for helping me to know that my problems have already been solved."

Simple and beautiful but priceless! It's become my mantra :D

Etsy really has some wonderful artist and handcrafters and I think it's a wonderful place to shop for any occasion and since Christmas is coming soon...