Pontil Sea Glass Bottle Base

I found a very informative video on YouTube on bottle bases. I was most interested in finding information on the bottle bases I found awhile back.

I have 2 like this which we display at craft fairs as part of our treasures. I knew it was old but I didn’t know it was from before 1850 Solid find!

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

Here are some earrings we made using feathers, puka shells, pipipi shells, sea glass, and freshwater pearls. Feather earrings are really popular now and although we make plain feather earrings we also like to combine natural materials we find all around Maui to add some mana from Maui to our creations.

Pheasant feathers with pipipi shells and rare aquamarine sea glass.

Pheasant feathers with rare aquamarine sea glass and amber sea glass. It’s hard to see in the photo but the pheasant feathers, at the end, are aquamarine and visible is the amber color.

Hackle feathers with medium and large puka shells which were found on Maui.

Part of our Moon Shadow Collection these guinea feathers are adorned with a gold colored freshwater pearl and dangle from a moon shadow hoop along with white sea glass.

Hackle and guinea feathers combined with large puka shells which were found on Maui.

Black feathers with red dyed guinea feathers are accented with pipipi shells and faux wiliwili seeds.

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.

Learning to Wire Wrap Sea Glass

 She’s been watching me for awhile and has made several pieces of jewelry both to sell, to give away, and to keep for herself but this is his 1st pair of wire wrapped earrings. She just sat at the kitchen table one day and commenced to making jewelry My girl is a motivated and self directed. She’s currently studying Japanese and Hawaiian language, is teaching herself how to write a book, and how to sew and cook as well.

In celebration of the Christmas Holidays she decided to use the kelly green sea glass with gold colored copper wire and red faux wiliwili seeds.   I can see she has the sea glass snug in the wire wrap so it won’t pop out, something I emphasis to her, we don’t want the sea glass falling out. For now, if you live on Maui you can catch some of her creations at the Maui Open Market on Sundays and Mondays from 9am to 3pm located on the sprawling front lawn of the Maui Tropical Plantation. We’ll also be participating at the Holiday Craft Fair at Whole Foods Kahului on December 17th from 9am to 3pm. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow :)

 Actually, they are priceless!!! On a fitness track, my children and I walk the beach every morning. Needless to say, I have to stop and pick up shells and sea glass on the way On this particular day there was a beautiful rainbow and I absolutely Love rainbows! I think rainbows are so beautiful! I always, always, take photos of my children with rainbows in the background if the moment presents itself and it did on this morning Two of the Natural Maui Ohana enjoying!

Sea Glass Jewelry Pendants on Etsy

 Here is a cluster of sea glass pendants I made last night and listed this morning at our Natural Maui Ohana Etsy Store.

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! Aloha!

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 recipe which 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

 

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.

Puka Shells and Shell Jewelry Origins

 This is the beginning of a puka shell. This is the top of a cone shell that my son found while we were sea glass collecting.

 Puka shell earrings, simple, hanging from a dangle chain.
Charms can be added to this as well.

Here is the underside of the same cone shell from above.

This is the end or bottom of the cone shell. See the curl? I Love to collect pieces of this shell. I can tell it’s been rolling in the surf for many many years by the way it gets all smoothed. I think it is such a treasure!

Here’s a pair of aquamarine sea glass and curl shell earrings. These pieces originate from a different kind of cone shell than the one shown above but it’s basically the same structure.

Here’s another type of cone shell my son found.

I call this a trumpet shell.

Here are some sea glass earrings I made using a trumpet shell piece.
I Love finding these pieces and it’s not that often that I find them either.
I call them “the eye” *;-D

Pretty Kool!
I Love shells as much as I Love sea glass!