Sea Glass Candy Wedding Cake

My oldest daughter was married this past Friday and the family held a beach wedding party for her on Sunday. We are the Natural Maui Ohana, we collect sea glass and shells and create beautiful jewelry from our findings so it made sense that she asked for a sea glass candy beach scene wedding cake. I [...]

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 [...]

Camp Olowalu Maui

 Until yesterday I didn’t even know Camp Olowalu existed! We’re so used to going to Olowalu landing to celebrate birthdays and other holidays. Camp Olowalu is before Olowalu Landing so I was ready to zip right past it when my daughter said “Mom! there’s the turn!” Jam on the brakes, not really, I wasn’t really [...]

Sea Glass Jewelry and Natural Maui Mana

 Cobalt Blue Sea Glass  Whenever I go sea glass collecting I always imagine where it might have come from. My favorite scene is an old whaling ship with a bunch of sailors dumping their rum bottles overboard, or poison bottles. I find a lot of really dark blue, almost black, cobalt sea glass and that, [...]

Natural Maui Hawaii ~ No! Tumbled Glass and Authentic Sea Glass Are Not The Same.

 This sea glass is 1 of a 3 piece, very old brown sea  glass, necklace of Job’s Tears.” If you click on the photo you’ll be taken to a larger photo and you’ll be able to see the actual pitting and the c’s that dot the surface. Natural Maui Hawaii takes part in the craft fairs [...]

Natural Maui Ohana Photo Gallery

I’ve added a page to our Photo Gallery, the Natural Maui Ohana page which I’ll eventually fill up with photos of our ohana and some of the things we do day to day. The first photo up is of all of us (except Kekoa, he wasn’t born yet) after eating at Kimo’s Restaurant in Lahaina [...]

Incorporating Tumbled Glass Into Our Jewelry Line

Above is a pair of earrings I made using white authentic sea glass wire wrapped in argentium silver plated wire. I also included coconut fishes for varieties sake. Yesterday at the craft fair these two wonderful ladies stopped by our booth just browsing. One of them was wearing a gorgeous pair of earrings that looked [...]

Honu’s on Maui

Waiting for my son while he’s bodyboarding and this beach had no sea glass or shells to speak of so I spent quality time with my grandson and daughter and lo and behold we spotted something way out. It was the honu’s. Then we resumed playing and pretty soon we saw something close up and [...]

Natural Maui Keiki Kekoa and His Shell Collection

Remember the earlier post about my grandson (moopuna) collecting shells with me and his aunty Rel? Well… This is a photo of his shell collection with flash. There’s a couple of choice pieces that I can make earrings for his mommy, my daughter, the Mommy Goddess Sophia :>D Later, after he’s collected more we’re going [...]

Natural Maui Sea Glass and Shell Collecting with My Moopuna

This is my moopuna, Kekoa. We take him to the beach every chance we get and he just loves it! He’s not afraid to charge the incoming waves so we stay real close to him. Today he was watching me collect sea glass and shells and to my surprise he started picking up shells and [...]