Etsy Treasuries!

How exciting.. I've been featured in a treasury two times this week! It's always such an honor!

Here is the treasury from Sunday the 28th of December entitled "Mahalo Maui" Click on it to see a bigger picture. I'm the bright blue sapphire coin and keshi pearl necklace at the bottom right:



And then here is the one from today called "Rainbows from the Sea" Here I'm the paua shell and Swarovski crystal starfish at the bottom middle



Both of these are thanks to Cindy of Peacock Jewellery who makes beautiful jewelry, much of it featuring the beautiful paua abalone shell. Please visit her shop!



thank you so much Cindy!

New Beach Bride Jewelry

Just added these to the shop!


Ocean Petals - Beach Bride Necklace
Sweet little freshwater keshi pearls with matching freshwater nugget pearls and a pendant of hand wire wrapped freshwater coin pearls. All are hand knotted on white silk cord.




White Freshwater Coin Pearl Earrings

Lustrous white freshwater baby coin pearls with white freshwater nugget pearls.
Each is hand wire wrapped with sterling silver wire and hang 1" from bottom of sterling silver ear wires.

Please visit Jonara Blu Maui for more information and to see more jewelry inspired by the sea!

New Beach Wedding Baby Coin Pearl Necklace

Baby white freshwater coin pearls measure about 9mm with white button pearls, tiny white semi round pearls and opal aurora borealis Swarovski crystals on white silk. Perfect for the beach bride and beyond! Will be posted in my shop very soon..beach bride pieces go fast so if interested please email me :)




And as a side note...we finished the puzzle! It was sad to take it apart and put it away..and now it's gonna be tough to find one as fun!



Beaded jewelry by:Jonara Blu Maui

More Blue Jewelry

Here are a couple more pieces I made to match Turquoise Sky



Turquoise Sky - Maui Beaded Earrings



Paua Palm Tree Bracelet

New Sea Treausres...

A sneak peek of the newest necklaces ready to be uploaded to my shop...






This last one has been uploaded already and is available here Green and Purple Abalone and Freshwater Pearl Silk Cord Necklace

Starfish Beach Wedding Necklace

And elegant yet beachy necklace idea for your seaside wedding...





High quality ivory white pearls hand wire wrapped with sterling silver wire to sterling silver 'krinkle' chain. A larger ivory white pearl with a sterling silver starfish dangles at center stage.

72.00

Available at Jonara Blu Maui soon!

Not Afraid of Squidoo Anymore!

I've been afraid of Squidoo for some time. Only having glanced at it when I read that it was one of the sites I 'needed' to join..I was overwhelmed and so put it off for probably a year. I don't know why I was such a scaredy-cat...it's so much fun!

I know I've only scratched the surface of what you can do there..but here is a snapshot of my first 'lens'. I created one on Beach Wedding Jewelry...of course!



and here is the link:

http://www.squidoo.com/beachweddingjewelry

Please visit my lens, rate it and leave a comment at the end :D

The definition of lense from Squidoo's faq page is this:

"A lens is one person's view on a topic that matters to her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, your eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and oh so much more. That way, when someone is looking for recommended information, fast, your lens gets him started and sends him off in the right direction."


It looks like a really fun place to surf around as well..so I'm sure I will be spending some time there as I make myself comfy and try to learn.

New Beach Bride Pearl Jewelry Set

A sneak preview of my latest island inspired beach wedding jewelry set.

White dancing nugget shaped pearls with a large nugget pearl and a smooth shimmering tab pendant of mother of pearl. This beach bride necklace is available here

Matching earrings available here



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Lure of the Ocean - Maui Pearl Jewelry

A beautiful mother of pearl shell with hints of champagne/tan coloring hangs from the center of a shimmering mix of Swarovski crystals, tan freshwater rice pearls and freshwater coin pearls dyed a mocha sand tone. These coins are a very nice quality, smooth and lustrous with a shimmer that pics up so many colors in the sunlight. Each are hand knotted on tan silk cord.

For more information check this piece out here

Amazing Organically Beautiful Beach Bride Necklace

If I were to get married on the beach...hands down this is the necklace I would pick to wear. These white petal keshi pearls are so giant (as keshi pearls go)and lustrous..it truly looks as if someone sprinkled pearl petals around your neck! They are the epitomy of that organic beachy look I just love...


In this necklace they have been hand knotted on white silk cord along with aurora borealis Swarovski crystal bicones, tiny micro button white freshwater pearls and a gorgeous mother of pearl shell pendant.


This pendant is made from the top of a shell that curves on the sides and flares out like a Ginko leaf. These are my favorite pendants as well and I have not been able to find any with such nice curvature on the sides anymore. I've been saving this larger one for something special and these white petal keshi were just the thing.


If you are interested in this necklace you can find it here in my shop

Getting married at the beach? Let Jonara Blu Maui help you with your jewlery needs

NEW! Beach Bride Jewelry

Pearl and mother of pearl plumeria beach bride necklace and earrings.


A hand wire wrapped white mother of pearl plumeria shell and white coin pearl dangles from slinky sterling silver bead chain.
This piece is availablehere



White mother of pearl carved plumerias dangle from white freshwater coin pearls. Perfect for your beach wedding!

Earrings are available here




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Beaded Jewelry Video Slide Show

Here is a collection of my work that I put to music..my first video slide show. I had no idea that I had this movie maker program on my computer..how fun!

Many of these pieces have sold...but others are still in my shop at Jonara Blu Maui

If you like looking at jewelry..enjoy the eye candy!

Gift Ready Packaging from Jonara Blu Maui

I often get asked by my customers if the jewelry will be sent in a gift box. So for those of you who would like to know what your jewelry will come in I thought I would upload this pic to show you my 'gift ready' packaging...



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Cool new carved wood beads

Saturday when I went to the bead show I picked up these cool carved wood beads..they are about 24mm...a nice size. I can't wait to use them.



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Big Black Flower! What is it?

Does anyone know what kind of a flower this is? It's another one of the beauties we saw at the Kula Lavender farm...it seems like it might be a type of protea..but not any I've ever seen. I'll post some protea plants tomorrow..





It's either black ...or a super deep purple. Also on some there were more flowers growing out of the middle...they are yellow and in bunches..they looked like someone just stuck them there..not like they belonged at all yet it was on a number of different ones so they were definitely growing out of the centers. There are just so many varieties of plants and flowers..creation never ceases to amaze me :)

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Maui Pearl Beach Wedding Jewelry

More Purple from the Lavender Farm

Besides the purple lavender flowers we saw lots more purple..





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Kula Lavender Farm Pictures

Here is the first in a series of pics I took at the Kula Lavender Farm
next I'll share some of the other types of flowers there..for now these are of some of the lavender flowers as well as the cool little fuzzy looking mounds that they grow in.






This place is so pretty and in such a beautiful spot. They rent it out for functions like different types of luncheons as well as weddings. They have a handy planner page with all their prices listed to help you total up all the services they can provide. There is a gazebo set way up high so your view is spectacular. I took my picture of if from below and is was a cloudy and voggy day so this picture could have been a lot prettier on a clear day



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Picnic Upcountry Maui

On Saturday my mom was watching my nephews while my sis at Aihara Visuals had a wedding photoshoot..so we decided to take the boys up for a picnic near the Lavender Farm here in upcountry Maui.

We sat out in a huge feild of grass and wild flowers...bee's and yes dried cow patties lol! Not too bad..you just had to watch out. It was really an amazing place to enjoy lunch..



The view was something else..as you sit up there you feel like you are on top of the world. It's still been hazy though from the volcanic action on the Big Island..so my pictures aren't that great...



cows...hence the cow patties..I do see a fence there though..maybe some are escape artists ;-)



The road through here up to Haleakala National Park is super windy..back and forth, back and forth...as you can see here onGoogle Maps The blue pinned spot is where the Lavender Farm is..we had our picnic in the middle of the second curvy spot up.



it woudl be so much fun on a motorcycle..we saw a few enjoying the ride



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Finally we are gonna have some bananas!

Our neighbors banana trees sent a little keiki (child) plant through the fence and it's been there for years...we never seem to get bananas..but just the other day I noticed a huge banana flower..they are so cool. I hear you can boil them and make a purple dye out of it. I will have to try it...need to figure out what I want to dye though...lol




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