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When your loved one can\u2019t get to their favorite island, you can bring the island to them! That\u2019s what I did for my Mom\u2019s 70th birthday gift. As a cancer survivor, her chemo ordeal left her with searing nerve pain in her legs, which has made it impossible for her to travel more than a half hour to anywhere \u2013 which meant there was no chance for her to get from New Jersey to Hawaii, her favorite place on earth and the location of our most memorable family vacation ever.<\/p>\n

When I saw that Dune Jewelry had several Hawaiian shells in their Sandbank<\/a>, I made a stealthy call to Mom to \u2018reminisce\u2019 about our Hawaiian family vacation\u2026and I got her to remind me that it was Waimea Bay<\/a> that was her absolute favorite beach of that trip. Bingo! \u00a0I quickly requested a Sandbead<\/a> with Shells from the Big Island. \u00a0Even though this was the very same week when the owner, Holly Christensen<\/a> had her baby girl, the Dune Jewelry team got our Sandbead to us in no time at all!<\/p>\n

Waimea Bay, Hawaii<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mom was going to flip, and that pretty little \"hawaiibirthday-blog\"<\/a>sand-colored gift box sat on my kitchen table through several re-schedules of her birthday lunch. Chemo nerve pain doesn\u2019t take a break for social outings.<\/p>\n

And soon, we were seated by a lake at a wonderful restaurant for Mom\u2019s 70th birthday lunch, so grateful that she even made it to 70 after her ultra-scary stage 4 cancer diagnosis and grueling treatments and recovery. As she opened it, you can see her figuring it out and then being overjoyed! \u00a0She couldn\u2019t get to Waimea Bay, but Dune Jewelry brought Waimea Bay, Hawaii<\/strong> to her.<\/p>\n

\"hawaiibirthday-blog2\"<\/a>So if you have any cancer survivors in your circle of loved ones, you can make them feel better about any travel impossibilities they now face as the price of their survival, by bringing them a little bit of their favorite place on earth.<\/p>\n

And if you have any current cancer-fighting warriors, their Sandbead, Dune Bar<\/a> or other Dune Jewelry design can be an inspiring gift of \u201cWe\u2019re going to go here when you\u2019re all better.\u201d And it will give them strength, hope, a look forward to when they beat their cancer and eventually find themselves on their favorite beach in the world, promised by you. A positive attitude is everything, and hope is everything when you\u2019re in a battle\u2026and every day your loved one sees that Dune Jewelry piece you gave them, they\u2019ll be lifted up.<\/p>\n

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This post was written by Sharon Naylor, a Dune Jewelry customer who sent us this beautiful letter with photos. Thank you, Sharon! We love to hear all the great stories behind the pieces made for our customers. It makes us feel so much more connected to you all.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[16,5,228,97,54,8,19,229,230,231,47,26,27,28,14,232,233],"yoast_head":"\nA Gift Of Hawaii - Dune Jewelry - Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/gift-hawaii-jewelry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Gift Of Hawaii - Dune Jewelry - Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/gift-hawaii-jewelry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dune Jewelry - Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dunejewelry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-29T06:00:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-22T14:48:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/waimeabay.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1050\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dunejewelry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dunejewelry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/gift-hawaii-jewelry\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/gift-hawaii-jewelry\/\",\"name\":\"A Gift Of Hawaii - 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