A brief history of LLano River Bead
LLano River Bead was founded by Jennifer Robin in 2005. Jennifer's beading experience spans over 30 years, starting in the early 70's in Westport, Connecticut. After learning to work in silver from a master silversmith in her early twenties, Jennifer's love for jewelry designing quickly evolved incorporating gemstones, beads and enamel. She spent over twenty years in the New England craft show circuit exibiting and selling her finished jewelry. Upon moving to Florida, in 2001, Jennifer opened a gift shop selling American Handcrafts along with her own jewelry. After many requests from her customers, Jennifer began selling beads and beading supplies at wholesale prices out of her store. She soon realized the need to open a beading supply store to specifically service those growing customers. She has not looked back since. Jennifer always welcomes you to meet her at her North Naples store. In store beading lessons, restringing and repair services are available.
Our mission at LLano River Bead is simple: to provide the best products and service to our customers at the lowest prices possible. We take great pride in our company, our commitment to customer service and in the products we sell. Our online site is designed to provide you with a safe and secure environment to browse our product catalog.
Where are the LLano River Bead Stores?
The LLano River Bead main store is located at 7935 Airport Pulling Rd in North Naples, Florida behind the Calistoga Bakery Cafe. Our original store is located at 11902 Bonita Beach Rd Bonita Springs, Florida in the Flamingo Island Marketplace. Store Red 84-86.
What do each of your locations offer?
North Naples Offers - Bead strands, single beads, glass beads, wood beads, findings, tools, swarovski crystal, beading wire, cord and thread, pendants, crystal, rock and geodes, instructional lessons, repairs, design consultation, handcrafted jewelry and gifts.
Bonita Springs Offers - Bead strands, single beads, glass beads, wood beads, findings, tools, swarovski crystal, beading wire, cord and thread, pendants, crystal, rock and geodes.
How do I get to your Stores?
Directions -
North Naples Main Store: From I75 take exit 111 ( Immokolee Rd ). Head west to the intersection of Airport Pulling Rd. Take a left and head south on Airport Pulling Rd to the intersection of Vanderbilt Dr. Go straight on Airport Pulling Rd. Our store is only a few hundred feet ahead on the right in the Fountain Park Shopping Plaza.
Bonita Springs Store: From Naples: Take Livingston Rd north to the intersection of Bonita Beach Rd. Take a right on Bonita Beach Rd and travel about 1/4 mile. The Flamingo Island Marketplace is on the left before the 1-75 connector. From 1-75: Take 1-75 to exit 116 ( Bonita Beach Rd) Head west on Bonita Beach Rd for about 1/4 mile. The Flamingo Island Marketplace is on the right.
Hours of operation -
Our North Naples store is open Monday thru Thursday from 9:30am until 6:00pm. Friday /Saturday from 9:30am until 8:00pm. Our store in Bonita Springs is open Friday through Sunday from 8:00am until 4:00pm.
The Believed Healing and Spiritual Properties of Natural Stones
Agate
This stone posesses protective qualities, It guards the wearer from danger, and gives the wearer a strong heart. It allows self expression in a peaceful manner, validates personal truth, and helps with shyness. It helps in creating peace of mind so that reason and intuition can be blended.
Amazonite
This stone helps to calm mental and emotional chaos by helping you to join facts with intuitive wisdom. It increases creative expression. It encourages kindness and practicality.Amber
This is a calming stone that relieves depression. it is considered a stone of great power.Amethyst
This is the stone of spirituality,vigor and mental strength. This stone works to build spiritual awareness and intuition It increases your self-worth and spiritual peace. It allows us the possibility of change, helps in meditation, eases stress, and alleviates insomnia.Aquamarine
This stone is believed to bring you courage and many friends. It strengthens, heals, calms and balances. It helps against fears, phobias and stress. It opens the heart and throat allowing emotional understanding and expression . It allows you to speak your heart and express your true self to others. It represents the expression of interior truths with the power of the spoken word.Aventurine
This stone has the ability to heal emotional pain, fear and imbalance.
Carnelian
This stone symbolizes creativity, sexuality, emotions and intuition. It increases physical energy, power and creativity. It helps you to discover your personal talents, and assists in the decision making process.It also promotes action and movement, personal power, concentration, courage, self confidence and determination.
Chrysocolla
This stone is an important because it releases grief, sadness, guilt, and fear.It further brings forgiveness, joy, certainty and peace. It helps you create a feeling of peace and balance.
Citrine
This stone is referred to as the merchant stone because it helps in accumulating wealth and in achieving success in your profession. It promotes courage and self discipline. It helps you get tasks done, develop self worth and master the ego.
Coral
This quiets the emotions and dispels feeling of despair and despondency. It encourages in you a passionate energy.
Flourite
This stone helps you to ground, balance and focus your energy. It also absorbs and alters negative energy.
Garnet
This stone is known to be the great purifier. It has the ability to clense the body of bad energies. It is believed to be a spiritual stone that heals and intensifies your relationships.
Hematite
This stone helps provide you with good luck, protection, courage and strength. It is used to protect the self against negativity by reflecting it back to the sender. It protects you if you have difficulty in preventing yourself from absorbing the emotions of others. This is a grounding stone that helps with self-esteem and self-confidence.
Iolite
This stone is appears to have two colors depending on which direction you are looking at it. It encourages curiosity and achievement by promoting spiritual exploration and awakening your inner knowledge. It is known as a stone of power.
Jade
This stone is known as a good luck stone. It is a deep heart-healing gemstone. Use it for all issues of the heart and love. It promotes compassion, aids health and prevents sickness. It provides calming, stabilizing, and soothing effects. It encourages serenity and harmony.
Jasper
This stone is known as the ultimate nurturer. It is valued by shamans as a sacred and powerful stone of protection and grounding.It brings you energy from the sun to rejuvenate and strengthen the body. It is a stress reliever that connects you to your inner strength and flow.
Labradorite
This stone provides the understanding of the destiny you have chosen. It gives you a higher consciousness, patience, and meditation.
Lapis lazuli
This stone is known as a stabilizer. It changes negative views of your reality to positive views. It cleanses your mind, stimulates mental strength and intellectual precision. This is the stone of contemplation and meditation. It is considered to be the stone of truth and friendship. It brings you harmony in relationships, and reveals inner truths.
Malachite
This stone provides powerful deep healing. It clears repressed emotions and protects against negativity. It calms anxiety which accompanies physical disease so that healing can take place. It gives you balance, and enhances creativity and change. It promotes success and wealth by removing obstacles to ones growth.
Moonstone
This is the stone of good fortune and is regarded as a sacred stone. It increases intuition, soothes the mind, and aids in spiritual development. This stone is definitely female in nature and beneficial to women. It helps calm and balance the emotions. If you feel overwhelmed by your emotions, it helps to create a balance. If you are out of touch with your feelings, it brings you into awareness. It is also used for protection against the perils of travel.
Mother of pearl
This stone promotes faith, charity and innocence. It enhances your personal integrity and provides focus. It has been used to inhibit boisterous behavior.
Obsidian
This stone helps you to understand other people's deepest thoughts with self-understanding. It promotes acceptance of your sexuality. It also helps repels the negative thoughts of others.
Onyx
This stone is one of the most powerful protection stones.It helps in emotional stability. It helps with understanding, confidence and friendship. It absorbs and changes negative energy. It is used to relieve grief, improve self control, improve the power of wise decision making, and encourage happiness.
Pearls
This stone is a symbol of the moon and reflects its magical powers.
Peridot
This stone helps to cleanse and stimulate your heart. It brings openness and acceptance to matters of the heart, love and relationships. It heals anger, jealousy, hurt feelings and low self esteem. It helps to reduces depression, cures grudges, and helps repair your failing relationships. This is one of the most powerful stones against evil.
Rhodochrosite
This is the stone of love and balance. It cleanses the heart and body. It releases your suffering and anxiety. It brings you joy and heals chronic self blame. It promotes love towards life and others. It brings emotional balance to love relationships.
Rhodonite
This stone helps you to reach your greatest potential. It helps prevent anxiety and promotes coherence. It represents the relationship of yourself with your own body in order to listen to it and love it despite its limitations.
Rutilated Quartz
This stone helps to calm depression, it facilitates communication, increases clairvoyance, transmutes negativity, and enhances communication with spirit guides.
Sapphire
This stone helps to balance emotional influence. It gives clarity and inspiration and enhances will power and your faith in judgment.
Seraphinite
This stone is one of the most favored stones for healing. It is a purifier that cleanses the body and stimulates the heart.
Smoky quartz
This stone is a crystal for protection and awareness. It gives you stability and security. It helps you to heal fears, addictions, discouragement and depression. It promotes pride and joy in living. It helps to process your negative beliefs and gives courage and confidence to make changes. It is a grounding stone..
Sodalite
This stone can calm your emotions and clears your mind of emotional confusion so that rational thinking can occur. It protects against irrelevant thoughts, provides mental focus, and maintains logical reasoning. It can relax and restore your energies. It is great for you if you tend to be over reactive and oversensitive.
Sugilite
This stone helps you to release your anger, guilt, insecurity and resentment. It puts you in touch with your inner source of strength and light.
Sunstone
This stone helps you to discover your life purpose. It will evoke courage and heals fear. It is a happy and uplifting energy.
Tigereye
This stone is a fantastic protection stone. It releases negative energy from your body, and produces soothing vibrations that generate calmness to unsettled turmoil. It will enhance your patience, focus and concentration. It helps people become more practical.
Topaz
This stone is believed to be the powerful healing stone that relieves tension, pain and disease. It helps break up stagnant energy in the body and helps with the elimination of toxins. It has a strong magnetic energy that attracts love and prosperity and enhances creation. It provides strength and intelligence. It enables the communication of your feelings in a powerfully manner.
Tourmaline
This stone is believed to bring deep comforting love. It heals fear and panic while bringing a sense of security and safety. It can transform negative behavior into positive.
Turquoise
This stone is a sacred stone that was used for centuries by the Native Americans in all their healing work. It brings peace, serenity and tranquility. It heals sadness and grief. It promotes inner strength.
(Disclaimer: The above list of the " believed healing and spiritual properties " of various natural precious and semiprecious stone, is not a statement that we do or do not believe this information to be true, or that you should believe this information as fact. We are suppling you with this " well written about " and "studied " information for entertainment purposes only. We welcome you to further research this fascinating subject, on your own, to arrive at your own conclusions.)

