A few new pieces to share....

No, not jewelry. Just plain old sea glass, but I think I'm more excited about the new pieces than I get when I create a new piece of sea glass jewelry!

I found a couple pieces of green this week , along with a smallish piece of teal and all have the possibility of being used in a sea glass bracelet or earring stack.

There really wasn't a lot of sea glass on the beach and the surf yielded on one piece of green, but to find a few pieces that could be considered jewelry quality is something that hasn't happened in quite some time. Come to think of it, it's been several months since I found a piece of sea glass on the Jersey shore that I would consider to be of "jewelry quality".

I should have an image or two of the glass to share tomorrow...can you tell I'm a bit excited?

til next time...

R

Sea Glass Slideshow, Beachcombing in January, Works In Progress

I added a new Sea Glass Jewelry slide show to my blog. It can be found in the right hand column about halfway down the page (just under the banner for 1000Markets) I'm hoping to keep this slide show current and only include pictures of items that are still available in one of my shops. Of course, that's easy to say right now in January, but when it comes to the busier months, I'll try to do me best keeping it updated with new creations and removing any items that have gone to a new home.

Beachcombing in the new year has been very tough. The weather has not been kind to anyone who has planned a walk along the beach and the slower stroll needed to to examine shell beds for sea glass have been nothing short of brutal. With temperatures in the low teens and single digits in the early mornings over the next few days, I'll opt to sit in my warm house with a cup of coffee or tea and dream of walking along the beach on some Caribbean Island.

Hopefully, there will be a bit of a break in the weather over the next week or so... I'd love to get back out on the beach to see if the tides left anything behind for me. I'm also planning on checking out a new spot on LBI, that was recommended by a couple of hobby-type sea glass collectors. One of these weekends, I'll have to give a couple of these tips a try.

My new shipment of sterling silver should be arriving this weekend (so says the FedEx tracking device) and I have quite a few pieces of sea glass ready for bracelets, along with about a half dozen wire wrapped pieces that will become necklaces.

I'm still not sure what I'll be doing with the pieces of red sea glass I have. I hope to figure something out in time for the Valentine's Day selling season. I'll also have bracelet and probably earrings in both cobalt blue and the rarer cornflower blue. If the weather cooperates over the weekend, I may be able to take photos to share on this blog, and perhaps have new listings in my shops.

The bracelet shown above, is a beautiful deep green bracelet that can be found in my ArtFire shop. There is something about those deep green ocean gems that I really like. I'm not sure if it's the colors of the polished shell pieces that make the dark green standout even more, but it really is a nice little bracelet.

Any who...stay warm & check back in a few days for another update!

til next time...
R

Sea Glass, New Items, Works in Progress...

Brutal winds, cold winter weather and sick children have kept me off the beach this past week. No new pieces of sea glass to report and not much of a chance of getting to the beach tomorrow either.

But being home with the boys has given me the opportunity to take some pictures of finished pieces and list a few in my shops (along with some plain old : ) glass jewelry piece for Valentine's Day). A few of the pieces have already made it into a few treasuries on Etsy and they've been hearted by a few Etsy members.

The new item above is a unique shade of green, almost a greenish-yellow and very petite and feminine. This necklace will probably head into my Etsy shop, along with a new sea glass bracelet with 4 soft colored pieces.

The Gray sea glass necklace will head into my shop on ArtFire.com and I hope to add a bracelet and a few regular glass jewelry pieces into that shop this week. As for the Citron piece...I'm not sure where that piece is going just yet, perhaps ArtFire also...my etsy shop is quite full of sea glass creations.

I have a few drilled pieces that I'm thinking about using for another bracelet and a few heart-shaped pieces that I'd like to make something with for Valentine's Day, along with a small supply of red sea glass that may end up on a piece or two.

Hopefully I'll have a few more pictures to share with the next blog...

til next time...

R