The Beauty Of Beach Glass, Sea Frosted Gemstones
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Beach Glass Is A Beachcomber's Treasure
Sometimes the treasure of a water-frosted gem catches your eye, glimmering amid the sea wrack line ... and you add the new found piece to the collection of your seashore souvenirs.
Who isn't taken with those wave-washed gems of the sea, the beach glass of different colors? Here is the story of sea glass and the way creative people have taken these humble pieces of broken glass to create really lovely jewelry.
It might surprise you to know that these bits of broken glass are valuable once the sea has refined them and brought out their beauty.
How Sea Glass Became A Sought-For Gem
Illustrated with wonderful photos
Pure Sea Glass: Discovering Nature's Vanishing Gems
Amazon Price: $22.96 (as of 05/28/2012)
Over 200 elegant images by photographer Celia Pearson present some of the best sea glass ever collected; find out everything you want to know about sea glass and how it came to be a highly prized gem.
How is Beach Glass Created?
Castaways become treasured finds
Time and water wave action upon the glass, or pieces of pottery, created the rounded, frosted gems we call beach glass.
There is no such thing as officially certified sea glass, and the buyer must rely on the reputation of the seller or their knowledge of beach glass characteristics.
Sea Glass
is another name by which beach glass is known.
Finding Beach Glass
You might find a gem!
Follow the wrack line, which is the line of debris left by the last high tide or storm, as you walk along the shoreline. Pay close attention to places where small shells and pebbles accumulate. Look in the pockets of stones. Especially search during bright days when the gleam of sunlight can reflect off of the glass shards.
Have you found a beach with several pieces of glass? Are there various colors of glass? You may have hit the motherlode! Comb that area.
Do you know what to look for?
Well worn bits of glass or pottery, even the larger pieces of bottles qualify as long as they are wave washed.
Looking for Sea Glass?
Making Beach Glass Jewelry
Experts share their tips and tutorials
Findings, the parts which hold jewelry together can be made or purchased and used to create the jewelry pieces.
How to wire wrap your beach glass to make jewelry.
Make your own beach glass jewelry.Supplies
* small shallow Pyrex ® dish
* kitchen sponge
* variable speed Dremel ®
* Dremel Diamond Point 7134
More Directions for drilling beach glass and making jewelry, here.
Some experts feel the battery powered dremel drill doesn't have enough power and advise the use of the electrical plugin drill. Most recommend the Dremel Diamond Point 7134. Available on Amazon: 2 each: Diamond Point (7134)
Remember the basic safety rule of using safety goggles when drilling
Tips
Drilling beach glass is a skill- practice makes perfect.
Use less pressure on the thinner pieces to preserve the glass from breaking.
Ease up the pressure when nearing breakthrough.
Thicker glass may require patience to drill completely through.
Success tips on making and selling your own jewelry
Recommended Drill
Used Especially For Glass
Dremel 300-1/24 300 Series Variable-Speed Rotary Tool Kit
Amazon Price: $69.67 (as of 05/28/2012)
The drill kit to use if you plan to make your own beach glass jewelry.
Wire Wrap Guide
Kindle e-book
Pop With Pizzazz Jewelry ~ A Crystal Clear Wire Wrap Guide
Amazon Price: (as of 05/28/2012)
eBooks are an easy way to get the instructions and information you need to accomplish many skills- this one is about wire wrapping jewelry, the way many seaglass gems are made into jewelry items.
Findings
Make your beach gems into jewelry
Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing
Amazon Price: $7.95 (as of 05/28/2012)
If you collect beach glass, why not learn how to make your own jewelry to showcase your beautiful finds? This book leads you through the process of using silver wire to create fine jewelry.
Do You Collect Beach Glass?
Sea Shells or Beach Glass- Or Both?
Beach and Sea Glass
Little bits of trivia washed up on the seafoam
Glass from inland waterways such as Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes is known as beach glass, and "sea glass" formed by the wave action of the ocean, which is both stronger and saline, creates a somewhat different look. Sea glass is much more weathered than the beach glass of inland waters.
There are numerous colors of these beach gems, and some are more rare than others, but all are becoming harder to come by.
According to one source, "Purple sea glass is very uncommon, as is citron, opaque white, cobalt and cornflower blue."
Beach Glass Card
The wrack zone is part of the shore just above the mean high tide line where kelp is deposited on the sand. This is where you can find sea glass.
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A Sea Glass Story
The Story of the Sea Glass
Amazon Price: $5.89 (as of 05/28/2012)
A beautiful story, information on beach glass, and instructions for making a sea glass suncatcher all wrapped up in one beautifully illustrated book.
Colors of the Sea
Beach Glass Jewelry
Simple pleasures from little treasures
Handmade Sea Glass and Silver Drop Earrings - Moonlit Sand
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Colors of the Sea In Pieces of Jewelry
Beautiful little works of art
Seaglass Jewelry
Discover some treasures
Beach Glass from eBay
Sea Glass Jewels
Find Your Beach Glass Here
If beachcombing isn't in your near future, you might want to get your supply of beach glass on eBay. But if you think you might be walking beside the ocean soon, why not get a guide on hunting for beginning your cache of beach glass?
Passion For Sea Glass
It can become an obsession
A Passion for Sea Glass
Amazon Price: $22.03 (as of 05/28/2012)
A treasure of gorgeous photos, this is a book to savor. Anyone who loves the look of seaglass, whether they collect or not will be taken with the beautiful ways that a simple gift from the sea can be displayed.
Beachcombers Welcome
Wilson would love to hear from you
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happynutritionist May 20, 2012 @ 11:07 pm | delete
- Love this, amazing pictures, wonderful page! blessed:-) We have a lot of beach glass on the jersey shore and love the New England coastline.
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ZodiacImmortal
May 20, 2012 @ 6:18 pm | delete
- REAL beachglass is made when lightning strikes the beach superheating the sand therefore making glass. Which is why its so sought after a prize. Otherwise the beach glass from bottles is normally quite easy to find if you know where to look
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SMW1962
May 20, 2012 @ 4:37 pm | delete
- What beautiful treasures!
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Michey May 20, 2012 @ 3:34 pm | delete
- It is amusing what the waves make out of trivial pieces of colored pieces of glass... I use to pick them up om Cal Nay NJ, but didn't cress my mind to make jewelry from them... Thanks for a great lens.
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Selavi May 20, 2012 @ 3:32 pm | delete
- Very nice jewelry from glass.
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Sea side links
Learn more about beach glass- find seaglass fans
photo credits:
slapjack,sea glass.
alisonpavlos,green beach glass.
balancedcrafts, Irish green glass.
- Sea Glass Collecting Magazine, Beach Glass
- The Sea Glass Journal is the online magazine for sea glass lovers everywhere. It is a seaglass resource containing information and articles on how-to beachcombing tips, identifying sea glass and beach glass origins, craft ideas using your sea glass collection and more.
- Sea glass - Wikipedia
- Sea glass is glass found on beaches along oceans, bays, rivers, gullies or large lakes that has been tumbled and smoothed by the waves, water and sand, creating smooth, frosted shards...
- Anatomy of Beach Glass 101
- All About Beach Glass.
- North American Sea Glass Association
- The North American Sea Glass Association intends to educate the collector, consumer and retailer as to the properties and benefits of genuine, pure, natural beach sea glass.
- Sea Glass Artists & Sea Glass Collectors - For Those That Love Sea Glass, Beach Glass & The Ocean!
- A network for sea glass collectors, sea glass artists & sea glass enthusiasts. You only need to love sea glass or beach glass to sign up!
About Me
I Love The Sea
I love beaches, and discovered how pretty beach glass jewelry could be when I bought some earrings as a souvenir gift for my daughter.
Cute Little Collectors Box
Filled with your best sea gems
Beach Party Design - Hand Painted - Heart Shaped Box - 2 pieces - 4.5 inch diameter
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Keepsake box for your little beach glass findings
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