Beach / Sea Glass

mommar · Post by **mommar** » July 13, 2008 7:03 pm

Anybody else collect beach glass? (and I don't mean the stuff you buy in the store

) Show us your favorite piece. I just found mine today. The color is just awesome!

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » July 13, 2008 7:06 pm

I love blue. I have a number of pieces. I am currently trying to find time to learn to make a bevel to turn them into necklaces.

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » July 13, 2008 7:21 pm

I need to take pictures....I have a huge jar of it from when I lived right on the beach back home....I even found one piece that was old Blue & White china......

I love the blue too!

ScarletB · Post by **ScarletB** » July 13, 2008 8:01 pm

I have a handful of pieces I found on Nantucket a few years ago, I've looked every year since then and never found any more. I love the blue as well!

Missing B'dos · Post by **Missing B'dos** » July 13, 2008 8:22 pm

I've collected it for years... grew up on the Connecticut shore and of course have lived down island or in SoCal the last 6-7 years... my housekeeper in Barbados had a great idea -- wash all the salt water off and pile your seaglass in the bottom of a clear glass vase, instead of marbles or polished rocks, to hold the stems of the flowers.
I also fastened pale blues (we call 'em Bajan Blues, from the water in Barbados) all over the lid of a small box that had been painted a 'blue'. We always used to look for the deep cobalt blue pieces or the occasional lavender one.
Your great piece is a real Bahamas blue.
I have seen the jewelry made from it as well.
The pale blue ones are lovely mixed with pure white shells in a clear or dark blue dish.
Have you ever seen a Seaman's Valentine?
happy searching...

mommar · Post by **mommar** » July 14, 2008 6:35 am

OCG & Conolulu, do you get many blue pieces where you live? We don't, I only have 3 cobalt blue pieces, (and they're hardly even frosted

) I do have a few other pieces that are diff shades of blue, but I think this one is the best. We get lots of green, brown, and white, that's why this find was soooooooo spectacular

And yes, C, please post pics

I've got one purple, again hardly frosted, and no red's yet

Pam, keep looking, you'll get more, look in the clusters or rocks/pebbles and dig down a little sometimes they get buried, not always going to find them just in the hard pack sand at the low tide.

In Falmouth, there was a lady who created 3-d pictures w/beachglass, I don't have any pics of hers, but she would take like 4 skinny brown pieces and a square one to make a table, then maybe a blue triangle one to be a vase on top of it, then skinny green ones for stems then little tiny clusters of round ones to be the flower. My description doesn't do them justice but they were awesome. I made a sailboat one, don't know where the pic is right now, that was just before digital cameras

MB

you're in Trinidad.........I've been there! stayed in POS for about 3-4 weeks back in the 70's. I'll have to PM you later. Love the idea of using them instead of marbles. I may just have to have a pendant made out of this one, we'll see

and yes...........I've seen Sailor's Valentines, if that's what you mean, just gorgeous, how about this pic though, I can't imagine how much it must have weighed, but I saw this in a museum last year, my camera was failing me, so I only got this one shot, maybe you can copy and paste it into a photo program and zoom in, but all the "bead work" is shells, the scroll work, the roses on the bottom and bodice the lines on the arms, the fringe on the hem line,all shells.

Alright, I wish I were going to the beach again, but............I gotta go to work, have a great day, and post your pics

Missing B'dos · Post by **Missing B'dos** » July 14, 2008 7:03 am

Don't gotta go to work but do gotta go walk before it is too hot or the monsoon starts again! That Valentine is the most amazing I have ever seen. There is an old house on Barbados called St. Nicholas Abbey and they have several beautiful Valentines in their collection of antique furnishings.
Just thought I would mention that another thing I have seen is a small mirror with the glass fastened on the frame. You might try concentrating on one color.
Almost all my blue was from Barbados. In Tobago where we go to the beach (Trinidad hasn't really got swimmable beaches in our opinion and Maracas is famous for sanddollars which grow/live there but not shells or seaglass.) -- in Tobago, the glass has been all green and brown. San Salvador (Bahamas) I found beautiful shells, but very little glass -- presumably that is because it was noticeably cleaner of all litter there and sea glass is after all a human artifact polished by . We are off to four islands/many beaches on Friday, and I always look for shells and glass.
Trinidad is considerably more third world now I think than when you were here... a gloss of skyscrapers and money, but more slums and crime. It's more South American than it is Caribbean.