October 29th 2013 Posted at The Beachcombers
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We are on the road in search of seaglass.
This time our travels are taking us to New Brunswick, where we hope to be able to share some locations as well as our favourite finds.
Before I go I want to give you something to remember me by,
See you soon,
Cindy
October 9th 2013 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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I know ah! more on Sea Glass.
We are planning our next road trip and this time it is to New Brunswick to do a little beachcombing for seaglass.
First I’d like to share. Yesterday a sea glass lover stopped by the Scrap’n Wrap gift shop and just walked up to this piece and said, “it’s mine!” So this one is sold and was the first of many I made.
Remember back a few weeks ago I started making this steampunk looking jewellery? I started to make it because I found so many are wire wrapping seaglass these days and I needed to put a twist on my wire wrapping, sort of give it a new look, kind of like the same old dress but with new shoes and purse idea, right. I truly like the new look and hope it takes off and others enjoy it also.
I also started to double wrap, meaning I’ll use two pieces in the same wrap and one is free hanging off the other.
I love to bartar also, so yesterday I got an email from a fella who would like me to teach him to wire wrap. He is in New Brunswick and has done some beachcombing there. We don’t have a lot of time on this next road trip we are about to go on and so we need a lead on a couple of places to go have a look. So I offered to meet him at a coffee shop and teach him how to wire wrap seaglass if he gave me a NB map to a couple of beaches. Then I sent him the link to my blog, sort of get him thinking about it a little. Anyway I hope he takes me up on my offer and we make the trip over to New Brunswick soon.
UPDATE: 3 days later and I got an email back from Mr. New Brunswick Beachcomber, it reads as follows, “I think my wife would kill me if I told you were we go to the beach in search of seaglass.” However he would be interested in me showing him how to wire wrap seaglass.
Me: “Mike next time you are on the Island stop in and I’ll teach you how to wire wrap seaglass.”
Happy wire wrapping,
Cindy
July 28th 2013 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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It was amazing to see everyone again this year, no I didn’t have a table or a booth and others try to encourage me every year to attend and plan to be in the PEI Seaglass festival. I don’t know what holds me back, “next year” yes I say that every year and I now have help with the table and I can go on line and book the Bed and Breakfast off line so we can make plans to be there the full weekend.
First I need to thank Matthew for getting up early and coming over to the B&B and making breakfast for everyone so early. He did a terrific job, did way more than I expected of him. He phoned me and said he had to get to work and I thanked him, he said he didn’t have time to clean up and so he was leaving all the dishes on the table and such. I told him we would do it when we got home. We were tired from the night before, wine, cards, line dancing you know the usual weekend getaway. Anyway, I wasn’t looking forward to 8 hour dirty dishes and all and when I walked into the kitchen and had a look everything was put away, dishes done, table cleaned off…it was amazing a big sigh of relief came over me. Now I’m wondering if it was Matthew who cleaned up (my son is a chef and doesn’t have to clean up his mess) or did our B&B guests do the clean up when he left for work. I’m almost afraid to ask. It has happened before, I’ve had to run to work and came home to find our guests cutting the grass.
The Sea Glass Festival, sorry I wander,
There was a guest speaker on Friday night named Richard LaMotte, he wrote the book called Pure Seaglass and he was there for a book signing. He was also there to be presented with unique finds so he could identify time and place. I had a small tupperware of finds and he went through each one with amazement. I showed off my pipe and he you could see his eyes getting bigger as he was describing this hand forged clay pipe.
“It is definitely from the 1700’s” he said. So I handed him my bottle I’d just found hours before on the beach at Souris.
He rolled it over and over, and said….”nice find, where did you find this again.” I told him it was just an early morning beachcombing on the Souris Beach and he started to explain the age by describing the seam welds.
“Do you see this seam? it runs along side but not all the way up to the top of the bottle it stops?” Yes, I replied. He continued with in the year 1890 this bottle was hand made, rolling it over he showed me how irregular the bottom was and how off centre the spout was placed on. Funny over breakfast this morning Blair had said some of the same words to me, I could almost hear his voice. Later I found out from Blair I’d fallen asleep at the seminar. Funny everyone thinks I had too much wine, if they only knew…. Oh well I’m sure glad to have friends that pay attention.
So hear is my bottle seam
I was also told that the bottle was made with manganese dioxide the year it was made and that is to clarify the glass and make it white because all glass is a light blue/green colour. Now when my bottle is left in the sun for so long the sun reacts with the manganese dioxide turning it purple.
Another early morning find is this amazing grey piece of seaglass
Well I’d better get breakfast started for my guests, it is back to the chopping block for me… the fun is over for another year.
Have a wonderful day, Cindy
July 19th 2013 Posted at The Beachcombers
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Each year I think about joining in and setting up a table at the SEa Glass Festival. This year the festival is July 26th, to July 28th in Souris at the lighthouse. I’m going to visit on Friday night, take the camper and stay up in Souris this time. I have an odd piece of seaglass that I’d like the guest speaker Richard LaMotte to identify. So why am I not in the festival each year? Hum, good question I think I’d love to be and then we get busy with the Bed and Breakfast, guests coming in the Tea Room and time passes and I
get to about 2 weeks away from the festival and say, oh its too late again this year.
I hope to see you at the sea glass festival this year, remember it is being held at the lighthouse not wood Island this year.
Seaglass Cindy
October 25th 2012 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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My home surrounds me with things I enjoy most. That takes in things I like to: wear, eat, see, smell and craft. That said you know where my posts are going, well most of them might be going to crafting at my Scrap N wrap blog where I talk about beachcombing, wirewrapping and scrapbooking. Then other posts will come from my Hats’n Hospitalitea blog where I talk about our tea room, tourism, family, fun times and places in Prince Edward Island. So I hope you enjoy the home party that Sandi has created.
HOME = Heart Of My Enviroment #1
Recently home from a two week beachcombing vacation and I have lots of goodies to share. First and foremost I love red, be it a sweater on a chilly day, wine in a nice glass, a red sky at night, but most of all I love red seaglass. I know you can’t see my pouting but I found but a grain of red sea glass on this last trip to the beach. I know, I know better a grain than a crumb.
However I needed red and so I took red wire and made a weave then pulled it through a drilled hole and made the weave smaller and unique. I had to include sea glass and found this lovely white piece that was a nice size chunk, added some red wire and swarovski crystals and vola, it’s a wrap ready for the gift shop. I’ve got a blue piece in the making and that is what I’ll share next.
Do you have something you would like to share? You are welcome to share anything pertaining to your HOME such as
Cooking and baking, recipes, antiquing, home decor, ceramics, crafts, crocheting/knitting, quilting/sewing, floral arranging, gardening, homemaking tips, hospitality, refinishing furniture, renos, tea time, tablescapes, thrifting etc…. Maybe there’s a new baby in the family or you have a new fur baby you would like to introduce us to. They are welcome too! Anything and everything which makes your HOME more enjoyable to come HOME to, for your family, your friends, and yourself.
Enjoying life, and the colour red today, Cindy
October 7th 2012 Posted at Beachcombing
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A short venture took us up to Nail Pond, the North Cape end of Prince Edward Island on another short beach adventure. This was our first time staying over night with our (new to us) Tenement on wheels. We have ventured to this end of the Island before however didn’t stay over night and had never had a coffee on the beach over looking the ocean in the wee hours of the morning. Life was grand, oh and so was the beach and others we met while out.
A recent purchase of a traveling house on wheels took us there, equipped with food, place to sit and somewhere to sh__ and we were all set. SeaGlass yes that is what took us there, we were in hunt of glass and some home away from home time.
We woke early in the morning and walked the beach for hours at a time collecting seaglass with the rolling tide coming in 
and going out. In my opinion, it is best to walk the high tide line after the tide has gone out. However, others talk about searching for seaglass on a high tide, while others dig in rock piles. Everyone has there approach to combing the beach I like to walk a straight line up the beach and come back on another line. I’ve seen people walk to the water then back up to the tide line in a zig zag motion, while others will walk for 10 feet and come back looking in the same area with the sun in the opposite direction. Beachcombing, however and for whatever you look for it is an excellent way to pass time, relieve stress, meditate, or just ponder thoughts that need to be thunk through.
Seaglass is my pleasure however I’ve bent down to pick up such things as marbles, bottle stoppers, doll parts, and rocks. I’ve noticed also that I seem to see the green and white sea glass more often than I see the brown, and I don’t see blue and red sea glass that often at all only due to the fact that they are rare pieces and not very common. On this venture I found a yellow piece of sea glass a few blue pieces and red, not a large piece but I found red.
Braxton and Mj were our tag along and they enjoyed themselves out on the hunt as well. I’m sure Mj is a search for sea glass dog. Can it be a coincidence that she stopped short of a piece of sea glass not once but twice? I doubt, it. They had the beach to themselves and found plenty to sniff, 
great distances to run and just tired themselves out doing it.
It was coming onto 4 days we had been away and it weren’t for a new check-in at the Bed and Breakfast- Guy having a dentist appointment-it going to rain all day the day after I think we might just have stayed put and picked sea glass, washed and sorted it and amazed our memories with the view.
Each day we were amazed to wake up to such a beautiful sunrise and come the evening we were speechless to see such a show of colour in a sunset. We made a camp fire sat out and looked across the water at the glare coming from the setting sun. 
It was time to fold this up, make it a memory and turn home as the rain had started and we had a bit of a drive ahead of us.
This was the sunrise in the morning before we left. I know we came for sea glass but found just a bit more than that.
The ride home was a quiet one, not much was talked about and I listened to my book as Guy drove along. Arriving home we had guests sitting in the driveway, hum it was 3:30 and they asked for a check-in of 8pm, good job we headed home when we did.
It is thanksgiving weekend, time to spend with family and friend and reflect on what we are truly blessed for and thankful for. I was told over and over this summer that I was a blessing to guests who visited the tea room and enjoyed themselves to no end and went home and wrote me emails telling me so, that feels good. Do you reflect on something that makes you feel good? You should… until the next time take care my friend
Sea Glass Cindy
April 17th 2012 Posted at Beachcombing
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The days are getting warmer and closer to summer. This has to be my favourite time of year when the ice leaves the shoreline and new discoveries wash up on the beach. Yesterday we dropped what we were doing and headed to Souris Beach to do a little beachcombing. My new buzz word is seaglassing, it all means the same thing “I’m gone to the beach.”
It was a beautiful day
Perfect for bending and stooping
Then! to my surprise I found one of the four things I have been looking for while beachcombing for sea glass, a bottle stopper. Laying in its beauty, old, history, glass and dating back to maybe 1860?
Then the happy dance
Amazing is the feeling when you find one of these bottle stoppers while sea glassing beachcombing. Early drug bottles were produced for formulas. Sent empty to local druggists or doctors and they had the task of filling it with dry or liquid prescription. These bottles called apothecary-style bottles were to protect dry medicines and chemicals from moisture intrusion or oxygen exposure. When your druggist filled the bottle they most likely sent you home with a cork fit stopper as the glass stopper didn’t travel well on horseback or buggy.
An apothecary stopper was on my list of “must find” while beachcombing. It’s a great prize to a sea-glass hunter, just ask me, here we are days later and I’m still ecstatic about it. I don’t know what I’ll do with my find but you want to bet I’ll have it on display somewhere about the house. Truly, a great number of these bottles were made between 1850 and 1900 and mostly in clear glass. The glass stoppers in tea drop shape were also made at that time for perfume bottles.
Imagine getting Phantom Powder instead of Hair Tonic…
My Favourite Find
Do you beachcomb where you live? Have you ever found a bottle stopper? Next I want to find a ceramic doll face. Soon we will be busy with the Tea Room and Bed and Breakfast and won’t be able to comb the beaches of Prince Edward Island as often as we’d like.
Barn I added to PEI Through a Lens a facebook page I made that has just photos of all my favourites from seaglass, to wirewrapping, barns, bales, lighthouses and then some, follow the link and check it out.
Well that concludes another day at the beach. Hope to see you beachcombing some day.
~cindy
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