SeaGlass Vacation Time
October 29th 2013 Posted at The Beachcombers
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October 29th 2013 Posted at The Beachcombers
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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
April 16th 2013 Posted at Beachcombing
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Come to think of it the ice has just left some inlets on Prince Edward Island, so it must be time to go Beachcombing.
There is just something about the Beach that attracts an old Seaglunker like myself to the sea.
It could be the sound of the waves. I hardly think so, it must be the seaglass treasures that wash up on the shore.
PEI has many beaches, however the seaglass beaches are becoming few and far between. I remember, it would be a few years back now, but we could sit in the shallow shores and with every wave that came in so did a piece of seaglass. Now, when I walk the beach we often stop to talk to others. You know the others, they are the seaglunkers like myself that don’t want to admit to being out after the same treasures that you are longing for yourself. I’ve heard it all now, some say: “ah it’s good past time”, or “we do this for our health”, some let on that “No, not looking for anything just getting some exercise”, while others say, “I collected it but throw it back when I find it”. Today if someone asked me why I was on the beach, I’d say I was looking for inner peace and reflecting on the family’s and runners of the Boston Marathon who suffered injury from a senseless bombing.
If you are walking on the beaches in PEI chances are you have your arms crossed behind your back, your head it down and you are passing back and forth like your looking for something, and that would be seaglass. These guys have become quite the hunters of sea glass. Often MJ will sit down, we might have been fooled a few years ago thinking she is tired but now we know she has found a piece of seaglass. Usually 9 chances out of 10 when we walk over to her there is a piece within a foot of where she is. It is pretty bad when you beachcomb so often that your dogs know what you are looking for and try and help you out.
Braxton is on the lookout.
This is the Bride’s Seaglass Necklace I priced and put on the shelf today
I’ve taken to doing a little different style of wire wrapping called a Viking Knit, I like it.
A simple Seafoam Seaglass Pendant
This pink nugget made for a lovely pendant
Kelly Green Seaglass has got to be my favourite all time colour to wire wrap into a pendant
I haven’t decided to price this Cobalt Blue piece yet, I’m not ready to part with it yet, I think!
This was a fun piece of seaglass to wire wrap, clear and fancy free
Well that is it. These days I’m waiting for the nicer weather, organizing the gift shop and working on opening my Etsy Shop. I’ll have more to say on that later when I get a few more numbers added.
Do you get the chance to walk the beach where you live?
Have a good week, Cindy