Sea Glass

September 29, 2011

I got the best package in the mail yesterday. It contained sea glass and sea pottery. I love the look of sea glass.

I didn’t know what sea glass was until a few years ago. I learned when people dump glass into the sea, it breaks and pieces of the glass tumble in the ocean and wash up on the shore. The salt water makes a nice frosty appearance on the surface of the glass. Some people call it beach glass, but that is a broader term that can include glass that washes up on freshwater beaches. I’ve never been able to find any on the beach. Some places are known for finding beach glass and other areas, you’ll never find any.

This package contained some that I think I can use to make jewelry. I’ve been reading up on what is jewelry grade and I think each of these qualify. Now I need to read up on how to drill holes in them.

I think I’m going to use these for decorations.

I also got some sea pottery and a couple of rocks. Not sure what I’m going to do with this stuff, but I like it. It’s heavy and smooth and I like the way it feels.

After getting real sea glass, I’m pretty sure what I bought at a little shop on our beach trip last year is fake. Boo to them. I may have gotten it anyway, but it’s just rude to not specify that something isn’t genuine. I did more research on sea glass and there are certain colors that are harder to find, pieces are often smaller, these pieces don’t have rounded edges and aren’t frosted. People take glass and tumble it in a rock tumbler to try to mimic sea glass, but it doesn’t compare to the real stuff. Here are the pieces I bought. See how different it looks?