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Jul. 20th, 2021 08:17 amMy sister's mother-in-law found out on the family's Easter Zoom call that I not only collect sea glass but make jewelry from it, and gave me a bag of sea glass she'd collected over the years when I visited the family on Father's Day weekend. I picked out a few pieces to work into some jewelry for her.
( Sea glass pendant I made for my sister's mother-in-law behind cut. )
I'm waiting on the silk ribbon I ordered from artbeads.com to arrive so I can see if this looks right strung on the ribbon or if I should hold out for a satin cord. If either doesn't really work I have decent faux gold chain.
I am not trying to do commentary or anything like that, but I have a hard time resisting the urge to accent sea glass pieces with Swarovski or Preciosa crystal when I get the chance. There is something weirdly funny about pairing the result of hundreds of years of deliberate glass-making skill with literal actual Boston Harbor trash, or in this case, Jersey Shore trash, and getting the same kind of 'oh wow that's beautiful' for the part of the work that started its life as somebody's discarded soda or beer bottle as for the carefully crafted simulated gem. It's all glass. It's just that one's been tossed around in the ocean for twenty years on end before it became worth having.
( Sea glass pendant I made for my sister's mother-in-law behind cut. )
I'm waiting on the silk ribbon I ordered from artbeads.com to arrive so I can see if this looks right strung on the ribbon or if I should hold out for a satin cord. If either doesn't really work I have decent faux gold chain.
I am not trying to do commentary or anything like that, but I have a hard time resisting the urge to accent sea glass pieces with Swarovski or Preciosa crystal when I get the chance. There is something weirdly funny about pairing the result of hundreds of years of deliberate glass-making skill with literal actual Boston Harbor trash, or in this case, Jersey Shore trash, and getting the same kind of 'oh wow that's beautiful' for the part of the work that started its life as somebody's discarded soda or beer bottle as for the carefully crafted simulated gem. It's all glass. It's just that one's been tossed around in the ocean for twenty years on end before it became worth having.
