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SeaGlass Anyone? Part II

mareseatoats

mareseatoats

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Hi all. Last night I made this thread, part I in the Lounge...Big Mistake. Well anyway, my point is really that I didn't realize Second Opinion would have been the perfect place for a discussion as this.

I've been collecting SeaGlass for quite a long time, and wanted to hear from other Bluelighters around the U.S. and any additional parts of the world where you may collect from.

I recently went to last years North American Seaglass Festival in Longbranch, NJ- and being there solidly confirmed that SeaGlass is a quickly spreading hobby; and lots of people love it as much as me.

I will not go into extensive conversation here about drugs- but I think the oddest thing about this SeaGlass hobby, which has been a relaxing, and large part of my life; is that I
only came to discover the great spots I go to...because they were a part of the town I
would always frequent when I was in the heart of my addiction. I would take walks down
to the beach, and low and behold, it was covered with a bountiful supply of so much
smooth, weathered and colored glass! Thanks to my love for it, and the serenity of
SeaGlass & finding it, it has helped me a great deal in actually staying sober today, and
looking foward onto a path of sobriety, Lord willing!

Anyhow, on another note: Please share! Anything about SeaGlass...If you can post photos of your most coveted/favorite piece you have ever found; or marbles, old bottlestoppers; I, and I'm sure many others- would love to see it. And if I ever find out how to upload a pic of some of my glass/finds via my iPhone 3, I will post some photos as well!! Thanks a bunch:)
 
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Glad you decided to redo the thread :)
Here's a repost from the old thread which had a bunch of pictures of my finds.


mareseatoats said:
I've been a seaglass collector/nerdette for quite some time now-got some great spots over on the jersey shore, where I can find great old colors, antique marbles, glass bottle stoppers.

Anyone else here hold the same interest? Got a great spot where you beachcomb, in other interesting places around the world?

Would love to hear if there is anyone out there in the Bluelight universe, that enjoys this everpleasant hobby?
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I've found bottle stoppers, blue marbles, stained glass. All at the Jersey Shore in the Long Branch area.
I've made necklaces out of my biggest blue pieces. I'm wearing a brown piece right now. I've also found a few reds, purples and a couple of tiny orange ones.

Here's some of my finds:
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Seaglass is the one & only thing I miss about NJ.


NOTHING beats a joint and a nice low tide line to go off and seek out some Seaglass. I also enjoy doing it at night with a high powered LED flashlight. Best part about searching at night = Not much competition.
I've gone during the winter. Which is also a great time to minimalize competition.
 
Yay so happy to see this post moved over here! My boyfriend and I were avid sea glass hunters when we lived in NJ. We found a really great beach that was uncombed so it was absolutely fantastic for sea glass and also driftwood. I will try to get around to finding some pictures of our collection.

I go antiquing a lot and anytime I see depression glass all can think of is it as sea glass. At one point I had gotten so engrossed with collecting sea glass that anytime I saw broken glass on the ground I had a flashback that I was on the beach and just caught glimpse of a good find. I still have moments.

What "rare" colors have you found. Currently we've found purple, a very light purple, two large pieces on the same day. I've noticed similar colors will stick together. We have also found one yellow and a few reds.
 
Laika said:
Glad you decided to redo the thread :)
Here's a repost from the old thread which had a bunch of pictures of my finds.


I've found bottle stoppers, blue marbles, stained glass. All at the Jersey Shore in the Long Branch area.
I've made necklaces out of my biggest blue pieces. I'm wearing a brown piece right now. I've also found a few reds, purples and a couple of tiny orange ones.

Here's some of my finds:
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Seaglass is the one & only thing I miss about NJ.


NOTHING beats a joint and a nice low tide line to go off and seek out some Seaglass. I also enjoy doing it at night with a high powered LED flashlight. Best part about searching at night = Not much competition.

I've gone during the winter. Which is also a great time to minimalize competition.[/QUOTE]Laika, thanks for coming back! I love your pics:) And when you said LED flashlight at night, it was a suprise! I started to do that at the beginning of winter, because the light hours were definitely getting competitive. Other people are becoming more rude, and sometimes not acting like civil adults, so it was a cakewalk at night, during winter. Last time I had an evening hunt, I found a perfect bottlestopper; no chips, beautifully frosted; and a yellow marble. Not much glass that time though. Only thing that makes me hesitate about after dusk, is a boogeyman possibly out there-in the black of night-in Atlantic City...I have a nice sturdy Maglite, but will aquire a pocket mace, just to be safe:)
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Hey Stardust-glad to see you here also:)

Some of the rarer I have found is yellow, red, more turquoise than the previous two I listed...a really nice grey, and one color I haven't seen before anywhere; it's a dark rosey color..it's like a mix of dark pink and purple/tinge of rose red. I have got to try and post it!! I also have found a neon yellow/green piece. It was shocking when it flipped up out of the sand when I was sifting.. I have yet to find a true orange piece. I long for orange. It must not have been a widely used color of glass in the area I search. But there's got to be one out there for me, somewhere.

I have thought the same thing-colors ending up in the same area. I have found a few odd ones here and there, and then have come across the same color, at a later time, in the same vicinity. Talking about this so much now, makes me want to grab my flashlight and go out there right now!! But I can't because my gas tank is pathetically almost empty:(
 
Laika-those pink nuggets-and the light blue, very awesome, and definitely hot items wanted in the SeaGlass/jewelry world. Anyone else wanting to try to make jewelry out of their glass?
 
Pink nuggets & Chunky Bleus FTW.
We've made necklaces & bracelets before using hemp. I normally wrap my sea glass in silver wire to make a necklace out of it. But Stardust has gone as far as purchasing a Dremel drill & buying silver clamps to make very legit looking sea glass jewelry.

My next endeavor is to make wind chimes out of sea glass & driftwood :)


Here's some of my necklaces.
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These were made about a year ago.
 
oh!oh! A new fave thread :)
I loved to collect sea glass <3
I will have to dig a few of my sea glass pieces out.
I just moved and left a lot of it in storage but I brought a little whit me I think.



laika- i LOVE those! I always wanted to make jewelery with mine.....very cool.
 
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Oh
My
God

I legitimately just died. Those pictures are amazing Fawkes. I have heard of that place but I've never seen pictures. I think a trip to Cali is in order. That place is like #1 on my list.

Ocean where are you from?
 
As pretty as that beach looks, i still can't get over trhe fact that this is human pollution on a grand scale. I guess I'm fortunate to live near pristine beaches and I would be horrified if I found just one broken bottle let alone a whole coastline littered with glass. What makes it more shocking is the fact that true "collecters" are happy to throw back pieces of glass that are not weathered enough. As a dad I would have thought the responsible thing to do is remove the broken glass from the ocean. It is just a little too sad to get my head around I'm afraid :(
 
Sea glass enthusiasts tend to very much be against "seeding." Which is when someone throws a bulk amount of broken glass into the ocean in hopes that it will return one day as sea glass for some beach comber. A lot of the sea glass shards that are found nowadays are originally from a time when humans cared a lot less about keeping the earth clean. A "good" find is normally 50 years old and some of the rarer colors can date back as far as the mid to late 1800's. Seeding the ocean with broken glass is frowned upon, even by the people whom adore sea glass the most. Pieces that I have thrown back were not in any kind of shape that would harm a bare foot though. Any freshly broken glass I were to see on the beach I would consider as litter. Some beach combers are known to also pick up litter and throw it into a garbage bag they've brought with them while they seek out desirable pieces of sea glass. The old saying, "one mans trash is another mans treasure," holds a particular value in this instance. The beauty in it, for me, is that it show cases mother natures strength at degrading things humans believe to be close to indestructible.

Thanks for the comments on some of my finds :) I've heard that glass beach in California isn't exactly what it used to be. There's a certain level of beauty in the fact that the human mind can come full circle and go back to the beach and reclaim what other humans had tried simply to just dispose of in an "out of sight out of mind" manner. Now the litter is coveted. What a crazy world.

Due to the increase in plastic as a glass alternative, sea glass is rapidly diminishing. I'd imagine one day sea glass could be something fairly valuable.
 
I'm thankful it is sea glass on the beach and not shards of plastic like I have seen on other beaches. At least glass is still partially natural and can be formed by nature to be beautiful. I love collecting sea glass and the idea that someones once garbage is now something I cherish. They dumped it into the ocean and the ocean spat it back out as a gem.

Also Ocean I was originally from NEPA. I hope you're liking that dreadful place because I hated it. I used to live by the coast in NJ but we moved down to central FL. It is still killing me being away from the beach. How are you doing so far?
 
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Oh my! So jealous of that first picture herbie! So glad to see you contributing to this thread also :)
 
Ahhhh Herb you get english glass on your shores!!! I am so jealous. Look at that grin. I would be grinning wildly like that too if I just collected a stash that big. Was that from one day on pic 2?
 
Yes, that was from one day--the whole beach is actually glass. Still, the grin comes in because the friend that I went to Mendocino with actually gathers mushrooms (I tagged along because I knew he would be in the vicinity of Glass beach) and he was holding a gigantic specimen, rather phallic in nature, and well....it was the subject of much mirth!

@ Busty--the saddest part about glass Beach is that it actually used to be where they dumped the garbage in the 1930's. They dumped it on the beach and then burned it. I had no idea that this was the case and I was walking around in these "tide pools" when I noticed that there were literally metal washing drums and radiator parts embedded in the "rock". Wait, it wasn't actually even rock--it was more molten metal. So basically glass beach is an old dump that is slowly but surely being picked clean by glass hunters. There is another cove, accessible only by kayak now, further south where they dumped in 1906. The glass in my first picture is from a glassblowers studio near a creek that runs under the Coast highway to the sea. Back in the late 60's and 70's they dumped all the excess out the back door of the shop in a big pile that washed into the creek--the coastal commission fortunately stopped that but that is where all the glass that turns up on that beach comes from. It used to be that people found huge pieces, now it is down to small pieces; so in effect, we glass hunters are the litter patrol on these beaches.
 
^I did something really beautiful with some of this glass. I divided it into four colors--honey, green, clear and amber--and I put a little glass votive candle holder in a larger glass container and then filled the space in between with the glass (one color per vase). When you light a candle inside, the light barely glows through the glass and it makes such a gorgeous, soft light. I tried to take a picture but my skills and my camera were both lacking.:\
 
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