Another Giveaway To Mention

Hi all! Just letting you know that I'm giving away a pair of earrings on my other blog.

Come on over and leave a comment to be entered!

A Jewelry Giveaway!

I am celebrating my 100th post on my other blog, Scarborough Seashells and to celebrate I am giving one lucky reader a piece of jewelry made by me!

You can win a pair of bezel set earrings or a pendant made with your choice of sea glass, pottery shard or seashell. OR I'll custom make something if you have a special piece of your own you'd like me to use.

For more details and to enter the giveaway, click here!

More brand new jewelry just listed to Scarborough Seashells!

Hand forged sterling silver bangle style bracelets made from sea glass, beachcombed pottery shards and genuine seashells!











Available now at Scarborough Seashells!

New pendants made!

New pendants
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Just a few of the pendants I've been working on for an upcoming craft show at the end of the month. Currently listed for sale on my website (until the day of the show)!

New jewelry listed to my shops!

Just added to my Etsy shop and website.

Some cute polymer clay sea inspired pendant and earring sets



I've hand marbled aqua and white polymer clay and made it beachy with impressions of real starfish, seahorses and seashells. Accented with gold craft paint and 14k gf bail, beads and ear wires.

And another "use what I've got" challenge-
Made with more of my favorites- turquoise and Hill Tribe fine silver beads, including the adorable fish pendant. Adjustable from 20-22 inches.

Sea Inspired Jewelry

Sea Inspired Jewelry
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Another of my "use what you've got" challenges. I made these without spending one red cent- it amazes me the stuff I collect and then don't use! Can you imagine every single ingredient that went into making these has been sitting in my supply boxes for close to two years now while I was totally uninspired to anything with it!

Necklace and earrings set made using various greenish-blue turquoise beads with lots of matrix (the more mottled the better, I love it!) , bronze freshwater pearls, Hill Tribe fine silver beads (starfish, nautilus and scallop shells) and sand dollar toggle style clasp.

Up for sale in my Etsy shop this weekend.

Tiny Sea Glass "Mosaic" Pendants

Tiny Sea Glass "Mosaic" Pendants
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This is some of the pieces I've been working on this week. I have a self-imposed "use what you've got" challenge going on and all the stuff I'm making this week is done without spending a single penny for anything new.

I've taken bits of beachcombed pottery where the pattern was too worn for it to be used on it's own for a jewelry piece and decorated them with teeny, tiny bits of beautiful sea glass in rich, vibrant colors. The end result is, I think, mini mosaic art pieces you can wear!

My favorite is I Feel Teal. The shade on the (perfectly round) sea glass ball is so rich and soothing while the pottery shards are a cool robin's egg and almost Tiffany blue.

These can all be found in my Etsy shop.

Finally back to being crafty!

I can't believe it's taken me this long to recouperate from the holidays but indeed, this is the first week I've been able to get back to work and start making things again. At first there was the chaos of kids home on vacation, then it was cleaning up and putting away all the decorations, then it was sheer exhaustion from all the previous weeks' hullabaloo.

The nagging reminder gentle nudge of a waning bank account forced me back into action this week and I've managed to start producing again. So far I've added two new colors of my sea glass wine charms
Blue Set




Green Set




and a sea glass bottle stopper (custom order).


I am trying to decide if I have time to produce enough stuff to do a small local craft fair in a little over a month's time... hemming and hawing over this one...

Also have a sea glass window on my agenda due mid March to the customer and likely a fundraiser coming up in April. Spring is looking to be busy!

Genuine Red Sea Glass Pendant

Genuine Red Sea Glass Pendant 1
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Just in time for Christmas! A rare red sea glass piece, bezel set in sterling and fine silver. I have cut out the back side to allow light to shine through. A truly special way to wish someone you love a wonderful holiday season! This is a one of kind piece, available now on
my website.

Mini Earring O Rama

Mini Earring O Rama
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Decided to get into the holiday spirit a little today and make some cute earrings that would be perfect stocking stuffers, gifts for teachers, babysitters, etc. Available at Scarborough Seashells

New Jewelry 11.6.09

New Jewelry 11.6.09
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A few new pieces made this week for Most Naturally in Narragansett. The green sea glass pieces are for the Habitat for Humanity of South County RI Annual Autumn Auction on November 14th.

Pendants and a new bracelet design

New Jewelry 10/3/09
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Some more new seashell and pottery shard pendants I finished last night plus a brand new bracelet design- hand forged sterling silver hinged bangle style bracelet with seashell or pottery shard piece bezel set in sterling and fine silver.

All items in the photos are available at Copacetic in Providence, RI

New ornaments I've been working on...and some oldies but goodies!

I can't even believe I'm uttering the word "ornament" right now. I am still in flip flops and shorts, yet for those of us who sell wholesale or retail, the holiday season is upon us! So far this week I've had orders for my sea glass angels, butterflies, and dragonflies. I also had a request to make up some custom ornaments for a new shop in Newport, RI and a sea glass group that I belong to issued a challenge to come up with a new ornament design using genuine sea glass. Whew!



Copacetic in Providence, RI will now be carrying sea glass angels and dragonflies (and butterflies if the owner is convinced once he sees one! He will be, I know it! LOL)


The custom sand dollar ornaments are for The Nutcracker Suite in Newport, RI. These are new, I just finished them tonight so the owners haven't even seen them yet, I am going to show them tomorrow- wish me luck!

Last is the ornament I made for my sea glass group challenge. I love the way it came out and even though I ran into a few glitches while working out the design, it was fun to make and I am thinking I will make more of these and they'll be available on my website and possibly some local RI stores by mid October.

Weekend Project

So I've had this antique mahogany mirror for about 15 years. It was free, and while it had been stripped of its paint and nicely refinished, the mirror itself had some damaged spots and it was entirely too dark for use our new house. Based on those facts, I decided it wouldn't be a sin to paint and use some hot glue on the thing. Here it is after 3 coats of primer

And here are some after shots, with it hanging over my fireplace in our living room. Sorry I wasn't better about taking "in process" photos!



I did it using white/pearl seashells, starfish, sand dollars, sea glass and beach pottery. It measures 3 feet wide, 2 1/2 feet tall and 4 inches thick.

What do you think?

New Sea Glass Jewelry for The Shops at Fabian House

New Sea Glass Jewelry for Fabian House
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Shipping these out to Maggie, they'll be up for sale at the The Shops at Fabian House in Bowie, MD this week! :)

More new pendants made this week

More New Pendants
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I've been busy with the torch- I made a bunch of beach pottery and sea glass pendants and have started on the first of two pairs of bezel set sea glass earrings, which is tough because the glass is so tiny!

I'll be working on some more seashell pendants later in the week, finishing up the earrings and also getting back to some wire wrapping, haven't done any of that in a good long while! Stay tuned for more pictures soon! :)

Some more finished jewelry pieces

Sea Glass Jewelry at Stardust in Newport, RI
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Things are going well on the jewelry front, I've secured a second shop to carry my jewelry, Stardust, on Thames St. in Newport, RI. They will carry my sea glass and my seashell pendants and earrings. Very excited about this! Photos above are of my most recent delivery to the shop.

PS if you're in the area, the shop owner also owns The Newport Fudgery which is right next door, OMG YUM! So many flavors of handmade fudge- they make it right in front of you in large copper kettles and the smell is heavenly!

New Shell Pendants

Well, it's not the best picture, but at least I have my camera and computer back up and running, maybe another week and I'll have my photo tent set up again! Clockwise in the photo are:

1.mohagany clam shell 2.ark shell 3.bay oyster 4.purple mussel and 5.jingle shell

Had to take a quick photo as they're off to Most Naturally this afternoon!



ps- I came across some photos of our new house when we were first moving in/before painting, etc. I'm going to organize them and take some photos of how the house is looking today and post soon!

New work and oh- I love my tumbler!

Some Seashell Pendants
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Some of the new seashell pieces I completed this week. I took the plunge and tried tumbling my pendants in stainless steel shot (I was so scared it would crack the shells!) I tried it on a "burnt toast" piece first and the shell held up, so I tumbled these pieces and they are super shiny and my hands are SO grateful! Polishing to a mirror finish by hand is pretty labor intensive. Polishing in the tumbler takes so much of that work out of my hands (pun intended) and cuts my cleaning time in half!

For those interested, I use a Lortone double barrel rotary tumbler. :)

These and other pieces are available at Most Naturally in the Pier Marketplace, Narragansett RI. :)

She continues to sell seashells... and some beach pottery too!

As a follow up to my original post, I have been uber busy working on seashell pendants bezel set in sterling silver. I delivered 6 pieces (5 made of seashell, 1 was a piece of beachcombed transferware) to a local shop for the store owner to try out over the 4th of July weekend. She called today to tell me she loves them and has sold 2 already and would like 5 more pendants and also some earrings- go me!


If you are local to the area, my seashell pieces are now officially available at Most Naturally in the Pier Marketplace (Narragansett, RI)

Woohoo!