I had a beautiful time on the beach with my love on Saturday. We only got a smidge burned, we had a ridiculous amount of fun, and I found my first, one and only, true piece of RED BEACH GLASS! Holy smokes! They say for every 5000 pieces of glass, only one is red. And there it was! Jewellery-sized and staring me in the face!
I also found three marbles including a black one and a yellow on e, two real live yellow pieces (also extremely rare) (one may or may not be pottery or plastic), a piece of lavendar/pink which is really old, and a whole pile of blue and aqua. Squee!
Check it out:
The tiny raspberry-looking piece was in my bag from our aborted trip to Kennington Cove. It’s not genuine beach glass as I found it on the road – so it could be called dirt glass, I suppose. It’s still rounded and pretty.
Also, I now have enough colours to do one of these!
AND I just got some jewellery glue and used it to attach the itty bitty teeeeeeeny weeny blue pieces that I’ve been finding to larger white pieces, and they’re turning out quite well (no photos until the finished pieces are ready).
I’m also on a continual hunt for the perfect lighting conditions for photos. For this I was using Laird’s stupid ultra cool camera. I didn’t put it in the light box because I was just playing around, and I figured it was bright enough from the window. I laid everything out first on a new gray fabric I just got for trying this sort of thing, and then on a super-bright white piece of bristol board. Surprisingly (sort of), the gray is much better.
The white throws off the camera’s white balance or levels or something. Quite annoying! I’ll have to re-line the inside of my photo box. Or something. The quest continues!
That is SO beautiful! You could sell prints of the photo taken with the grey background. I salute your beach-combing ways!
And I thought I was the only fanatical one when it came to beach glass.
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I am a beach glass fanatic too. We live on Lake Huron and I love to walk on the beach after a storm. It’s amazing what you can find. My granddaughter found a delicious piece of orange glass that is amazing. I made it into a pendant for her for Xmas. I haven’t found red yet. That would beat them all. I have jars of glass, mostly white, Amber and green. Haven’t found any marbles yet.
Oh Orange is lovely!!! You probably won’t find marbles on an inland sea – they were used as ballast for ships in the Atlantic, which is why I find so many!