Natural Maui Sea Glass jewelry Presentation

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Showing posts with label rare sea glass. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Cornflower Blue Wire Wrapped Earrings and Pendant

I'm finally posting my sea glass jewelry. I had to clean up and small kine revamp my site/blog so I'm glad that's done and out of the way.

The first set I have is a cornflower blue earring pair and pendant to match. Both are wire wrapped with argentium silver wire which is tarnish proof.

Cornflower blue is a very hard to find sea glass which puts it in the Rare category, hence the price is slightly higher than say kelly green or brown which are very common but still very beautiful.

Here are the photos

These items can be purchased separately or as a set.

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Hoop Earrings with Aqua Blue Sea Glass

I've always wanted to make hoop earrings because it seems to be all the rage nowadays. The bigger the better. Well I finally made a pair and I really like it so I know I'll be making more!

This pair I have dangling aqua blue sea glass which measures a little more than 3/4". The wire I used is argentium silver which doesn't tarnish...how awesome is that?!

The hoop measures 2 1/2"...a good dangle size I think. I'm looking forward to making more of these!

To order this pair click on the photo and it'll take you to the ordering page.

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Dark Olive Green Sea Glass Wired Pendant

This is a dark olive green pendant with an unusual shape. I wanted to keep the focus on the sea glass and the shape of it so I wrapped it simply with argentium wire.

It is masculine enough for a male to wear as well.

If you hold it up to the light you'll see lots of "bubbles" or "seeds" contained within the sea glass. This indicator says that this piece came from a bottle that was hand blown into a base mold which was the popular method until the early 1900's, about 1903 or 1905, when glass bottle making became machine automated so this piece is very old.

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Amethyst Sea Glass Wire Wrapped Pendant

According to Richard LaMotte, the author of "Pure Sea Glass", where I glean most of my sea glass information from, amethyst/purple/lavender sea glass is a rare find. Not as rare as the very rare to find black sea glass.

For me though it's the opposite, so far, I've found so many more pieces of black sea glass then amethyst sea glass. I guess it all depends on the location and not that I've found tons of black sea glass either.

Well, amethyst sea glass, if found, is close to 100 years old or older. It gets its color from the suns effect on the manganese ingredient which was used prevalently from about 1880 to 1915 to make the glass clear. So for me to have this piece of sea glass, this large, is a treat.

I wrapped it, again, pretty simply because I like the emphasis and focus to be mostly on the sea glass itself.

This sea glass has a chip on the left side bottom but this chip in no way takes away from the beauty of this amethyst sea glass pendant.

Here are a couple more photos








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Teal Sea Glass Wire Wrapped Earrings

I'm so glad I bought Richard LaMotte's book "Pure Sea Glass." Before this book I really didn't know much about how glass was made or why it was so rare. Reading this book, rather, devouring this book has really educated me as to how much sea glass is becoming more and more like ultra rare gems!

Take for instance this color, teal. When I first started collecting it never dawned on me that this color was extremely rare to find. I was just on my merry way collecting and getting super excited just to find a piece of sea glass. After a year of collecting and matching up sea glass for earrings or putting aside for a pendant if it's too big I'm amazed as to the treasures I've found throughout the year!

This pair of teal sea glass earrings I found the straight piece first. I was going to save it for a pendant because I didn't think I'd find another one to match but when sorting through my glass I looked at the curved piece and thought to myself hmmmm this may go well with the teal piece I was going to make a pendant from. And amazingly they're about the same size too albeit different in width and shape.

Anyway, here it is with a simple wire wrap using argentium silver, simple to keep the focus on these extremely rare pieces of teal sea glass.

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