Our Story

When I first started kayaking with family and friends, I had no idea that our adventures would lead to creating art that has become my passion. We paddled up to the shorelines along the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and discovered a treasure created by nature-Sea glass! This brackish water turns broken bottles of glass, discarded as trash, into gorgeous, frosted sea glass. It takes 30 years for broken glass to tumble and toss (hence the name) through rock, water, and sand to develop into the frosted gems so many seek to find.

I started using sea glass to create jewelry.  I learned how to drill holes in the glass under water with a diamond drill bit. Then came the design of wrapping the pieces and making necklaces, earrings, rings, and bracelets.

After retiring from teaching elementary school, I spent more time creating and designing art with sea glass. I noticed interesting pieces of jewelry in thrift shops such as earrings that would make a great body for a butterfly or brooches that looked like a center piece for the shell of the Maryland Blue Crab. The spark was ignited!  Through thrift shop hunting and friends and family clearing out their jewelry, I had a nice little collection of jewelry to cut and combine with sea glass creating a product I’ve never seen before.  The popularity of my unique sea glass/jewelry art creations has taken me by surprise.  I sell my items through an art gallery, a coastal store, festivals, and from my home workshop.  My next and newest adventure, with the help of family, is presenting my craft through this website.

 I never expected a love of finding sea glass would turn into a process that sparks my creativity to make a piece of art that brings joy to others. It is truly rewarding.

 It takes a while to make each handcrafted work of art so please be patient as I will add items as they are created.

Thank you for visiting my website and supporting me in my love for sea glass art.

Below, you can see my process with a before photo and the finished piece of art work