Sustainable Beauty: Creating Jewelry with Sea Glass

The sea has always been my greatest inspiration. There’s something timeless about the waves, their rhythm carrying both serenity and mystery. When I create jewelry, I imagine fragments of old shipwrecks, stories once lost, now transformed by the ocean into treasures washed ashore.

Sea glass is one of those treasures. Each piece carries a history of its own, shaped and softened by years of tumbling in the sand and saltwater. Sadly, genuine sea glass has become harder to find. The beaches that once offered these glimmering gems are no longer as generous, and even my trusted source of real sea glass now provides tumbled glass instead.

But I’ve come to appreciate this change. Tumbled glass may not have spent decades in the sea, yet it represents something equally meaningful, sustainability. It’s a way of giving new life to materials once discarded, of recycling fragments of the past into objects of beauty. For me, both types of glass carry the same spirit: resilience, transformation, and the quiet poetry of the sea.

When I hold a piece of glass, whether naturally weathered or tumbled, I see not just material for jewelry but a reminder that beauty can be reborn, shaped by time, nature, and imagination.

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