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Nice Save

Since opening my showroom in Bar Harbor, I’ve learned that sea glass jewelry is in high demand. I love the stuff, but have intentionally stayed away from it because I used to apprentice with a woman who made it her trademark. At the time, not so many designers were making jewelry with it. We live on the same island. Therefore, I kept my distance from the material for 15 years. Last fall, I went on a field trip visiting galleries on my own Island and throughout Downeast Maine. I quickly realized that there is a lot of sea glass jewelry made in all kinds of styles by many different artists now. The woman I worked with is fully established (wildly successful) and so I feel free to offer you at long last, my Bar Harbor collection.

Did you know it takes the ocean roughly 40 years to make a well-rounded piece of sea glass? Did you know that with all of the recycling we now do, the sea glass is not being replenished? So it’s ironic when you consider that this beautiful, natural bi-product of littering (lets be realistic after-all) could actually be mined out! It is getting harder and harder to find nice sea glass. All of my glass is from Maine or Prince Edward Island in Canada. Our family’s very own Katy Perry (David’s Grammie), writer extraordinaire, found these pieces.

This piece has a sweet cobalt blue piece of sea glass teamed with a gorgeous piece of abalone and a fresh water, cultured color enhanced pearl accent. The whole piece is solid sterling, even the back. The pendant measures 1 5/8” x ¾” long. It is permanently on a 20.5” sterling figure-eight chain with color-enhanced blue pearl accents.

PS. If you’re wondering how I got the title, “Nice Save” it is because originally the bottom bezel was made for a second piece of sea glass but just before setting the glass, I dropped the setting and the glass broke! Now when you’ve gone through that much work to create a one-of-a-kind piece in precious metal and you are in the final stretch, it is heartbreaking. Luckily, Pete (Dave’s Dad) gave me a bag of abalone he has in his barn for God-knows how long. One of the pieces happened to fit perfectly into the weird bezel. Now the odds of a stone being the exact size and shape to fit into that freeform bottom bezel are about a gazillion to 1, so I think there was some divine intervention involved because the design is also superior to the original concept as well. I guess you’d call it one of those happy mistakes. Hence, the title, “Nice Save.”

$325.