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Coral Glass

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 of sea glass reminds me of a branch of coral. You know how in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, all of the undead pirates had barnacles and looked like they merged with the sea, well this funny piece of glass reminds me of how the sea has a way of reclaiming everything. If you’ve ever accidentally dropped something in the ocean, you know what I mean. (My family alone has donated two cell phones and a set of keys.)

This piece has a solid sterling cap and a cluster of pearl and peridot dangles. This cool pendant (2 1/8” x 5/8”) should be worn long, so it is on a 23” sterling figure eight chain. The nice thing about the link is that you could clasp it anywhere you’d like.

$125.