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Adjustable Bottle Green Ring

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.

Those of you who have been with me from the beginning know I used to “specialize” in rings. One of the reasons I went on this decade long necklace binge is because sizing necklaces is easier than sizing rings. To size a soldered ring you have to heat it. Since I bezel set everything that means taking the stones out of the bezels. Well once I set them in there, they really are in there; there is a serious risk of cracking the stones just trying to remove them from the bezel. So the reason I am telling you all of this is because I have tried to make an adjustable ring. This is sort of the prototype so I am showing you the front and the back. It is a cute bottle-green sea glass ring. The glass in this piece measures about ½” square. This ring is adjustable from about a 4.5 to about a 7.5

$125.