Sea Glass

My search for sea glass began again last night just before the sunset. The Caribbean Sea breeze and clouds off shore beautifully underlined in pinks and silver with an occasional flash of distant lightning was the perfect backdrop for it. Sea glass is sometimes called a reverse gem because after smooth glass bottles etc. become broken, discarded, and find their way to the ocean they are tumbled, smoothed, frosted, and repurposed into pieces that can be made into jewelry. I like to find pieces and reimagine them into light softening window whimsies and wrapped pendants. The colors are special too. Most of the sea glass pieces I find were at one time part of some brown beer bottles. Other colors are rarer. Most commonly found sea glass is brown, green, or clear, but some sea glass (depending on the source, bottle or windshield) comes in purples, reds, and blues less common. The rarest color is orange (my favorite color) found only once in every 10,000 pieces, hence today I plan to venture out on some of my favorite beaches with my husband, (old navy), and his pup, Sailor, in search of more gifts from the bountiful sea.