Hickory Shirt Days

Beach-n-Bling is showing and selling upcyled sea glass jewelry and fine art along with the Far West Art League during Hickory Shirt Days at the Rainforest Arts Center in Forks, WA this weekend.  (October 9-11).

If you don't know what a hickory shirt is, I'm wearing it in this picture. 

These are my latest wire wrapped sea glass creations. They are on display and for sale at the Rainforest Arts Center in Forks, WA during the local Hickory Shirt Days event. 

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Genuine found seaglass upcycled into unique luminous earrings.

Rare olive green seaglass necklace in a two tone wire wrap

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Recent Sea Glass Jewelry Creations Available on Etsy

Recent Sea Glass Jewelry Creations Available on Etsy

Some of my most recent upcyled genuine found aquamarine sea glass jewelry. Go to my Etsy shop to purchase these distinctive works of wearable art.

Wire Wrapped genuine found aquamarine sea glass earrings 

When you buy distinctive, handmade sea glass jewelry from Beach-n-Bling, you get an original, high quality work of wearable art created out of genuine found seaglass hand picked off a Pacific Northwest beach. Handmade in Forks, WA.

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Beading With Kids

Beading with Kids

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Beach-n-Bling at the Grand Opening of the Rainforest Art Center

A view of the activity going on inside the RAC during the Art Space Event sponsored by the Rainforest Council for the Arts

On April 18, 2015 the Rainforest ArtCenter in Forks, WA had its grand opening and dedication ceremony. For the story behind the RAC please follow this link. 

Rainforest Council for the Arts  sponsored the Art Space event in the RAC on grand opening day. (read the president's report of the day's event) 

The art space event had local artists set up and demonstrating throughout the main room of the new building while the public could come in and have a look around at the newly opened Rainforest Art Center.  

 Local Artist, Penny Winn, demonstrating encaustic painting to Pearl Lucken, Forks' oldest citizen.

Local artist Jeanette Gilmore demonstrating basket weaving and Flora Finley painting in the background

Beach-n-Bling staffed a kids' activity table loaded with beads donated by members of the community and helped kids design and create their own bracelets or necklaces. Once the day got rolling, kids were constantly at the table making jewelry until it was time to pack up and make room for the evening's events.

Beach-n-Bling owner /operator, Teresa Falkenberg is a Forks, WA resident and a  member of the Rainforest Council for the Arts and Far West Art League.

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Happiness is...

Happiness is...

Happiness is finding a treasure where you'd least expect it.

Last week we went beach hiking on a beach near Kalaloch , WA. The weather has been such that the wind was blowing in straight from the west which means that stuff starts washing ashore. That means interesting beach hiking for beachcombers. 
Normally I don't find sea glass on this beach. So I was pleasantly surprised to find some this time. Here are a few photos of the sea glass I found. 

 

Do you see the face in the rock?

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More Jewelry to Show

Here are some more pieces of wire wrapped sea glass jewelry I've created in the past few weeks.

Rich cobalt blue sea glass wrapped in copper wire

cobalt blue sea glass with sterling silver set

green sea glass in sterling silver

aquamarine sea glass in antique bronze colored copper wire

reverse painted sea glass in brass wire "Midnight Sun"

Group pic of latest earrings

All of this jewelry is for sale on Etsy. 

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Coca Cola shard wire wrapped into a pendant

Wire Wrapped Coca Cola Shard

Today I wire wrapped a surf tumbled Coca-Cola shard into a pendant.

It is now for sale on Etsy.

Wire wrapped sea glass Coca-Cola shard

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close up of shard with the word cola embossed on it

february sea glass update

February Sea Glass Update

Here are some pictures of some of my most recent pieces of wire wrapped sea glass jewelry.
My favorite color of wire lately is gunmetal gray. I have learnt that it is getting hard to find. I wonder why. 

These are for sale on Etsy

I found this collection of sea glass and other beach combed items on the Strait of Juan de Fuca .

This gorgeous green set is available on Etsy

These necklaces are available on Etsy

Close up of  wire wrapped sea glass necklace pendants

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Beach-n-Bling in Austin Texas

Beach-n-Bling was at the Bluebonnet Flea in Austin, Texas yesterday.

Beach-n-Bling selling wire wrapped sea glass jewelry at the Bluebonnet flea in Austin

Genuine sea glass necklace wrapped in Austin at the Bluebonnet flea market.
This piece of sea glass is a very unusual frosty "bluebonnet" blue. 

It was a bright and sunny Sunday in Austin with a lot of happy people browsing around at the Bluebonnet Flea.

View Beach-n-Bling's table at Bluebonnetflea in Austin

If the weather is nice next Sunday, Beach-n-Bling will be there again.

Beach-n-Bling will be in Austin TX until Feb. 14.

If you aren't in Austin, Beach-n-Bling sells wire wrapped sea glass jewelry on Etsy.

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View of Austin, TX

First Sea Glass Haul of the Year

Today I am sharing with you my first sea glass haul of the year.

Since January 3, Beach-n-Bling has been in Texas for a longer visit.
Except for one day, it has been just as cold and damp as in Washington State. For some reason 45degrees  F feels colder in Texas than in the Pacific Northwest. What's up with that?

On Jan 12 we went to Galveston only to find a cold bleak beach. The next day we decided to leave and head north to Houston via Bolivar Island. We took the free ferry from Galveston to Bolivar Island just to see more beach.  Somewhere a year or so ago I researched finding sea glass in Texas and read that somewhere near Houston there was sea glass to be found. I didn't remember where, so I had some hope of finding sea glass and just followed my lucky instinct.  

Lately, it has been much colder than normal in Texas. It was cold and miserable on the beach. I even had to wear pants over pants and bundled up with all that I had. On the Houston news they said its been below average cold the longest in recorded history.
We stopped for lunch at the Tiki Beach Bar and Grill on Bolivar Island, which was the only place open in 40 miles. I had a fairly decent gumbo. Then we started heading north on HWY 87. After a while we decided to just stop and take a look at the beach. This is how it looked. It had a lot of shells and random rocks and other stuff 

The beach on Bolivar Island, TX went on and on like this.

Mixed in with all the shells and rocks there were pieces of sea glass to be found. I was so elated, that I didn't care about the cold anymore. 

Me all bundled up with my haul on the beach.

Now for the good stuff:

This is what was in the bag.

Jan. 13 Sea Glass Haul from Bolivar Island TX

 

Close up of sea glass haul

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