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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More Blues and Gray

More Blues and Gray

Today I am posting some more pieces of jewelry that I recently completed using blue sea glass and gunmetal gray wire. 

This is a set. It is going to be a gift for someone special.

 This pair I created this Sunday afternoon while watching the Seahawks win the game  during the second half. GO HAWKS!

These are now for sale on Etsy. 

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Christmas Day Beach Walk

Christmas Day Beach Walk

Today is Christmas Day and we took a little drive out to First Beach, La Push  for a little walk to get some fresh air and a little exercise (and maybe find a treasure or two).
It was cloudy with a few seconds of sunshine now and then.  It wasn't rainy and and not too cold nor windy, so that makes it pretty nice for here.

This is how it looked on Christmas Day 2014 at First Beach in La Push WA

I even found  some nice pieces of sea glass. Here are a couple of the highlights.

Nothing brightens your heart like a bright green piece of sea glass.

View of waves with a piece of green sea glass in the foreground amongst the pebbles on the beach.

This bright blue piece is a dandy.

What a find for Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas from Beach-n-Bling!

Today's sea glass haul

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Replenishing

I have been replenishing my stock of jewelry after all the recent holiday bazaar sales. 

Shown here are some images of the jewelry I have recently made.

They are also for sale on my Etsy shop.

One necklace sold right away and of course that made my day.

The necklace shown here sold already,  but the earrings are available on Etsy

A fabulous blue sea glass and silver set suggestion

This one is fresh off the workbench and for sale on Etsy.

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Merry Christmas 

Aquamarine Sea Glass Earrings Wrapped in Sterling Silver

A dainty gift idea for her that's for sure

These aquamarine sea glass earrings are wrapped in sterling silver wire. And they are now for sale on Etsy.

Genuine aquamarine sea glass wrapped in sterling silver wire

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Beachcomber's Christmas Tree

Beachcomber's Christmas Tree

Today we just put up and decorated our unconventional Christmas tree.

The tree itself is a big tangle of net and driftwood that Jim found on the beach one day. He was so impressed with the size and complexity of it that he had to take it home.

We decorated it with lights and all sorts of plastic floats and other flotsam we thought would hang well as ornaments.

It was a lot of fun to create this installation made almost completely out of stuff we found washed ashore on the beach.

Close up of Beachcomber's Christmas tree with a sea glass ornament available on Etsy

Now I have somewhere to hang my sea glass Christmas tree ornaments!

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