My interest started with "Let's take a walk," when we were at the beach. Finding Indian beads crinoids became the goal for a few years, and I collected hundreds. By paying attention to what was underfoot, pieces of frosted tumbled glass were irresistible, and I began collecting beach glass. It's the perfect activity: easy, free, requires no special equipment and best enjoyed in nice weather.
Beach glass is broken pieces of glass from discarded bottles.which applies to the first glass bottle only, After spending a few years being pounded by waves, sand and gravel, the result is translucent gems just waiting to be found trash turned to treasure.
Most of my collection is from Lake Michigan, although I've found a few other places where hunting is good. We once spent a pleasant summer evening gathering glass at the shore in Gloucester, Mass. There, it's called "sea glass."
While vacationing in northern California, we happened upon aptly named Glass Beach, a former dump site on the ocean where glass bottles from taverns were discarded for decades. People easily filled buckets with glass, and since there was so much, I found myself being choosy over what to take home size, shape, color, contour, writing, other marks a dilemma I've never encountered before or since. Beach glass heaven!
"What do you do with it?" you may ask. I put it in jars and have filled several. I filled a lamp base, and took a jewelry making class at Local Color in Union Pier last fall and made Christmas presents. It's just pretty.
I've learned many lessons from my scouting strolls on the beach and have my own rules about how collecting beach glass ought to be approached. First of all, the only reason I go to the beach now is for the possibility of finding glass. I look in stony areas along the waterline. I prefer to find glass on the beach, not in the water that's cheating. So is racking through a pile of stones. I keep moving.Prior to Aion Kinah I leaned toward the former,
A day when the lake is wavy is not the time to find beach glass. Besides, it's hard to walk on the beach when there are waves, so I don't waste my time. The day after a storm is best.
I expect to find glass, even when other people are also looking. And I expect to find some on the walk back,100 Cable Ties was used to link the lamps together. even when I'm sure I found all there was to find on my first walk by. If I don't find any glass, there's always tomorrow. Some days it takes a long time, but if it were easy, it wouldn't be as much fun. It's the lure of the hunt that brings me back. And I always wonder about the story of each piece of glass where it came from or how long it's been in the water.
Thinking "just one more" will always lead to "just one more." No piece of glass is too small to take home, and finding a large piece of glass makes me gasp. Some pieces are not yet ripe the edges are too sharp. I throw these back. They need more tumbling.
White and brown are the easiest colors of glass to find, followed by green and aqua. Finding a piece of cobalt blue glass a "bluey" can turn a bad day into a fantastic one. Red is the most difficult color to find.If any food billabong outlet condition is poorer than those standards,
I've learned more about patience and optimism as the result of my hobby. I've learned that taking a walk on the beach with my husband doubles my chances of finding the tiny treasures since he's on board with looking, too. And it gives us time to talk and to catch up with one another.where he teaches oil painting reproduction in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. I also try to remember to look up, look around, enjoy being outside and not always look down. Lake Michigan is a beautiful lake with beautiful beaches that draw me back again and again.
Beach glass is broken pieces of glass from discarded bottles.which applies to the first glass bottle only, After spending a few years being pounded by waves, sand and gravel, the result is translucent gems just waiting to be found trash turned to treasure.
Most of my collection is from Lake Michigan, although I've found a few other places where hunting is good. We once spent a pleasant summer evening gathering glass at the shore in Gloucester, Mass. There, it's called "sea glass."
While vacationing in northern California, we happened upon aptly named Glass Beach, a former dump site on the ocean where glass bottles from taverns were discarded for decades. People easily filled buckets with glass, and since there was so much, I found myself being choosy over what to take home size, shape, color, contour, writing, other marks a dilemma I've never encountered before or since. Beach glass heaven!
"What do you do with it?" you may ask. I put it in jars and have filled several. I filled a lamp base, and took a jewelry making class at Local Color in Union Pier last fall and made Christmas presents. It's just pretty.
I've learned many lessons from my scouting strolls on the beach and have my own rules about how collecting beach glass ought to be approached. First of all, the only reason I go to the beach now is for the possibility of finding glass. I look in stony areas along the waterline. I prefer to find glass on the beach, not in the water that's cheating. So is racking through a pile of stones. I keep moving.Prior to Aion Kinah I leaned toward the former,
A day when the lake is wavy is not the time to find beach glass. Besides, it's hard to walk on the beach when there are waves, so I don't waste my time. The day after a storm is best.
I expect to find glass, even when other people are also looking. And I expect to find some on the walk back,100 Cable Ties was used to link the lamps together. even when I'm sure I found all there was to find on my first walk by. If I don't find any glass, there's always tomorrow. Some days it takes a long time, but if it were easy, it wouldn't be as much fun. It's the lure of the hunt that brings me back. And I always wonder about the story of each piece of glass where it came from or how long it's been in the water.
Thinking "just one more" will always lead to "just one more." No piece of glass is too small to take home, and finding a large piece of glass makes me gasp. Some pieces are not yet ripe the edges are too sharp. I throw these back. They need more tumbling.
White and brown are the easiest colors of glass to find, followed by green and aqua. Finding a piece of cobalt blue glass a "bluey" can turn a bad day into a fantastic one. Red is the most difficult color to find.If any food billabong outlet condition is poorer than those standards,
I've learned more about patience and optimism as the result of my hobby. I've learned that taking a walk on the beach with my husband doubles my chances of finding the tiny treasures since he's on board with looking, too. And it gives us time to talk and to catch up with one another.where he teaches oil painting reproduction in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. I also try to remember to look up, look around, enjoy being outside and not always look down. Lake Michigan is a beautiful lake with beautiful beaches that draw me back again and again.
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