Moon Goddess Jewelry
Moon Goddess Jewelry offers a complete line of handmade jewelry including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, anklets, men's jewelry, hemp jewelry, shell or tropical jewelry, and bridal jewelry. I also offer accessories such as bookmarks, book thongs, and eyeglass holders. Moon Goddess Jewelry uses quality items as sterling silver, Swarovski crystals, gemstone beads, freshwater pearls, and Czech glass beads to create my unique and mostly one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces.
Sea Glass & Beach Glass
Sea glass is glass shards that have been that have been smoothed and frosted by the action of the ocean. Sea glass can be found all over the world. The beaches of northeast United States, California, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Italy, and Spain are famous for their amount of sea glass.
Beach glass is very similar to sea glass but is a bit less weathered due to the absence of vigorous waves and ocean salt. Beach glass is found on inland waterways as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.
Sea glass and Beach glass starts out as broken bottles, jars, and glass from a number of other sources that are dumped into the ocean and lakes where they are tossed and tumbled for decades. Elements of sand, water, tide and salt transforms these glass shards in beautiful gems.
Some common colors of sea/beach glass are kelly green, brown and clear which come from beer bottles, juice and soft drink bottles, glasses, windshields, and windows.
Some less common colors of sea/beach glass are jade, amber, lime green and forest green. These colors were from whiskey bottles, medicine bottles, early bleach bottles, spirit bottles, soda bottles and ink bottles.
Uncommon colors of sea/beach glass include green, white, cobalt , cornflower blue and aqua which derived from Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper and RC Cola bottles, beer bottles, baking soda jars, milk glass, Milk of Magnesia bottles, poison bottles, bromo-Seltzer containers, Vick VapoRub jars and Ball Mason jars.
Since more people are seaching for these beauties, glass items have been replaced by plastics and littering laws have been enforced, authentic sea/beach glass is becoming more difficult to find.
With genuine sea/beach glass becoming harder to find, some have resorted to creating imitation sea glass by placing glass shards in rock tumblers. Artificially tumbled sea glass has corners and edges, that although are softened, are very visible. Artificial sea glass has a smooth, even texture, less flaws and less of a frosted look. Real sea glass has very rounded edges with no corners, irregular pitting on the surface much like our own facial pores, and a very frosty look. Real sea/beach glass gets it value because that's what it is....real!
Sea/Beach glass can be used to created beautiful, unique and natural jewelry pieces.
We litter the oceans and lakes and yet mother nature turns our litter into beautiful and valuable little treasures and hides them on the beaches for us to find!
