Decorating with Seafoam Sea Glass in PEI
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Making Seaglass souvenirs from the remnants of Hurricane Sandy
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Occasionally, I find a piece of Sea Glass with writing on it. I enhanced the brightness and contrast on this picture. if you look closely in the white circled area, you may be able to make out the word JAVEX. So I thought this glass came from an old bleach bottle. Interesting. I never knew bleach
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Brown is very common in seaglass. Beer bottles are the biggest source of brown glass. However you can get brown glass from old bleach bottles, some soda bottles like Orange Crush, medicine bottles, etc. Looking at the detail of this picture, you will see a couple of pieces with lettering. Those can be interesting to research and
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This is a collection of light blue, very light blue and almost white seaglass. You will see that most of it is flat glass which tells me this is ordinary window glass. However, it seems this is possibly older window glass that did not have clarifying agents like lead or manganese . . . ordinary silicon dioxide or soda-lime
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Recently, I resorted my entire collection of seaglass. Now that the summer is over, there is “less” to do on PEI and I needed a challenge. Sorting seaglass by colour is not as easy as it seems. After awhile the blue and greens and near-whites all blend in. The pictures I will feature over the
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I have some hobnail seaglass! And just what is Hobnail glass? See the Glass Encyclopedia. Here is my glass. Note the mistake: the piece in the centre is just a piece of patterned glass – not hobnail. I have read that translucent milk glass was common for the hobnail pattern but I have never found anything but clear. Though
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It seems the summer has gone on forever. Granny gets busy in the summertime: part time babysitting, gardening, grandchildren and so on keeps me busier than a cat in a roomful of mice. I am sorry to have neglected my readers and I am now back in the saddle. I took the grandchildren with me beachcombing on
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