Sea Glass Ball Fishing Net Floats

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My Latest Finds

Some of my recent sea glass finds include a handful of bubble-filled teal greenish blue shards. This is a rather rare color for us and likely comes from fragments of the vintage, Japanese and Korean glass fishing floats that have meandered their way across the great expanse of ocean to land on a Pacific Northwest beach.

Across The Ocean

These glass fishing net floats were found washed up on a beach in remote Alaska. Over a lifetime they've crossed the Bering Sea from Asia. Once used by fishermen to give their fishnets buoyancy, the floats were strung together on the nets then set adrift upon the sea.

Very Rare

The nets were supported near the water’s surface by these hollow, colorful glass balls containing air to keep them afloat. After a springtime storm, the sea glass hunter can still occasionally find a piece from a broken glass float. However a fully intact glass float is an extremely rare find. Occasionally we are able to sell one or two of these on our website, when available. Click here: Glass Floats

These were photographed by me on the beach in front of my home along the Puget Sound. Copyright Mary Beth Beuke

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The Sea Glass Festival

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Sea Glass Memories:
It all came flooding back to me tonight. You see, the Sea Glass Association (see link at right) just recently spruced up the look of the Sea Glass Festival webpage. Since I'm the person who gets to help do the layout and content of the page, I got the first look at a recap of the past two years of enchanting sea glass bliss.

What's a Sea Glass Festival?
It's two days filled with sea glass related art, crafts, lectures, exhibits and hundres of crazy (in the good way) creative, adventurous beach combers who have a special penchant for those frosty little gems.

Sunny California:
The sunroom style exhibit hall overlooked the beach in Santa Cruz, California. The air was warm and the sun was shining all weekend as the sea glass festooned room seemed to glow with color. Museum like pieces were showcased upon white tables, while jewelry displays and table-top busts boasted glints of silver chain showcasing sea glass gems. Stories were traded, specimens were shown and prizes were awarded.

We Gotta Go Back:
There's a force...something unexplainable pulling many back to that alluring sea glass weekend. Though we cannot step back in time, we can review the bright photos and plan for next October!

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Welcome to The Sea Glass Blog!

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Thanks for joining us as we journey the world's oceans; sharing tales, showing our sea glass finds, traveling together!

This blog is brought to you by the collectors at West Coast Sea Glass. West Coast Sea Glass, on the Pacific Ocean coast, is a studio that was developed as a result of a lifelong love with the ocean and sea glass collecting in particular.

We are lifetime beach combers who've traversed miles and miles of shoreline. Now our collection spans every major ocean and many remote locations of the world. Our collection, paired with our decades of jewelry design experience has put us in a unique place to share our sea glass knowledge with others.

Though this blog is new, our sea glass knowledge is not. Our hope is that you'll find these pages rich with information and that you'll even find them as enchanting as seaglass itself.

What's new: This fine, 7 piece bracelet is made with rare cobalt blues all bezel set in sterling silver. Considered quite rare, they've each been tumbling a lifetime on beaches along the majestic Pacific ocean.

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Mary Beth Beuke - Collector, Artist, Owner; West Coast Sea Glass Studio

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