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The ocean gives us treasures, we wrap them and send them home for you to enjoy from the shores of Prince Edward Island

Beachcombing

Walking beside the ocean, hearing the waves, looking downward, picking what man has left behind and what nature has tumbled. Once sand now glass, once raw now wrapped, was mine, now yours.

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PEI Sea Glass & cards

April 28th 2012 Posted at Scrapbooking
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It’s no secret I love sea glass and there are trails of it everywhere I go these days. Someone stopped by the Tea Room this week and I thought nothing of taking them on a little tour, I remember hearing from behind, “holy cow look at the sea glass.”

The weather here in PEI has been iffy, off and on rain has entered the days long enough to keep the ground wet enough you can’t play in the garden and longer to keep you from beachcombing.

Today I’d like to share with you a new card I made with elements of PEI. If you look close enough, you will find pieces of sea glass, Island stone and shells. I had a number of small pieces of driftwood to place on the cards but it was just too bulky.

These cards were fun to make and so I made 25 of them and put them into the Island Made gift shop for
sale.

On a recent visit to Ottawa I stopped by Multi Crafts in the East End and picked up plastic window boxes. These are squares about 2″ by 2″ and I also found plastic ovals. I plan to put our red PEI sand, small beach shells, hand picked sea glass and maybe a little kelp in behind the windows and make shaker box cards; that would be something. Once I get the first one done, I’ll be posting a picture of it for everyone to see.

Take care scrapbookers

~Scrapbook Cindy

Remember to shop and buy local and keep small business alive. Visit my scrapbooking neighbour Angela, in Charlottetown at “The Scrapbook Studio” 47B Beach Grove Road, Ellen’s Creek Plaza, Charlottetown, PE. C1E 1K5 Phone: 902.370.4990

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Sea Glassing a Bottle Stopper

April 17th 2012 Posted at Beachcombing
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The days are getting warmer and closer to summer. This has to be my favourite time of year when the ice leaves the shoreline and new discoveries wash up on the beach. Yesterday we dropped what we were doing and headed to Souris Beach to do a little beachcombing. My new buzz word is seaglassing, it all means the same thing “I’m gone to the beach.”

It was a beautiful day

Perfect for bending and stooping

Then! to my surprise I found one of the four things I have been looking for while beachcombing for sea glass, a bottle stopper. Laying in its beauty, old, history, glass and dating back to maybe 1860?

Then the happy dance

Amazing is the feeling when you find one of these bottle stoppers while sea glassing beachcombing. Early drug bottles were produced for formulas. Sent empty to local druggists or doctors and they had the task of filling it with dry or liquid prescription. These bottles called apothecary-style bottles were to protect dry medicines and chemicals from moisture intrusion or oxygen exposure. When your druggist filled the bottle they most likely sent you home with a cork fit stopper as the glass stopper didn’t travel well on horseback or buggy.

An apothecary stopper was on my list of “must find” while beachcombing. It’s a great prize to a sea-glass hunter, just ask me, here we are days later and I’m still ecstatic about it. I don’t know what I’ll do with my find but you want to bet I’ll have it on display somewhere about the house. Truly, a great number of these bottles were made between 1850 and 1900 and mostly in clear glass. The glass stoppers in tea drop shape were also made at that time for perfume bottles.

Imagine getting Phantom Powder instead of Hair Tonic…

My Favourite Find

Do you beachcomb where you live? Have you ever found a bottle stopper? Next I want to find a ceramic doll face. Soon we will be busy with the Tea Room and Bed and Breakfast and won’t be able to comb the beaches of Prince Edward Island as often as we’d like.

Barn I added to PEI Through a Lens a facebook page I made that has just photos of all my favourites from seaglass, to wirewrapping, barns, bales, lighthouses and then some, follow the link and check it out.

Well that concludes another day at the beach. Hope to see you beachcombing some day.

~cindy

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Buy the Sea Glass of PEI

March 13th 2012 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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In PEI we offer miles and miles of walking shoreline for beach combing. Beachcombing can be a special hobby for some and a business for other. I have a number of beautiful genuine pieces of Sea Glass or beach glass from PEI that I have wrapped with wire and made into pendants.
What can I “wire wrap” for you? Bring it in the shop and I’ll teach you to wire wrap that special piece for you.

Everyone has a collection of one thing or another, and perhaps;
You are a top of the dresser, back pocket, sandy beach or sparkly things collector? Do you know?
Do you walk the beach in search of sharks teeth, sea glass or beach glass and unshapely shells?
Perhaps you have a China plate on your dresser filled with pretty stones from your last vacation?
Maybe you carry lucky junk in your pocket like a coin, marble, stone or safety pin.
Do you appreciate ity bity things with large sentimental value?
Do you save tokens, clips, bright buttons, and tiny items?

If you said yes to any or all then I can help you turn your treasures into wearable’s or gifts to give to family, friends or as souvenirs from PEI. During the summer months our little gift shop turns into a great spot for a workshop, stop by and try your hand at a wire wrap. Visit soon and take part in one of My Island Experiences, be it a full day (beachcombing), a half day (tea/tour/craft) or a half an hour (wire wrapping seaglass) there is fun for everyone.
Wire is a versatile material and twists easily. It is strong enough to hold all your cherished items that you can wear and be admired by many.
Here at the Island Made gift shop I use a variety of coloured wire or gold filled, copper and sterling silver to wrap your cherished pieces secure.
Come have a look at a few I have done that sit in our shop ready to wear.

wire wrapped teal sea glass with crystals

wire wrapped piece of jadeite found in Souris, PEI

Silver wrapped piece of clear sea glass found on our beaches of PEI

A white nugget piece of sea glass

This is a sea glass focal pendent just waiting for a chain

This piece is a favourite of mine found in Tea Hill, PEI

I hope to see you this summer for a little Island Fun

~cindy

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Paint Sample Crafts

March 8th 2012 Posted at Scrapbooking
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If you’re anything like me! you hang onto what might be used another day. You also have a junk drawer with a few extra paint samples. You can’t part with them because the colours are pretty and the names on the pint chips remind you of places, “believe me I understand.” Turn them into little pocket purse note pads shaped like matchbooks.

Matchbook mini notes

Fun and easy to do crafts with re-used paint samples

Materials:

Paint samples

White sheets of card stock

Stapler

Punches to decorate

How to make a mini note pad:

1. cut your paper to 2″ by 2.5″

2. cut the paint samples to the same width

3. fold the bottom of the sample to 1/2 ” on the bottom (where stapled)

4. put 6 sheets of your cut paper inside fold

5. staple through all layers

6. fold the paint sample around the top of the note pad

7. trim the length then tuck in behind the stapled bottom

8. decorate the outside with rubber stamps, punches, or stuff from your junk drawer

If you can’t find me Funny that is because I’m busy being Frugal, either way I’m have Fun doing it.

Take care,

Scrapbook Cindy

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Scrapbook Anne of Green Gables

January 11th 2012 Posted at Scrapbooking
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Who is this Anne of Green Gables anyway? She’s an orphan who comes to live in a farming community on an Island. Not just any Island, but Prince Edward Island. Each summer Anne comes to life in the hearts and minds of those who visit the historical Green Gables site. In Cavendish on a hill overlooking just a bit of Canada’s lovely land, you will find Green Gables, a homestead where Anne is remembered by thousands who come each year.

Scrapbooking Anne of Green Gables

The scrapbooking fun is ongoing in the studio, the scrapbooked memories are forever, and the licensed memorabilia of Anne of Green Gables are available in the Island Made Gift Shop. ~Scrapbook Cindy

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Sea Glass Lamp

January 8th 2012 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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Sea Glass Lamp

A number of days ago I visited our local ReStore and purchased this lamp.

I wanted to make a Sea Glass Lamp and so we start with taking all the material off the lamp.

Then removing all the glue, what a job that was, FYI if you plan to make one of these buy a new lamp shade without any material on it from a craft and hobby shop.

The next step was collecting sea glass. My bh got excited thinking we were going beachcombing in January on a day -5 no not this one. Its not like I had to go to the beach to make this seaglass lamp as I have a personal collection.

But if you plan to make a lamp with seaglass you will need a number of sizes and shapes. Sea Glass can be found on the shores of Prince Edward Island but if you are not vacationing here just yet and you are in a hurry to make your lamp, you can purchase seaglass on the internet but it is becoming expensive as it is getting harder to find.

I then wirewrapped a number of pieces with a toggle at both ends so I had something to secure the wire to. I started wirewrapping then realized the glass needed to have a wire netting behind to hold it into place so I weaved wire one way then another to make a box pattern with the wire.

I’m making this lamp to go into a bedroom we just redecorated in our Bed and Breakfast. It is going to be a nice touch as the room is decorated with a nautical theme and a closer look you will see antique glass dishes filled with sea glass, an old barn wood mirror accented with seaglass and drift wood and now a sea glass lamp will sit on the end table. I just have to decorate the base with sea glass and driftwood.

The Finished Sea Glass Lamp

The Lamp Lit Up

I’m shutting out the light now, it is late and after three days the lamp is almost complete. I will add driftwood and sea shells to the base and then it is on display.

Thanks for stopping by my craft project with sea glass, visit again to see what the next seaglass craft will be.

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Take care my friend ~ seaglass cindy

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Mermaid’s (Tear) Wrapped Seaglass Pendant

January 1st 2012 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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Just for a Tear

The shores of Prince Edward Island were a little frozen when we beachcombed yesterday. However, I had to have that first piece of seaglass to wire wrap for a New Year’s Pendant.

December 31, 2011, our way to bring in the New Year.

This is our beachcombing beach on the north shore of PEI, notice the ice on the tops of the rocks? Ya! no kidding the North Shore was fabulous and the winds were about 10 knots, gorgeous day if you were dressed for it.

One tear cried onto the shore.

As I’m walking the beach this rolled up in front of me. I felt like I was serving as a valet parking attendant at the Ritz and a Rolls-Royce had just pulled up for me to pick up. One Mermaid’s Tear, a beautiful piece of seaglass – was there a subliminal message here? I think so, “quick pick it up” I heard yelling from the back of my head.

Lots of colour found today.

These seaglass shards complete my collection of finds for the day. Notice the orange piece of seaglass? I looked up West Coast Sea Glass, they have a poster marking the rarest of all pieces. What a journey a piece of sea glass makes until it arrives in hand.

Sea Glass 2012

For a closer look

I incorporated a twisted square wire

A few Swarovski crystals are added to the top of the bail

Excited about Sea Glass

A picture from the top

The End!

Thank you for stopping by my post on Mermaid’s (Tear) Wrapped Seaglass Pendant. I hope you enjoyed the walk / glass / wrap. Wishing you all the best as we start the New Year, happy wrapping.

~ seaglass cindy

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Gone to the Beach

December 31st 2011 Posted at Beachcombing
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Gone to the Beach

When someone mentions the phrase “gone to the beach,” you sort of think of beach towels, crowds and sunny days. On Dec 31 in Prince Edward Island, Canada the phrase gone to the beach paints a picture of cold, windy and ice caps on the water. What would drag you out of bed at 5:15 at a temperature of -5 to make a lunch and head to the beach? You guess it, Sea glass

Beachcombing in the Winter

Baby its cold out there! So why bother? There are a couple of reasons one takes to the crisp cold sea shoreline of PEI in the Winter. First- it won’t be crowded, second- the beach won’t be picked over for seaglass, third- we are busy in the summer months and can’t always get to the beach to replenish our supply, and fourthly- Winter tides are different and although there is no special time for collecting sea glass, it is said that winter is the best time of the season. Winter brings higher tides. The tides will bring about more sea glass onto the shore. ts always windy in PEI and so you don’t have a choice but a windy day is preferable with more than thirty knots, because the wind will expose sea glass from under the sand. That said be sure to search for sea glass in and around the high tide mark or line. Then if you add rainy to that windy day you will find only seasoned beachcombers collecting sea glass. Nevertheless, one needs a lot of seaglass to make a matching pair of earrings so I had better get rough and ready.

I’ll return later today with my winter seaglass finds and frost bit fingers.

Thanks for stopping by my blog post on Gone to the Beach, I hope you rather enjoyed what I endure just for glass, not just glass but Seaglass.

~ Seaglass Cindy

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Seaglass by the Sea Shore

December 29th 2011 Posted at Beachcombing
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I am a passionate lover of seaglass. As a child I remember always wanting the shiny toys like a lite bright, now that I’m older not much is changed. Being close to the shore and hearing the ocean washing back and forth has a calming effect. Treasure hunting the shores of PEI and hunting for sea glass has magical moments. Perhaps I’m reclaiming my young days and that is what attracts me to the ocean, the beach and calls me to sea glass hunting. I am a beachcomber of seaglass, collecting the shiny pieces of sea glass after mother nature tumbles it onto the shore.

My passion for seaglass has become my hobby, well I should be honest it has become an obsession. Sometimes we can record the journey that a precious gem has taken by the colour shape or type of glass.
This piece of Jadeite dates back to 1940′s. Martha Stewart made Jadeite very popular increasing it’s value. I’ll save the research theory for another time. It ‘s hard to believe that glass was once made of sand. Glass becoming part of the sea again; washing back and forth with the elements of sand, stones and the tides. Turning the glass and tumbling it over time into a precious gem of seaglass, depositing it onto the shore for you to find. The glory of the hunt hunt for me is the end result after I have wire wrapped it into a beautiful piece of jewellery.

Thank you for visiting my sea glass by the sea shore blog. It is considered a good day when the sun shines bright and the seaglass sparkles on a sandy shore.

Take care my friend,

~ seaglass cindy

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Sea Glass Earrings

December 28th 2011 Posted at Wire Wrapping
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Even though it is Winter here in Prince Edward Island and we have snow on the ground it is also a great time to go beachcombing and find sea glass. Over the past two days we have ventured out and found what I would say are some good quality pieces.
I have been in the studio drilling glass for earrings and I broke my first piece of sea glass. No big deal, it wasn’t blue or red but it was a perfect match for a pair of earrings I had picked them out for. Matching sea glass for earrings is very time consuming and takes a lot of patients and time, something I have in the Winter months as our little shop doesn’t see too much business. You are not only matching size but colour and shape. Seeing it is Christmas I put out the open sign for two days last week and had a few drop ins from Islanders who have family home from away. I have everything I need scattered all around me when I work and I wonder if it looks messy to people who drop by or if it looks like I was working.

Last night I finished up these earrings. Most of them are all seaglass that I drilled with the exception of one pair of bead earrings. The earrings are hung onto photos of PEI. These photos are in the studio and are used in “My Island Experience” when travellers stop by to scrapbook. I wire wrap and I have found I also like to hammer wire so this is my first pair of earrings that I made by flattening out the wire and then punching a whole in one end for the earring hook. If you notice white fuzz on the earrings when you click on the picture to enlarge it, don’t worry this comes off, I like to have a 12 x 12 swatch of alpaca on my work surface so things don’t roll away when I’m working.

I’ll be bagging these up today and getting them ready to price. Thank you for stopping by my blog on sea glass earrings I hope you drop by again.

~ Seaglass cindy

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