Wednesday 27 April 2016

Mount Edgecumbe Haul

I am going to be selling some of my recycled sea glass earrings in The Upcycled Home Co of Mount Edgecumbe, which is very exiting, but before I can do that I need to make them! I  had a stroll around the beach about 2 minutes from the shop and although it was a horrible windy day with the tide coming in fast, I did manage to find some real beauties.

Here are some of the more unusual ones, I was really doubting I would find any blue, as I never have there before, but luckily I found 2 little pieces. There is also a tiny piece of bright turquoise which is really beautiful, but unfortunately it is so tiny it would hardly make one droplet, let alone a pair of earrings.
 I also found a range of sea shells and I love the range of colours and patterns although I'm not really sure what to do with them! A while ago I did try to drill holes in some of the yellow snail shells, but they just cracked apart. Maybe I should have used a better drill...
 And finally this teeny tiny hag stone! Actually the hole is so perfectly round I am half wondering if its been drilled and somehow dropped onto the beach. I am collecting all the beads I find on the beach and hope to someday make a necklace with them all, so this would make a nice addition!

2 comments:

  1. A hag stone is a stone with a naturally occurring hole in it, and they were/are often used as talismans to protect from things like sickness and nightmares :)

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