There are many new trends in glass beaded bracelets, necklaces and other fine jewelry and several are made from beautiful pieces of Sea Glass. Sea Glass are pieces of glass found washed up along the shores of various beaches that stood the test of time and came out  extraordinarily beautiful, smooth and shiny. 

 Sea Glass are broken pieces of glass that end up in the ocean, for any number of reasons, and, over time, become smooth from the currents and sand particles. The results  reveal a shiny piece of perfectly round, sometimes oval shaped, glass that many designer’s use in jewelry collections. These pieces of glass that wash up on the beach could  have fallen off of boats or were part of a boat at one time.  Sea glass could have come from many different items, such as tail lights,  lanterns, dishes, glasses, cups and saucers, soda pop bottles, baby bottles, food jars, eyeglasses or sunglasses. The waves and currents toss the glass around like a rock tumbler until the glass is a smooth ‘jewel’ and deposits it on the sand for some lucky person to find.

Sea Glass can be found in a variety of colors such as blue, orange, green, yellow, black, white, purple, pink and the rarest of them all, live crawfish red. The color of the Sea Glass depends on the color of the glass that had fallen into the sea so long ago. Some of the Sea Glass comes from garbage dump sites that had made its way toward land with the current while other pieces were deliberately dumped into the ocean by less environmentally friendly patrons.

Porto Rico appears to have the most amount of Sea Glass washing up on its shores. Although no shore, within the United States or elsewhere, seems to have a monopoly on the Sea Glass trade. Many dealers will pay decent money for found pieces of Sea Glass, whether it be for their own collections or for their jewelry business. Many countries that boarder the Mediterranean Sea find their beaches scattered with the beautiful Sea Glass because their beaches are mostly round rocks instead of soft sands.  

So next time you are at the beach and see something shiny in the sand, go ahead and dig it up and wash it off. It just may just be a beautiful piece of Sea Glass you can keep for yourself or sell to the many companies willing to pay big money for various pieces of Sea Glass. Keep an out, especially, for the rarest colors the sea has to offer.

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