Sea Glass Drilling and Kits

Did you know that I have a free sea glass drilling tutorial on my website?  It even has a link to a video (sort of armature, seeing how my young daughter shot the film, still helpful though).

http://stacilouise.blogspot.com/2011/06/btw-drilling-sea-glass-tutorial.html

I love being able to drill my own sea glass, shells and stones.  It has opened a whole new world for me.

I am selling some kits of seaglass and drill bits at a discounted price on my facebook page this week.  

https://www.facebook.com/stacilouiseoriginals?ref=br_tf

To drill sea glass you will need:

a cordless dremel
diamond drill bits
pencil
cross lock pliers (you can hold it with your fingers too, some people prefer that)
collet to fit the bits (mine I sell use 1/16")
sea glass
water
a dish to drill in with water in it

The kit only has two diamond tip drill bits (the ones I use and love) and sea glass-jewelry quality, in a variety of sizes and shapes and colors.  The rest is up to you.  Each 2x3" bag is filled with pieces! They are usually $25 per bag, but will be only $15 each this week.  You don't get to pick which bag you get, but they are all great with nice pieces for your jewelry creations.

ALL SEA GLASS IS GENUINE AND JEWELRY GRADE

I am also selling supplemental bags - regularly $20 each- of just sea glass, no drill bits, and they will be only $15 each (plus shipping, details on facebook).  These are great prices for jewelry grade sea glass!!!  

The winter is my favorite time to drill- since I am indoors more, it is fun to pull out my summer treasures and create things with them.

Take advantage while you can!  Supplies are limited!

Look at the fun you can have with drilling your own glass!

Sea Glass and my Journey

For those of you who are new to my blog / shops, I relized you may not know the love affair I have had with sea glass.  It played a huge part in my "taking off" as a jewelry designer.

Here is the backstory...........

I started out stringing gemstones and using silver- two of my first loves.  One day, i walk into a shop on Long Beach Island NJ, and the owner tells me she likes my necklace (a wire wrapped gemstone) and asks me if I could do that in sea glass.  I said I guess, I never tried...and I have never had any sea glass.  So she promptly grabs me two gorgeous pieces of sea glass, tells me to do something with them and come back in the spring, and she'd let me put my jewelry in her shop.  That is how my love affair with these magnificent little gems began.

And so I wire wrapped, and I drilled, and I made very typical pieces of sea glass jewelry.  

I really enjoyed working solely in sea glass- and I sold these on ebay (don't miss that at all).  But I also missed my gemstones.  

I also sold at my normal art and craft shows, plus, I did a couple sea glass festivals per year.  

I then acquired some better wire wrapping and metal smith skills.  I learned to solder, to rivet, I added PMC and metal clays to the mix, and I wanted to mix them all together.  

That is when everything finally started to feel like home- and I have been mixing it up ever since.

Going through all my sea glass as I clean the studio has me quite nostalgic.  I miss doing the Lewes DE sea glass festival.  It was a nice show- just so much work to be away from the family for the weekend during school.

Since I am cleaning out and organizing, I am offering some one time grab bags with diamond drill bits over on my facebook page today.  Limited to the quantity at hand and that's it.  

They are a great deal.  Here is a peek at the bags.  They were all pieces I was going to drill for jewelry myself, so they are very good quality!  some even have pencil marks of where i was going to drill.  They can be erased or washed off if you want to.

So stop by my business page and see what I have to offer, and what is left.

https://www.facebook.com/stacilouiseoriginals

If you already have sea glass and drill bits, you can check out my free drilling tutorial at the top of the blog.  Click on Tutorials and Tips, and you will find it there.  Open the sea glass drilling tutorial, and you will also find a video demonstration. 

Thanks for joining me on this trip down memory lane.  It makes me long to have my toes in the sand and sea glass around my neck!  Come on spring!  You are not coming fast enough.

September Jewelry

I spent September recovering from Bead Fest, and prepping for a couple shows, one of which is a sea glass festival on LBI (where I was last weekend).

I am finally getting around to posting some pics of my new work.  I have another show next weekend, but hopefully will be able to list some after that.  I am so bad and taking and editing pics.....not my favorite thing to do, and like this, it is often really behind schedule.

 

Many of these are sold already, that is how behind I am.  anyhow, enjoy!  I really had fun making this round of jewelry.  I got the chance to use a lot of beads that didn't sell at beadfest.  Man, was it fun to have so many beads to choose from!  I usually don't have much inventory through the year. 

 

  

I will be making some more in the next couple weeks as well.  I am really low on earrings and bracelets.  First, I need to make more metal clay components for them!!!