Monday, January 5, 2009

January GiveAway - Nova Scotia Beach Glass!


This lovely bracelet (which is actually a blue/green seafoam colour, not white) is being donated by Lori at Willow Black Lab (mostly beach glass supplies Lori and her black lab Willow find on their treasure hunting expeditions) / Nova Scotia Beach Glass (beautiful jewelry Lori designs and creates with the treasures she finds along the shores of Nova Scotia). This is what Lori told me about how she started collecting beach glass:
"Willow found me when she was only 4 weeks old and weighed in at a whoopping 3 lbs. So she started to travel to work with me and on my lunch hour we would head for the beach. I noticed broken glass and picked it up because I didn't want her to cut her paws or eat it. Then one day I found a perfectly smooth and frosty piece of cobalt blue . I was amazed and hooked on beach glass from then on. It's been over 5 years that I've hunted for seaglass and eachpiece I find still holds me in amazement just like the first piece."

The bracelet is 7.5 inches long , silver plated and has seafoam green beach glass.

All you have to do is go to either of her Etsy webshops (you can click on the links above) and make a comment below as to what your favourite piece is. On January 15th, I'll be making a random draw from all the people that commented for the winner of the bracelet :)

I've recently bought a few items from Lori. I've been experimenting with making jewelry pieces for over a year now, and thought I'd try my hand at using beach glass. I got the following items:
I'm really looking forward to playing with them to see what I come up with. I took a class last spring on wire-wrapping, and we used beach glass. We shall see what wire designs the above pieces call out for :)

And since this is my first post of 2009, I wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2009 bring you peace, happiness and prosperity :)

The Enfield Farmers Market is finished for the winter. Thank you to everybody in the community that came out and supported your local vendors! We'll be opening up again in June. For anybody that wants to order Clean & Bright products, you can see what I have available by going to my Etsy shop here. If you're local and want to arrange to pick up your order, feel free to place your order on Etsy and put a comment in the Message to Seller box that you'd like to pick it up. I'll let you know what the actual total is in Canadian funds since you won't have to pay for shipping. Also, I'm now available for home parties. If you'd like to host a home party please email me at cleanbright@eastlink.ca and I'll send you some information. I won't be doing very many home parties due to my knee injury. But I am up for doing 1-2 every month until my knee surgery is scheduled...

May your day be filled with sunshine :)

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

beautiful pieces! i think my favorite is Warm Blue - A Seaglass necklace from Nova Scotia.

thanks for sharing her work.

Anonymous said...

Wow and I use to just keep it in a bowl. I love the ocean wave necklace. I may have to keep her in mind.

Lori said...

Thank you so much for showcasing my stores on your blog. Great write up. I can't wait to see who will win. Lori and Willow

Beth said...

Gorgeous work! I love this piece:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16852648

reminds me of digging for "treasure" when i was kid, and finding a "genuine artifact" of broken pottery.

beth
chickscratch.etsy.com

Alice Potter said...

Absolutle beautiful work from NOvia Scotia Beach Glass. The colours are amazing.

Alice Potter said...

And my favourite piece is the Glass Floats necklace.

Audrey said...

The Emerald Green Seaglass Necklace is my favorite!! Love the color green.

Please feel free to come to my blog and enter my give away:
http://audreyscountrycraftsgiveaway.bogspot.com

Valerie said...

Ooh they are all beautiful but I do like this one. One of the Emerald Greens:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19055997

Anonymous said...

My favorite is the Citron Green necklace from Nova Scotia (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19361891) I love that beautiful green colour!

mbj_contact (at) yahoo (dot) com

Anonymous said...

Citron Green - Seaglass from Nova Scotia is my favorite! I love it! Beautiful products!

NewYorkMemos said...

This is definitely my favorite!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19056607

^_^

~Nyny
NewYorkTran@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I like the Willow Ware Blue Necklace-the different shades of blue in the stone are gorgeous!

Elaine R
emrosser@shaw.ca

Digital Misfit said...

I adore seaglass and the unknown history it holds. Seaglass from Nova Scotia has even more mystery - could it be a piece from the Halifax Explosion in 1917?
I love the Simple Whites earrings - so dainty and elegant.

Wonderful feature and giveaway.

Happy New Year:)

heidig@gmail.com

patti flynn said...

the citron green novia scotia necklace is TOTALLY my fave!
it looks like a beautiful pale green droplet.

i
ll be waiting to see what you create, jody!