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Dedicated To Sea Glass Lovers Around The WorldBy The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-59750119049317936392015-06-02T17:26:00.000-04:002015-06-02T17:26:36.162-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to our NEW and IMPROVED site!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well the Holidays are almost here and we have been producing tons of new jewelry for you and your loved ones. We are also ready to provide with you our famed customer service with gift wrapping, personalized gift messages and fast reliable shipping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So far we have been concentrating on our Original Wire and Deluxe Wire Bezel Settings. These are our most POPULAR settings and just featured in the November issue of Coastal Living Magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pictured Above - Our PREMIUM gift services include free gift wrapping on ANY order. Heavy top quality glossy paper and deluxe bows and a gift tag. For orders over $200 we include a jewelers Deluxe gift box and beach Santa card. All Complimentary! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later this week we will be adding simple basic wire pieces in all colors, and styles. These settings are affordable</span>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our prices range from $20 and up on these secure and basic pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are so pleased to announce that we have been <b>FEATURED</b> in the November Coastal Living Magazine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Page 36 which predominately featured one of our Deluxe Wire Bezel pendants in vivid Aqua Blue is now in homes and on newsstands across the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have been busy preparing for the release of this feature and though the original pendant has been sold, we have created <u><b>MANY</b></u> similar just like it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See our <a href="http://bytheseajewelry.com/as-seen-in-coastal-living-magazine/" target="_blank">AS SEEN IN COASTAL LIVING MAGAZINE</a> section on our website for some amazing Aqua Blue sea glass pieces in our ORIGINAL Deluxe Wire Bezel setting!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are busy added new jewelry to the website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A lot of blue sea glass earrings and pendants are online BUT they tend to sell Fast!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check them out today at <a href="http://bytheseajewelry.com/search.php?search_query=blue&Search=" target="_blank">By The Sea Glass Jewelry</a></span><br />
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<br />By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-76653064602093770242013-08-18T17:57:00.001-04:002015-09-06T16:29:03.441-04:00Summer Sea Glass Bling!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have just added some B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L genuine sea glass rings!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check them out at Summer <a href="http://bytheseajewelry.com/sea-glass-rings/?sort=newest" target="_blank">Sea Glass Rings</a></span></span>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-37473965756512458172013-08-16T12:55:00.001-04:002013-08-16T12:55:03.653-04:00Never give up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KgX2NlzdHmY/Ug5YiPdOHJI/AAAAAAAAAr0/6JvNrPEmmT4/s1600/20130816_23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KgX2NlzdHmY/Ug5YiPdOHJI/AAAAAAAAAr0/6JvNrPEmmT4/s320/20130816_23.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565568026813990&set=a.565567653480694.1073741851.115711111799686&type=3&theater#.Ug5Yb9-ktlo.blogger">Never give up!</a><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">My Plumeria <u>FINALLY</u> has bloomed. After 2 winters of hard freezes, we did not give up on this plant. Today it FINALLY rewarded us. I also was able to get a great shot of this dragonfly in the process.<br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">These heavenly scented flowers are used traditionally in Hawaiian leis.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumeria" target="_blank"> More info on Plumeria </a></span><br />
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This visitor stopped by the studio today. It is unusual to get so close to one but I think he was attracted to the bright bloom and heady fragrance of the flower!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had so much fun today sorting through my personal collection of English Multicolor Sea Glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These pieces are works of art in themselves and I often can get distracted for hours just looking at them and holding them up to the light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seaham Multi sea glass is a result of colored glass accidentally getting combined in coloring crucible at an art glass factory. They were then discarded into the local rivers and sea. now they wash up on shorelines surrounding this tiny hamlet in England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well in glass making, raw molten glass is combined with various minerals to achieve different colors. For Instance Cobalt glass uses Oxide Blue-Violet, Chromic Oxide for Emerald Green glass, Gold Chloride for Red. (for more info on glass colors, see <a href="http://geology.com/articles/color-in-glass.shtml">http://geology.com/articles/color-in-glass.shtml</a>) A coloring crucible or large vat is used to combine the flowing glass with the coloring agent. It gets built up on the sides, cools and then the crucible is cleaned an "waste" discarded. In this case, into the North Sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are other types of "Art Sea Glass" both from this location and from 2 or 3 others around the world making it precious and rare. The other types of mixed color sea glass from Seaham include Pontil Pieces and flash glass (used in windows in England).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are proud to be the first artist in American to acquire and work with these unaltered natural sea glass gems and maintain the largest collection outside of the UK. If you would like to see some of our jewelry made from these lovelies, check out our website for <a href="http://bytheseajewelry.com/search.php?search_query=english&Search=" target="_blank">English Sea Glass Jewelry</a>. </span><br />
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<br />By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-50729934593607302752013-08-14T11:40:00.002-04:002015-09-06T16:33:57.914-04:00New Limited Edition Sea Glass Jewelry Pieces<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4cKNA4QzmJg/UgujpF6HBSI/AAAAAAAAApc/XoH-F_YMzcA/s1600/20130630_11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sea Glass Jewelry in Silver" border="0" height="246" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4cKNA4QzmJg/UgujpF6HBSI/AAAAAAAAApc/XoH-F_YMzcA/s320/20130630_11.JPG" title="Sea Glass Jewelry in Silver" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are busy this month working on new Limited Edition pieces set in fine and sterling silver. Pictured here is some amazing colorful flat sea glass that we have begun to set in silver. We often do larger pieces as components. This allows for changes in design to be made to the final piece. It also allows us flexibility if one of the pieces is below our standards when complete.</span></span><br />
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I am sure everyone has their favorite beach. Here are CNN's top 22. Though they missed some of my favorite sandy spots, this is a nice collection of beach locations.<br />
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My personal favorite beaches are Ocracoke, South Nags Head, Pea Island on Hatteras Island,Sebastian Inlet Beaches and Siesta Key Beach. All but Siesta beach are remarkably not overdeveloped. These beaches either restrict building heights or are mostly wild with an abundance of sea oats, sea glass and pure heaven!.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q7Y87NvBJu8/US-sHwBfX5I/AAAAAAAAAao/qJZNnreRBHY/s1600/ruby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q7Y87NvBJu8/US-sHwBfX5I/AAAAAAAAAao/qJZNnreRBHY/s200/ruby.jpg" width="167" /></span></a><span class="style25" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red is the hope diamond of sea glass and will make any sea glass lovers day, week or year.</span></div>
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One of the most common sources for ruby red glass was made by Anchor
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Hocking discovered a way to use copper to turn glass a red hue instead
of the traditional gold, making the cost of producing this glass much
more commercially feasible.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>While Ruby Red glass has been made throughout history, Anchor hocking found a way to produce it much cheaper and available to the public</span>. </span></div>
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using gold (inste<span style="font-size: small;">ad of co<span style="font-size: small;">pper) </span></span>date<span style="font-size: small;">s</span> back to the 1600's and later became known as the
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">However, the Romans made gold ruby glass long before th<span style="font-size: small;">en</span>. The famous Lycurgus Cup<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">(pictured <span style="font-size: small;">below</span>)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span> made in the 4th Century AD., contains both
gold and silver. An exceptional example of the glass-making skills of the
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">While we have many pieces of</span> <span style="font-size: small;">R<span style="font-size: small;">uby Sea Glass in<span style="font-size: small;"> our collection, the Ro<span style="font-size: small;">yal Ruby by Anchor Hocking is mo<span style="font-size: small;">re available.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="style25"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> <span style="font-size: small;">Some of the jewelry pieces we have using both Royal Ruby and Ruby Reds can be found on our site. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<u><b>Sea Glass is for Lovers.....</b></u><br />
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We have been busy the last few weeks creating new sea glass jewelry for Valentines day.<br />
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Some of the pieces we have added are natural unaltered sea glass pieces in the shape of a heart.<br />
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Pictured right is a green sea glass heart set in fine sterling and silver. The heart cut out from the back of the silver backplate emphasizes the heart even more!<br />
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This piece is available on our site today, but these unique pieces tend to sell quickly.<a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/details.php?prod_id=832" target="_blank"></a><br />
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Heart shaped sea glass is an unusual find. Though many sea glass shards are found in a triangular shape, the heart pieces are much rarer.<br />
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<u><b>How is the heart shape formed naturally?</b></u><br />
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If you have ever broken a bottle or window, remember how the point of impact radiated out through the glass. This is the origin of the triangular shape that much sea glass has. The formation of a heart shaped piece is totally random, and is where part of the top gets chipped out them smoothed by the sea.</div>
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Since we do not alter our sea glass in anyway, it can take going through 1000's of pieces of sea glass to find a single heart. Some heart pieces need a bit of imagination to see the heart shape, while others are very distinct.<br />
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Below are some other sea glass heart shaped pieces I have done that have already sold.</div>
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<br />By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-6551680431658404772009-11-07T11:15:00.000-05:002019-07-22T13:24:07.310-04:00The Business & Ethics Of Sea Glass<script type="text/javascript">
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</script><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is sometimes hard being the oldest Internet site selling sea glass jewelry. Over the years we have had so many incidents copying our site content, ideas and designs that just defending it could be a full time job in itself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though we are aggressive in confronting those individuals that copy our content and most everyone had been accommodating about removing copied content or designs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I helped to write the NASGA code of ethics, I thought that it would provide at least a little protection for competitors who had also joined the group. This has proven not to be the case. In my defense to some recent attacks, I am posting this on my blog.(<i>Ironically only 1 week after posting this blog, I received notice from the NASGA that the Code Of Ethics Statement had been totally removed and combined in a streamlined mission statement with no reference to honoring trademarks, intellectual property etc....)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>SO - For the Record......</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have been online for over 20 years, first as a HTML site that I made myself and that was hosted not under our current domain name but on our providers free website area....We operated at that time as By The Sea Jewelry and have been for 18 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Internet was young back then so it took me <b>hundreds of hours</b> to hone the site, meta tags, content to get listed in the search engines...Funny enough, the site back then, no longer in existence, that always ranked above me was a slow loading homemade site as well and it frustrated me that it kept getting ranked higher as there was no content to speak of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Genuine Sea Glass</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have been using Genuine Sea Glass as a trademark in use or TM (a Legal Definition defined by the USTPO as an unregistered mark.) Unregistered trademarks <b><i>OR</i></b> trademarks in use are used widely in business everywhere - See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark">Wikiapedia</a> for general definition or the <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/register.jsp">USTPO</a> site which starts as "Do you need to register a trademark - NO...) .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since we do not have the time or resources to defend each incident of using this unregistered mark in court, we changed our phrase to Certified Genuine Sea Glass, we are currently working on registering this mark as to protect our interests.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many other professional sites respectfully use instead of our TM use, Natural, Authentic, Real, Found, etc.....or variations thereof. We thank them for their respect for our intellectual property!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently the DMCA DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT, protects photos, designs and content. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Website Design</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several companies have actually copied out EXACT meta tags, descriptions and keywords so much so that they still have By The Sea, in their keywords. Over time, I developed my meta tags and static site pages and was finally listed as one of the top sites under our search terms......this made us a target for new sites coming online....Thankfully, most search engines no longer use these tags to rank a site.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The tag line Sea Glass Jewelry (seaglass jewelry) or beach glass jewelry (beachglass jewelry) from By The Sea Jewelry combines Genuine Sea Glass TM (natural found sea glass) ,,,etc....was soon copied by MANY and can still be seen as a influence on many other sea glass sites.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvWjUE1hBnI/AAAAAAAAAKU/HCnUrPBvFdg/s1600-h/april2000.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401402893391693426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvWjUE1hBnI/AAAAAAAAAKU/HCnUrPBvFdg/s320/april2000.jpg" style="float: left; height: 152px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 217px;" /></a><b><i>What is Sea Glass?</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were also the first page to have a "What is Sea Glass" page from Dec 1999, which can now be seen on just about every other sea glass site online. This too has been a target of copy, in part and in whole. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The oldest online cache of this page which dates back to April 2000 can be seen at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20001215121800/www.bytheseajewelry.com/glass.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20001215121800/www.bytheseajewelry.com/glass.htm</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Original Settings</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The page above also shows a design/technique design that we originated and that has never appeared in an instructional magazine or book and which we have had copied by competitors. I challenge any competitor to demonstrate an example of this setting at an earlier date or to provide me with and article of book that exhibits this technique of setting sea glass. I am confident that they will not be able to do so.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvW3zEaJDfI/AAAAAAAAAKs/urSyvZu2B0w/s1600-h/charles.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401425416085376498" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvW3zEaJDfI/AAAAAAAAAKs/urSyvZu2B0w/s400/charles.jpg" style="float: left; height: 170px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 193px;" /></a>Left is a letter from Charles Peden, co-founder of the NASGA about this setting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Terms And Phrases</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many of the words and terms we have been using since the beginning, <b>"Distinctive</b>", "<b>Specializing In"</b> "<b>Carelessly Discarded" </b>bottles and glass are tumbled in the ocean form these colorful gems of the shore" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More recent terms include - "<b>Ultra Rare</b>" , <b>"REMEMBER</b> - <b>This is the EXACT piece you will receive"</b> and our description of English Sea Glass as <b>EndODay</b> (The term EndOday actually happened because my custom built shopping cart only allows for so many characters and to save on space, I abbreviated to form this term)<b> ALSO</b> my description that it came from a "Victorian Era Glass Factory that discarded scarps over a cliff into the North Sea", copied by a competitor EXACTLY WORD FOR WORD, and when I addressed the issue to them and explained how and why EndODay came about, this person literally told me in an email, that they just pulled that term and the phrase "Out of their A$#"........ I mean really! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XqY8BFMmI/AAAAAAAAALE/KXXbPixEUeo/s1600-h/moz-screenshot-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428502640013423202" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XqY8BFMmI/AAAAAAAAALE/KXXbPixEUeo/s320/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 266px;" /></a>While it is <b><i>not</i></b> unethical practice to monitor your competitors, it is unethical harass them by reference to their work and websites, making legal conclusions as to their rights and post defamatory statements online to their peers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have never publicly attacked this persons designs, or copy protections and in fact have defended their property when applicable (when we notified them via email that a new commercial site was using a photo I knew they owned). We have also defended other sea glass artists intellectual property pertaining to a Color Chart that was posted on our social site, deleting it as we knew it to be copy protected. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We quite frankly only wish to be left alone to do our work. One of the reasons I named my company, By The Sea Jewelry, was a desire for anonymity...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My Google Analytics have the above mentioned person hitting my site over 10,000 page views in the last two years (once last January they hit our site over 20 times in one day - note Page Count is an average not a total). Some days the person visits hundreds of pages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Funny enough, this person continues to hit my "What is Sea Glass" (195 + times which is funny as a self proclaimed pioneer in the sea glass field, I would think they would know what sea glass is by now)!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also my Press Page (About the Artist) page 216 or more times,,,,,(shows a trend of obsession for me that this "person" concerning my business and website) I truly feel like I am being stalked.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XrI9qf26I/AAAAAAAAALM/F-uOZ7jZsj8/s1600-h/moz-screenshot-2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428503465089293218" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XrI9qf26I/AAAAAAAAALM/F-uOZ7jZsj8/s320/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" style="float: right; height: 116px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 168px;" /></a><b><i>Other high hit pages from this person include:</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our Blues and Aquas Page 944 times</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sterling Silver Bracelets 256 times</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XtMiOAbaI/AAAAAAAAALc/9Wa9VaLfIcw/s1600-h/moz-screenshot-16.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428505725464767906" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XtMiOAbaI/AAAAAAAAALc/9Wa9VaLfIcw/s320/moz-screenshot-16.jpg" style="float: right; height: 53px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 175px;" /></a>Once a month I check my competitors to see what they are doing, sales they offer, etc......<b>I honestly believe that this persons using the English sea glass phrase came by osmosis by visiting my site so heavily and that they sadly may really not believe that they got it from our site.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XsrS_wwYI/AAAAAAAAALU/ZUkrjZhR0p4/s1600-h/moz-screenshot-15.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428505154442805634" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1XsrS_wwYI/AAAAAAAAALU/ZUkrjZhR0p4/s320/moz-screenshot-15.jpg" style="float: right; height: 97px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 177px;" /></a>Also more recently, this person claims a design names that we have been using online for over 5 and that are also used by at least 4 other sea glass jewelry companies are using. Their new site claims legal ownership of all phrases, slogans, designs and such, yet she does not grant the same rights or privileges to our site that has been online for over 15 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They have stated that we have "bullied harassed and intimated people", which if emailing someone and asking them to remove content you have written from their site, or discontinue to use a design we originated, or simply asking them for their mailing address is any of the above, well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This person (as of 6/18/10) states on her social that she finds this post (or attacks as she calls them) "disgusting" and that I "routinely portrays me (her) in a false light, and has initiated some personal attacks that I (she) find disgusting". She accuses me now of leaving "rude and obnoxious comments for some of our (her) members" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What exactly does she find disgusting, supporting attacks with facts and figures? (something which she is unable to do as these accusations are baseless and totally biased). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-<b>If anyone reading this finds this post "disgusting" please email me....or post a comment....I have tried to maintain my composure and be judicial. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Occasionally we find competitors that copy some of our original proprietary settings. The letter (below ) can in 2006 from a Maine Artist naively asking me to tell them how to make an original setting. Imagine if say, a new soda company wrote to Coke and told them they would like to get into the soda business and could Coke please tell them the recipe for the soda. She no longer uses the EXACT design but now uses a version she has made her own.....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvW4EBiRjvI/AAAAAAAAAK0/vtOwpFTSqZk/s1600-h/beth.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401425707371958002" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SvW4EBiRjvI/AAAAAAAAAK0/vtOwpFTSqZk/s400/beth.jpg" style="float: left; height: 173px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 268px;" /></a>Another Sea Glass jewelry maker in Rhode Island who when I first contacted about using this design, first told me that they had "seen it in a book", then that, " their sister had shown it to them" then just that "there were only so many ways to wrap sea glass. I finished by convos with them, I ended with simply replying <b>"Yes, and that is MY way",</b> She then asked me for an ISBN code (International Standard Book Number not used on designs or photos), Too Funny huh?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">....In researching my sales records to see if this person had indeed ordered from me (as I have had other competitors attempt to order proprietary settings and request wholesale information) , I found this individual had indeed ordered from my website about a year before. When I asked them to confirm a mailing address so that my attorney could contact them, this person claimed to be fearful that I was stalking them.......</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Really, think about it, if you woke up one morning to find your neighbor had moved your car from your driveway to theirs and was now claiming it to be theirs, wouldn't <b>YOU</b> contact your attorney or the police. Policing the Internet is a bit harder though.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1YClgOEfyI/AAAAAAAAAL0/EDEcfh0UdEU/s1600-h/ulitmatesmall.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428529244169076514" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1YClgOEfyI/AAAAAAAAAL0/EDEcfh0UdEU/s320/ulitmatesmall.jpg" style="float: left; height: 239px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 160px;" /></a>In monitoring other sites, we often find incidents of design and name and phrase theft. Below are two pics, the top one is my <b><i>Ultimate Sea Glass Lovers</i></b> bracelet that has been on my site for well over 4 years on the Sea Glass Ideas page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quite recently I found the second photo on another sea glass jewelers site, Also called The Ultimate Sea Glass Lovers Bracelet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I contacted this person, they immediately changed the name of the piece. It still bears evidence our influence in the industry </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428516003974279698" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/S1X2i0po8hI/AAAAAAAAALs/M_woQv2ydDY/s320/Winter.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; height: 175px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 132px;" /><b>This artist too has some of the finest silver work online so why they would want to copy me is a mystery.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I simply pointed out to this jeweler the "coincidence" of pieces being NAMED THE SAME and even POSED the same way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This "artist" above has also recently used some terms and phrases on her redesigned site that are ORIGINAL to our site. Our saying <b>"<i>Sea glass is just glass like Diamonds are just rocks</i>"</b>, She says on her site "<span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><u><i>Sea glass is just glass like other gemstones are just rocks</i>! </u>" Well if changing ONE WORD is original, well I give up!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What many people do not realize is that copying content from a similar site will hurt you in SEO results. Since our site is older than any other and our content is indeed Original, their use of our work actually HURTS only them!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>UPDATE 6/2014</b>- This artist NOW CLAIMS to have come up with the term Ultra Rare Sea Glass. It is funny since she has only been online since 2009 and we started using the term in 2006. Ironically too, she uses similar herbage to our page Genuine Sea Glass. We say:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="style12" style="font-size: small;"><b>Genuine Sea Glass </b> <u>is a term that
I starting using</u> in 1992 when By The Sea Jewelry first went online. <b>Now
used widely</b>, it has become the standard term to indicate that sea glass
is natural found glass just the way it was picked up from the beach.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="style12" style="font-size: small;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;">"<u>Ultra
Rare" sea glass is a term that I came up</u> with to define these colorful
pieces of very rare sea glass from England. <u><b>The term "Ultra Rare" is
now widely used</b></u> in the sea glass community but when I first started
making sea glass jewelry many people were referring to it as "End of
Day" sea glass or "Flash Glass".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="style12" style="font-size: small;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;">In fact we started using the term Ultra Rare in 2006, 3 years before she EVER went online and 2 years before her domain name was even registered for the first time. (see Wayback Machine Screen shot left of our first use of Ultra Rare)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="style12" style="font-size: small;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 PalatinoLinotype10" style="color: black;">Though she claims to have invented the term Ultra Rare and that but when I first started
making sea glass jewelry many people were referring to it as "End of
Day" sea glass or "Flash Glass", but on her 2009 page she has this info SHE IN FACT was referring to it as Flash Glass! The fact her domain was only started in 2008 so it is a miracle that she was could have INVENTED this term before we did!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sadly she has copied designs from so many other sea glass artists I am sure that I am not the only person in the community who feels this way about this person. I have in fact talked to people that actually called me about her use of their designs down to the same beads and findings. It is sad when an "artist" can only copy and pass work off as their own.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most of this post is meant mainly to counter attacks made by <b><u>ONE</u></b> individual concerning my reputation, legal rights, integrity and standing in the sea glass community. I hope that this post helps to clear up the disinformation that she has posted online. All 3 of the examples above are members of her social sea glass community. She continually uses her community to blast me and encourage her minions to copy my designs, work and intellectual property. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A year or so ago she actually emailed an artist and show promoter blasting me. The artist she contacted had no idea there even was a sea glass community or association. I contacted the other board members about this, wishing to put this libelous attack on the record for legal reasons......Several days later she "resigned" her position on the Board of the NASGA. The ONLY reason she has not been sued is that I do not wish to bring in an artist that had no idea what this "person" was talking about, nor the issues or history of the events.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most recently I received 2 emails from her about my social site. She directed me to a comment where an SGL member in England had said she was so mad at someone <b>(no names or references mentioned)</b> that if this person showed up at this show in England, she would "pull her over the table"</span></span><br />
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<i>It has been brought to my attention that a member on seaglasslovers <u>has threatened me</u> with physical harm. A member named "Donna"said this in one of her recent posts "I will drag <b>her</b> over my
table." <b>Although she does not mention my name you</b> and I both know she is
talking about me. What is just as disturbing is that your moderator
seems to have no problem with a physical threat being made <u>towards me </u>on
your Ning site. In fact your moderator eggs her on! <u>I take threats of
violence very seriously and will be following this up with our local
sheriff's office.</u> I not only fear Donna physically but I fear that she
will excite an unbalanced person to seek me out for the purposes of
doing me harm. If anyone on my Ning were to threaten you or anyone this
way I would inform you/the person being threatened, report them to Ning,
suspend them and keep records of the event. Physical threats are not a
minor issue and should be taken seriously. I find it to be very
disturbing and frightening that <u>physical threats towards me</u> are being
entertained on your Ning site. I certainly hope that you will do the
right thing and remove comments that express physical threats towards
myself or anyone else! How would you feel if an unbalanced person became
inspired by a discussion on your Ning site and then brought physical
harm upon myself or my family? </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>AND...........BTW, this is a community that the above letter writer is NOT a member. No names mentioned so how could ANYONE know it was HER? A vivid imagination for sure.</b> </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The post was quickly deleted and the admin did not "egg her on". She only said, "wow you are really mad". This recent machination how now found its way on her social site......and on her Facebook social group. I quote from her "rules"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">7) <i>This group is NON VIOLENT. In very
rare cases your behavior elsewhere on the internet may result in your
suspension from this group. If it is brought to my attention that you
have made or supported violent threats towards myself or others then I
will suspend you. Don't worry I am not looking at all of your Facebook
pages etc. or policing the internet. This has to be brought to my
attention. Why this rule? Being a group admin is like hosting a big
party. If I find out that Jane Doe punched or physically threatened John
Doe at someone else's party last week then I don't want Jane Doe at my
party. Not only don't I want Jane Doe I don't want the people that
cheered her on at my party. People that have been involved with online
threats of violence are not welcome here. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really think she must have majored in drama to get so much mileage out of this.</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I mean really, she is going to call her sheriff because some random person in England made a comment about an <i>anonymous</i> person on a <i>private</i> social site. It is crazy folks! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I truly feel sorry for her. <b>I truly DO!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ironically - </b>One of the reasons that I distanced myself as a board member of the NASGA when my term was still active was that an officer of the group had made a very nasty rude comment about this person in an email. I knew there had been a lot of backroom talking in the group, but after reading the comment, felt like I was back in high school and decided to not participate as a board member any longer. My husband took over my board responsibilities until my term had ended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frankly I never liked girls like these when I was was in grade school, I do not like cliques or sophomoric behavior of adults.<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not respond directly to this "person" as I have been advised by legal council that it would be unwise, though <u>I want it to be part of the permanent public record </u>the extremes this person has gone to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The list is long when it comes to this "person" targeting me and my reputation. AND.............It has been relentless. She has sent her minions to my art shows, tried to ruin my personal and professional reputation in the art show community, systematically trashes me on her social site, and this all continues after I have had NO CONTACT with her, and have NEVER met her. She should be reminded that anything ever posted online is retrievable, even if it has been deleted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SHE SAID - She goes into a rant on her site and Facebook that jewelers that use starfish, shells and sandollars are killing the oceans one week after I start selling lockets with these materials</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">.</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FACT - In fact, these products a a by-catch of the commercial fishing and aquaculture industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SHE SAID - I never use glue in my jewelry and that jewelers that do should disclose that it will eventually fall apart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FACT - We have sold over $100,000 of jewelry using glue to set these pieces. NOT ONE has ever been returned for this reason. In fact, many master gold and silver smiths use epoxy in their designs. A mutual acquaintance that I made a piece for ripped hers apart because she was made at me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SHE SAYS - There is no such thing as Certified Sea Glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FACT - I base all the certifications I give with my jewelry based on almost 30 years of experience, research and knowledge. I have never said in was "certified" by the NASGA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SHE SAYS - I do not pay for social likes promoting a false popularity, I find it tedious and b oring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FACT - I do and consider this not promoting popularity but simply Marketing.....Here in the grownup world it is called Business! That is the way this person's mind works. It is all about "popularity". Unfortunately we do not have a trust fund so we must advertise and and work to make a living! You can't be a full time artist and take several months off a year. I never ever asked the 10,000 members on our sea glass social site to LIKE my facebook page either!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THESE ARE JUST A FEW <b>EXAMPLES</b> LIST GOES ON AND ON AND IT SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING NEW EVERY MONTH!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We will continue to monitor our competition and YES, continue to defend our designs and content we ask only to be left alone. All we ask if for our competitors to </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"Do your own work" and use your own words. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>With a very busy Full Time business, we have little time to pursue issues as stated in this blog. Most people we contact that have used our content or designs are very gracious and accommodating and we thank them for their professionalism.</b></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://sadiejewellery.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sadie from Cromwell</b></span></span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">WOW, I could hardly believe it but yet another new voice from England has reared her Ugly head in Cromwell England, stealing our 30+ year old tag line for her website (oh she changed one word) for her website. She "claims" that she was totally unaware of me and my site and even though we work in the same medium (Sea Glass Jewelry) and, she wrote the following tag line "TOTALLY" on her own. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sadies</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Worn by Waves - Recycled <u>From</u> The Sea"</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OURS</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our tag line that has existed on our site and all of our printed material is </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Worn By Waves - Recycled <u>By</u> The Sea"</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">WOW, what a freaking coincidence!!!!!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had emailed her to ask her to please remove it and got this lovely email back. She even goes so far as to insult every jeweler in the USA by telling us that we do not spell "Jewelry" correctly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I guess if you go by the infinite monkey theorem, She Sadie is THAT MONKEY!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Needless to say we WILL BE contacting her hosting company to clarify the ownership of our tag line!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What a piece of work!!!!! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What do YOU think, a coincidence or no?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 11pt;">I had hoped that our correspondence had come to a natural conclusion but you continue to protest too much. </span><b><u><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 14pt;">YES</span></u></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 11pt;"> I
can honestly say that not only had I never visited your website but I
was also blissfully unaware of your very existence prior to your rather
rude email. Let me pose a couple of questions for you to cogitate on
before sending any further correspondence on
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 11pt;">2: How would you describe the sea glass that you have collected from the beach to re-use in making jewellery?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 11pt;">Sorry, No need to answer as Eric my Springer Spaniel has just provided me with the following:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 11pt;">Answer 1: Worn by the waves</span></div>
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as I have enjoyed our banter , 4100 miles away from you in Cornwall, I
am far too busy fulfilling orders & growing my business to spend
anymore
of my valuable time pondering on who has ownership of the English
Language, though I am fairly sure that it will not be anybody in the USA
where you can’t even spell Jewellery correctly & you have something
called the baseball World Series which must be hard
for you to win being the only country in the world that plays such an
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We have spent the last several weeks working and uploading TONS of new sea glass jewelry pieces on our site By The Sea Jewelry.......Many Pendants, Earrings and bulk sea glass lots have been added.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/details.php?prod_id=606"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362883753127633826" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SmzKXBTi46I/AAAAAAAAAKM/k38NBfeeejg/s320/027.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 214px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 252px;" /></a>Over 20 new bangle bracelets and 10 new sea glass charms in goldfilled (by special request).....<br />
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Many of these items will travel with us to our next show i Manteo North Carolina at the New World Arts Festival. A juried fine arts and craft show on Roanoke Island home of the Lost Colony.<br />
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The show dates are August 12th and 13th....if you are in the area, PLEASE stop by as we will have our BEST sea glass collection with us.<br />
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Many Seaglasslovers members visited us at our last show in Ocean City Maryland and we would love to see some new faces in Manteo<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SmzKQ-fwdyI/AAAAAAAAAKE/x7a230zu20c/s1600-h/067.JPG"></a>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-20973456562536639292009-07-26T17:12:00.000-04:002009-07-26T17:25:18.725-04:00<strong>Our June Artshow Trip</strong><br />10 Days - 6 states - 2000+ miles AND Tons of smiling faces<br /><br /><strong>On Our Trip</strong>.............The major highlight of the trip for me came in from of 2 encounters, one with a fellow artist and one with a new client...It was the last day of our shows on the OBX when this lovely lady approached our booth "oohing" and "ahhing" over our Gallery Edition pieces..........After viewing just about every piece, She was strongly attracted to a pair of perfect vivid aqua English sea glass earrings and a classical fine silver set multi fine set pendant.........within 2 hours she must have come back 2 or 3 times, the last time trying on both and making a purchase..........While we were concluding the transaction, she shared with me that she had lost her husband, a tear moistening the corner of her eyes,,,,,,,I of course, replied with the usual "I am so sorry"....having lost my father to cancer not so long ago, I was very aware of the grieving process and know that sometimes people just need to talk about losing someone close to them.............You could tell she wanted to share but hesitated as we had just meet.............As you see, we had become close in a short time chatting while she was looking over our creations............<br /><br />Later in the day, a group of 4 ladies come up to the booth with much excitement ready to purchase some jewelry like her friend had.............One lady picked out pieces for the ladies that were not coming to the show. You see they were a group of lifelong friends that were celebrating a "50" party.....All having turned 50 years young in the last year. Most had been friends since childhood with newer ones coming aboard as school and college years came and went, but they were a group of steadfast friends that had shared births, deaths, marriages divorces,,,,,,the group numbered over 10! I thought of how lucky they were to have had so may friends for so many years. The Aqua Earring Sea Glass Lovely Lady who had lead them there soon appeared sporting her new earrings and beaming.......My hubby commented with a Billy Crystal type comment (meant with all good intentions) of "You Look Fabulous", or Beautiful or something liked that...He later mentioned that he saw her tear up when he said this and that he was a bit stunned..... thinking he may have said something wrong............<br /><br />I Came to find out from her friend that she had indeed lost her husband in the 9/11 attract on the Pentagon in Washington. A career officer serving his country - at last from a desk and no longer in combat (ironically his wife probably worried more about his commute to the office)... he was instantly killed when the plane hit the pentagon on that clear and lovely September morning,,, leaving our lovely aqua sea glass lady husband-less and his 3 children fatherless.......Forever! The tear my hubby witnessed may have been from a line her hubby said to her or just the sheer fact a man was saying she looked lovely,,,,,,but as a stalwart man on hearing my recount, my Jim was moved to tears as well.On hearing this I was immediately broke to tears and confided in her friend that I was glad her friend did not share it directly as I would have broke down and cried like a baby......she said that her friend had come back so thrilled and happy with her aqua and end of day jewelry purchase that they all were moved to come and get a piece of their own....<br /><br /><strong>The Second Encounter</strong> - Later in the day when we were slowly closing down and I stopped to talk to the "famous" Chicken Lady,,,, an artist that features colorful graphic chickens in her large scale paintings...... I had stopped by her booth many times to admire her vivid and moving work and never questioned just why I liked it so much... It was BOLD, Inventive, totally different, but there was some other quality that attracted me to the paintings....<br /><br />On this casual trip I noticed that she had posted a calligraphy framed explanation titled "Why Do You Paint Chickens"...on reading it I was moved again to tears for the 2nd time that day...I cannot recall the EXACT words.<br /><br />After a failed marriage, careers and the loss of her most favorite person in the world, her older cousin (whom she had always aspired to be) along with 2 other cousins in an 18 wheeler accident that tragically took all their lives. , she found herself wallowing at her South Carolina country home, stomping the ground, crying to the heavens about how horrible everything was, how unfair to have her cousins taken so short of a full life, why didn't god take her instead of her wonderful exuberant favorite cousin, commiserating in her failed marriage, overweight, miserable, she said she stomped the red clay ground asking why were things so unfair and asking the heaven's what to do,tears streaming down her face she heard CLEARLY in her head, "Why not paint chickens?????"..............dumbfounded,,,, and doubting her own sanity, she glanced around at her Guinea hens all staring at her in her tirade,,, and the only thing she could think of was,,, "WHY NOT"...............<br /><br />Believe it or not this began a new career of painting marvelous, whimsical yet, somehow serious chicken paintings...She has been featured in Southern Living several times, won numerous awards, and is a delight to share time with...The thing that really stuck with me is she told me she put that sign up because people continuously asked her "WHY DO YOU PAINT CHICKENS?.............", she turned to me after recounted all of this very personal, very emotional history and said, you know every artist has a reason why they do what they do",,,,,<strong>Why do you work with Sea Glass</strong>?"................HUM, I thought,,, Why do I work with sea glass.............I mean it has been a good 18 years and thousands of pounds what seems like a million pieces made and sold, but have I ever bothered to ask myself why,,,,,,,,,????????I thought for a moment and answered with something like,,, Well, I was attracted to sea glass because it was something that people had discarded, something left for trash, that time and nature made into something beautiful... I have always been attracted to found object art whether it was sculptural metal from junkyards, or otherwise.......And then I remembered my 9/11 Aqua sea glass lovely lady that lite up so much upon being complimented on her earrings..."well I said, though I am a bit jaded to sea glass having acquired so much of it and sold it for so long, I still see how it effects people,,,,,,,,,,,,, now granted I am not "new agey" in any way, but something about sea glass sooths people, and I am glad I can pass that along...Well, I was stunned with my eloquence, but thought of these 2 encounters on the 1100 mile trip all the way home. One woman who lite up brighter than the aqua sea glass she had purchased from me and one that asked my "Why"... Why do you do it?I want to thank both of these beautiful amazing ladies for making my trip the best!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SmzHLyG4ytI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/vHZyqstDL4E/s1600-h/chicken.jpg"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SmzHbfPLVVI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/4vQnsHVLxqQ/s1600-h/chicken.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 114px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 114px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362880531346969938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SmzHbfPLVVI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/4vQnsHVLxqQ/s320/chicken.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.madisonlatimer.com/" target="_blank">Madison Latimer - </a>From her backyard/barnyard, Madison Latimer paints stories of creation, disappointment, and survival. "Me and the chickens celebrate life every day. If ya'll are hearing something laughing and it's not you, trust me, it's just us chickens dancing and singing in the barnyard." - Madison LatimerBy The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-41362459043478430282009-02-07T12:30:00.000-05:002013-02-28T14:11:23.570-05:00Sea Glass Lovers Of The World Website<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SY3G2Zmzs9I/AAAAAAAAAJM/Sf8NCgxn214/s1600-h/sea+glass+lovers+logo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300110974373835730" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SY3G2Zmzs9I/AAAAAAAAAJM/Sf8NCgxn214/s320/sea+glass+lovers+logo.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 75px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 213px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">On November 20th 2009 ......We launched a new site dedicated SOLEY to sea glass lovers and collecting. 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By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-39464661102075703232008-09-29T10:02:00.000-04:002008-09-29T11:30:23.951-04:00Sea Glass Collecting On The Outer Banks<strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Collecting Sea Glass On The Outer Banks</span><br /></strong><div><div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">We recently went back home for a vacation on the Outer Banks Of North Carolina. When I first heard the weather report, I was thrilled, hard North East winds for the weekend we arrived which usually means GREAT sea glassing once the ocean calms down.</span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODk_51wGgI/AAAAAAAAAEo/nFrTHNhTFn8/s1600-h/obx+nor+easter+009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251448952023161346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="192" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODk_51wGgI/AAAAAAAAAEo/nFrTHNhTFn8/s320/obx+nor+easter+009.JPG" width="266" border="0" /></a>Well, the ocean NEVER did calm down. An unnamed storm hit the OBX and slammed it for the entire week.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Generally, 2-3 days after a "typical" Nor Easter (named for North Easterly Winds) the sea glassing can be AWESOME. Sloughs that collected quartz pebbles get pushed up on the beach once the wind calms down and this is where the most amount of sea glass can be found.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Many times there can be several lines pebbles, a high high tide, a low high tide and another line right where the waves are currently breaking. The High high tide line brings the larger pieces of glass as it was deposited when the waves where at their strongest. This line also has large driftwood and even baseball size quartz stones. The other lines have jewelry size pieces.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">In some areas like South Nags Head, the pebble lines can run up and down the beach instead of parallel to the shoreline and these lines can also be great for finding sea glass. This also will give you plenty of exercise as you may walk 10 times the distance going up and down the pebble lines.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODmv-p9zUI/AAAAAAAAAEw/4w9__vJhsgY/s1600-h/route12a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251450877461253442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" height="212" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODmv-p9zUI/AAAAAAAAAEw/4w9__vJhsgY/s320/route12a.jpg" width="298" border="0" /></a>This unnamed storm brought a lot of havoc to the beach in the time we were there destroying dunes, beach steps and closing Route 12 to Hatteras Island and Rodanthe on times of high tide. Blowing sand was so bad the worst day of the storm that it looked like the Sahara south the Oregon Inlet Bridge.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODvhtGTykI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/-Xp2nhJE604/s1600-h/serendipity.jpe"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251460527834778178" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="188" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODvhtGTykI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/-Xp2nhJE604/s320/serendipity.jpe" width="251" border="0" /></a>The new movie Nights In Rodanthe (starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere and filmed in Rodanthe around the first house in town,Serendipity) had a huge premier and opening parties on Thursday that many Hatteras Island residnets could not attend. Many of which were in the movie. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">OBX'ers are well acquainted with Noreasters but the tourists we spoke to were quite panicked and many went home early.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODng6zxxXI/AAAAAAAAAFA/oThrsIxu53c/s1600-h/oregoninlet.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251451718242256242" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 273px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 175px" height="213" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODng6zxxXI/AAAAAAAAAFA/oThrsIxu53c/s320/oregoninlet.jpg" width="292" border="0" /></a>We did manage to find a couple of pieces before the storm got going and we did find a piece that was unlike any that I had ever found in 20 years of sea glass collecting on the Banks. It was a thin piece of flash glass, with milk white and clear and was most likely a cherished house ware item that had been broken many many years ago.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">This week (last week of September and first week of October) should be EPIC for finding sea glass on the OBX beaches as well as phenomenal surfing and fishing.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>A couple of notes to visitors to the Outer Banks:</strong></span><br /><div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Please PLEASE, do not walk or play on the dunes. These are our last line of defense against the sea! I have actually seen kids boogie boarding down dunes and this destroys them and then our homes ocean side.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><strong>NO SWIMMING FLAGS</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">PLEASE, if the red flags are out, DONT SWIM. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODoZEC0XHI/AAAAAAAAAFI/c4BylT7OA7E/s1600-h/no+swimming+flags.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251452682793933938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SODoZEC0XHI/AAAAAAAAAFI/c4BylT7OA7E/s400/no+swimming+flags.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial;">On a walk down to Gary Olivers Fishing Unlimited pier on the worst day of the storm, we actually saw children jumping in the waves that were coming right up to the dunes. It only takes ONE wave to carry a child into the surf and to an inevitable drowning. Also there is tons of debris when are storm of this magnitude happens. Parts of stairs and piers with nails, sand fending Etc.... (Pictured above, 3 children play in massive tide as parents look on, notice the BRIGHT RED <strong>NO SWIMMING</strong> flags above them. </span></p></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><p>Folks, the towns do not post these flags to ruin your vacation but to protect your life! The OBX beaches can be treacherous even in the best weather!</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"><strong>MORE TO COME!</strong></span></p></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-50163657299454291252008-09-07T13:17:00.000-04:002008-10-13T14:19:44.861-04:00English Sea Glass - Xtra Ordinary<span style="font-size:180%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQNZ8By1eI/AAAAAAAAACk/Ph7JNjrJVQ0/s1600-h/multies.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243330605427643874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQNZ8By1eI/AAAAAAAAACk/Ph7JNjrJVQ0/s200/multies.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" >Extraordinary English Sea Glass</span><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">These fascinating gems came to my attention in 2004 when a lovely family in England contacted me inquiring if I would like to purchase their sea glass. Immediately upon seeing the photos of this glass, I was awe stuck and quickly answered back a resounding "YES"!!! A friendship soon developed and I was lucky enough to become the FIRST American sea glass company to acquire this, the finest of sea glass in the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">It is 4 years later and I still maintain the largest English Sea Glass collection of this glass in USA.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Competitors soon clamored for this lovely glass and though it is now available through other companies, we s</span><span style="font-family:arial;">till offer pieces beyond compare of the competition. We offer many large pieces of mixed end of day sea glass and rare earring matches in many colors including Mutlis and rare reds as well a </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/products.php?subcat=18">Ultra Rare</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> pieces in pendants and necklaces.</span><br /><br />_____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQQctuwIMI/AAAAAAAAACs/CnYVuJZdnuU/s1600-h/tempest.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243333951664169154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQQctuwIMI/AAAAAAAAACs/CnYVuJZdnuU/s200/tempest.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" >Traveling To England</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In 2005 I was fortunate to travel to this lovely seaside town in Northern England.This nondescript beach is typical of English beaches, rocky, cove like and surrounded by cliffs and hillsides. When descending the main road though town you are first struck by the level that you must descend to reach the beach. Huge cliffs of solid rock, the same cliffs that once held the Victorian glass factory that was the origin of this sea glass.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQRZRHwyCI/AAAAAAAAAC0/ycQ1aQEHLrQ/s1600-h/onthebeach.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243334991956461602" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQRZRHwyCI/AAAAAAAAAC0/ycQ1aQEHLrQ/s200/onthebeach.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">This is a very small beach that is home to these gems, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">rocky and rough and pounded</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> by the </span><span style="font-family:arial;">relentless North Sea. Huge boulders line </span><span style="font-family:arial;">the cliff side and I was told that after</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> large on shore storms, massive boulders can even be washed up on the promenade</span><span style="font-family:arial;">! Though to my eyes it look surfable, I was told that only once did a surf</span><span style="font-family:arial;">er attempt it. Cold and frigid is the</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> North Sea and the same boulders that line the shore also lay on the bottom of the shore. It is these same boulders and rocks that are part of why this sea glass is of such magnificent quality</span>!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQV1y5mlfI/AAAAAAAAADU/XL33jV_O9x8/s1600-h/rocky+sea+glass+beach.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243339880106726898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQV1y5mlfI/AAAAAAAAADU/XL33jV_O9x8/s200/rocky+sea+glass+beach.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQSxR7Hj-I/AAAAAAAAADE/ygVksfspSFU/s1600-h/down+to+the+beach.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243336504000352226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQSxR7Hj-I/AAAAAAAAADE/ygVksfspSFU/s200/down+to+the+beach.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">I was actually more fascinated by the rocks at first and had a hard time spotting anything but greens and whites but soon developed an eye for the famed Multies (just featured in Augusts National Geographic Magazine). It is actually illegal to collect the rocks from this towns beach but I did accidentally pocketed a few. Beautiful blues and grays in the smoothest pebbles you have ever seen.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />On the second or third trip, I did manage to find a large red piece wedged high in the large boulders near the cliff side.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">This can be a dangerous beach to comb on if you are not aware of tides and time, my friend even recalling a time she was almost swept out to sea by a rouge wave in winter time filling her Wellies with water and losing a nice bad of sea glass to boot (pardon the pun).</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQjIb95IXI/AAAAAAAAAD8/ieE74h4IgQc/s1600-h/haul.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243354494019379570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQjIb95IXI/AAAAAAAAAD8/ieE74h4IgQc/s200/haul.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The best beach to find the gems lays right down from the town promenade, another more remote beach that had earlier glass production, yielded larger pieces of seafoam green and aqua but it is a hard trek to get to and looks as if it is from another planet. A WWII bunker still sits on the beach surrounded by yet even more pebbles.<br /></p></span><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"></div><br /><br /><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">___________________________________________________________</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Origins Of English Sea Glass</span><br /><br />Unlike American Sea Glass, English Sea glass from this small location, most of this glass was never made into a final product. Our glass originated as bottles and jars broken and tossed into the sea. English sea glass were lumps of molten glass, pontil rods, broken end of day pieces and chunks of leftover end of day glass.<br /><br />Between the period of 1870 and 1930, a glass factory stood on the cliff in this small sea side town. When glass production first started, they specialized in decorative housewares for the Victorian market. Vases, bowls and frilly and colorful glass wares </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQY3La0o_I/AAAAAAAAADs/mKs1-_oNaF4/s1600-h/at+the+museum.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243343202403263474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQY3La0o_I/AAAAAAAAADs/mKs1-_oNaF4/s200/at+the+museum.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">were the main product. A nearby glass museum houses some of the treasures still. Through the life of the factory, they made everything from bottles for ale, television tubes and scientific glass though decorative glass remained the largest (and most colorful) glass product</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">.<br /><br />The area was prime for glass making and even has Roman glass dating even further back. Coal mining on the hillsides and mines provided fuel for the kilns, a harbor in the center of town, provided the transportation to ship their products elsewhere. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQYuE28lmI/AAAAAAAAADk/8ekz9wEbHeY/s1600-h/canes+%26+Pipes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243343046023353954" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQYuE28lmI/AAAAAAAAADk/8ekz9wEbHeY/s200/canes+%26+Pipes.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">At the end of the day, the glass blowers and kiln workers would be given left over glass to ply their art. These pieces were taken home, given as gifts and even sold at market.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Many of these were known as whimsies and included items </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">though beautiful, were impractical. Ite</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">ms such as glass canes (photo of glass cane sea glass piece to come) glass pipes glass dumps (paperweights with blown designs inside) and other assorted pieces. Locally there was an item called a "pitchy dobber" a flat pressed glass pieces used by girls to play a version of hop scotch. (see photo right, glass canes and pipes ).</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Many of these items did not make it into homes as they were broken in production. These then too were cast into the North Sea to become our sea glass treasures and can still be found on this beach today.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOMzWvwJgI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Rqi4EZjcr38/s1600-h/new%2520pin%2520008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256700003978585602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="213" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOMzWvwJgI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Rqi4EZjcr38/s320/new%2520pin%2520008.jpg" width="279" border="0" /></a>Pictured Left - An End Of Day glass rolling pin made by glass workers using glass that was left over at the "end of the day" We started calling this glass EndODay glass as a conjunction when we first listed it on our site. Pictured with the pin, found natural sea glass pieces from the beach in England.</span></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQZgEMTdYI/AAAAAAAAAD0/KmHpUuMGa9s/s1600-h/seaglassdump.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243343904837956994" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SMQZgEMTdYI/AAAAAAAAAD0/KmHpUuMGa9s/s200/seaglassdump.jpg" border="0" /></a>During our trip, we</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> found the remnant of a glass dump, a</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> once if a lifetime find tough I have been told another has been found since.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sea glass was once so prevalent in this area that the local cemetery has graves that are covered with the more common colors of sea glass. As the demand for these gems has grown, theft shortly followed of the rarer colors. Before we started marketing these Extraordinary sea glass gems on our site, the value of this sea glass was very low. The town did not know what a treasure they had. Once we started <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPN9eYaGxQI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5boMoRmbElM/s1600-h/england+030.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256683150972994818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="175" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPN9eYaGxQI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5boMoRmbElM/s320/england+030.jpg" width="225" border="0" /></a>posting jewelry online, the demand increased 100 fold and competitors soon clamoured for the fascinating and rare sea glass.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Our once cherished source and friend became so sought after that we could no longer be the only source in the USA but we still maintain the largest collection with over 100 pounds of English Sea Glass. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">We are the ONLY professional company to offer Ultra Multi Rare earrings in this lovely glass and soon plan a trip back to the UK to collect our own glass once again and arrange for local collectors to once again send us the great sea glass.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">We will SOON be featuring this location as well as hundreds of others on our New site <strong>Seaglasslovers.com</strong>.............a site that will be dedicated SOLEY to sea glass collecting around the world. The site will include many areas just for collectors of sea glass.</span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Please </strong></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>visit our main site for many pages on sea glass information, collecting locations and much much more including the largest selection of </strong></span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/"><strong>Sea Glass Jewelry</strong></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong> on the internet! </strong></span></p><p>_________________________________________</p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:180%;">More Photos From Our English Sea Glass Trip</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOAfFfnEbI/AAAAAAAAAF8/5IljrXX-Axg/s1600-h/angelup.jpg"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256686461610561970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOAfFfnEbI/AAAAAAAAAF8/5IljrXX-Axg/s320/angelup.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></span></strong><br /><br /><br />The Angel Of The North<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOA4AZnKfI/AAAAAAAAAGU/m_Lqeeb8ewQ/s1600-h/tea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256686889739954674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOA4AZnKfI/AAAAAAAAAGU/m_Lqeeb8ewQ/s320/tea.jpg" border="0" /></a>Tea Time At The Castel<br /></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOAwn_KFvI/AAAAAAAAAGM/IPnmAW7Eeew/s1600-h/england+039a.jpg"></a></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOBVMUYj-I/AAAAAAAAAGk/QAwgiVJso3k/s1600-h/Picture+063.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256687391155458018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="222" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOBVMUYj-I/AAAAAAAAAGk/QAwgiVJso3k/s320/Picture+063.jpg" width="253" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOAmB6_QFI/AAAAAAAAAGE/VqSo5weTJac/s1600-h/england+028.jpg"></a> </p><br /><p></span></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOBHgdItxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/jFDcTJlkvoQ/s1600-h/Picture+008%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256687156042708754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="206" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOBHgdItxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/jFDcTJlkvoQ/s320/Picture+008%5B1%5D.jpg" width="255" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoptgPII/AAAAAAAAAHM/YqQJfjtv4DU/s1600-h/waves.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256704218137377922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoptgPII/AAAAAAAAAHM/YqQJfjtv4DU/s320/waves.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoCHjIgI/AAAAAAAAAG8/H46QiNh-hH8/s1600-h/england+009.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256704207509201410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoCHjIgI/AAAAAAAAAG8/H46QiNh-hH8/s320/england+009.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoZapBJI/AAAAAAAAAHE/HhQM9fywuQc/s1600-h/england+039a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256704213763294354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQoZapBJI/AAAAAAAAAHE/HhQM9fywuQc/s320/england+039a.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQnyRIcMI/AAAAAAAAAG0/gMFxN9C7ZtU/s1600-h/blast1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256704203254427842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPOQnyRIcMI/AAAAAAAAAG0/gMFxN9C7ZtU/s320/blast1.jpg" border="0" /></a></p>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-78172699474295433102008-09-01T15:04:00.000-04:002008-10-14T17:51:45.602-04:00Take a tour in our studio<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLw_0kHe-dI/AAAAAAAAABk/MX1dwJElVPM/s1600-h/bluessmalljpg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241134238633228754" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 153px; HEIGHT: 111px" height="132" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLw_0kHe-dI/AAAAAAAAABk/MX1dwJElVPM/s200/bluessmalljpg.jpg" width="175" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLw9KcBM2oI/AAAAAAAAABM/yhBfTeSDJ5s/s1600-h/floridadetail.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241131315881630338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLw9KcBM2oI/AAAAAAAAABM/yhBfTeSDJ5s/s200/floridadetail.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A pictorial tour of our private sea glass jewelry studio.<br /><br /><br />Many people wonder how we can make such great matches in our sea glass earrings and sea glass jewelry pieces. Take a secret peek into our private studio to see just how we match up glass and select pieces to make into sea glass jewelry.<br />____________________________________________________<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxAMRvyzkI/AAAAAAAAABs/5S3h3-0WP74/s1600-h/rare+sea+glass.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241134646018887234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" height="124" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxAMRvyzkI/AAAAAAAAABs/5S3h3-0WP74/s200/rare+sea+glass.jpg" width="165" border="0" /></a> Pictured Left - our collection of rare English Sea Glass and Pictured Right Below- A pair or Rare Aqua Sea Glass Earrings in our signature Wire Bezel Setting TM. A rare match in top quality sea glass! <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxHTKEIGWI/AAAAAAAAACU/NLdNstGuMBQ/s1600-h/Picture+2287.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241142460797163874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 130px; HEIGHT: 124px" height="164" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxHTKEIGWI/AAAAAAAAACU/NLdNstGuMBQ/s200/Picture+2287.jpg" width="167" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Pictured Left Below- A pair or rare Lime Green Sea Glass Earrings set in our signature Original <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxGf8dej5I/AAAAAAAAACE/-8B5b71h2Yg/s1600-h/Picture+1855.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241141580972068754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" height="125" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SLxGf8dej5I/AAAAAAAAACE/-8B5b71h2Yg/s200/Picture+1855.jpg" width="153" border="0" /></a>Wire Bezel TM setting.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUOFfvCxBI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Q7HzpJnm7BQ/s1600-h/Picture+022.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257123627605869586" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px" height="209" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUOFfvCxBI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Q7HzpJnm7BQ/s320/Picture+022.jpg" width="280" border="0" /></a>Pictured Right - our sea glass green earring pieces. It can take hundreds of pieces to come up with what we feel is a good match<br /><br /><br />Once we sort through HUNDREDS of pieces to find matches, we place the sets in various jewelry mounting boxes for future use in our work. Below is a photo or our main work bench that includes our website jewelry ( on second shelf to far left) our wholesale jewelry (top shelf) and our earring matches in cases (middle second shelf and bottom right photo - detail of some cases).<br /><br />______________________________________________________<br />The hardest part of matching earrings is the endless pursuit of the perfect match. Since we have hoarded sea glass for over 15 years now,and continue to add to this resource, we are able to make some of the finest <a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/category.php?1">sea glass earring </a>matches available.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPULeGmt6RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/EP2UfNkB0dE/s1600-h/Picture+010.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257120751821908242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPULeGmt6RI/AAAAAAAAAHU/EP2UfNkB0dE/s320/Picture+010.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPULw8sCqqI/AAAAAAAAAHc/kKE9AfgcNzY/s1600-h/Picture+057.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257121075577399970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPULw8sCqqI/AAAAAAAAAHc/kKE9AfgcNzY/s320/Picture+057.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Please visit </span><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;">By The Sea Jewelry </span></a><span style="font-size:180%;">for hundreds of online ready to ship sea glass jewelry pieces</span> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9mtqO7I/AAAAAAAAAIc/JEkFUocbIw8/s1600-h/Picture+078.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257130089109928882" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9mtqO7I/AAAAAAAAAIc/JEkFUocbIw8/s320/Picture+078.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p> </p><p> </p><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9_hhfvI/AAAAAAAAAIs/LIWItQ7QZT4/s1600-h/Picture+070.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257130095769911026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9_hhfvI/AAAAAAAAAIs/LIWItQ7QZT4/s320/Picture+070.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT-EtSvQI/AAAAAAAAAI0/7hIlcuou-2A/s1600-h/Picture+034.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257130097161452802" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT-EtSvQI/AAAAAAAAAI0/7hIlcuou-2A/s320/Picture+034.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9XSXk1I/AAAAAAAAAIU/ZpJonNMD3go/s1600-h/Picture+091.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257130084968928082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SPUT9XSXk1I/AAAAAAAAAIU/ZpJonNMD3go/s320/Picture+091.jpg" border="0" /></a></span>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-76848013670339820402008-08-17T12:05:00.000-04:002008-08-17T13:16:57.590-04:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SKhMbJPNDnI/AAAAAAAAABE/IQukUWH4PKg/s1600-h/Picture+1950.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235518596038069874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_52hg6d8f00I/SKhMbJPNDnI/AAAAAAAAABE/IQukUWH4PKg/s200/Picture+1950.jpg" border="0" /></a> We have just added a bunch of new sea glass bracelets online at (<a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/jewelry/products.php?subcat=44">Sea Glass Bracelets</a>) and will continue to add more this week.<br /><br />By The Sea Jewelry is the Internets oldest site dedicated to Sea Glass and Our handcrafted line of Sea Glass Jewelry.<br /><br />We offer the largest selection of individually photographed and described pieces and have the largest selection of Extraordinary English Sea Glass in the USA.<br /><br />English sea glass in very unique and differs greatly from our American sea glass. Our sea glass originated as bottles and jars, broken up and tumbled over many years by the surf and sand. English sea glass was never made into a product and was slag or End Of Day glass dumped into the sea from a coastal glass factory. This glass dates back to the Victorian era and has some of the most unique colors you will ever see in sea glass.By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-85326218456560947842008-03-15T18:28:00.000-04:002008-08-17T13:23:10.560-04:00In Business, Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities<a href="http://www.jgpress.com/inbusiness/archives/_free/000691.html" target="_blank">In Business, Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities</a>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-1384958899517803742008-03-08T11:32:00.000-05:002008-10-13T13:38:25.779-04:00New Additons To Our Site<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_52hg6d8f00I/R9LCVinwUyI/AAAAAAAAAAk/CqBBQi_Ign4/s1600-h/bytheseajewelry.jpe"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175412597128712994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_52hg6d8f00I/R9LCVinwUyI/AAAAAAAAAAk/CqBBQi_Ign4/s200/bytheseajewelry.jpe" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">We have just updated some of our long standing sea glass INFO pages with new photos and info on sea glass and sea glass collecting. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br><br><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Pictured Left </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Our Sea Glass Color Wheel ©1994 Linda Jereb</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The Glass Section </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/theglass/color.php">NEW Colors Of Sea Glass</a> - </span><span style="font-family:arial;">New pixs and info on different sea glass colors, more to come in the spring!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/theglass/valueing.php">NEW Valuing Sea Glass</a> - </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Brand NEW page on how to value sea glass!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/theglass/vote.php">NEW Vote For Your Favorite Piece!</a> - </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Great new samples of some of the rarest sea glass in the world, Vote for your favorite piece!</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/theglass/seaglassideas.php">NEW Sea Glass Ideas</a> - </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Some great ideas on how to use your sea glass and how to display it in your home.</span></div>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658331294200237698.post-18873864497709130282008-01-28T17:29:00.000-05:002008-01-28T18:03:15.273-05:00Genuine Sea Glass TM<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_52hg6d8f00I/R55YIlHlPJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YIr4dzEhKzY/s1600-h/mouse_over_01.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160659127439277202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_52hg6d8f00I/R55YIlHlPJI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YIr4dzEhKzY/s320/mouse_over_01.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> Genuine Sea Glass <span style="font-size:78%;">TM</span> is a term that I starting using in 1990 when By The Sea Jewelry first went online. It has become the standard term to indicate that sea glass is natural found glass just the way it was picked up from the beach. Other terms include, natural sea glass, real sea glass, found sea glass, pure sea glass, true sea glass, unaltered sea glass, well,,,,,,,you get the idea.<br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"><strong>Pictured - A rare piece of English Sea Glass that was once a pontil rod. Pontil Rods are glass rods used to turn glass in a kiln. They are usually discarded, in this case, into the sea. This piece is quite rare as most pontil rods are less expensive colors of glass(like white).</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/">By The Sea Jewelry </a>prides itself on offering some of the finest sea glass from around the world!<br /><br />Genuine Sea Glass <span style="font-size:78%;">TM</span> (or whatever term you use) means the glass in your jewelry is unaltered from the way it was found on the beach (uncut or tumbled by any artificial means). Real natural sea glass comes from old bottles, jars and other glass items that have been discarded in the ocean and tumbled naturally by waves and sand over many years. It can take many decades for sea glass to be formed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">By The Sea Jewelry is proud to offer some of the rarest sea glass pieces available for public sale.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Genuine Sea Glass TM (natural sea glass) has many characteristics man made glass cannot duplicate. Visit us at <a href="http://www.bytheseajewelry.com/theglass/genuine.php">By The Sea Jewelry </a>to learn about the qualities of these natural sea gems.</span></p></span></span><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>(Please note, this page constitutes legal notice that the trademark in use term Genuine Sea Glass TM is intellectual property of By The Sea Jewelry (Linda Jereb) and may not be used unless express permission is obtained from the owner. Commercial use of this term is protected by U. S. Trademark Law Rules Of Practice& Federal Statutes U. S. Patent& Trademark Office)</strong></span> </p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"></span></span>By The Sea Jewelryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199385031162085808noreply@blogger.com1