Many have found that the right combination of melodic sounds
produced
by a wind chime go well with many environments.
Your sea
glass as well as sea shells added to a wind chime makes it pleasing
to the eyes as well as to the ears.
The following instructions can be
adapted to make your own sea glass mobile or sea glass suncatcher.
Glass Wind Chimes
Click
on this image to see how to make this very nice wind chime Just substitute your sea glass or
crafts glass.
Beach Crafts - Wind Chimes
Steps to making sea and glass wind chimes:
1. Shop
around for a wind chime that produces a sound you like.
Since sea glass is solid, it will not by itself make a
real wind "chime" sound.
2. Once you find
a wind chime that you like, you can replace some of the strands with
sea glass and sea shell strands.
You might want to leave several strands of the
chimes themselves next to each other so that they do bump together to
produce that pleasing music in a light breeze.
If it is not the sound or tone of tubular or other
wind chimes that you are looking for, you may decide to make a sun
catcher or mobile instead.
Just adapt the above instructions for the
sea glass wind chimes project to fit your sun catcher or sea glass
mobile.
Our viewers have submitted examples of sea glass wind chimes
ranging from easy to more difficult wind chimes.
Even a more basic wind chime made from beach glass provides a
conversation piece and a nice way to use your beach treasures.
Here
Here is a good example of a simple chime from a viewer in
Massachussetts.
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