November 21, 2010
Lin's Report on the State of the Sea Glass Nation
There are lots of new things happening with Odyssey Sea Glass. Here are the main ones for your perusal.New featured seaglass artists:
Some of you remember from our last newsletter that we were going to start featuring a few jewelry artists.We recently introduced Signe Lawson from Michigan with her line of Signeture X-clusive jewelry.
If you haven't checked out her jewelry on the site, do so.
She is incredible! She's an amazing artist and a really nice person.
Tidbits:
- Site navigation: David has been working on the site to make it a little easier to navigate. You'll notice the navigation buttons and categories in the left column may be a little different as well. Be sure and let us know if you have recommendations as far as finding your way around the site (we hit the 1,200 pages mark recently with 48,000 page views so far this month).
- Gift certificates: Also, we've added a gift certificate. It will appear at the bottom of the left column on Odyssey Sea Glass.com - and if you're looking for that special gift but aren't sure exactly which sea glass jewelry or craft to buy...this is the way to go!
- eBooks: David is currently working on an E-book series. The first part will be an Intro to Sea Glass Collecting. This has been something we've wanted to do for a while, so stay tuned.
- Tutorials: I know we mentioned plans to do a couple of tutorials on sea glas jewelry and crafts.. We haven't forgotten those. They're just on the back burner currently because of health issues.
Coming soon:
Very soon, we'll be featuring another jewelry artist, who is actually a
longtime viewer of the site. Some of you may remember Joan and Bill
Laverick from England. We're going to interview Joan and hope to have her line of jewelry up on the site soon. She has a different approach to sea glass jewelry than Signe or me, and her English sea glass is like no other. Wow. We'll let you know when that happens.
Sea Glass Fan-addicts or just plain Fanatics?
- Fan - Joan's husband, Bill, was at their favorite beach in England the other day and told us it was 2 degrees above freezing. That's dedication, boy, or is it an addiction??????????????? You decide ;-)
- Fan as in "fan me, I'm warm?" - We went to the beach the other day. We are headed into the hotter part of the year here down under. Very hot. Definitely sunscreen beach weather. Home of the 15-minute tan, 30-minute burn.
One of the things that happens each year at this time here in Northern Peru - aside from starting the very hot beach weather - is that the waves get bigger this time of the year and the sand starts moving. This year, the sand is definitely diminishing and doing so at a pretty quick clip.
Yeah! More sea glass to be uncovered and all those interesting kinds of sea shells.
And what about yourselves?
Here is a little reminder to check out the upload features on the fun page, where you can contribute your comments, questions, and photos on what you find at the beach or just about anything to do with beach glass.
We invite any of you to share a short story of your beach impressions (funny, sad, or exciting) and get a link to the website or blog of your choice.
(To skip right down to the newest blogs, click here)
For those of you who have just recently signed up, this newsletter is an update on the new features and changes in the last couple of weeks.
If you are a new subscriber, you will enjoy the story and photos at the Glass Beach Special. If that link doesn't work in your email, copy and past this into your browser: https://www.odysseyseaglass.com/glass-beach.html ENTER THIS PASSWORD: gobeachglass |
If you have been reading the RSS/Blog, you will already have seen some of these new items...
But take a look at the updates below and see if you missed something important. There are also usually some unanswered questions that we'd love to have you answer.
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David (editor)
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Feb 1, 2010, Sea glass in the treasure coast of FloridaI am in Vero beach, Florida. Does anyone know of any areas near Vero where there is good sea glass beaches Permalink -- click for full blog post "Sea glass in the treasure coast of Florida" Jan 28, 2010, Turquoise BeautyFound this on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach, Permalink -- click for full blog post "Turquoise Beauty" Jan 28, 2010, Grey Pottery ShardFound this on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach, VA...History tells us there are hundreds of shipwwrecks off the shores of the |
HAPPY HUNTING!
 Lin and I did it! So can YOU! |
