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March 17, 2016 · 13 Comments

30 Sea Glass Ideas & Projects

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Thirty sea glass ideas and DIY projects including jewelry, stepping stones, & artwork. Use pretty glass from the beach to make crafts for the home & garden

I can tell you personally that finding Sea Glass can be an addictive hobby. Before you know it you could have jars filled to the top with beautiful pieces of coloured glass. Instead of leaving them there, use sea glass to make beautiful crafts! From jewelry to wall artwork, this list of thirty ideas and projects should get your creative juices flowing.

If you’re interested in making sea glass art but aren’t sure where to find it, you can buy it. Amazon, Etsy, and Ebay are good places to look but there will be direct sellers as well. You can also fake sea glass as illustrated by some of the ideas below. Lastly, you can use coloured marbles or aquarium glass to make many of these crafts.

Thirty sea glass ideas and DIY projects including jewelry, stepping stones, & artwork. Use pretty glass from the beach to make crafts for the home & garden #seaglass #craftidea #glassart

Foraging for Sea Glass

If you live near the sea or a large in-land lake, you may be able to find your own sea glass. I tend it spot it easier on rocky beaches, opposed to sandy ones, and some colors of glass are rarer than others. Above you’ll find a video of one of my sea glass foraging expeditions so you can understand the landscape better.

Sea glass comes from ordinary glass that’s somehow ended up in the water. It could be glass bottles and jars that were tossed into the waves — true trash to treasure. Some of the most beautiful pieces come from places that had a glassworks nearby. If you know of an old glass factory that was situated by the water make a bee-line for it first thing.

Once glass makes its way into the water, the action of waves grind it against sand and stones. It wears down the sharp edges and gives the glass a beautiful buffered look.

sea-glass-chandelier

This and a couple other pieces below are from the Etsy artist the Rubbish Revival

DIY Sea Glass Candle

DIY Sea Glass Candle
Sea Glass painted as BirdsPainted birds – via Pinterest

DIY Sea Glass Stepping Stone

Stepping stone

This is one of my projects and my tip with making sure the glass looks colorful against the concrete is to spray paint the back side white. This will make sure the glass reflects its own color and not grey. How to make a Sea Glass Stepping Stone

30 Sea Glass Ideas & Projects

Driftwood & Sea Glass Wall Art

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Finding Sea Glass and a diagram of Sea Glass Colours

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30 Sea Glass Ideas & Projects

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  1. Sheila Webb says

    June 29, 2019 at 7:12 am

    Thank you for this lovely newsletter. These are such beautiful projects. A couple of them I’ve tried before, & some are new to me. I look forward to trying them & greatly appreciate your instructions & tips! I used to gather sea glass a lot when i was younger & lived by the beach.

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  2. Katy Beacher says

    January 15, 2018 at 3:13 am

    I just discovered your site and am so impressed by your sea glass art. Do you collect the sea glass yourself? Do you get it at Fort Bragg? I did’t know there was any left there.

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    • lovelygreens says

      January 15, 2018 at 12:49 pm

      I’m quite a ways away from Fort Bragg — all the way on the other side of the ocean 🙂

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      • Jamie Walker says

        December 15, 2018 at 4:39 pm

        They don’t allow you to remove the sea glass in Fort Bragg anymore.

        Reply
  3. Carolyn Deane says

    December 7, 2017 at 1:38 am

    Thank you for showing me what can be made with sea glass. I recently received about 2 cups of sea glass from my brother. I would like to make jewelry out of some of it. I will need to find someone who can drill the glass pieces for me.

    Reply
  4. Cindy Taylor says

    December 6, 2017 at 1:57 am

    I love the beach and the sea glass items are just wonderful!

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  5. John Appleby says

    July 21, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Hi Tanya, My name is John Appleby, and I live in South Wales. My wife and I have been collecting sea glass now for a few years. I have a lot of partially buffered sea glass, all genuinely sea buffered. Would you be interested in purchasing them, or could you put me in the right direction to finding some one. I have photos of the sea glass if you are interested.
    Thank you, John

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    • lovelygreens says

      July 25, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      Hi John — I understand that there are people who sell sea glass on Ebay and Etsy so I’d recommend looking into it. Happy sea glass hunting and selling 🙂

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    Hi, would you mind changing the link on the “Door Knob” to http://beachyrustica.mysupadupa.com/collections/beach-glass/products/cabinet-knob-sea-glass-stone-drawer-pull-made-in-america

    Thanks to a change in etsy payment processors my shop there will be gone as of May 18th. Thank you! 🙂

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    • lovelygreens says

      May 2, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      Of course! 🙂

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    April 21, 2017 at 12:51 am

    Thanks so much for featuring my friend Karen’s bathroom countertop! It is stunning in person –

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      April 21, 2017 at 11:37 am

      I’ll bet it is! Please pass her on this feature if you haven’t done so already 🙂

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