Sea Glass Accessories
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We visited Jacqui yesterday during the Artists’ open house and had a blast looking through her gorgeous sea glass jewelry and hair jewelry! Jackie was in process of making a stunning comb and I got to have input to make it my own! Such a wonderful, fun and relaxing experience! Can’t wait to visit again❣️ — with Laurie Anderson.
“Every shard of sea glass that washes up on the shore is the result of chemistry and chance. A bottle or bowl, lost at sea, is buffeted by waves and scrubbed by sand for decades, even centuries. Eventually, a crystalline surface develops on the glass and the edges of the pottery turn smooth as bone, a reminder of humanity’s ability to create and nature’s power to erode. Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco gathers these jewels and, at her Cape Ann Designs studio in Gloucester, arranges pieces of beer-bottle amber against the elusive ship-light red to produce tableaus on brooches and hair accessories. While “mechanically assisted” sea glass is widely manufactured, Ganim-DeFalco uses only material that has gained its beauty on the ocean floor.”