Sea Glass Shop Update - First Day of Spring

My etsy shop is stocked! (as of Noon EST 3/20)

 All these pretties will be there (above and below, and more!) Go check them out :) Free domestic shipping, and $5.95 shipping for all internat'l friends. Purchase by 8am 3/22 and I will ship on 3/22!

This shop update includes wire wrapped sea glass pendants on a variety of chains, dangly earrings on sterling silver ear hooks and studs on sterling silver posts. All the sea glass has been hand picked by me from the Atlantic coast, specifically the Virginia Beach area.

Let me know what you think! I appreciate feedback on the shop: feel free to comment below, or direct message me through facebook or instagram.

You guys are the best and I thank you for your continued support!

Isn't bonfire glass just amazing and organic feeling!

Blessings!
Chelsea Rose

March Madness!

Madness in the best possible way.
Had a booth at the Art Bazaar hosted by The Tar Roof on the 6th. Pungo is a beautiful area and I was so happy to meet the people at The Tar Roof and everyone that came out to see the vendors and hear the music. Hope to join them again in the future.

I've started using more metal types for the sea glass jewelry - now offering a 14k gold plated necklace and dangly earrings, antique copper necklace and dangly earrings, and stainless silver (hypoallergenic) dangly earrings and studs, in addition to the original sterling silver dangly earrings, studs and necklaces.

Antique Copper Wrapper Dangly Earrings

14K Gold Plated Dangly Earrings

Antique Copper Wrapped Necklaces

Walking the beach was a warm adventure this past week and I was able to get my toes on the sand and cool off in the beautiful temperature water.

Have a great week lovelies - Monday is soon upon us, we've "sprung" forward and I will be balancing jewelry making and graphic designing this week. (oh and exercise and hopefully a walk or two on the beach).

Much love,

Chelsea

Keepin' it Up in 2016!

Back on the wire wrapping grind (just kidding, it's not remotely a grind - although sometimes my fingers are a bit tender from working the wire!). 

Finding pieces on the beach isn't always super easy, but some days the stars align, the tides are perfect and the beach is littered - in the best way. Oh and I even had my husband as a buddy on one of my last trips! He snapped a shot of me as I was scoping out a slightly more debris filled area, and I got one of him on the rocks (yes, the ones you probably aren't supposed to be on). 

In the next month I plan to add some variety to my offerings... stay tuned to see what I add! (exciting!)

From Raw... to Wrapped!

Look at that handsome fella.

Yeah, his phone is different than mine - forgive the grainy quality!

Hope everyone is having a lovely 2016 so far! Follow your daydreams y'all! (I saw that recently on instagram, and I basically love it). 

Take care, 

Chelsea 

NEON Holiday Art Market

Yesterday was so lovely at the NEON Holiday Art Market in Norfolk!
I was excited and nervous leading up to it - but I was really happy to see the community out and about checking out the different vendors (me included). It was nice to hear your suggestions for new products and locations for finding sea glass around the US and beyond (it's so fueling my travel itch).

If I met any of you yesterday, let me know! I have an instagram account (where sneak peaks of what I'm working on are regularly posted) and a facebook page where I less regularly post my whereabouts.

See you later lovelies!

Chelsea

Recent Work: Chaplain's Church Service at Sea

Well howdy all, 

New stuff is on the horizon, and I am anxious to learn about what comes next. Give me another week or so and I'll news. In any case, I have been doing some nice watercolor pieces recently for a few couples in the Navy. A custom watercolor of the ship with the chaplain's flag flying can be seen below. I was really happy with my work, and can't wait for them to get it framed so that I can see it in all its completed glory. 

14" x 11" watercolor painting of the USS New York (LPD 21)

I got to watch the lucky recipient as he got his custom painting, and what I saw that amazed me the most was the look of love and adoration towards his wife. His little girl and wife had seen the piece in production and when the painting was shown to the almost 2 year old, she said, "daddy's boat!" Heart melting stuff ya'll. 

I love being a part of their family history, in this little way marking his first deployment as Chaplain, with the painting of the ship. Of course the wife is the mastermind, I was just the hired worker! haha. 

Live every day in love, 

Chelsea 

P.S. If you're local to Jacksonville/Jacksonville Beach - go to the Beaches Art Walk next Tuesday 8/11 - I unfortunately won't have a table this month, but it's bound to be a nice event. 

Painting for Love

I have recently been approached by a few fiances and wives to make something special for their special someone. I gotta tell you - I LOVE making these pieces. Now, since they haven't received them and been able to appropriately gift them to their people - I can't post them here. But I can tell you about one of the ideas that I loved making.

Hand-painted wedding guest "book" canvas. So, that's a lot of descriptive words to explain that I painted a canvas with a unique design to represent the soon-to-be-married couple. Their guests can sign in the details or background with the appropriately assigned sharpies or paint pens (still going through a research phase to determine the best markers for the job).

It's a nautical/Navy themed guest book, with the size of the sections for the rope perfect for signatures from the guests. Alternatively, a black ultra fine tipped sharpie can be used in the background over the blue to sign slightly longer notes to the happy bride and groom. It is adorned with an anchor and the date of the wedding. Optional to include the names of the bride and groom or to put the last initial within the curving rope. Let's just say, I can't wait til I can post this design up and then create your custom piece (assuming you fine reader would also like a rope and possibly nautical themed wedding guest "book" - the colors of the rope, anchor and background could be adjusted to your preferences as well). So many options to truly make it perfect for you and yours.

The square not on the left is pictured without it's final shadowing detail, whereas the "heart" knot on the right is pictured complete (and a hint of the anchor gold/yellow is peaking in!).

Anyways, that's one of three that are on deck - hope to see everyone at the art walk at the Beaches tomorrow! :)

Florida Love

Over the last couple days, weeks, months, I have been toying around with the plethora of adorable home state love expressions seen around the web and the craft stores. I have been fascinated by combining the state, the map, the outline, of where I live or have lived with the dates, initials or shapes of important factors from that time frame.

Well, last night, I finally made something. Tape resist with the shape of the state of choice (FL) in this case, with some more tape resist as the month and year we started living in said state. Oh, and a cute heart that plays with positive and negative space (because our city is on the coast) over the city we live in (Jacksonville).

I added a couple little dolphins as they have some significant meaning to my and my significant other, and used variations of blues for the "background" a play on the coast and well, something for the cute dolphins to come out of. I love commemorating happy moments, and this is just something I think will be a great addition to our home. (Plus, if we move, it's a pretty quick and simple thing to make another one that's different but the same!)

I haven't shown Alex it yet - but I think it's going in his next package! What do you think about it? I'd love to make one of your state, dates, significant things if you'd like :) By the way, this is on an 8x10" canvas panel, so super easy to mail.

Looking forward to heading to the Beaches Art Walk tonight as it's the Second Tuesday of the month! Come visit! :)

Babyshower Decorations - The Lorax

Anybody love The Lorax? Well, my friend Jenni does and our friend Jessica wanted to throw her a Lorax themed baby shower party with all sorts of other visiting Dr Seuss characters. So, I set about creating large Truffula trees, mini Truffula trees, and some images for the wall (the Lorax and the fish from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish).

At first it was difficult finding swimming noodles in the end of winter, but thankfully I live in Florida and I found them eventually!

Maybe I'll post details on how I created them, or you can check out a combination of blog posts from this person, this person or this person. But, I sorta mixed and matched to create mine. Take a look! :)

Supplies:
Large Truffula Trees
- Tissue Paper
- Swimming Noodles (Yellow)
- Crepe Paper (Black)
- 14-20 gauge wire
- Tape
Small Truffula Trees
- Tissue Paper
- Neon Extra Long Drinking Straws (moderately difficult - have to wrap in tape to stabilize the bendy part - I used tape)