By The Sea Jewelry is proud to offer some of the finest Certified Genuine Sea Glass™ Jewelry in the world. We gather our glass form various locations including Puerto Rico, Hawaii, England and Canada.

We have the largest collection of English Sea Glass in America (some of the finest sea glass in the world) .

What is sea glass?... Well, it begins as bottles & glass that get tossed on the shore, broken, and then tumbled smooth by the waves and currents. It's nature acting like a big rock tumbler and recycling our pollution! How Cool!

Glass is no longer used as it was in the past. Before the mid 1960’s, everything came in glass bottles or jars. Plastic was still a product of the future and recycling was non existent. In coastal areas and islands, trash collection was also something that would not begin until the area developed. Coastal residents would bury their trash in the sand or simply toss it in the ocean (thinking the sea was this vast indestructible entity). Today we know and act differently. With the advent of recycling and the wide use of plastic for beverages, sea glass is becoming increasingly harder to find.

Wherever you find people and water you will more than likely find these sea glass gems! Walking along the shoreline, beach combing and looking among the pebbles shells and other flotsam, you can find these lovely frosted beach jewels. Beach Glass can be found on rivers, ocean shorelines and bays. The more current or wave action, the more likely that you are to find smooth top quality sea glass.

Called many things, sea glass (seaglass), beach glass (beachglass), mermaids tears, ocean glass, trash glass, it is all beautiful and fun to collect.

It's sometimes fun to look at a piece an try an figure out just where it came from, what was it, and how long has it been rolling around??? It's kind of like beach archaeology. For a complete essay on beach glass/ sea glass see Beaches Magazine, for an interview I did. It is everything you always wanted to know about beach glass and then some!

There are many different kinds of Sea Glass from "Rounds" (the bottom of bottles) to patterned glass that still retails some of it's original origin (Glass imprinted with name brands patterns etc.) to one of my favorites, campfire glass (glass that has been melted in a fire and then worn smooth by the ocean).

Click this link to see some samples of my glass collection! 
Samples of Sea Glass!

Write me about your memories of sea glass or 
tell me about that favorite piece you have stashed away!

"I have, again, a life-long love of sea glass.  We used to collect it as children, and I always thought it was more precious than gems, since the colors are so beautifully muted, and there is an air of mystery about each piece: where did it come from, how long was it washed in the ocean,  where has it traveled, how old is it, what other hands held it?? etc., etc.  It is such a transformation to go from being a piece of something ordinary or discarded or forgotten to becoming an object which captures the light and the imagination, a treasure which possibly becomes a piece of exquisite jewelry!?!?!!"
Angela - Charlottesville , VA

" Saw your site and couldn't help telling you of the tradition in my family. When my children were small I would take them to the ocean and they would bring me treasures of all kinds; driftwood, worn smooth by sea and surf; empty shells, discarded by some growing creatures; found objects large and small. One of the true treasures was sea glass. We would collect all colors and oooh and aaah at their beauty, sending some back to the sea to "ripen" some more in hopes of finding them next time. The very best gem of the day was blue sea glass, guaranteeing the finder of such a piece a free ice cream cone in their choice of flavor. Great days we had."
      Wendy