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Have you found much?

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Back from a morning spent seaglass hunting on Seaham Beach in County Durham.  The beach was dotted with collectors, all like me, all with our heads bent, walking the sands slowly, searching the shingle for a splash of coloured glass.  Seaglass collectors are odd creatures, and I include myself in this categorisation. We know how addictive seaglass hunting is. But most of us are friendly, willing to share what we've collected and show other collectors when we pass on the beach, calling out to each other: "Have you found much?" I've collected seaglass since I was a child. Obviously, I've thrown a lot of it back into the sea or I wouldn't be able to move in the house for the lovely jewels of glass that have tumbled in the ocean for years, decades even. But some of it I do keep - the jewels, I call them, the gems.  They're the reds and the purples, the oranges and the lilacs, all the colours you rarely see these days. And I keep the very rare multi-col...

Searching for seaglass

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My regular reader will know by now that I enjoy finding and making things with sea glass.  If you'd like to know more about why I collect it, where, and what I do with it, I'm featured on the Skylight Rain blog - and you can read it here. Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - official ITV tribute to a soap icon. Available here. I'm on twitter @flaming_nora

Making seaglass Christmas cards

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This year I made some of my Christmas cards to give to family and friends.  As a seaglass collector, I made the cards from seaglass, bits of driftwood and glitter. That's it, that's all it takes to create a little masterpiece and I couldn't be more chuffed.   They're all different and unique - with different shapes and sizes of seaglass and driftwood. I used different coloured card too. You can see more of my seaglass crafting here . I still have two remaining seaglass framed hearts for sale on Etsy if you'd like to see them . Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - official ITV tribute to a soap icon. Available here. I'm on twitter @flaming_nora