Article Index

Below are links to articles that have appeared in past issues of Beachcombing and are now available on the Beachcombing blog. Learn more about beachcombing, beach travel, coastal arts, and coastal living, plus fabulous finds from shorelines around the world.

Beachcombing Destinations

• 10 Best Glassing Beaches
• 10 Best Shelling Beaches
• Best Friends’ Trip to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland
• California Beach Finder App
• Cape May, New Jersey
• Cape May: The Search for Cape May Diamonds
• Chincoteague and Assateague: Wild Horses of the Eastern Shore
• Davenport, California
• Galveston Island, Texas
• Galveston, Texas: The Combing Report
• The Ghost Forest
• Haunted Lighthouses
• Italy: Vetri Di Mare
• Lincoln City, Oregon: Finders Keepers
• Lighthouse B&Bs: They’ll leave the light on for you
• Long Beach Island, New Jersey
• Maine: Sea Glass Dreams Really Do Come True
• Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
• New Hampshire: Long Weekend on the Shortest Coastline
• Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Olympic Peninsula Odyssey, Washington
• Port Townsend, Washington
• Presque Isle State Park: Erie, Pennsylvania
• Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Puerto Rico
• Russian Sea Glass Beach 
• Sanibel, Florida: So much to shellebrate on Sanibel
• San Juan Islands, Washington: My Love Story
• Santa Barbara, California
• Santa Cruz, California
• Sea Glass Weekend Retreat
• Seaham, England
• St. Croix, USVI: St. Croix’s Chaney
• Vanuatu: Sea Foam Treasure Trove
• Vladivostok's Sea Glass Beach
• Weekend in Half Moon Bay, Lancashire
• Weekend in the Western Isles
• Welcome to the Jurassic Coast
• West Indies: Treasure Trove of Black Glass
• What's the deal with Glass Beach?

Beach Arts, Crafts, Gifts, and Décor

• Beach Craft: Drilling Sea Glass
• Beach Craft: Sea Glass Bowl
• Beach Find Succulent Container Garden How-To Craft
• Beach Finds and Barn Wood Shelf Craft How To Tutorial
• The Beach Glass-ed Bathroom
• Beach Glass Quilt
• Breezy Blue House
• Color and Light: Marylou Powers
• Eco Artists: Creating Art from Marine Debris
• Endless Summer: Beach Decor for the Holidays
• The History of Coral Jewelry
• How to make a sea shell tree
• How to bezel set sea glass
• Make a Flowerpot Lighthouse Tutorial
• Making Framed Art Using Epoxy
• The Mermaid Apothecary
• The Mermaid’s Box: Machel Spence
• Products We Love: Beachcombing and Beach Decor Books
• Products We Love: Coastal Decor
• Products We Love: Kitchen, Bed, and Bath
• Products We Love: Out & About
• Sea Glass Gem in the Jewel Box
• The Sea Glass Home: In Perfect Color
• Sea Glass Mosaic Sailboat
• The Sea Glass Necklace: 6 Different Ways
• Sea Glass Switch Plate Cover Craft How To
• Sea Glass Wire Wrap Tutorial
• Show Off Your Beach Bling (video)
• Spotlight Artisan: Arlene Nebbia
• Spotlight Artisan: Elizabeth Roberts
• Spotlight Artisan: Jennifer Reed
• Spotlight Artisan: Kelly Abrams
• Spotlight Artisan: Kenneth Blaine
• Spotlight Artist: Sharon Clarke Haugli
• Spotlight Artisan: Signe Lawson
• Storming the Beaches
• Under the Sea Kitchen Design

Out & About/Community

• 18 signs you’re obsessed with beachcombing
• And her dance floor paved with ducats
• After the Storm
• Author Interview: Silke Stein
• Beachcomber Interview: Fiona Dart
• Beachcomber Interview: Heather Ganis
• Beachcomber Interview: Leilani Yee
• Beachcomber Interview: Mandy Peel
• Beachcomber Interview: Maren Lohmeyer
• Beachcomber Interview: Matthew Umbro
• Beachcomber Interview: Natalie Brooke
• Beachcomber Interview: Nicola McFarlane Young
• Beachcomber Interview: The Shell Gang
• Beachcomber Interview: Terri Ryan
• Beachcombing Connections
• Beachcombing Etiquette
• Beach Clean Teens: Planning a Beach Cleanup
• Beach-Found Game Pieces
• Beach Glass Bill
• The Beach Library
• Beach Safety for Your Dog
• Best Beachcombing Gear
• A Birder Discovers Glassing
• Birth Glass, Seeding the Beaches
• The Bride Wore a Mermaid Tail
• Confessions of a Shellaholic
• A Day at the Beach; A Year at the Beach
• Dear Crabby: Advice from the Beach
• Dear Crabby: More Advice from the Beach
• Find Your Peace
• First Northern German Collectors’ Meeting
• Gear for the Winter Beach
• The Giant Blue Pickle
• Goddess of the Hunt
• How much is enough?
• How to plan the perfect beachcombing vacation
• I Want to Age Like Sea Glass
• The Lady of the Sea
• Lake Erie’s Glass Giant
• Lake Michigan Sea Glass Collectors
• Letters from the Sea
• Love Floats
• The Mermaid Apothecary
• Mudlarking We Will Go
• Not Your Typical Gear
• Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
• Privy to History
• Reader Survey: Do you sit and dig or stroll and pick?
• Reader Survey: What's on your beachcombing bucket list?
• The Science Behind “The Beach is My Happy Place”
• The Sea Glass Collectors' Creed
• A Sea Glass Journey
• Sea Glasspassing
• Sea Glass Dreams Really Do Come True
• The Sea Glass Mermaid
• Sea Glass Showstoppers
• Sea Glass Swap
• Shards
• Sharing Sea Glass for Good
• A Sisterly sea Glass Adventure
• They just kept coming…
• The Thrill of the Hunt
• The Thrill of the Winter Hunt
• Top 13 Items to Bring When Beachcombing
• Treasures in the English Chalk Streams
• Metal Detecting: Treasures in the Sands
• The Underwater Museum
• What is it?
• What Lies Beneath: Underwater Beachcombing
• Who Owns the Coastline?
• Window to Our Past

Beachcombing Festivals

• 9 Tips for Beach Festivals
• Ashtabula Harbor Beach Glass Festival
• The California Mermaid Convention
• Cayucos Sea Glass Festival
• Chesapeake Sea Glass Festival
• Driftwood and Sand
• The Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival
• The First Sea Glass Festival
• Great Lakes Beach Glass Festival: Greatest Show on the Lakes
• Insider Tips for Festival Vendors
• Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
• Mermaid Tears Sea Glass Festival
• Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival
• North American Sea Glass Festival
• The Northeast Sea Glass Expo—Cape Cod
• The Northeast Sea Glass Expo—New Hampshire
• Santa Barbara: Queen of the Festivals
• Santa Cruz Sea Glass and Ocean Art Festival
• You be the judge: The inside scoop on sea glass contests

History and Science

• Ah, Those English Multis
• All About Ceramics
• The Birthplace of the American Glass Industry
• Blue Willow History and Lore
• Clay Pipe Making: The Victorian Way
• The Codd Neck Bottle
• The Domino Effect
• Dragon Glass
• Egg-citing Finds: Whelk Egg Casings
• Fascinating Cantonware
• Fire-King Glass on the Shores of Rhodes
• Flotsam and Jetsam
• For the Love of German Sea Marbles
• Full of Beans: Sea Bean Collector Mike Ley
• Getting to the Bottom of It: Shard Identification of Bottle Bottoms
• The Glass Floats
• The Glass Menagerie
• Glassing Sleuth
• Historical Bottle Lip Shapes
• The History of Cairns
• The Lasting Beauty of Vintage Sand Pails
• The Lost Colony (Found?)
• Mermaid Tales Throughout History
• Mermaid Tears & Other Salty Names
• Mudlarking: Ancient Sacred River
• Mudlarking: The Art of Smoking
• Mudlarking: Bellarmine Jugs and Witch Bottles
• Mudlarking: Colored Glass & Georgian Bling
• Mudlarking: Finding Londinium
• Mudlarking: Giving New Life to Historic Glass
• Mudlarking: Colorful Glass Beads
• Mudlarking: Lost and Found Toys
• Mudlarking: Modern Sacred River
• Mudlarking: The Mystery of the Thames Garnets
• Mudlarking: Pirates of the River Thames
• Mudlarking: Searching for Evidence of the Mayflower
• Mudlarking: Seal the Deal
• The Mystery of Sea Glass Strength
• Name Your Poison
• Neodymium Sea Glass
• The (Not So) Fantastic Voyage
• The Origins of Murano Glass
• Schlitz Royal Ruby Red
• Sea Glass Pastels
• Sea Marbles: Holy Grail of the Beach
• Sherd or Shard?
• The Shipwrecks of Lake Erie
• Shipwrecks You Can Visit
• Spode China & the Titanic
• Sprite Delight
• Star-Crossed Lovers: The Blue Willow Love Story
• Sunken Pirate City: The Port Royal Earthquake of 1692
• The Tale of Frozen Charlotte
• Tales of Whiskey and Ulysses S. Grant
• Through the Looking Glass: Maritime Glass as Sea Glass
• True Daffy’s Elixir
• Ultraviolet Sea Glass
• Using Bottle Maker Marks to Identify Your Sea Glass
• Unsuitable!
• The Very First Beachcombers
• What happened to Hoosier Slide?

Nature

• Ambergris: Floating Gold
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Great Lakes Geology
• The Book of Pebbles
• Changing Tides: Dude, Where's My Beach?
• Driftwood: Swimming Trunks
• Fossilized Urchins
• The Ghost Forest
• Hidden Beauty: Petoskey Stones
• Hidden Beauty: Quahog Shells
• Horseshoe Crabs: Over the Moon
• A Jaw-Some Collection: Shark Tooth Fossils
• Lucky Stones
• The Phenomenon of the Seiche
• The Red Abalone
• Saving the Shoreline with Star Sand
• The Seahorse
• Shoreline Erosion
• The Starfish (Is Not a Fish)
• Stone Crabs of Satellite Beach, Florida
• Top 10 Sanibel Sea Shells
• Introducing: Yooperlite
• The World’s Most Expensive Seashell

 

Conservation

• Beachcombing and Ocean Conservation
• The Big 4: Say No to Plastics
• Like Diamonds, Plastic is Forever
• Ocean Conservation How Can You Help?
• Plastic Buildup in Our Oceans

Resources and more

• Anatomy of a Bottle
• Best Beachcombing Apps
• Best Beachcombing Books
• Beach Reads by Cindy Bilbao
• A Brief History of Glass Stoppers
• A Buying Guide for the Sea Glass Jewelry Consumer
• Carter Sea Glass Color and Rarity Guide
• Dear Crabby: Advice from the Beach
• Genuine vs. Fake Sea Glass
• Glassification
• Multicolored Sea Glass and Hartley Wood and Company
• Picture Perfect: Photo Submission Tips
• Pocket Guide to Seaham Sea Glass
• The Rarity Chart – Dissected
• Sea Glass Colors
• Sea Glass Lingo
• Test Your Beachcombing Knowledge
• Tips for Finding a Sea Glass Marble
• Tips for the Sea Glass Artist Studio
• Too Good to Be True: Identifying Fake Sea Glass 
• What's Your Beach Personality?
• Why So Many Sea Glass Greens?

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