The GhostShip shop at Etsy is holding a Back To School Sale. This is a buy one, get one free sale, so it’s definitely worth taking a look at. GhostShip carries beautiful jewelry made with vintage sea glass. I own some pieces from GhostShip myself – a pair of earrings and a lovely locket.
Sea glass usually comes from old vintage glass such as medicine jars, tableware and spirit bottles tossed overboard by fishermen decades ago…Natural sea glass can only be weathered by time, sand and tide – an ironic treasure of man’s folly turned into nature’s beauty.
The sale works like …read more

Here’s Part Two of my interview with jewelry designer Kyra Crilly of GhostShip. Kyra uses vintage sea glass, a found item, to craft gorgeous necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. GhostShip, Crilly’s shop is located at Etsy – a cyber mall for handmade, one of a kind items. If you missed Part One of the interview, then please click here.

PBN: The piece with the red glass…how do you go about designing a piece?
Kyra Crilly: Red sea glass is the rarest of them all. There is much speculation where red glass comes from, as commercial red glass is not produced much anymore. …read more

I had the opportunity to interview Kyra Crilly from the Ghost Ship  jewelry at Etsy. I found her shop on Friday and I fell in love with her work. Each piece has this romantic feel – in part from the vintage sea glass itself, which is frosty and beautiful and rare, but also the settings are delicate, with accents of pearl and silver filigree .
Kyra is new to the glass and has only been operating her shop for a couple of months. She wrote a piece about working with the glass, called The Art and Meditation of Drilling Sea Glassthat …read more