For the Love of Mermaid's Tears

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I'm a jewelry designer and I recently discovered the beauty of Mermaid's Tears or, another name for it is, just plain beach glass, but I prefer the first name which has a much more romantic ring to it. It seems sea glass is very popular and people everywhere comb the beaches in search of these beautiful multi-hued gems. We've done our share of sea glass collecting these past 2 years. We must have close to a thousand pounds of glass scattered all over our basement! Glass collectors are ready to pay the price for rare pieces of sea glass. Pieces such as orange and red are extremely rare and fetch quite a nice price when I set it in silver or gold. The red sea glass probably were old car lights or perhaps even part of an old stain window, or again perhaps a beautiul piece of decorative glass such as a vase or something similar to this. We've only found about 4 pieces of red in 2 years. We've combed many beaches, thus turning our own local beaches inside out to find these little gems (without disturbing mother earth, of cours). Cobalt blue glass is another rarer color. This color derives from old glass Noxzema bottles or medicine bottles; I love the cobalt blue glass; it makes beautiful jewelry. One of my best sellers. Then you have the brown, emerald green and white glass which are quite common. They are not that attractive on their own, but when you mix them up with other colors to make a bracelet or a necklace, the results are stunning. The brown sea glass comes from, beer bottles and old medicine and chlorox bottles and the white and green glass comes from pop bottles, old dishes and window panes. If you ever decide to take a relaxing walk on the beach again, do a little beach coming of your own and see what little treasures you'll find. I love finding these little gems washed up on the sand. It makes you wonder how long they've been there, rolling about with the pebbles? Twenty, thirty years or perhaps, thirty to a hundred years? Where did they come from? What were they before they were shattered to pieces and spread about to our beaches? Each little Mermaid's tear has its story. Can you hear its story?