I had quite the collection of interesting bits at one point, although the only bit I've got left is the one I made into a handle/hilt for my athame.
Unfortunately I'm a long way from the sea nowadays, so no handy source of free stuff. Still, I can always give it a shot, I've a couple of spools of brass and copper wire to experiment with, and while no sea glass, there's some nice shale banks with fossils locally.
As for the creek glass, I'd bet there's an old rubbish dump somewhere up stream that's the source of the glass being washed down. The fluid dynamics of the creek is probably sorting it into patches. Come to think of it, depending on local geology, keep an eye open for gold flakes as well... if there's any there, it'll collect in the same spots more or less.
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I had quite the collection of interesting bits at one point, although the only bit I've got left is the one I made into a handle/hilt for my athame.
Unfortunately I'm a long way from the sea nowadays, so no handy source of free stuff. Still, I can always give it a shot, I've a couple of spools of brass and copper wire to experiment with, and while no sea glass, there's some nice shale banks with fossils locally.
As for the creek glass, I'd bet there's an old rubbish dump somewhere up stream that's the source of the glass being washed down. The fluid dynamics of the creek is probably sorting it into patches. Come to think of it, depending on local geology, keep an eye open for gold flakes as well... if there's any there, it'll collect in the same spots more or less.