FREE BLOG & WEBSITE GIVEAWAY ! Win A Gorgeous Beach Glass Necklace

I'm very excited to announce a Seafarer Gift Shop GIVEAWAY contest! Enter for your chance to win one of our beautiful handmade sterling silver and beach glass necklaces. It is FREE to enter, no strings, no catch. Enter as often and many times as you'd like by just signing our website's guestbook http://www.seafarergiftshop.com/guestbook.html June 30th, 2010 is the last day. Winner to be drawn at random. Good luck! :o) Feel free to share, repost, tweet or link to this info. The Seafarer Gift Shop has fabulous nautical gifts, beach decor, jewelry, and more and carries hand made sterling silver beach glass jewelry.

New Beach Glass Jewelry Just In!

Here's some pics of our new sea glass jewelry shipment, made by our artisans! Just in to the store, each is a one of a kind hand made creation! What a great nautical gift. Like one? Contact us to inquire.

These stacked trios above are gorgeous! (I am wearing mine right now...) each has a Swarovski crystal at the top that is the same color as the top piece of beach glass. Sterling silver, with a 17.75" chain. $48 each. See matching earrings down below!

These cluster pendants are fun - each has a different sort of extra on the chain. Love em! Most are $50 each.

sterling earrings below.... Match the stacked trios above. French wires are $46 (Aqua, Peachy Pink, Lavender), Hoops are $48 (Cobalt, Aqua, Lavender)

bracelets below: the green is sterling silver $50 the white with toggle is silverplate $30. bracelets below: all have sterling silver toggle closures, Swarovski crystals, and either sterling round beads or round pearls. $62

These sterling wire wrapped pendants below feature a sparkly Swarovski crystal.Lt. Green, Peachy Pink, Aqua,Lavender, Aqua, Lavender. $50

These sterling silver double drop pendants below are light and lovely - Peachy Pink, Aqua, Seafoam, Lavender. $50

Mermaids are Great for Nautical Gifts & Beach Decor!

We adore mermaids here at the Seafarer, and not just any old mermaid.... We love the Nantucket style (as opposed to the fantasy type you see in paintings, cards and figurines) which is so hard to find - so when we find some, we celebrate~!

Here's a new find, she's a beauty... Painted dimensional metal - just $44. A perfect nautical gift for someone special or for your own beach decor! http://seafarergiftshop.com/mermaids.html

Artist in Residence - Storm Buoy day

Will be painting in the window again today, on the agenda is my Storm Buoy series... What are Storm Buoys, you ask? I started painting on buoys years and years ago when seeking painting surfaces. Being from a seashore community, I considered and tried painting on abandoned lobster pot buoys that had washed ashore during storms, hence the name, Storm Buoys! They had charachter - they were ripped and scraped, and barnacled....I started painting boat portraits on them, and have been selling stock designs and custom boat portraits on them for ages. I have exhibited them at the Greenport Maritime Festival in Greenport, the Long Island Seafood Festival at the West Sayville Maritime Museum, and the Apple Festival in Sayville, and a few others. Now I sell them here at my gift shop, the Seafarer Gift Shop, in Sayville.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE! PAINTING NAUTICAL GIFTS & SOUVENIRS

Well, now that the kids are in kindergarten I can paint in the store! I did on occasion, but there was always a toddler on my lap trying to "steer" away the paint brush, so with twin toddlers in the store with me and customers I wasn't too productive during the day with projects, and at night there was never enough hours at my home studio... I have now set myself up painting in the front window of the store during the day, and it's creating some interest for walkers and traffic passing by - what's she doing in the Seafarer Gift Shop window?

I've been painting custom pictures and signs professionally for over 18 years, in addition to murals and faux finishes in homes.

What was I painting today? Today I was working on some wooden town signs, always popular! I have two for "Sayville" and one for "Blue Point" in the works over a seascape, and a series of wooden magnets in a miniature style of my famous Storm Buoys.