Orange Sea Glass!

This blog is quickly becoming the latest and most exciting sea glass finds from my new secret beach here in Cleveland. Sunday was one of the best days yet! I found many large pieces of aqua, cobalt and green. I saw a slight orange-ish piece off the shore in about three feet of water. I thought it was a shard of brick, as there are a lot of them under the water that look like sea glass. But this orange was actual sea glass-and a big piece! Now I can't wait to go back to try and find more!

Its May 2010!

We have settled in Cleveland Oh as a result of job opportunities, for which we are happy and excited.

We have added a new member to the family. Her name is Luna, and we drove from New Jersey to Kenosha Wisconsin to adopt her from a rescue. She is a bright happy little kitty, and we love her alot.

Cleveland is an old manufacturing city, and has dumped alot of glass and pottery into Lake Erie. While I was very sad to leave my secret beach in New Jersey, I have found that the first beach I tried here has 20 times the rarer colors of sea glass than my NJ location. There will be many hours of relaxation and fun times on these local "secret" beaches.

Updates & The Hudson River Sea Glass Company

Jeff has been offered an IT Security position in the Global IT Department. I am also working as an Integrated Internal Auditor, and loving every minute of it. We will be traveling to Switzerland and Hong Kong in the spring. I will be testing controls and working, and we will both be sightseeing on the weekends. My uncle is an opera singer and will be singing in Berlin, and we are going to try and meet up with them while we are there. In my spare time we will also be antique shopping, and hunting for more sea glass in different international locations.



We have started the Hudson River Seaglass Company, and have just completed the first several pieces of jewelry this morning. They will be up for sale on C Market's Bidding for Good in the next couple of weeks, with the proceeds being donated to Global Action for Children (http://www.globalactionforchildren.org/).

Sea Glass Adventures

I have discovered that near to our new location is a treasure trove of sea glass. For those of you that do not know, we have recently moved to the New York City area. This area is one of the oldest in the United States, and I have found it to be a great source of glass of all vintages. I am not sure what I am going to do with it yet, but here is some of what I have found.

From what I have found so far, some of it is REALLY old! I have found some black glass that is old bottles from over a hundred years ago, and the etched top of a black perfume bottle or something like that. Here are the pictures of them.

I think I might try to sell some of these on Ebay, although if I had time it would be fun to try and make some jewelry from them.

Two Interviews!

We are very excited as Jeff and I each have an interview scheduled next week. Jeff's is a compliance position with an Anti-Money Laundering division of a company. Mandy's is with a high end accessories company as an Internal Auditor Intern. Each of us is very excited as the positions are what we each were really hoping for.

We will be driving up early next week, so we will be in packing mode all weekend, wish us luck!

Our New Paulus Hook Brownstone!

After a frenzied search throughout the area, we found the best apartment in the small, exclusive neighborhood of Paulus Hook. The streets are quiet and lined with trees. Rows of stately brownstones there have been designated as a National Historic Protected Area. Here is the entry and the door of our brownstone, we will post more photos after we move in.

We found an apartment in Paulus Hook

After a rollercoaster of a week, and two unexpected trip extensions, we think its worth it. We sign the lease tomorrow for a 2 bedroom apartment in Paulus Hook neighborhood. I will post a photo of the building tomorrow, and more when we move in in August. This is the view from our hotel overlooking the river across from NYC.