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I have been playing around with layering my necklaces this year.  When I started doing it, I was a bit hesitant - I am used to wearing one statement necklace, not a number of coordinating ones.  

What I found out, is that it is quite easy to do this - you just do it!  I like mine to all be visible, because they are all unique.  But you can layer ones that are all the same length, but different chain types.  Or you can layer just chains in with pendants.  It's really up to you! 

Try it; you might just like it!

PSST:  My new Seven Seas collection of necklaces are designed to stand on their own OR be layered with your other favourites.  They are being released very soon....so sign up below to be first in line to shop.

It was my birthday recently.  I turned 59, entering my 6th decade of trips around the sun.  

Birthdays are an important touchstone - a time to take stock of where I am and where I may be headed.  

Spending time making discoveries, both on the beach and in my journal is the way I take stock.  How do you mark your journeys around the sun?

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I am grateful to live by the ocean.  The ocean draws me in with her colour, moods and power.  

Is it any wonder, then, that I honour the ocean and her treasures with my creative endeavours? 

These Mediterranean Blue and SeaFoam Green pieces will transform into necklaces and earrings very soon.  If you sign up and become an insider, YOU will get to shop them first.  Don't miss out...

~ Mary Oliver   One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice --

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voice behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do --

determined to save

the only life that you could save.

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What's inside the shells?  

The shells contain ingredients for creativity, inspired by oceany things like the colour of water and seashells and barnacles and coral and the importance of oceans for our ecosystems.  

Mix all that together, and you get the latest pieces in my Coastal Collection!  

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As a child, I loved combing through the rocks and pebbles on the beach at our lake property.  I could sit for hours, agate hunting.  

I was in awe of the agates, a small treasure just waiting to be discovered right there on the beach.  I kept a huge bag of agates that had to go everywhere with me.  

Is it any wonder that I now seek the rock tumbled sea glass that is so very agate-like?  

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I spy work in progress for my next launch...

Yes, I will be mixing my bronze ocean inspired pieces with my friend's lovely blue glass beads.  

If you want first dibs on any of the upcoming pieces, then you need to be on my email list!  

When you go down to the beach, keep your eyes open for the elusive Martinique necklace...

Is it hiding in the rocks?  

No, nope with the sea glass.  How about over there with the driftwood? 

Yup, there it is!  

You just never know what treasure you will discover if you keep your eyes open.  

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Beach treasure is everywhere you look.  At the water's edge...

Tucked into a tide pool in the rock crevasses...

And hanging around on driftwood...

The discovery of the treasure is half the fun.  Or maybe that is really most of the fun!  

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