St. Mary is the new 'fall fashion'

As promised…many, MANY moons ago! This is my homemade sea-bean jewelry post.

The particular piece featured is a Saint Mary’s Cross, wrapped in wire (a variation on a barrel loop), and strung on a silver chain.

My 'favorite' actually concocted the piece; however, I did find the bean ;-)

The actual St. Mary's necklace

Myself wearing the necklace!

The Sea-bean Hunt Is On!

This year is turning out to be a very lucrative one for sea-beaning, thanks in large part to the heavy deposits of sargassum on shore. Just today, ‘the favorite’ and I hit Galveston State Beach for some long overdue sea-bean hunting. As you can see by the pics below, we were incredibly successful!

Among the catch: 5 sea hearts, 8 horse eyes, 25 hamburgers, 17 star palms, 2 St. Mary’s Crosses (thanks to Matt!), 1 Jamaican Navel Spurge, 1 Jamaican walnut, 1 Nickarbean brown, 3 Nickarbeans grey or ‘sea pearls’, 1 porcupine seed, 4 almonds, several sea coconuts (much of which we didn’t pick up), anthracite (which is NOT a sea-bean but a form of coal that washes up from shipwrecks offshore leftover from civil war blockade runners), cork (also, NOT a sea-bean), and an assortment of other goodies.

The Broad Overview: Today's Find

Hamburger Bean Up Close

Horse Eye Sea-bean

St. Mary Cross Sea-Beans

Brown and Grey Nickarnut Sea-beans

Anthracite (NOT a sea-bean)

Assortment: Fishy overbite, cork, fishy vertebrae, and some sort of shell

Stay tuned! Fossils on the way and an update on where to find information regarding sea-beans!