Bella Mare Sea Glass
Bella Mare (meaning “beautiful sea”) was founded in Santa Clarita in 2007 and is a proud member of the North American Sea Glass Association. The North American Sea Glass Association (NASGA) was formed by a group of professional sea glass collectors, authors, artisans, and retailers. The primary goal of NASGA is to establish a community of informed collectors and sellers of sea glass that are educated on the characteristics and significance of genuine sea glass. NASGA is establishing guidelines to differentiate genuine from fake sea glass, and offer our commercial members and collectors educational materials via newsletters, lectures, workshops, festivals, and links to websites.
For Leslie Stabile, her favorite pastime as a little girl was collecting sea glass and many years later it still is. It all began at 16 when she started travelling the world. Stabile landed a job in the travel industry which fostered her wanderlust, taking her to over 33 countries and beaches all over the globe. From a young age, Stabile started traveling the world and at the age of 16 and worked in the travel industry for many years my job took me to over 33 countries and beaches around the world. I am very lucky to still travel and take people on private sea glass tours to some of the most abundant sea glass beaches around the world! I also enjoy my job doing talks and seminars on the history of Sea glass.
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Unique Jewelry With Bella Mare Sea Glass
Stabile took photos in in college and still enjoys taking photographs. She takes pride in doing all the photography for her website. She also
enjoys many forms of Art including Painting, glass blowing lampwork, Fused glass, chasing and repousse, Anticlastic Raising and Pique Assiette.
Leslie loves making unique pieces of jewelry out of sea glass she has collected in her travels and from local beaches in the Central coast. Using only 925 silver for all her jewelry, she leaves all the sea glass in its organic form, just the it was found. Leslie’s little secret is that she rubs a bit of coconut oil on the glass to give it a natural shine!
“I feel so blessed to have learned Silversmithing from some the the best teachers and I am still always learning as I take many on going workshops and classes to better my work and learn all forms of the trade. I am always so amazed how nature turns broken glass into beautiful gems, what a true gift from the Sea. I feel so blessed to make beautiful jewelry from Sea glass, I am very lucky to have such an awesome job doing what I love with passion. Creating a visionary beautiful and useful products that you can wear and enjoy for a lifetime.”
Click here to learn more about the 2015 Santa Clarita Home and Garden Show.
To learn about Bella Mare Sea Glass, click here.
We hope you can join us on April 25th and 26th, 2015 at one of the largest California Home and Garden Shows right here in Santa Clarita!
Bella Mare Sea Glass
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