PLEASE RSVP BELOW…IN OUR GUEST BOOK
We would love to hear if you are attending our Sea Glass Festival. If you are a collector, artisan, enthusiast. Where are you travelling from? We look forward to meeting you at this great family event. You can also join the Festival discussion at our Facebook group!
Did you attend last year’s event and plan to attend the event in 2010? Let us know.
A Maritime Girl here…otherwise known as Gail Rhyno…Sea Glass Artisan living on Prince Edward Island. So excited about the Festival and can’t wait to meet and chat with everyone. I always enjoy it when someone with a real passion for sea glass drops into my Studio to chat, so it will be a whole new experience to find myself surrounded by people who love, collect and sell sea glass. I’ve been collecting sea glass seriously for about four years. My mother has been collecting for over 20yrs, it’s her collection that I used to start my business.
Hi Maritime Girl. Too bad I didn’t “find” you to chat with when I was on PEI this past summer. I am less a “girl” and more a “woman”…but still have a girlish passion for sea glass! I, too, am a relatively recent collector. I am also a writer, and often write about the spiritual lessons learned from collecting, walking the beach, even making the jewelry. Do you have a website or blog that showcases your art? I would love to see what kind of work you do. Thank you again for the invite. I very much hope to be there!
Hiya, I’ll be attending the seaglass festival in PEI and am looking forward to seeing some beautiful pieces. I love Gail’s work and am looking forward to seeing a number of other artists there. My mom got me into this and my kids and I have gone beach and sea glassing with with her to a few secret beaches
We’re coming from Stratford, PEI. Cheers!
Greetings! I am excited to be envolved in Pei’s first Sea Glass festival as a very novice collector and an organizer of the festival. My love of light houses got me interested in the beaches and shore lines and then…..I discovered sea glass hunting. I love it! I’m looking forward to meeting all you enthusiasts next summer at the Wood Islands Light House, across from the Northumberland Ferry terminal on our southeastern shore. Come join us.
Hi to all…..another seaglass enthusiast who also loves designing pieces of jewerly with these beautiful sea gems. I’ve been collecting for “years” and the peace and calmness of this activity works wonders. I am so fortunate to be able to “be” with the seaglass every day in my home studio/gallery and still get amazed at the mystical nature of the glass. Am looking forward to being surrounded by seaglass like minded indiviudals next year at our festival….
Hi Gail, Kris, Maureen & Teri, Hey, you know my passions and none involve a man (or beast). I am enjoying drilling holes, wrapping, gluing, and whatever it takes to put the pieces together. At the moment it beats out painting canvases. Thank you Gail for your info on your site. Great idea having the RSVP too.
Hi all,
Just came off the beach after gathering sea glass. I really had to lift my head and remember to gaze at the beautiful ocean. What a calming place to be… an oasis for me in our fast paced world…. well, the whole Island is really an oasis!
I ,too, am excited about the upcoming event next July and will spend the winter trying to get some artistic pieces together. It looks like there will be plenty of activities for adults and kids alike at the festival.
See you there!!
Hi Committee Members & Guests
I am thrilled to be part of Sea Glass Festival at Wood Islands. It has been interesting meeting other committee members and collectors. I have made some friend’s for life. I have been collecting beach glass since 1997. have given away many pieces. It is so much fun to do this with my grandchildren from Calgary and Charlottetown. Looking forward to July 2009.
Thank you all for taking this initiative! The festival is now in my day-timer for next July. I live in Edmonton now, but have a cottage on the PEI land on which I grew up. The beach has always been my most loved place. When my feet hit the sand I automatically look down. Next summer I plan to make a found-glass back-splash in my kitchen. Inspiration welcome! I am so looking forward to meeting other glass hounds.
It’s with great pleasure that I will attend your Sea Glass Festival.
Oh! I will be a delight to see all the little treasures from the sea that you all found and collected.
Ok ! Now hurry winter to go by fast . lol.
Will see you all next summer.
Hi folks…I’m writing from way out west on another coast. We have some lovely specimens of all colours and shapes, but no Sea Glass Festival of our own….boohooo!! I wish you fun and sun and many good times at your first annual Sea Glass Festival. Wish I could be there!! Great idea!!!
We can’t wait! I can’t believe there is a festival in our neck of the woods!
Hi Sea Glass Enthusiasts,
After spending last weekend at the North American Sea Glass Festival in Delaware we can’t wait until the next festival. What a perfect place to have it on PEI. Wood Island Festival here we come!!
I attended the Sea Glass Festival in Lewes Delaware my first. It was amazing and the people amazing also! I am looking forward to the next. It took me 8 hours from Massachusettes to get there and I was not disappointed! See you soon.
Let’s hope winter goes by quick!!
I’ll be there! It will be my first festival.
I will certainly be there taking with me 2 grand neices who are sea glass enthusiasts!!! Katelyn and Kamryn Gallant are true collectors who enjoy finding treasures along our beaches!
Hi from Wisconsin to all you sea glass enthusiasts:
I was reading the above letters, and for a minute I thought I had already written to you. The reason I thought that is because my name was Anne Marie Gallant before I was married.
I just recently met with the Gallant extended family from Souris at the Delaware sea glass festivaal. We told so many people about the upcoming PEI sea glass festival that if they all come, PEI will be a very busy place!
I am looking forward to meeting you all. I will have a booth called Sea Glass Treasures. It should be fun!
I plan to attend. Looking forward to hearing your guest speaker. Will be travelling from Wellington PEI.
Just heard about The Sea Glass Festival and plan to attend the festival in july 2009.
My husband and I have been collecting sea glass for many years.
Will be travelling from way -up-west….Alberton
I so hope to attend . Im an avid collector from Southern NJ . I am truly addicted. There’s no other place I want to be in my spare time besides the beach. My friends think I’m nuts (I guess that’s a possibility) but I find great pleasure in walking the beach in my quest for beautifully tumbled seaglass. I look forward to visiting PEI and meeting other obsessed collectors. See you there!
I’m hoping to attend. I just started collecting sea glass about 18 months ago, although I’ve always loved it. Now it’s an lovely addiction for both myself and my husband. We’ll be traveling from Santa Barbara, California, USA!
I’m from Toronto. I’m hoping to visit and see what the beach is like in PEI! Can’t wait to meet other glass nuts. It’s going to be great!
I was so excited to find out about the festival. I live in western Massachusetts and hope to attend. I lived in northern Maine for 15 years and never made it to PEI – and my daughter has some ancestors on her father’s side who lived there years ago! I also have friends from Nova Scotia whom I never visited at their home. Time for me to get to the Maritimes, I believe!
I have collected sea glass for over 40 years whenever I could get to the ocean. I found my first piece when I was 13 on the Downeast coast of Maine and have been somewhat obsessed ever since!
Hi,, We are from Rexton NB just accross from PEI and we will be attending the festival. The beach glass graze started off as a hobby , then it became a passion and now it is an obsession. Love the beach ,the water ,and the walk and the calm etc, etc.
Our first festival and hope to bring the family for the days festivities.
I am from the small village of Salisbury, NB and have just returned from 4 months in the Bahamas. I managed to collect 25-30 lbs of glass while I was there (in approx. 4 hours, lol). So now, I am looking forward to learning what to do with it all (besides pave the driveway as my soninlaw suggested).
I can hardly wait to meet everybody…
Hi! I live in Seattle and began my obsession with sea glass when I was growing up on a sailboat at Shilshole Marina…since then I literally have suitcases full of glass…and just beginning to make stuff and design. I’m sooooo excited to meet everyone at this festival and share in the passion and excitement of beachcombing for glass. It’s not only beautiful but the recycling effect makes my heart (and mama earth) happy too.
Hi: I am not sure if this is where I leave a message. I am a former PEIslander who has lived in Ontario for many years but we summer in PEI. I love collecting sea glass and I just started last summer with my grandaughter. My grandaughter is coming from Nanjing, China, to PEI and is joining me at your Sea Glass Festival. We are thrilled to be attending since we both love collecting and we are anxious to meet other collectors. My grandaughter makes jewellery for her Chinese friends in China. See you there.
Marilyn, have you seen the book *The Story of the Sea Glass* by Anne Dodd. It is an absolutely great children’s book (not sure how old your granddaughter is) about a grandma and her granddaughter who comb the beach looking for beach glass. I gave it to my then 9-yr old granddaughter last year for her birthday along with a little bottle of glass. She frequently accompanies my daughter and I on our quest to find glass along our beautiful PEI shores. She loved it
I will make this part of our many trips to New Brunswick. I have not yet been to PEI and am looking forward to this with much anticipation.
Hi, My family and I will be going to the Festival! We are from Peterborough, ON, and we have a summer cottage at Georgetown PEI. We booked our 2 weeks of holidays, and lucky for us, we will be ‘down there’, at that time period! We didn’t know, when we planned our vacation time, that the festival was going to be occuring, so I was thrilled that we ‘timed it right’!!! I have been gathering sea glass, for a short time, and other items along my beach wanderings. It is so fun and relaxing. We will also have another visitor from Peterborough, coming to visit us, and she is also enthusiastic about coming to the Festival with us. We will be coming on the Saturday. I can’t wait to see all the displays. Here’s hoping for nice weather!! Not long now!!!
I will be attending the Sea Glass Festival and looking forward to it very much. I have been collecting sea glass for many, many years and love it very much. It is hard to explain the joy of the hunt but I’m sure any sea glass enthusiasts knows what I mean. See you at the festival.
My husband passed away on a beach in PEI where I had often collected glass. For two weeks after his death, I walked that beach looking for glass and there was none to be found. I missed him and I missed my glass. One day in my grief, I talked to him as I walked along the shore, and I asked him to let me know that he was okay.
A short time later I found a white heart shaped piece of sea glass.
Teri Hall combined the glass heart with the claddadh pendant that my husband always wore to let the world know his heart was taken. It survived the fire that he perished in.
Teri said the white colour means inner peace and divinty and the heart is a message from heaven.
It was for me.
I look forward to attending your festival on the anniversary of my husband’s death,
and I will be wearing my heart.
Dorothy Keays
Dorothy, thank-you so much for sharing this… what a beautiful, touching story. All the best, Maureen
your story touched my heart. I look forward to meeting you at the festival. Our family will have a table there. my mom is 95 years old. One of her greatest pleasure is sorting sea glass. When we find a heart we get so excited and so does she. It has so much personal meaning to us. I will say a special prayer for you during this difficult journey.
Anita
Dorothy – what a beautiful story. I often talk to my Mom when I am walking the beach, and she also has ways of staying in touch with me. Hopefully we will meet at the Festival.
Hugs, Alice
Hello,
I’ve been collecting sea glass for 55+ years. When I was 13, I had to illustrate a book I read for school. I fashioned Beowulf out of sea glass. I can still see ‘him’. I was way ahead of my time.
I am really looking forward to this festival.
Sterling
I just heard of the festival yesterday but being from New Brunswick I plan to attend even if it’s last minute. I have a Seaglass collection and I cannot find a more enjoyable way of spending an afternoon than walking on the beach, hoping to find a new treasure. I can’t wait to see what’s in store on the week-end.
We attended on Saturday, and I have to admit to being very pleased with the afternoon. The festival has great potential to grow each year; it was very well attended this year. It would be very nice to have some music outside the tent for those of us who brought husbands who just wanted to sit outside and relax…. Great event
I’ll get the ball rolling for the 2010 event! I attended last year as a Vendor, had a great time meeting lots of folks I had communicated with through email in previous years. Met Richard LaMotte! And got inspired to attend the 2010 event. See you all there!
Talked with you at the Sea Glass Festival in Erie, PA and are planning to attend your festival as vendors this year.