You are trying to prepare your girls for next Christmas. Even though this year’s tree is packed with presents, next year will be a different story. The year 2018 will be a big year as your older daughter will be graduation from college, your younger daughter will be graduating from high school, and you and your husband will be celebrating your 30 year anniversary. In order to commemorate these three events, your family has decided to celebrate by taking a major trip. The goal is to travel to Santorini, Greece, for an extended vacation.
In an effort to make this big trip manageable you have let the girls know that next year you will forego both birthday and Christmas gifts, all in an effort to pack the three week overseas vacation full of great experiences. Your husband swears that you will never be able to hold to that deal. He fears that instead of skipping Christmas and birthday you will still buy the girls gifts, effectively cutting into the vacation fund that you are trying to build up. What your husband does not know, though, is that you have some free presents that you are planning. From sea glass rings that you have made yourself to other kinds of homemade sea glass jewelry.
Unique Sea Glass Jewelry Makes for Memorable Travel Presents
Sea glass is simply a highly polished piece of glass that ended up in the sea. By tumbling through the water and rolling across the rocks, various types of beach glass turn into forms known as sea glass. From there sea glass rings and other pieces of jewelry can be created. Because Santorini is an island surrounded by the Aegean Sea, sea glass can be a fun collectible. You still have a jar of sea glass, polished rocks and sea shells from when your family visited the island of Malta more than 10 years ago, so you plan to use some of these trinkets to help bridge the gap to the no present birthdays and Christmases. You also have a small collection of used books that are set on the island of Santorini.
Sea glass is an example of a great keepsake that does not have to cost a lot of money. It is jewelry, in fact, that you do not have to travel out of the country for. From the coasts of California to the coasts of Greek Islands, sea glass is a popular and beautiful find. In fact, The oldest known jewellery ever found was 100,000 year old beads created from Nassarius shells. And while many colors of sea glass can be found, orange is the least common type of sea glass, because is has only been found once in about 10,000 pieces. Sea glass rings are a great keepsake and a perfect memory from a family vacation to the coast, from a quick trip to the beaches of California or the islands of Greece.