craftgrrl | Lampwork Seashell Necklace! (Reply)

I wanted to show off one of my necklaces - the lampwork seashell was made by a friend of mine, I did everything else.

"Seaside"
She used to walk on the beach every morning, with her shells. But the ocean is a dangerous place, and not in any of the ways that you were told when you were a child. The seashore is right next to it, which is an untenable place to try to make a living. But she would, all the same.

She walked along the beach every day, gathering shells and carrying them in her skirts, then taking them up to the more popular stretches of beach and selling them to the sunbathers.

One evening, she returned home with only one shell in her hands, a warm flush in her cheeks, and a strange, longing look in her eyes. She strung the shell onto a string with a few stones, and tied it about her neck. She never again went down to the ocean, but she still wears the shell.

We have all asked her about it one time or another, and every time, she simply touches it gently with her fingers, gazes out the window at the cliffs, and one corner of her mouth lifts in a subtle smile.