During the summer, we spend a lot of time walking around on the rocks and gravel banks down by the river. We pick up stones. We check out the plants. And I collect beach glass.
Most of it, as you can imagine, is either clear, green or brown. But every once in a while, there are bits of blue or pieces of ceramic that could have been a vase or a pretty jar.
No matter, I pocket them all.
I've never had a clear goal for this booty but have toyed with this idea or that, some way to use it in something special. The other day, searching about for way to make a cool candle (getting into the mode of celebrating the Solstice, don't you know), I decided to use the green and clear glass bits to create a light that reminds me of luminaria.
I found a rectangular, clear vase that once contained flowers and a votive candle in a glass holder. I put the biggest piece of green glass in the bottom of the vase—it's from some long-ago soda bottle—rested the candle on that then filled the rest of the vase with my beach glass.
The result, which you can see below, glows nicely while lit, just like one of my beloved luminaria.
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