Top 10 Tips for Drilling Sea Glass - mudlarking for our beachcombing craft sun catcher

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How to Drill Sea Glass, Sea Pottery and Shells 101, plus we show you how to make a suncatcher from your finds.NEW UPDATEd VIDEO ON DRILLING SEAGLASS - link below

NEW: beginner to expert guide to drilling sea glass

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00:00 We're on a beach near Dundee!
00:30 Hunt for craft materials
01:50 An unexpected Jar
02:50 A huge blue piece of glass
03:09 Coastal Views and... I've never seen so many swans!
03:31 Our haul of shells and drift wood
04:44 Drilling Tutorial (Nicole's Top Ten Tips!!)
05:20 What you will need to drill
05:40 How to Drill Glass, Pottery and Shells
08:40 Lets make a suncatcher/mobile
13:44 The finished suncatcher

Its time to get drilling sea glass, pottery, and shells! A few weeks ago, when making the earrings for our first giveaway (congratulations again, Juliet!), Nicole asked if there was any interest in a glass drilling demonstration/tutorial. Thanks so much to everyone who expressed interest in seeing that – today, Nicole will show you how she drills glass, pottery and shells with a handheld rotary tool, and gives you her top 10 tips to help anyone trying this for themselves. First tip – practice on pieces you are not very fond of because its very easy to break glass while drilling, and, even with experience, some pieces will break because of stresses in the glass that you just can’t see or predict.

We start our journey a few miles up the road from Dundee, where we go on a mission to find craft materials for today’s project! We go hunting for drift wood, pottery, and, sea shells, that Nicole will use to demonstrate drilling, before going on to make a sun-catcher/mobile. While collecting our craft materials, we make a few unexpected finds – a really nice, large piece of blue glass, a clay bottle bottom… All in all a very nice day on the Fife coast!

Back home, Nicole takes you through the steps of drilling sea glass, and shows you how you can make a sun-catcher – to speed things up, we make a four stranded mobile, but, the sky is the limit – you could scale this up any way you like and end up with an incredible coastal chandelier!!

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Social Distancing: Although we would love to take you futher afield, we will have to wait until we are allowed to do so. At present, we are following guidance to only travel short distances, remain local, and adhere to social distancing recomendations. We are very fortunate to live in the Kingdom of Fife where places like Kirkcaldy, with its vast beach front, are on our doorstep and are seldom visited by any more than a handful of people at any time.

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NEW DRILLING UPDATE VIDEO!

We have significantly updated our drilling tutorial so please check it out, especially if you are looking for a beginner to advanced guide to drilling everything from sea glass to codd marbles! Its EPIC!

scottishmudlarking
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What lovely couple. Your ideas and tutorials are easy to follow, brilliantly narated with beautiful artistic editing. Well done!

ToastedGhost
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I live in the Arizona desert. I'll never see your land in person. Thank you for the beautiful scenery.

elvie
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I am new to your lovely channel. Thank you for sharing your craft techniques. I would love to see more videos with you crafting.

denisemessier
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How lucky you are to be in such a lovely place.
Wonderful ideas!

dianecox
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The white bottle bottom is wonderful, too back couldn't find more of it to glue it back together. Love the light blue glass

spunkygmahappy
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More and more crafting with sea glass and seashells and pottery please

nubybautista
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Beautiful job on the sun catcher/mobile...very nice gift.

juanitaskelton
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More videos on projects please! Love them!

lenastiward
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Wow 🤩 x absolutely beautiful this wind chime is best I’ve ever seen just stunning love the mixture of shells sea pottery and sea glass and the driftwood glad I watched as seen how slowly you must be when will need to invest in a wee drill like yours fishing wire nicer than the copper wire as more freedom of movement for your wind chime 🤩🤩 you are soooo talented ♥️ it ! Love how take time to explain it all too very helpful ! 🙌🙌 I want one ☝️!!! Hahaha 🤣 thanks Nicole and Craig fantastic x

chewcharlie
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Awesome wind chime, thank you for showing me how to do one, will be trying this out. Thank you for sharing your awesome video and beautiful scenery. A big hello from Western Australia 👋👋👏👏👏🥰🥰👍👍❤️❤️❤️

christhompson
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I loved your video. Thank you for taking me along. You found some beautiful sea glass and other interest things. I really liked how you showed how to make a mobile. You have yourself a new subscriber!💖

kholbrook
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I've just found this channel. It's fantastic to see you find all the lovely components, prep them and make the finished item. Great video. Thank you

BettyDuguid
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Hi. I love all your videos, and your seashells, all you find and make jewelrys.
Thank you for sharing. All y our pieces are looking very nice...💯 %...🤩👍👍🖐🖐

annemariemayr
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I loved this. I have some glass with me but don't have a drill. Thanks for showing us how to drill.

chitrasn
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Hi lovely people! I also watched your hurricane lantern vid and was so inspired that I drove to a nearby beach and gathered some driftwood and seashells and made my own by glue gun. I had an old square glass vase and glued for hrs. I then put a battery candle with an artificial wick that emulates a flame. It turned out so well! Thank you for for sharing your inspiration and your earth skills. Love from Florida🐊🐬🦀🐚🐙

sherryberke
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Here in Northern California we have a place called Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, CA. In the 1800's the towns folks used it as their dump, so many treasures to be found

spunkygmahappy
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Love this idea and I think it’s sweet how you work together

justlm
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So helpful! great video! You're lucky you can find so much sea glass near you!😀

junebaliros
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Just found your channel! Swans at the beach? Love the tutorial!

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