About Us

Please allow us to introduce ourselves and our passion for all things seaglass. We are Priscilla and Michael, and we started Beach Therapy Crafts & More out of our home in St. Kitts & Nevis.  We both have “day jobs” in mental health careers.  We met on a beach in 2008 and soon found love and healing through long beach walks together collecting seaglass and shells.  Throughout our relationship we have been lucky enough to have regular “beach therapy” sessions on many beaches around the world.  

Have you ever wondered why so many people find happiness at the beach? Well, there is a name for that. Thalassotherapy refers to the healing properties of the sea. We believe our crafts bring the therapeutic qualities of the sea to anyone anywhere.  We personally collect every piece of seaglass, shell, and driftwood we use in our handmade crafts. Our seaglass is authentic surf tumbled glass from the Caribbean. Every piece of driftwood in our creations has floated in from the sea. Every shell washed ashore, and none is ever taken from a living creature. Any creation from Beach Therapy Crafts & More will be treasured and bring happiness and a healing sea connection for years to come.    

Seaglass is formed when bottles and other glass object find their way into the sea and are shattered and broken. Through time—and we are talking about decades and even centuries—waves tumble the broken pieces across the ocean floor. Some pieces are constantly washed back and forth in the surf until the right circumstances and tides deposit a select few onto the beach. It takes dedication, much time, and a bit of good luck to come along at the right time and place to spot it.  When you do, you pick up not a broken, jagged fragment, but a beautifully frosted and smoothed piece of seaglass.  In this way, seaglass becomes a fitting metaphor for life and the way we grow wiser, stronger, and more resilient through life’s storms. Holding a piece of seaglass in your hand and reflecting on its possible origin and the journey it has made is, well, therapeutic.  

A few interesting facts about seaglass that we think you should know as you consider our crafts are:

• Thicker glass tends to be older

• The more frosted the glass and the smoother the edges, the more time it has spent in the sea

• Some colors are rare. Seaglass hunters may spend years searching and never find of rarer colors such as orange, red, turquoise, yellow, teal, gray, pink, cobalt and cornflower blue, and purple. Crafts utilizing any of these colors will naturally cost more because of the scarcity and demand.

• “Black” seaglass, sometimes called “pirate glass,” is also very rare, but it is actually not black at all; rather, it is usually green or brown/amber, but it so old, weathered, and often thick that natural light does not pass through it.

• Your seaglass might glow in the dark under a blacklight; that is, if you have a piece of uranium glass that was widely produced for a little over a century beginning in the 1830s.

• Beware of scams and imitations. When it comes to authentic seaglass art, the old adage rings true, “You get what you pay for.” 

Thank you for choosing Beach Therapy Crafts and More. Please connect with us on social media and let us know if you have any questions or special requests in the future, and if your travel plans include St. Kitts & Nevis, then be sure to let us know. We offer sea glass tours, sea glass jewelry and craft workshops, and more.

 

Sincerely,

Priscilla & Michael