Aaw lovely finds in this video. I loved the wee heart shaped spongeware piece. Thank you both for such nice explores on your coast, take care Alioban xx
It looked like a chilly day, but your determination was richly rewarded! The emerald glass was incredible! I loved that bottle- what a find! And, such colorful glass treasures. But the pottery- oh my! Those pieces were incredible! Thank you for braving the cold to bring us another lovely adventure! Craig, as always, thanks for the great history lesson. Nicole, I can’t wait to see what you create on Sunday’s video! Thanks again, and do take care! ❤️🙏
Thank you so much! Its incredible when the wind picks up in Pettycur Bay! Chilly, but incredible to feel the force of the sea! :D So glad you enjoyed the finds - I do not think we will find anything like the bottle for a long time to come - fingers crossed though. The pottery in Kirkcaldy is great - love it! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Thank you for showing on a map where all you went. Makes more sense to us that are from far away 😄 The scenery is so lovely! Thanks fir taking us along!
So glad to hear that - thank you! We always try to find ways to bring places we visit closer - so its great to hear the map makes more sense of it all! :D Thank you so much for coming along! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Another awesome video, i love all your beach trips and the walks in the countryside, the jewellery making is amazing too and your sister channel is awesome too. Thank you for sharing, god bless, take care and stay safe and well 🙏🥰👏👍❤️
Thank you so much! We hope to have something new to add to the sister channel soon - thank you for these lovely and encouraging words! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Spectacular scenery in all the places we visited today. Love the little yellow car it makes me laugh. I think Burntisland was my favorite for the scenery. Those two large beautiful homes overlooking the water are beautiful. Great finds in all places. Thank you for the history lessons. Looking forward to the jewelry making video on Sunday. Xxx
Glad the wee car gives you a wee laugh - its good fun! :D Yes! Burntisland is a lovely spot, its always nice to spend a bit of time there... As West Nick say, the cottages - quite big for a cottages - are affectionately called Victoria and Albert - I'll have to post a pic of them from the front so you can see the name plates! :D The cottages mirror each other from the front... Its hard to believe, but, according to Historic Environment Scotland, they were built in the mid 1800s for the use of rail workers - lucky rail workers! You can see inside Albert Cottage because it was sold recently and the photographs are still on the sellers site! :D Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Love your adventure car! 🚗 Some very beautiful pieces of glass and sponge ware. I noticed the manganese bottle bottom on the mosaic mural. It’s so dark purple. Something I’ve learned from y’all !!! Love you’re adventure. BTW…the swirly sponge ware looks like a heart! Beautiful finds and great video. Stay safe.
Thanks so much Sissi! Oh that wee car is cute, isn't it!! I thought it was fab when Craig showed it to me and then it went along the road we went on too! I wonder how long that glass piece has been in the mosaic - there isn't that much sun in Scotland, so it's surely taken years to darken to that fab purple. Stay safe and take care xo
Thanks so much Travis! Craig has just finished editing episode 3 which will stream the last Friday of this month :) It really is a lovely stretch of coast!
Thanks so much Rosemarie! It's quite cold now, maybe around 5C but it always feels a tad colder by the Sea :) I tend to layer in lots of clothes ;) Glad you love the wee car, I loved it too, when Craig showed it to me! x
I love watching your lovely videos on the Scottish coasts there's something about the sound of the waves that is so relaxing, And what fantastic sea glass finds the lovely green bonfire glass and the beautiful pink pieces, not forgetting craigs glass find at the end of the video will be interested to see what you can do with that Nicole look forward as always to the next video take care x
Thanks so much Paul! The piece Craig found is, we think, an ink well :) If you enjoy just the sound of waves check out our new sister channel 'Relaxing Nature' link is on our page as featured channel - it's just river or sea sounds and video , no collecting, very relaxing!
It was a great find - we seldom find anything that is still, more or less, in one piece! That's a really cool idea - I think it would look so cool! Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Thanks so much Penny :) If you do enjoy just waves and nature sounds check out our new sister channel 'Relaxing Nature' - link on our main page as featured channel... it's just the river or tides coming in, no collecting xo
What a great haul of pottery pieces; the patterns are beautiful. This road trip is very enjoyable. Looking forward to the next installment. Sue and Ian, Australia
That's great! So glad you are enjoying the wee run around the coast - we've been wanting to give a better sense of the place for a while! :D Next week, we're back to normal and then the last Friday of each month, we're back on the road with the next four places! :D Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Thanks so much Elaine! The urchins are so fragile, most of them broke just holding them - I tried taking a couple home, but they crumbled on the way back... they are more fragile than egg shells but very intriguing to look at! xo
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it! We have more of this series coming on the last Friday of each month until we make it all the way around! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
First time watcher and now a subscriber. I’m so jealous of the quality of your finds. It’s getting harder and harder to find nice finished pieces of glass. I hardly ever find pottery or sponge ware on the beaches I go to in Maine and Florida. Looking forward to your next post!
Hello and welcome! Than you so much for coming along and subscribing! :D We are very lucky to have so many miles of coast and historic industry in this area.. Its hard to image how much things have changed - Kirkcaldy, where we find the nice pottery, was once home to several massive producers back in its day... a lot of the waste from those potteries ended up in streams or on the shore. We have a playlist - Pottery and Potteries - with videos where we look into the history of that... Wishing you lots of luck and a few nice, rare, sponge ware and transfer ware finds soon! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
There is a glass works in my town and you can see large chunks of aqua glass in gardens throughout the area. The largest I have ever seen was bigger than my head! (The company makes windows.) That wee bottle is beautiful!
So cool! These big chunks look amazing - they must look fantastic in gardens! We'll have to get back along to see if we find any bigger pieces - wow! I doubt we'll even find one as big as either of our heads though! What a find! Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Hello Nicole and Craig! Really liking your travelling videos last couple weeks. Its really nice to see more of the beaches there.That’s one huge piece of green slag super thick piece! Pretty transfer ware too with such prerty patterns! Saw the onion face 😂 ❤️Good kick with the foot Craig finding that dour knobby piece. Wow! Always a pleasure watching. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Hello Lori! Hope all is well and the weather is letting you get out and about hunting for treasures!! That's great - its been good fun doing the travel around the coast - we're back to our normal schedule next week, but we will return to complete the coastal route on the last Friday of the month until we're all the way around - then we'll have to find more cool places to share! :D So glad you are enjoying it. Some great finds - we must kick at the ground more often! :D Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
@@scottishmudlarking oh its so cold here there’s no where to kick about on the beaches. We’re frozen solid 😂 I do enjoy the crispy weather at times gets the blood going. Thank goodness i have a wood stove I hate my furnace coming on. When the ice breaks thats when we’ll find the treasures left on the beach. I plan on getting out to collect the driftwood then. I like your map with the yellow car. Your round trip around the coast looks so fun! Always a pleasure watching you two. Such a lovely couple cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Its is amazing how fast some of these industrial villages were put up and then left behind... I just looked up Treweryn and read the background to the place - very interesting, but such a shame! Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Hi Arvetta! We don't tumble our sea glass or cut it smaller - we let the Sea do the work and what we can't use we leave at the beach so the Sea can finish them off over time. I know you can make sea glass smooth in a tumbler, but they loose the frosting and become more satin finished and if they get tumbled more, they loose all the finish and look like wet stones... It's interesting to see, we like the look of sea glass how it's found on the beach though :) xo
@@scottishmudlarking We use to rock hunt in Washington State. Daddy would cut and tumble the stones to make different things out of them. However, Daddy had to change the compounds in the tumbler to get a smooth shiny surface. He often took some of the stones to a buffing wheel. I now understand the difference between natural sea glass and tumbled glass. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much Tracy! We think it might be an ink well, a very old one - it's really heavy :) There are links to the full videos in the description, if you are looking for more lovely pictures and some info on the ink well xo
It is indeed and I think we have a couple of very small pieces in our collection that were found on the beach. There was a very interesting documentary about Nairn on TV a while ago - might be on youtube, not sure...
Hi! Pirate Glass refers to glass from old bottles - well over 100 years old. Although the glass is actually brown or green, it is so dark and thick, that it appears to be black. The name Pirate Glass is a wee bit of a romantic title for glass that appears to be black; is very thick; and dates to the times when large amounts of goods were transported around the world by large masted sailing ships. Nicole talks about it in more detail and gives tips on how to spot it, in this video. ua-cam.com/video/XX52hw8Hav0/v-deo.html Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
* So many pieces of large green glass.. I saw some pieces that interested me.. But they didn't seem to interest you.. Can't wait to see your art from the plastic.. So Fun..
Thanks so much Leslye! Sometimes we see interesting pieces in the edit and not at the beach. We really only take what we know can be made into jewellery or very original pieces like the huge emerald piece. We leave a lot of sea glass and pottery behind, but take as much plastic as possible. We have a couple of craft videos out where we use plastic :) Check them out, they are really lovely!
Thank you for coming along on our adventures! Did you enjoy the video? Why not subscribe - it's free! Nicole & Craig
Dankeschön, fürs hochladen,so viele schöne Momente und Funde tolles Video,vielen Dank dafür!!!!❤️❤️🥰🥰👍👍💖💖
Danke Dir liebe Doris! Wie schoen, dass Dir unsere Videos gefallen :) Ganz liebe Gruesse, Nicole & Craig x
I so love you strolls by the sea, and all the beautiful treasures you discover.
Thanks so much :) So glad you enjoyed this video from the Fife Coastal Path series! x
Aaw lovely finds in this video. I loved the wee heart shaped spongeware piece. Thank you both for such nice explores on your coast, take care Alioban xx
Thanks so much Alison! Goodness we must go and collect some Spongeware, we haven't been to that beach in what feels like forever :) xo
It looked like a chilly day, but your determination was richly rewarded! The emerald glass was incredible! I loved that bottle- what a find! And, such colorful glass treasures. But the pottery- oh my! Those pieces were incredible! Thank you for braving the cold to bring us another lovely adventure! Craig, as always, thanks for the great history lesson. Nicole, I can’t wait to see what you create on Sunday’s video! Thanks again, and do take care! ❤️🙏
Thank you so much! Its incredible when the wind picks up in Pettycur Bay! Chilly, but incredible to feel the force of the sea! :D So glad you enjoyed the finds - I do not think we will find anything like the bottle for a long time to come - fingers crossed though. The pottery in Kirkcaldy is great - love it! :D
Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Thank you for showing on a map where all you went. Makes more sense to us that are from far away 😄 The scenery is so lovely! Thanks fir taking us along!
So glad to hear that - thank you! We always try to find ways to bring places we visit closer - so its great to hear the map makes more sense of it all! :D
Thank you so much for coming along! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Love your road trips. Thanks.
Thanks so much Jaclyn! So glad you enjoyed the video :)
Another awesome video, i love all your beach trips and the walks in the countryside, the jewellery making is amazing too and your sister channel is awesome too. Thank you for sharing, god bless, take care and stay safe and well 🙏🥰👏👍❤️
Thank you so much! We hope to have something new to add to the sister channel soon - thank you for these lovely and encouraging words! :D Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Great video and finds! And yes, Nicole, I saw the onion and smiley face right away! Thanks for the beautiful coastal tour.😊
Awesome! That's a good, creative eye you have! :D Thank you so much for coming along, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Spectacular scenery in all the places we visited today. Love the little yellow car it makes me laugh. I think Burntisland was my favorite for the scenery. Those two large beautiful homes overlooking the water are beautiful. Great finds in all places. Thank you for the history lessons. Looking forward to the jewelry making video on Sunday. Xxx
the two big houses overlooking the sea are called Victoria and albert cottages, after queen Victoria and prince albert
Glad the wee car gives you a wee laugh - its good fun! :D Yes! Burntisland is a lovely spot, its always nice to spend a bit of time there... As West Nick say, the cottages - quite big for a cottages - are affectionately called Victoria and Albert - I'll have to post a pic of them from the front so you can see the name plates! :D
The cottages mirror each other from the front... Its hard to believe, but, according to Historic Environment Scotland, they were built in the mid 1800s for the use of rail workers - lucky rail workers!
You can see inside Albert Cottage because it was sold recently and the photographs are still on the sellers site! :D
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Thank you so much! I was surprised to find out that they were built for railway workers in the mid 19th Century!
Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Love your adventure car! 🚗
Some very beautiful pieces of glass and sponge ware. I noticed the manganese bottle bottom on the mosaic mural. It’s so dark purple. Something I’ve learned from y’all !!! Love you’re adventure. BTW…the swirly sponge ware looks like a heart! Beautiful finds and great video. Stay safe.
Thanks so much Sissi! Oh that wee car is cute, isn't it!! I thought it was fab when Craig showed it to me and then it went along the road we went on too! I wonder how long that glass piece has been in the mosaic - there isn't that much sun in Scotland, so it's surely taken years to darken to that fab purple. Stay safe and take care xo
What a beautiful coast and lovely glass pieces! Such fun!😊
Thanks so much Travis! Craig has just finished editing episode 3 which will stream the last Friday of this month :) It really is a lovely stretch of coast!
Beautiful scenery and sounds of ocean waves. It looks very cold though. Lovely sea glass finds. Like the little yellow car.😊💕🇺🇸🌞
Thanks so much Rosemarie! It's quite cold now, maybe around 5C but it always feels a tad colder by the Sea :) I tend to layer in lots of clothes ;) Glad you love the wee car, I loved it too, when Craig showed it to me! x
I fell asleep so I am watching again.
Hope it was nice and lulling... :D Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
I love watching your lovely videos on the Scottish coasts there's something about the sound of the waves that is so relaxing, And what fantastic sea glass finds the lovely green bonfire glass and the beautiful pink pieces, not forgetting craigs glass find at the end of the video will be interested to see what you can do with that Nicole look forward as always to the next video take care x
Thanks so much Paul! The piece Craig found is, we think, an ink well :) If you enjoy just the sound of waves check out our new sister channel 'Relaxing Nature' link is on our page as featured channel - it's just river or sea sounds and video , no collecting, very relaxing!
@@scottishmudlarking many thanks Nicole for that I will check it out
The bottle/doorknob is a lovely find. You could put a large glass bead with a wick on the top and make a pretty primitive oil lamp.
It was a great find - we seldom find anything that is still, more or less, in one piece! That's a really cool idea - I think it would look so cool!
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Great video, nice finds and I always enjoy the sound of the waves. ❤️
Thanks so much Penny :) If you do enjoy just waves and nature sounds check out our new sister channel 'Relaxing Nature' - link on our main page as featured channel... it's just the river or tides coming in, no collecting xo
In love with the giant emerald green glass rock you found.
Thanks so much! We made a necklace with the smaller pieces and that huge piece might go into our etsy shop :) Would make a great paperweight! xo
I am loving this series, thank you! :-)
Thanks ever so much! This series will commence every LAST Friday of the month from now on :) We are very happy to see it's popular ! xo
I enjoy your adventures.
Thanks so much Lisa! :)
What a great haul of pottery pieces; the patterns are beautiful. This road trip is very enjoyable. Looking forward to the next installment. Sue and Ian, Australia
That's great! So glad you are enjoying the wee run around the coast - we've been wanting to give a better sense of the place for a while! :D Next week, we're back to normal and then the last Friday of each month, we're back on the road with the next four places! :D
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Such a beautiful place I love the sea urchins I would of taken and clear varnished them some lovely pieces of glass thank you xxx
Thanks so much Elaine! The urchins are so fragile, most of them broke just holding them - I tried taking a couple home, but they crumbled on the way back... they are more fragile than egg shells but very intriguing to look at! xo
A very enjoyable video. Thank you.
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it! We have more of this series coming on the last Friday of each month until we make it all the way around! :D
Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
First time watcher and now a subscriber. I’m so jealous of the quality of your finds. It’s getting harder and harder to find nice finished pieces of glass. I hardly ever find pottery or sponge ware on the beaches I go to in Maine and Florida. Looking forward to your next post!
Hello and welcome! Than you so much for coming along and subscribing! :D
We are very lucky to have so many miles of coast and historic industry in this area.. Its hard to image how much things have changed - Kirkcaldy, where we find the nice pottery, was once home to several massive producers back in its day... a lot of the waste from those potteries ended up in streams or on the shore. We have a playlist - Pottery and Potteries - with videos where we look into the history of that...
Wishing you lots of luck and a few nice, rare, sponge ware and transfer ware finds soon! :D
Best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
There is a glass works in my town and you can see large chunks of aqua glass in gardens throughout the area. The largest I have ever seen was bigger than my head! (The company makes windows.) That wee bottle is beautiful!
So cool! These big chunks look amazing - they must look fantastic in gardens! We'll have to get back along to see if we find any bigger pieces - wow! I doubt we'll even find one as big as either of our heads though! What a find!
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Hello Nicole and Craig! Really liking your travelling videos last couple weeks. Its really nice to see more of the beaches there.That’s one huge piece of green slag super thick piece! Pretty transfer ware too with such prerty patterns! Saw the onion face 😂 ❤️Good kick with the foot Craig finding that dour knobby piece. Wow! Always a pleasure watching. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Hello Lori! Hope all is well and the weather is letting you get out and about hunting for treasures!!
That's great - its been good fun doing the travel around the coast - we're back to our normal schedule next week, but we will return to complete the coastal route on the last Friday of the month until we're all the way around - then we'll have to find more cool places to share! :D So glad you are enjoying it.
Some great finds - we must kick at the ground more often! :D
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
@@scottishmudlarking oh its so cold here there’s no where to kick about on the beaches. We’re frozen solid 😂 I do enjoy the crispy weather at times gets the blood going. Thank goodness i have a wood stove I hate my furnace coming on. When the ice breaks thats when we’ll find the treasures left on the beach. I plan on getting out to collect the driftwood then. I like your map with the yellow car. Your round trip around the coast looks so fun! Always a pleasure watching you two. Such a lovely couple cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Quite a few villages were left abandoned over the generations, the known one here is Treweryn - more good finds on the Fife coastline !
Its is amazing how fast some of these industrial villages were put up and then left behind...
I just looked up Treweryn and read the background to the place - very interesting, but such a shame!
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
Beautiful
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
You both found some really pretty glass.
Thanks so much Chris! We were so happy with the emerald green pieces, we should go back and collect a couple of more pieces to display :)
wow i would love to have one of those huge glass chunks!!
Thanks so much Davide! We might put this one in our etsy shop :) We made a necklace with the smaller pieces, they are like emeralds!
@@scottishmudlarking i will wait for it then 😉
Nice video and nice finds
Thanks so much Gabriele! :)
Did you ever try cutting the larger pieces of sea glass smaller and putting them through a rock tumbler to make them frosted and smoother?
Hi Arvetta! We don't tumble our sea glass or cut it smaller - we let the Sea do the work and what we can't use we leave at the beach so the Sea can finish them off over time. I know you can make sea glass smooth in a tumbler, but they loose the frosting and become more satin finished and if they get tumbled more, they loose all the finish and look like wet stones... It's interesting to see, we like the look of sea glass how it's found on the beach though :) xo
@@scottishmudlarking We use to rock hunt in Washington State. Daddy would cut and tumble the stones to make different things out of them. However, Daddy had to change the compounds in the tumbler to get a smooth shiny surface. He often took some of the stones to a buffing wheel. I now understand the difference between natural sea glass and tumbled glass. Thank you so much.
I wonder if that bottle is a perfume bottle... nice find!
Thanks so much Tracy! We think it might be an ink well, a very old one - it's really heavy :) There are links to the full videos in the description, if you are looking for more lovely pictures and some info on the ink well xo
kirkcaldy linoleum is very distinctive
It is indeed and I think we have a couple of very small pieces in our collection that were found on the beach. There was a very interesting documentary about Nairn on TV a while ago - might be on youtube, not sure...
@@scottishmudlarking back in the 80s i lived in Caithness the house had that Kirkcaldy lino, distinctive, awful smell to it
Oh yes onion face lol xxx
Hahah so glad you saw it too ;)
What exactly is pirate glass? And do you have any idea where it got it’s name? Thanks.
Hi! Pirate Glass refers to glass from old bottles - well over 100 years old. Although the glass is actually brown or green, it is so dark and thick, that it appears to be black.
The name Pirate Glass is a wee bit of a romantic title for glass that appears to be black; is very thick; and dates to the times when large amounts of goods were transported around the world by large masted sailing ships.
Nicole talks about it in more detail and gives tips on how to spot it, in this video. ua-cam.com/video/XX52hw8Hav0/v-deo.html
Thank you so much, best wishes, Nicole & Craig xo
* So many pieces of large green glass.. I saw some pieces that interested me.. But they didn't seem to interest you.. Can't wait to see your art from the plastic.. So Fun..
Thanks so much Leslye! Sometimes we see interesting pieces in the edit and not at the beach. We really only take what we know can be made into jewellery or very original pieces like the huge emerald piece. We leave a lot of sea glass and pottery behind, but take as much plastic as possible. We have a couple of craft videos out where we use plastic :) Check them out, they are really lovely!
I did see the onion face!
Hahah so glad you saw it too Dorothy :) x