I have been handcrafting my Sea Glass Candy and selling it to coastal Maine retailers for almost 10 years now. My focus has been to create the most original, flavorful, hard candy to resemble authentic sea glass found on our coastal beaches. 

Years ago I had friends and family and their children come to my home around Christmas time and we would make at least 15 pounds of candy in one long afternoon. It was so much fun! 
While the kids, usually 4 or 5 of them, ranging in age from 5 to 10, would be playing in the other rooms, my friends and I would be in the kichen making candy. The children, of course, would constantly be running in and out of the kitchen having grabbed a piece of candy out of one of the many stainless steel bowls that was on the counter. By the days end, when we were all tired and our kids were bouncing off the walls, we would call it a day. Everyone would leave with several pounds of colorful candy to gift wrap for the holiday season and an outrageous child or 2, that would eventually have a good nights sleep.  It was an incredible, crazy fun, afternoon!. Great Memories.
 
After a couple years of making candy with my friends and having my friends friends call me for candy and then my mother friends call me for candy, I started thinking about how I could make the candy my own and market it.

Then one day I was walking on the beach and there it was right in front of me..  So I took my passion for finding sea glass on the beaches of Maine and began to create my candy to look, and feel like authentic Sea Glass. 

I had always cut my candy while hot with scissors so that the edges would be rounded and not cut the inside of someones mouth. So I guess that was the beginning of my creation before I even knew it. Then I began to handcraft my candy with bottle necks, marbles, bottle bottoms and perfume tops. I also emboss pieces of candy with lettering and numbers with each batch that I make.

My creation and dream took on the form of combing the beaches. It always was a special day when you found a piece of sea glass that was embossed with a few letters on it, or a piece that was clearly from an old beer or wine bottle lossed out at sea, with the mouth of the bottle still intact.  This is how I want my bags of candy to be.  I want my customers to have the surprise of a decorative piece candy in each bag. 

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Marcia Schinella Gibson