Mud-Luscious Clay: Sea Relics & Shore Botanicals

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Mud-Luscious Clay: Sea Relics & Shore Botanicals Hi! I am Michelle Stambaugh of Mud-Luscious By Michelle! I am a mixed-media artist who begins all of my work with a piece of clay.

I love to create using texture and color, utilizing what is around me for inspiration.

Who loves a walk on the seashore? 🙋‍♀️💓
10/01/2026

Who loves a walk on the seashore? 🙋‍♀️💓

Here’s what’s on my table this morning.The thing about finding glass on your property that is in a place that was used t...
10/01/2026

Here’s what’s on my table this morning.

The thing about finding glass on your property that is in a place that was used to cast out the refuse glass, is that it comes in only a few colors with an occasional “fancy color” piece.
The blue pieces are mostly from Mason and ball jars.
The very light aqua are mostly beverage bottles—that would also include the dark brown too. Some of the brown are also medicine botttle fragments.
The clear are mostly medicine and and beverage bottles.
The white are the glass insides of nickel canning jar lids and Ponds jars.
The ceramic are mostly crocks and tableware.
We have found writing on our larger jars that help us identify them.

This has been such a cool process!
The consistency in what we have found definitely dates this glass refuse pit from between the 1850s to the 1920’s possibly into the 1940s
Seipps Brewing Company (Conrad Seipps Brewing Comapny), Chicago, 1854-1933 has been seen on several pieces we have excavated. The company did not survive prohibition so that would definitely date those pieces.

The pieces you see that are lavender started out as clear glass and over the years, due to the manganese and sun exposure before being buried, have turned the clear glass purple!

I’ve become a glass geek!
Can’t wait to see what they will become as clay and rubbish are my favorite two ingredients in my work!

PS: if you are a grammar teacher please edit this post as you see fit! 👀🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

PPS: These pieces have been unaltered (not broken into smaller pieces after finding) but they have been tumbled to take off the sharp edges.

09/28/2026

Adding the finishing touches to this little sea relic. Although, this teeny has not had a chance to become a “relic” yet! Who else likes to see the maker in process?

Just for fun: 💓If you were choosing a photo to send in to a magazine for full page flat lay of collage that speaks of yo...
09/28/2026

Just for fun: 💓

If you were choosing a photo to send in to a magazine for full page flat lay of collage that speaks of your estate glass, which one would you choose?
(I don’t even know if that’s the proper wording for what I’m going for here..😜🤣)

Please comment, I would love your opinions!

*my maker-dream has always been to be featured in a magazine with fellow creatives. I have no confidence in that possibility, but I thought—what the hay- I can pretend, right?

*collage on tiny canvas is mine. 😊

Who loves tinies? 🙋‍♀️Who loves clay? 🙋‍♀️Who would love to wear a teenie tiny? 🙋‍♀️
09/26/2026

Who loves tinies? 🙋‍♀️
Who loves clay? 🙋‍♀️
Who would love to wear a teenie tiny? 🙋‍♀️

Teeny tiny shore treasures! I have collected so many over the years. I finally envisioned what they could become.I surro...
09/25/2026

Teeny tiny shore treasures!
I have collected so many over the years.
I finally envisioned what they could become.
I surround them with coral-like frames of clay.
I will make the little frames look like old copper and seal them all in a coat of resin to preserve them and make them wearable art!
I am terrible at making jewelry-if I’m honest-I hate it…lol
But I LOOOOOOOVE making components!!!

Stay tuned for the finished reveal!

I’ll just put this right here. Tiny acorns. Tiny shells. Tiny bowl. Tiny bird.
09/17/2026

I’ll just put this right here.
Tiny acorns. Tiny shells. Tiny bowl. Tiny bird.

I think these look like a tiny bowl of tiny shells that have just been brought up from the beach for a soaking in fresh ...
09/15/2026

I think these look like a tiny bowl of tiny shells that have just been brought up from the beach for a soaking in fresh water with a little bleach.

-self hardening clay
-paint and ink
-UV resin
-tiny collected sea treasures

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1408 Cowan Rd
Gulfport, MS
39507

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(269)4709840

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