East Beach Beast

Sustainably made hand-crafted creations from the sea

Once upon a time, my father, Jim Holmes, was the original beach gremlin. He taught me the patience and love that sea treasure collection involved. Sadly, my beach gremlin father suffered from substance addiction and it took his life a few years ago. After he died, the only things I took from his apartment were his boxes and boxes of sea glass and a few pictures (okay and my siblings and I drank a beer from his fridge. Cheers). He was a complex individual who had a deep love for nature and literature, and all animals and ice cream. My fondest memories are of us talking about life, walking slowly on the beach collecting sea treasure, holding them up to each other and exclaiming, "A good one!" and him reading me Dr. Sues, Oh Say Can You Say as a child. So my shop name, East Beach Beast, is an ode to him and the lessons about love and patience and life's toughest tongue twisters that he taught me.