Exceptional Christmas Gifts: Coast Chimes

Several of the many one-of-a-kind handcrafted wind chimes available at Coast Chimes. Free, fast, expert shipping to the USA and Canada.

Natural Beach Stones Zen Copper Wind Chime

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Kaleidoscope Chime

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Assorted Coast Chimes Wind Chimes

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One-of-a-kind Gifts, Designed to Last: Coast Chimes

 Kaleidoscope Copper Wind Chime

Artist-made Sea Glass

Available at Coast Chimes with Free Shipping

An abundance of unique, beautiful, handcrafted wind chimes at Coast Chimes, it's a great place to shop for all those on your list, but especially for those who seem to 'have everything'.

The best thing is that all the works are not just beautiful, but also extremely well made: designed to last. This is where you will find handmade copper hardware: no string or fishing line. 

attention to detail and quality, built into every piece

Below, a few examples of the diverse works available right now. Visit Coast Chimes to see many more.

Zen Natural Beach Stone Copper Wind Chime

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Driftwood Large Copper Wind Chime

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Christmas: Give the Beautiful, the Unexpected, the Durable

 

Kaleidoscope Wind Chime, Artist-made Sea Glass, 5 or 7 Copper Chimes

Available at Coast Chimes

I like Christmas. I like the treats, the getting together, the pretty lights. I do not like the massive impulsive consumption. It's easy to get caught up in it. Easy to grab stuff just because stuff needs to be given. So much packaging, so much junk that is landfill bound in the near future. One thing about Coast Chimes: everything is designed to last and last.

Just one example. See the connections on the chimes in the detail section of the above picture? Those are handmade copper rings: no string, no fishing line, no anything that wears out or breaks. Your chimes will not fall off, ever, promise.

And one more example. See the chimes? Real copper. A metal that looks better and better over time. Almost all 'copper' chimes are powder coated aluminum, and, like all paint, that finish will wear off. Real copper will never wear off.

Consider giving something original, beautiful, and that will not be landfill bound in the near future. Visit Coast Chimes to see a wide selection for all budgets.

Rectangular Kaleidoscope Wind Chime 

Available with 5 or 7 Copper Chimes at Coast Chimes

Wind Chimes for Christmas

 

Natural Beach Stone Wind Chime

$200 including shipping 

Coast Chimes

Impossible that a Christmas Holiday Season is already fast approaching, again! I guess time does fly when you are having fun, and busy. It has been crazy busy going on two years for Coast Chimes, and so it is with somewhat reduced stock that I announce holiday shipping has commenced. It's okay, there are a lot of nice works (everything I make is nice!). I do recommend not putting off choosing, if a Coast Chimes wind chime is on your list.

From beach stone wind chimes to artist-made sea glass, there is something for everyone, and a wide range of prices. All are designed to last, and to be beautiful. Visit Coast Chimes and choose something that will amaze and bring enjoyment.

Kaleidoscope Wind Chime

$235 including shipping

Coast Chimes 

Exceptional Christmas Gifts

Coast Chimes has a selection of high-quality beautiful wind chimes guaranteed to please everyone on your shopping list.

These skillfully designed one-of-a-kind works of art are built to last. It's a crime, all the junk that gives momentary pleasure only to end up in a landfill far too quickly. Not Coast Chimes. The large chimes have all handmade copper hardware (no nylon, string, cord) providing many, many years of enjoyment.

Visit Coast Chimes. Free, fast, expert shipping to the USA and Canada.

Kaleidoscope Copper Wind Chime

Cobalt Glass Beach Stone Chime

Glass and Copper Wind Chime

Everyone Loves Copper — Beautiful Gift!

The thing about copper is that it is beautiful. Other metals are often treated with paint or a powder coating to make them look nice, but that is a temporary finish that will flake off, fade, crack. Over time, copper just looks better and better. That's one reason Coast Chimes' wind chimes are a great choice. They won't be headed for the landfill in a few years.

Coast Chimes' wind chimes are designed for beauty, for sound, and for durability. All the hardware is handmade from copper: the rings that attach the chimes to the cedar roundel, the hooklets, even the wire that holds the beach stone clapper.

When looking for the perfect gift, consider something that will last, that is unique, that is clearly built with attention to detail and great care.

Go to Coast Chimes to see the selection. As of today, there are 113 items, but that count will be going down fast, and production is pretty much finished for 2021. For the best selection, don't delay.

Natural Pacific Zen Beach Stone Wind Chime

Kaleidoscope Artist-made Sea Glass Wind Chime

Beach Zen Stone & Driftwood Wind Chime

Christmas Gifts Shop Early Warning

 

Warning: coming up to Christmas, and this year is different. In the past, customers could shop up until about the 15th of December, and still have a good selection, still expect to get their order in time. Now the post office is much, much busier, shipping times are already delayed: this will get worse. Covid-19 has caused online shopping to take off like crazy, and Coast Chimes has struggled to keep up, and to keep stock.

Some popular items are already sold out (like diamond-shaped freestanding kaleidoscope suncatchers). Stock is limited, and becoming more limited. There is currently a wonderful selection of awesome wind chimes and suncatchers, but it may be slim pickings by early December. I am hoping to have time to still make more works, but that all depends on how much packing / shipping I am doing. So no guarantee.

In short, to avoid disappointment shop early.

Exceptional Christmas, Housewarming, Birthday Gifts: Coast Chimes

Freestanding Kaleidoscope Suncatcher
$95 with Free Shipping at Coast Chimes

Some call this a suncatcher, but eye-catcher might be more accurate! Loose morsels of artist-made sea glass come to life when the sun shines through the glass. Perfect to brighten any windowsill. What a great gift for Christmas, housewarming, birthday. The well crafted cedar box frame with extra-thick plate glass sits in a contrasting cedar stand, all hand oiled with an exceptional tung nut finish.

See the many original designs featuring glass, copper, driftwood, beach stone and other beautiful materials at Coast Chimes.

Coast Chimes, Something for Everyone

Beach Stone
Cobalt Blue Glass
Copper
Large Outdoor Windchime at Coast Chimes

It doesn't have to be a struggle to find a great gift for a special person. At Coast Chimes, you can find something that they never will guess, and that they most certainly will love. From suncatchers and chimes starting at $55 to giant freestanding wind chimes, all with free shipping to the USA and Canada, you can't go wrong.

Shipping to a 3rd party is also possible. Send along a personal message, and it will be transcribed onto a card and enclosed in the box. What could be easier?

So beautiful, such high-quality, shop at Coast Chimes now for the best selection.

Coast Chime Popular, Beautiful Christmas Gifts

Cobalt Blue Artist-made Sea Glass
Cedar and Copper
Art Wind Chime at Coast Chimes

The Wind Chimes and Suncatchers at Coast Chimes always make popular Christmas gifts. This year orders are going out the door in record numbers. I'm tied up with boxing and shipping, and so no new items will likely be added until the new year. In other words, shop early for the best selection, and also to assure delivery.

Find the entire selection (all with free shipping to the USA and Canada) at Coast Chimes.

Great Christmas Gifts at Coast Chimes

Freestanding Kaleidoscope Suncathcer
Artist-made Sea Glass, Cedar
find it at Coast Chimes

Christmas shopping has evidently started early this year. I do not plan on making any more works until 202: stock is limited, and more limited everyday. For the best selection, and also to assure delivery in time, it is highly recommended to shop soon.

The above popular design, freestanding kaleidoscope suncatcher, featuring loosely trapped artist-made sea glass (yes, it can be shaking about), in a handcrafted cedar box frame with a cedar stand, is proving especially popular this week, and I only have a couple left. Find them (along with a few different styles) in the suncatcher section of my website.

Everything on my website is presented with pride. These are all items that anyone would be thrilled to have as a gift. Free shipping on all orders to the USA and Canada.

Christmas Shopping Made Easy

Kaleidoscope Suncatcher, by Coast Chimes

The Sunshine Coast Art Crawl was a huge success-- so many people dropping in at Coast Chimes, excited, enthusiastic, curious. Always a thrill, those three days!

Now the Christmas shopping has started online, and given that there may still be some congestion in the mail from the recent rotating strike activity of Canada Post, now is not too soon to order to assure delivery for the 25th.

Some popular designs are already sold out, such as the smaller size kaleidoscope chimes. But there is a lot of great stock left for you to choose from.

Best of all, for a few days I am running a 15% off sale on all large wind chimes, or any order $185 or more. My way of saying thank you.

Drop in on my website, Coast Chimes, or visit my Etsy store: Coast Chimes Etsy. It will be easy to find the perfect gift.

Large Kaleidoscope Sea Glass Wind Chimes

Kaleidoscope Wind Chime by Coast Chimes

I have been working really hard, preparing for the fast approaching Sunshine Coast Art Crawl where, if history repeats, things should be hopping at my studio. It is the most exciting event of the year, but it does take an enormous amount of preparation. At the same time, I increase my stock enough to have lots available for the Christmas rush, which follows fast after the art crawl.

Just now, I have finished 10 rectangular large kaleidoscope wind chimes. They turned out really well, so I am very pleased. They are a striking addition to any garden, yard, sundeck, or porch. My entire collection of kaleidoscope wind chimes and suncatchers can be found here: Kaleidoscope Works.

Now I am cutting, polishing, assembling copper chime sections. This is one of the most labour intensive parts of all my duties. I hope to get nine sets assembled this week, and then I can move onto mid-sized freestanding beach stone chimes.

Thank You, Fans of Handmade!

A Few of the Boxes Shipped for
Christmas, 2017, Coast Chimes

A huge THANK YOU to all the fans of handmade, the fans of wind chimes, the fans of quality. The Christmas shopping season is traditionally the most important, or nearly the most important, period of the year for gaining the income I need to continue the work I do, and this year was the best ever! There will be a lot of smiles as people open their gifts this year, and find a beautiful one-of-a-kind wind chime or suncatcher!

I'll be taking a short break, catching my breath from all the packing and all the hiking boxes down to the post office. And then, early in 2018, I will be setting my workshop back up (it has been stored in a back room ever since out mid-October Sunshine Coast Art Crawl), and returning to serious work to replenish my stock.

I wish you all a splendid holiday season, and a most happy new years!

Perfect Christmas Gifts

Still Time For Christmas Delivery
But Order Soon!

Find the Perfect Gift at Coast Chimes

The shops are going to get crazier and crazier. Why not relax at home and browse Coast Chimes for the perfect gifts for the special people in your life? Handcrafted, high-quality, original one-of-a-kind wind chimes and suncatchers, art for the home and garden, and everything now has FREE shipping!

Today is the 11 of December, and that means there is still time to have your order delivered in time for the 25th. But not a lot of time! The postal deliveries have so far been excellent: very fast! But I would defiantly not wait too much longer before ordering.

The Perfect Christmas Gifts

Beautiful and exceptionally well made, all the creations at Coast Chimes are guaranteed to please. Starting at $58, everything ships fast, and for free (USA and Canada).

Keep it simple this year, and shop from home. A few clicks, and your shopping is done. Your gifts will bring joy. Enjoy your holidays!

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The Perfect Christmas Gift: Coast Chimes

Maybe Shop from Home?
Coast Chimes: Awesome Gifts
From $58 with Free Shipping

Give the unexpected. Give the delightful. Give the long lasting. Give Coast Chimes!

From small suncatchers to large wind chimes, Coast Chimes has something for everyone. The surprise is assured, and there will be long lasting joy, because everything at Coast Chimes is built to last.

Beauty. Durability. Awesome gifts. Visit Coast Chimes now.

Large Outdoor Glass and Copper Wind Chime
Find it at Coast Chimes

Original, High-Quality Gifts, Wind Chimes and Suncatchers

SOLD

Stock is Depleting
But Still Lots of Awesome Wind Chimes
and Suncatchers

No New Stock Until 2018

Visit Coast Chimes Now for the Best Selection

Every spring and summer, I work really hard to prepare as much stock as possible for the annual Sunshine Coast Art Crawl. Just before the Art Crawl, I put away all my tools to more than double my gallery space. After the Art Crawl, I now no longer immediately put my workshop back together, instead concentrating on internet sales, packing, shipping, and also keeping the gallery space for locals who drop by for holiday shopping.

This is great, except that my stock goes from relatively huge to dwindling pretty fast. I try to let all my customers know that they really need to order early to get a great selection. Also, it's a great idea to order early because although I pack and ship fast, closer to Christmas I can get backed up with the packing, and the border services / post office can also get overwhelmed somewhat.

So the message is clear: order sooner rather than later. Visit Coast Chimes now, or view my work on Etsy.

Coast Chimes: New, Free Shipping

Artist-made Sea Glass with Handcrafted Brass Chimes
Coast Chimes: Now with Free Shipping

For a long time I have paid most of the shipping on my orders to the USA and Canada, but not all the cost. I thought that people would not object to pitching in a bit, as postage is so high. But the trend on the internet has been more and more towards 'free' shipping. Recently Etsy has been rather aggressively urging their sellers to offer free shipping, or discounts, which I think is a little too bad, but I guess they know what they are doing.

So to continue selling on Etsy, I realized I had to probably offer free shipping. That means that the same goes for my website. So now all orders to the USA and Canada ship no additional charge. 

See all the great works on Coast Chimes, and enjoy the free shipping.

Must be Christmas

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A Very busy day of packing -- it must be almost Christmas!

The orders flowed in this weekend and Monday morning: Christmas shoppers. It's a big job packing my creations, because there is a lot of glass, and there are sometimes things like large beach stones that have to go in the same box. Although after ten years of packing I know a trick or two, it is very time consuming.

The first impression my customer gets (or the person to whom they are having me ship the gift) is from the look of my boxes. So I make a real effort to have sharp, clean looking boxes with neat labels etc.

The second impression is probably not that great as they remove the shipping paper, since I use recycled orange juice boxes, and then inside are recycled newspapers for padding. The newspapers are clean though, and I make sure to get the sort that do not have ink rubbing off.

Then they find all the actual items neatly wrapped in sill foam. The sill foam I buy new, and it is expensive. But it does an excellent job-- nothing has broken in over seven years (knock on wood).

The last impression hopefully knocks their socks off, as they remove the sill foam and see the actual item.

In the last twenty four hours I have received three emails similar to this one that I quote here:

"Tim!

You are such a lovely man! I got the suncatcher. It's a thousand times more beautiful than I expected. It's really nice to have the print up of where everything comes from and your inspiration for it too. It's an extraordinarily meaningful piece of art and I can't wait to give it to my mom and stepfather (especially because I hold the sea and everything that comes from it so close to my heart, since I grew up near the beach). And thank you so much for the copper earrings!!! I can't wait to buy from you again."

It has been so unusually freezing cold here, but emails like that warm me all day long. I love it!