Why We Named Them Summertime Blues

There’s a certain shade of blue that only exists near the water.

It’s deeper than the sky, softer than the night, and layered with a hundred memories you don’t realize you’re making until they start to slip away. Navy blue, baby blue, and seafoam green – the colors of the ocean on a quiet day, the kind of day that makes you wish time would slow down just a little more.

That feeling is where Summertime Blues comes from.

The earrings take their shape from classic coastal buoys – steady, rounded, and always floating somewhere between movement and stillness. They’re the same shapes you’ve seen lining harbors and bobbing offshore in small coastal towns, doing their quiet work while summers come and go around them.

The colors tell the real story.

Navy blue is the deep water just beyond the break, where the waves feel heavier and the horizon stretches farther than it should. It’s the color of early mornings on the dock and late nights when the air turns cool enough to pull on a sweatshirt.

Baby blue is the open sky reflected on calm water — those perfect, cloudless afternoons when the ocean looks endless and forgiving. It’s the color of long boat rides, salt-dried hair, and days that blur together because you stopped checking the time.

Seafoam green lives right at the shoreline. It’s the rush of waves curling in and pulling back out again. The color of seaglass hidden in the sand, faded beach signs, and fishing boats that have seen decades of summers pass by.

Together, they capture a coastal town at its most honest.

The name Summertime Blues isn’t just about color – it’s about that quiet sadness that shows up when you least expect it. The moment you realize the days are getting shorter. When the beach feels a little emptier. When the ice cream stands close earlier than they used to, and the town starts packing itself away for another year.

It’s the feeling of loving something so much that it hurts to watch it end.

These earrings are for the last warm evenings of the season. For sunset walks that feel more reflective than joyful. For holding onto summer just a little longer, even when you know you can’t.

Summertime Blues is a reminder that endings don’t take away what came before them. They just make the memories deeper — like the ocean itself.