SanC Designs was started by Diana Schindler, a local San Clemente artist and jeweler. Diana uses years of jewelry making experience, beachcombing, and her refined resin casting techniques to create unique and quality jewelry, home decor, and other art. Her carefully developed and labor intensive resin casting techniques, as well as high quality resin, preserve and showcase her beachcombing finds.

SanC Designs is dedicated to creating jewelry and decorative art exclusively crafted from natural materials, collected by hand on the beaches of San Clemente, California. Each unique design expresses artist Diana Schindler's personal history in San Clemente. Everything made by SanC Designs demonstrates her unyielding commitment to ethically sourcing natural materials of great beauty and rarity. 

Cognizant of weather and tides, Diana bikes or walks to local beaches to search for whatever the creeks and ocean provide. As she looks for materials, Diana ensures that nothing is ever taken alive. The sea urchin shells, abalone, wavy turban shells, and dozens of other types of shells she finds are then transformed into wearable art. Because of the naturally sourced materials, no piece is perfect, and no two are alike.

Found pieces of rare green abalone, thick with rot and decay, are polished to create an exquisite, opalescent material. Wavy Turban Shells, hard as bricks, and brown as dirt, are transformed into pearlescent gems that seem lighter than air. Semi-precious agate, jaspers, and chalcedony, found rough on the beach, are tumbled over months to reveal their true beauty. Every piece of sea glass is found on the beach. It is never bought, polished, or tumbled. Sea glass is so special to Diana because it is trash that nature transforms into something precious. Recycling material like that is exactly what we are about at SC Designs.

Decorative art is also an important part of the SanC Designs vision. We collect driftwood that has a unique character, often because wildfires killed the tree, or perhaps the wood was ravaged by insects. Some of it has spent many years being shaped by the ocean, further adding to the wood's beauty. After being cleaned and sanded, an epoxy resin coating protects the wood from further decay. Inspired by Japanese flower arranging principles known as Ikebana, Diana pairs the wood with air plants.  This process creates living miniature sculptural landscapes that are extremely easy to maintain.

Other products Diana creates are coaster sets and shadow boxes using beachcombed material like sea urchins, bones, and coral. Utilizing a special sand coating technique that she developed, Diana also creates octopus themed mobiles, featuring found natural materials and sand covered motifs.