Seashells and more
These pictures were taken about 23 years ago. We lived on a tropical island in a foreign country.
What I had:
Cheap wicker shelving (it was cheap- a couple of dollars at a yard sale, I believe). Candles in sconces, flowers I pressed and framed in a thrift shop frame, sea urchins I picked up at the beach and then soaked in food coloring (yellow and blue), a pottery bowl my brother made in high school. A regular drinking glass with the accent color I wanted, a copper bell, a bit of blue ribbon, and some scraps of fabric in the accent colors I wanted, and all the seashells the children and I could find at the beach two blocks from my house.
I cut out a bit of the scrap fabric and glued it in the bottom of a small basket, above.
Then I cut out another bit of the fabric and glued it to the bathroom scales. I put the things I didn't want shifted around on the upper shelf, and left the seashells on the lower shelf for my children to play with (I only had two at the time, and they were 2 and 3 years old. I was 23.)
We also used seashells to make paperweights for gifts- we glued several onto a base of wood. I used them for math manipulatives as well, and we glued some very tiny ones around a frame.
Other places we've lived have offered different natural resources- pinecones, pretty river rocks, interestingly shaped bits of wood, desert glass, fall leaves, wild flowers, garden flowers, old bricks- what have you used?
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One Response to “Seashells and more”
August 14th, 2009 at 7:20 am
We got a wedding gift of a little glass jar with a sealing lid–probably meant to be a canister, but I can’t imagine what I would use in such small quantities. Instead, it sits in the bathroom with a collection of small items–shells from DOB’s first visit, a heart-shaped rock found on our first month anniversary, sweet-gum pods from our first backyard, a buckeye from our favorite park, and there’s still room for bits from further adventures. And it’s all in a glass jar that’s easy to clean when it gets dusty.
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