Something I had wanted to try to do for a couple of months now, and I finally did it! (Update) The diy tutorial is finally finished for these bottles, and you…

Picture this: summer, hot sun, the beach, the sea. Pure relaxation. Somehow, seashells embody all of that and even if we find ourselves far away from the

A strand consists of Chunks of beach glass wired together in a cascading chain. In between the glass, I wire into the chain various beachy beads of stone, shell, or smaller pieces of glass. Each strand is hung from a swivel hook. Made with great care, packed and shipped with the protection of the beach glass given highest priority. I can make the strands as long as you want. These are app 10” long. Feel free to Message me with detailed explanation of what color(s), number of strands, and length of strands. I’ll then list price and you can then check out. Otherwise I’ll send you one already made similar to the ones photographed (10-12” long). These look amazing in a window. Some people hang them outdoors in a protected place. Wherever you hang them, people will want to see and touch them.

Transform a piece of driftwood from the beach into a beautiful and useful DIY rustic towel rack, coat hooks or hat rack.

These driftwood DIY projects are creative and fun while giving your home decor refreshing feel. My favorite has to be the driftwood chalkboard!

Don’t you just love driftwood projects? I just moved to the pacific northwest so I’m only about 30 minutes away from great places to find driftwood. Zoe from Creative in Chicago …

Make your yard sound beautiful with these pretty DIY wind chime ideas, including repurposed materials and nature-inspired creations!

Przyszła dziś do mnie nostalgia Morza zwierciadłem zabłysła I smugą cienia na żaglach, słów brak jak w opowieściach sprzed lat. Koniecznie trzeba posłuchać tej piosenki oglądając zdjęcia poniżej ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b7cddA1IHo Zainspirowana żaglowcami na Waszych blogach to poczyniłam ... Prosiłam wszystkich znajomych i przyjaciół, którzy byli w tym roku nad morzem aby przywieźli dla mnie drewienka. BARDZO WAM DZIĘKUJĘ :)))) Bez nich nie powstałyby żalgówki. *********************************** Atena, Aśka, DeZeal, Angela, antilight, Madlinka zaprosiły mnie do zabawy; LUBIĘ * ciszę kiedy wszyscy śpią, a ja mam czas tylko dla siebie * cukierki KRÓWKI z Milanówka - to moje ulubione ! * herbatę - czarną - bez niej nie mogłabym żyć :) zaczynam od niej dzień * słowa "WIESZ - A JA CIĘ KOCHAM" wypowiadane przez mojego męża * radosne śmiechy moich dzieci * malowanie obrazów- to moja największa pasja (jeszcze nie ujawniona na blogu) * buszowanie po second handach * książki * gapienie się w niebo- zawsze wydaje mi się że pływam w oceanie * zwierzaki - bez nich świat byłby nijaki. * odkrywanie piękna w brzydocie i nadawanie nowego życia przedmiotom. ******** Pozdrawiam Was serdecznie. Jolanna EDIT Nie dam rady powiadomić o zabawie 10 osóbek w komentarzach ze względu na mój słaby zasięg internetowy eh :/ ciągle mi zanika Jak macie ochotę to piszcie - co LUBICIE - chętnie poczytam :) - to dla tych co jeszcze nie pisali.

Lovely ideas to turn sea shells into decorative craft items for your home or to give as gifts. How to Craft Lovely Sea Shell?

Protect the surfaces in your home with these easy diy drink coasters tutorials.

OK, who would have thought you could use straws to weave!? Seriously, straw weaving is such a cool concept! The straws make it quick and easy to weave a fun bracelet, necklace or hairband. And all you need is yarn, straws and tape! This is such a great craft for older kids and tweens. My 7 and 9 year old daughters really enjoy it... although, they're still a little young to do it completely on their own. They need a little bit of my help to get things set up and to tie off the ends. But with such a

See photos of the beautiful "Sea Change" exhibit by Courtney Mattison.

Learn how to make gilded seashells using gold leaf sheets and gold leaf paint. Both methods are easy, but they create different looks. The choice is yours.

Do you like fish? I’m very picky when it comes to fish and only like to eat the kinds that don’t have tiny fish bones. My fabric fishes certainly don’t have any and they don’t smell fishy either. I had so much fun sewing them, that I made more than I had planned to. For these I used some linen sample pieces I got from an interior decorator some years ago and gave them some lace fins. As you can see, I had fun with the photo shoot too. I like the rather simple linen fishes but I wanted a couple real lacey ones too and sewed some, using mainly different kinds of eyelet lace. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my “fish dish”. You’ll find my “catch” at these parties: Blissful Whites Wednesday at TIMEWASHED Be Inspired at Common Ground Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Creek Cottage Treasure Hunt Thursday at From My Front Porch To Yours Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs, Julia

Macramé is a way of creating textiles in the loosest terms, by knotting and not at all by weaving or knitting. This form of work is used a lot to create

When it came to Croatia, it was no secret that this special city was at the top of our list. This ultimate Dubrovnik guide will show you a taste for...

U.K.-based embroidery artist Helen Wilde interprets oceanic landscapes in her three-dimensional hoop embroideries. Using tightly edited color palettes, often featuring teals and natural tones, Wilde layers stitches, knots, twists, and pom-poms. The organic shapes resemble commingled forms of plant life, and are built upon organza or hand-woven fabrics. Wilde’s most recent work was inspired by the tropical modernism of Sri Lanka. You can see more of her botanical embroidery on Instagram and purchase original works in her Etsy store. More

I have been wanting to do a configurations box for quite a while now, but they are not easy to get here in Austria and shipping costs (even from Germany) are rather expensive due to the size. As we will get a brand new kitchen at the end of May, we have been browsing through our kitchen cupboards to get rid of everything too much (which was quite a lot to be honest). On this occasion I found a wooden box that once held three knives. I thought it to be the perfect size for a wall hanging configuration tray (or whatever one should call it). I made the compartments using glue, thick corrugated card and Tim Holtz tissue tape. Then I filled the compartments with Tim Holtz papers cut exactly to size and covering all five sides of each single "box". The outside was covered using a dictionary style washi tape. At that stage it looked way too clean and neat (even though I chose the TH papers for a rather grungy look) - so I gave the whole tray a rough treatment with Mr. Huey's color mists opaque white and dark calico and a lot of dapping and whiping, adding colour here, taking some off there. (I admit I really was afraid of spoiling hours of work with that step - but it worked out - even better than expected! The tray looked pretty grungy and timeworn by then. I created a wire hanging for the tray trying not to be too exact with bending and curling. There - my wall hanging tray was ready. At that stage I still did not know what to fill it with. Maybe a lot of TH goodness? Or do some heavy embellishing with tickets collected on our various holiday trips? Hm. I started to browse through my beach findings again and then the idea just hit my mind: I have been collecting fossils, stones, shells and nature finds in general since I can think and my son does the same now. In his room he has two showcases filled with self gathered "nature treasures" and "loaned" finds and more treasures from me and my husband. I decided to use some of them for my wall hanging. And voila! I very much enjoyed translating Ovid's "Metamorphosis" in school and have been loving the meaning of this word ever since (and use it quite often to be honest ;). So I enter SSSS's "quotable" challenge with this project. I also enter Country View Crafts' challenge "Pick and mix - anything goes" and also Simon Says Stamp challenge "anything goes". Most of the treasures were collected during our hiking trips, some of them were bought at the annual fossil show and some are very special "specials" :) For example the stone my son painted when he was maybe four or five years old, trying to make it look like an insect enclosed in amber: Or the beetle I collected in the lovely Wienerwald. Except the big trilobite all the fossils are "self-found"! We have a great spot near Vienna where one can find them quite easily. The shark tooth and the pearl are from a geological museum site a bit up the Danube, where a huge prehistoric mussel bed was discovered which proves that there once was ocean nearby our place! Kids can filter shark teeth and pearls in a huge sandpit there. The deserted cocoon in the upper right box is from a Death's Head Hawkmoth we found as a huge (really huge!) caterpillar when cutting our hedges. We took it home with us and prepared a container with some soil and leaves from the hedge and it dug itself in after two days of feeding. It spent the whole winter this way stored on our bedroom's window sill as this is the coldest room of our flat. We could see it at the very bottom of our container, twitching from time to time. One day in spring (when we had stopped to believe that it had survived) we had a really beautiful big hawkmoth sitting in the container. I learned that Death's Head Hawkmoths appear quite rarely at our regions and travel far distances from Africa to southern Europe. Just HAVE to show you the image! Isn't he beautiful (and big)? As we found the caterpillar in our garden on the very first day we entered it and this is such a wonderful thing to remember I hope it will be okay if I enter the Craft Room challenge "In Our Garden - Anything but a card" with this project. Back to the wall hanging: I stamped some words that came to my mind while watching the filled tray onto card that I had given an aged look in advance, cut them out and glued them to the frame. Done! Some more close-ups which I hope you will enjoy: I hope you will forgive me my picture- AND word-heavy post this time! Thank you very much for stopping by!!! Hugs, die amelie x

In my eternal quest to find and make the perfect Sabbat craft, I’ve come up with a great way to honor the summer season with a beautiful, super low maintenance art and craft! A WindCatcher! T…

If you have a huge collection of these beach things, put on your crafty hat and make something interesting out of them by Turning Beach Findings into Craft.

A great summer craft project.I've been wanting to make driftwood sailboats for quite some time and finally I did it this week … diy driftwood sailboats.

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