Sea Shell, Sea Shell, By The Sea Shore

From as long as I can remember I have always found beauty in 

sea shells and sea glass.

On my last trip to Monterey, Ca.

I found quite a few shells, whole and broken.

The broken shells are my favs because 

I love to take broken items and 

make them beautiful again.

I took some driftwood I had saved from another trip,

sea glass and the shells I found to make a wind chime.

At first I was just going to leave it like this...

 But these two shells were calling to me.

 

I knew I had to use them!

I am so glad I did.

I love how it came out.

I hope you do too.

Hope you all have a wonderful week.

Chelle

My Leftovers Went to My Ears....

I know I am a little late getting this out.  I so tried to do this last night but the holidays are really kicking me. LOL

 Erin, from Earrings Everyday sends out a monthly  We're All Ears Challenge. This month, the challenge was to Use Your Leftovers from a craftermath.

Now mind you I just had cleaned my crafting area when the challenge was issued,

so I just threw together some things that were in a bowl I have of  leftovers.

This is what I came up with.

Here is what I came up with...…

I have the mesh beads forever.  

So I decided to grab some chain, wire wrap the briolettes and add the starfish charms.

I have always wanted to use these but just didn't know what to do. 

So I just added some black recycled glass beads with black wired to create these cuties.

On my trip to Monterey, I found these two pieces of sea glass.

I don't work with yellows and browns much, so I knew I was going to whip these up.

I just drilled some holes in the sea glass and added the recycled glass beads.  

 That was pretty much it.

The next pair I created I think may be my favorites. 

I paired the seashell patina'd charms with some chain I had to create these.  

I really get a beachy feeling with these.

I am starting to use driftwood in my pieces.. 

I wire wrapped some sea glass I found at Santa Cruz, Ca to some driftwood pieces found at the same location.  Santa Cruz is definitely my favorite place t collect driftwood.

I call these my Jasmine earrings lol

I used some silk ribbon I had and wrapped some wire and beads to it.

I added the drops to add some length to them.

I started to photograph the next pair of earrings, but my handsome Luke had other plans.

Actually, he always has other plans for me when I am trying to create and photograph. lol

For the next pair, I used some recycled glass, briolette's in white and added some recycled glass beads to the ear wires.

My final pair I used some cultured sea glass beads and the infinity charms.

I am not really happy with these and just may repurpose them lol.

And that is it..... 8 pairs of leftover earrings.  Go check out what Erin and the other participants created here.

Art Elements May Themed Challenge Reveal

I know I'm a day late. I was traveling yesterday.  Here is what I came up with..

I had an old windchine that I wanted to spruce up a bit...  So I took it apart and cleaned up the parts and drilled holes in the sea glass I had picked out.

I then wire wrapped the glass and chimes

And here is how it came out.

Thanks for taking a look.. Here are the other participants. Check out what they created.

Guests

Raven

Kelly 

Cat

Kathy 

Tammy 

Alyson

Elaine 

Mischelle 

Deborah  

Anita 

Jill

Shirlee

Sarajo

AE Team Members:

Caroline

Cathy

Claire

Jen 

Laney 

Lesley 

Marsha 

Niky

Sue
Lindsay

Thanks
Chelle 

Monterey or Bust

My honey decided that he wanted to get out of town for the day 

and we had two choices.

Kings Canyon National Park or Monterey.

Of course I did not care which one because 

one, it was snowing in the mountains and

two, I am an aquaholic.

We ended up in Monterey.

It was my very first time there and I tell you I am hooked.

While it was raining here in Fresno, there were clear skies at the beach.

I have never been to Cannery Row.

So this was so amazing to actually walk the streets where I had only read in the book.

 John Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors

(the other being F. Scott Fitzgerald)

There is just so much history in Monterey

But I can not tell you how much fun it was to take my honey on his first ever

sea glass hunt.

His is hooked and is already planning our next trip to hunt for the sea jewels.

I am excited.

Have a great day.

Chelle

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