What Do You Do With All The Shells?
Every time I took the kids to the beach this year, we always came home with a bag of shells. Morgan wasn’t too picky about which ones she put in the bag – just about every one was ‘take home’ material.
Gavin and I had a ‘thing’ for beach rocks. We even played catch in the water with them. The downside to that was when you missed catching it, it was hard to find again in the water. Or even worse, it bonked you in the mouth a time or two.
Just before the gang moved to NC, I came up with an idea of what to do with some of the shells. We strung the ones with holes on copper wire to make a mobile of sorts.
I had the kids pose with it not quite finished to record how big they were when we made this.
Then it was my task to figure out how to hang this work of art.
I had the piece of driftwood for probably 20+ years – always reminded me of a dragon. At this point, I can’t even remember where I got it. Seems like I’ve had it most of my life. It hung with the orchids at the farm for years and years.
So I decided to finally put it to work. It turned out pretty nice and is hanging next to my front door.
A reminder of our fun beach days!