Seashell Crafts

Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home With Seashells

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Shell Chic brings the design and imagination of today's shell enthusiasts and artisans to the home. This is a book to be savored for its eccentric decorative flair, its lavish sense of fun, and its practical instructions for shell projects and design ideas that will work in any home decor. Frames, chandeliers, unusual boxes, mirrors, a child-size claw-foot tub - all are fabulous possibilities for shell encrustation. Memories of peaceful beach vacations become ravishing decorative items when glued to lampshades and screens.

In all, 14 step-by-step illustrated projects and 20 design ideas cover everything readers need to know to create richly marvelous objects. To lend inspiration, there are profiles of contemporary shell artists photographed with their creations. One profile features Marian McEvoy, editor of House Beautiful, who has embellished her Manhattan apartment with an estimated 15,000 shells. While most shell enthusiasts will not be working on quite this scale, there are ideas, photographs, profiles, and inspiration for all!

Shells (New Crafts)

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An illustrated NEW CRAFT title on shells which explains techniques and includes twenty-five step-by-step projects. Read more...

Shell Craft

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Step-by-step instructions and an abundance of illustrations show how to create decorative boxes, mirror frames, and fanciful soap dishes; fashion attractive bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and earrings; encase shells in resin to make paperweights and napkin holders; do shell printing with crayons and linoleum blocks, and more. Includes supply sources.

Indian Ocean Tiny Mix Seashells (Great for crafts) - 1/2 Cup

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Features:

1/4" - 5/8"
1/2 C (appx. 400 shells per package)

This is the Indian Ocean tiny shell mix. Great for crafting or scrap-booking where a variety of small shells are needed. Read more...

Boston Christmas Festival bus trip departs Midcoast Nov. 5

knox.VillageSoup.com - Oct 11, 2011

For holiday decorating, the show offers many possibilities from opulent brocade and tapestry Christmas stockings and wall hangings to old fashioned cranberry garland wreaths, musical angel figurines, holiday elves, seashell ornaments,

West Ocean City Hosts Harbor Day

The Dispatch - Sep 30, 2011

Kids' activities include scallop shell painting, Gyotaku (japaense fish printing) on T-shirts, seashell craft making, moon bounces and more. Ayres Creek Adventures will be offering kayak tours of the harbor to view the commercial boats from a different

Harbor Day puts OC history in spotlight

Delmarva Daily Times - Sep 29, 2011

Jones stressed that there were a variety of other activities for children at the free event, including scallop shell painting, seashell crafts and gyotaku (Japanese fish printing). There will also be moon bounces and kayak tours of the harbor offered

New Charlotte business owners unfazed by recession

The Tennessean - Oct 07, 2011

She sold various crafts through rented space at Yesterday's Treasures in Dickson for a year and a half years before bringing Unique Creations to Charlotte. “I saw this building was for lease, and checked into it,” recalled Pulley.

Turning Clutter into Crafts: Shell Wreaths

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Something had to be done. Our home looked like a shrine to the shore.

My seashell collections dominated every flat surface in our townhouse. Shells were loosely organized by trip: tiny ones from the Pacific Ocean in a brandy snifter, large spirals from a remote North Carolina beach on the mantle, orange sea scallops from Spain in a woven basket.

I even owned several jars of sand. It was time for drastic measures.

After a quick trip to the Germantown Public Library , I came home armed with numerous books on crafting. I went into Michaels and purchased supplies: naked wreaths of straw, various colors of moss and lichens, a tiny hot glue gun with extra glue sticks, artificial flowers, sheer aqua ribbon and a spool of burlap that resembled a fishing net.

Source: Patch.com

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Glass Block Crafts – How to Make Gifts and Keepsakes They’ll Love!

One of the newest trends in do-it-yourself gifts is glass block crafts.

Advantages include that glass blocks are readily available at your local home improvement and craft stores, they’re inexpensive, and anyone can do it!

What Can You Make With Glass Blocks?

Of course, the only limitation is your imagination!

Some popular glass block crafts ideas include making lighted holiday decorations, centerpieces and nightlights, both fresh and silk flower arrangements, coin banks, lamps, knife holders, decoratively etched display pieces, picture “frames” and more.

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