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I am a Victorian Soul, who lives in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion!! I just recently lost my Hubby Joe, who was a Retired Letter Carrier. I worked night shift as an RN on a Hospital based Rehabilitation( Physical Medicine) Unit for 37 years before I had Knee Replacement Surgery and officially Retired in 2019 after 41 years working in Direct Patient Care ... I am so glad that we retired at 62 years of age and got to spend that time together before he passed....I still do love Retirement!!!!

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" IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN"
George Eliot

George Eliot was actually a pen name for a woman named Mary Anne Evans......

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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

"Under the Sea" Ornaments, Part 2

Welcome!!!!!

Today, I will be sharing more of the ornaments I have been creating to decorate my new Summer "Under the Sea" Tree!!!!!

In my previous post, I shared some of the ornaments that I made using sea shells that my neighbor collected while living in Miami over the Winters........

Click HERE if you missed that post........

Today, I will be showing you ornaments that I made from Star Fish, wooden Anchors and Sand Dollars.......

I ordered a dozen wooden Anchor cut outs from Amazon ..........

I painted all of them aqua.........

I then embellished them by gluing on small shells.......

Beads and silver and gold trim that I bought in the Dollar Bins in Michael's......

I have a stash of old costume jewelry that I have collected for some time and I decided to use some of the earrings as embellishments......

I then glittered all the ornaments.......

I had 4 sand dollars left over from a previous project so I decided to make them into ornaments.......

I painted the edges around the sand dollars gold, glued small shells and rhinestone costume earrings to them.........

I also painted a few shells aqua and then embellished them with rhinestone trim.....

And glitter of course!!!

I bought some star fish at Michael's..........

I painted a few gold.....

Added the silver and gold trim.....

And also embellished them with old earrings from my costume jewelry stash......

I also painted 2 of the star fish aqua.......

And again added silver trim and old earrings......

In my next post, I will show you the rest of the ornaments that I made for my Summer "Under the Sea" Tree......

So I hope you will be back to visit again soon.......

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

"Under the Sea" Ornaments, Part 1

Welcome!!

You may have noticed that I have not posted for a week......

I have been very busy working on something that I started thinking about 3 years ago!!!!

But first, I want to Thank Create With Joy for featuring my post, Newly Crafted Patriotic Ornaments,
from last week's Inspire Me Monday Party!!!

Thanks so much!

Please stop by and link up to this great party!!

I will be doing several posts leading up to the reveal of what I am calling my Summer "Under the Sea" Tree!!

This is an idea that I have had for some time now especially since my neighbor, who now resides in a Nursing Home, collected shells while she lived in Miami during the Winters.

Her sons were going to throw away boxes and boxes of shells that she cleaned, bleached and organized according to size!!!

I naturally said that I would take them........

These are just some of the shells.

I did gave away quite a few of them to neighbors and friends!!

We had a 3 day stretch of 90 degree weather with high humidity and since I was off from work and stuck in the house with the air conditioning blaring, I started to create some ornaments using these shells for my 'Under the Sea" Tree!!!!

In this post, I will share some of the ornaments that I made from these shells.........

Since the color theme of our Living Room is aqua and peach, I decided that those colors would also be the theme for my Tree......