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Decorating Your Home
with Seashells
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It was a glass jar filled with astonishingly beautiful
seashells that first hooked me on the idea of decorating my
home with shells. The jar was standing on a windowsill in a
seaside cottage, and the sun penetrated through the cracks
between the shells, highlighting their texture and color.
Since then I’ve decorated with seashells in all sorts of
ways, and here are my favorite ideas.
Finding Seashells
A note before we plunged into my seashell decorating ideas.
You can find the best and biggest selection of seashells
online. I ran a search for “seashells for sale” and I found
a few excellent stores. I never knew there were so many
sizes, shapes and colors to seashells. Browsing these
websites felt like walking through a seashell museum.
Seashell Mirror
I took an old mirror I found in a garage sale, and I turned
it into a stunning seashell mirror. The wood frame of the
mirror was 6 inch wide, which was perfect for my project. I
smeared glue on the wood, then I coated the frame in gold
glitter. Next I used my glue gun to attach seashells all
over the mirror frame. I hung the mirror in my entryway, and
it created a soothing, welcoming feel when we came home.
Sand and Seashell Display
I looked for a shiny ceramic plate in black. I wanted
something fairly flat, with edges that rise slightly. I
found what I wanted at the home section of a department
store. I filled the plate with sand, pressed a few
sand-colored votive candles into the sand, and added
beautiful seashells of varying heights and sizes. The
display was so stunning I decided to give it a place of
honor on my living room table.
Seashell Wall Decor
I bought sand dollars in bulk because these shells have
holes at their tops. Then I strung the seashells on a silver
ribbon. Since the ribbon was thick, it filled the hole in
the shell and kept the sand dollars from bunching together.
Next, I used a push pin to attach the silk ribbon to the
wall at one end. Finally, I used push pins to hang the
string of seashells on the wall in a wavy pattern. The
festoons of shells created a sort of chair rail border all
around my craft room.
Seashell Bathroom Window
My bathroom window had a beautiful, wide ledge. The perfect
place to display seashells, I thought. I rested an ornate
mirror at one corner with a glass bowl filled with seashells
before it, so the seashells can reflect in the mirror. Then
I added two giant murex seashells, so I can listen to the
soothing sound of the sea as I took a shell with me into the
shower.
Seashell Chandelier
My candelabra chandelier, which hangs above my bed, seemed
like a perfect setting for seashells. I strung sand dollars
on fishing wire and tied them all over the candelabra. And I
cut the strings in varying heights, so the seashells would
hang in a waterfall of lengths.
Questions? Comments?
Drop me a line.
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