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What Will You Do With Your Summer Treasures?
if Summer is over 🙁
Tan lines are fading and we are left with beautiful memories of long warm days. In our household, other than beautiful memories, we end up with big piles of physical evidence that the summer just ended. One of them is a mountain of shells collected during days at the beach, some rocks picked up while hiking, and of course lots of sticks that were found during the camping days.
Unfortunately, my children have a hard time parting with their precious summer treasures. Those items are beautiful and special on their own but when piled on a mountain, they lose their beauty.
Here are some ideas that I found on how to easily turn those summer treasures into beautiful decorative pieces. I like them because they bring back the glamour to those summer gems. Some of those ideas are few minutes projects, and others great craft ideas for long fall and winter evenings that are around the corner.
Take a moment and indulge yourself in these creative ideas:
This seashell wreath looks so impressive and is a breeze to make.
Covering wooden letters with a seashell, makes a great wall decorative piece in any room, especially a nursery.
Look at this great combination. Few glass vases and apothecary jars plus some shells and starfish and you have a perfect table centerpiece.
A pile of wooden sticks can be transformed into this handsome seahorse.
And here is another idea for a seahorse – this time made out of shells.
“This ocean view shadow box is a perfect way to keep the memories alive.”
Gorgeous shell angels would make unique Christmas tree decorations.
And this ornament would make a perfect team with the shell angel above.
Did you ever think about creating a zoo out of shells?
To utilize some of the rocks that were collected I would recommend making some of these kinds of pretty pictures.
Rocks can make a full pot of plants for which you don’t need to have a green thumb.
Or simply put a beach in a jar like a pickle.
Do a jar per vacation trip and label it with a date and beach location.
Do a jar per vacation trip and label it with a date and beach location.
Oh! I almost forgot to share with you the piece that I already made. Currently, this art is decorating my friend’s summer house.
What do you think? Aren’t those great? Do you have a favorite one? I would really appreciate it if you share any other ideas you may have on that as I am on a mission to use every single one of our summer treasures…
Great ideas for those crazy amounts of shells from Florida. Thanks I will try the Ikea frames. Will get back to you to let you know how it went.
Thank you Heather and good luck with your project.
So many fantastic ideas. I absolutely love the painted rocks.
Thank you Agnes. The painted rocks idea is one of my favorites too 🙂
thanks for sharing my seahorse
My pleasure.
Fun ideas! Thank you so much for featuring my framed seashell seahorse. Say that three times:-)
Thank you Betsy. I had hard time to say it even the first time 🙂