Summer Decorations come out by the 1st of May. Our home is decorated with lots of sea shells, my paintings and silk orchid arrangements. I started decorating this way when I lived close to the coast in North Carolina 1987 ~ 2001. My sons and I loved collecting seashells, and as you’ve seen in earlier posts creating crosses and ornaments. Now you don’t have to live close to the coast to decorate in this way. We now have stores that sell packages of sea shells like Jo-Ann Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, Michael’s and even Walmart. I’ve collected sea shells at yard/garage sales. Today all you have to do is go to your computer to google seashell crafts or check out Pinterest for lots of craft ideas. I have several Pinterest sea shell boards on my site Donna’s Decorative Designs. Here are some of the decorations that I hope will inspire you.
Most of my sea shells I collected over the years when I was at the beach in Texas, North and South Carolina and Costa Rica. Family and friends have also contributed to my sea shell collection.
Den decorations on the fireplace mantel and table behind our den couch. You can make one of these by gently cutting a sand dollar in half with an x-acto knife. The doves will fall out. Glue fabric and put in a shadow box frame.
You can make one of the pretty sand dollar shadow boxes, as seen in the next pic by gently cutting a sand dollar in half with an exact-o knife. The doves inside will fall out and then you can use an all-purpose glue to attach everything to a piece of velvet covered cardboard cut to fit a picture frame. Arrange the sand dollar at the bottom spread open and the doves as if they are flying towards it …. and “wallah” you have a beautiful shadow box.
This footsteps in the sand poem I found at a yard sale several years ago. It reminds me that my Lord and Savior is always with me!
Here on the foyer table I have a variety of sea shells and a small canvas I painted. I used glue to draw the design first, allowed it to harden then painted. It makes the sea shell look more realistic. This is a simple painting to do. Try it out for yourself!
The dining room I just simply placed an orchid arrangement on the table and added accent colors in green and pink.
The painting is one of mine done in acrylic in 1996. It is of banana trees I had growing in my back yard in Kinston, North Carolina. It started out monochromatic, but I felt it needed a little color so added some pink impatiens in the flowerbed since they were blooming at the same time.
In the living room I decorated the mantel with sea shells and my banana tree blossom acrylic painting that I also painted in 1996. The banana trees in my yard were the ornamental type, not edible, just for looks! On this painting I used paper mache to sculpt and give the bulb and blossom a more three-dimensional look.
On the coffee table I added some accessories around the sea shell arrangement I created from unusual and broken shells. I also made a fan from sea shells that you see next to the arrangement. Both are examples of what you could create as well.
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