Five Ways to Use Seashells

 Hi all!  If you've ever been to the beach, it's likely that you'll pick up some seashells.  Then, when you bring them home, you're like "What 'shell' I do with these?"

I have your answer!  Here are five different ways to use those cute beach souvenirs!

 1. Jewelry!  I was inspired by the necklace (on left) that my cousin, Marie-Grace, made for Elizabeth, so I tried making some seashell jewelry myself!

 Do you see how all these shells have natural little holes?  They're important, because that's how you'll hang them on string.

Shells are a great fashion accessory!

 2. Frames!  You can place the shells in or around the frames.  I did both, as you can see.

Whether you hang them on a wall or sit them in a bookshelf, seashell frames look awesome!

 3. Under a glass table!  My mom loves the whole "beach house" theme, so she's the one who had this and the next two ideas.

 4. On you table!

 5. As a soap dish!  If you can find a shell large enough, that is.
Now you're ready to dig those forgotten shells out of you closet and put them to use!

How do you use seashells?

A Blog Button and New Doll Clothes

 Hi all!  As you can see from the title, Elizabeth and I decided to make a blog button!

What do you think?  We agreed that this picture was the best one of both of us, so we used it for the photo.  If time allows, I'll stick it on the side bar after I finish this post.  If any of you have blog buttons, and would like us to put them on our blog, just tell us below in the comments!

 Also, I made some clothes for my dolls that actually worked! 

 I'd made some before, but they fell apart.

 Best of all, I didn't have to sew a stitch, because I used My Froggy Stuff's "No Sew Dress" video (the old one).

Feeling adventurous, I tried levitation photography with Nellie!  What do you think?

Do you have a blog button?

Dog Week on The Saltys!

That's right, we are having a dog celebration week that's starting today (Monday), and ending Sunday.  So just why are we having a dog week? you're probably asking.  Elizabeth and I noted that even though we love our dogs, we don't blog about them very much.  So we're devoting an entire week to our wonderful, energetic, lovely dogs.
There will be Puppy Tales, Doggie Crafts, the first ever Salty Flashback, and a Dog Photo Contest (with prizes)!
Stay tuned for lots of doggie fun!

Makeing Friendship Bracelets

This afternoon Chrissa, McKenna and I made Friendship bracelets.

We decided to do them outside because it was so nice.  Since you don't have to give friendship bracelets your full attention, it's fun to talk while making them.  And that's just what we did.

Here are our finished bracelets. 

I chose the colors orange, light purple, white, and light pink.

Chrissa picked blue, white, light purple, and purple.

Bright pink, lime green, and aqua were McKenna's colors.

And that's how we spent our afternoon.

Crafting with Chrissa! Blessing Flags.

Hi lovely viewers!  Chrissa here.  Today I'm showing you how to make Blessing Flags.

 

This is a easy, fun craft!  And you can change this to wish flags when your birthday is close, or thankfulness flags at Thanksgiving.  But before you can do any of that, I have to show you how!

 

You will need:

• A pen or pencil
• String
• Scissors 
• 8 by 11and a half sheet of paper (not shown)
• Decorations like stickers, stamps, etc...

 The decorations are optional, but they help add a little pizza to the flags.

Ok. This may look contemplated, but it isn't really. Just a lot of folding.  Fold you paper into 4ths (# one and two), then unfold and cut on the lines (# three).  You will now have four pieces of paper. Now fold each piece in half and cut along that line (#4).  You should have eight sheets of paper.

Few!  Glad we got past that.

Cut a long piece of string.  Fold your paper over the string like in this picture (not in half):

Then attach the paper to the other side by stapling.

 Write who or what you are blessed to have...

Decorate, hang up, and you're done!

Happy Crafting!