Creating seashell art on the sea shore....

​These shells were passed on to me after Joe passed away. He made many unique pieces and I recently had a good look at them. He was a very creative artist and I've picked up some ideas from his work. 

I'm busy getting my seashell area all organized! Every time I go out to work on sorting I send a special thank you up to Joe for all the hard work he did sorting and organizing the shells and for all the time he's saving me. There are currently 30 bottles on the table (with about 6 more still needed) that contain select pieces of shells - either for shape, color, size, whole, partial - I didn't know there could be so many ways to sort shells, LOL. I still have to sort through all the shells on the floor but it's kind of fun because every so often I see a "treasure" that I had picked up or that came from Joe and I marvel over the beauty of nature.

As many of you know I make Christmas trees using the sea glass that I collect on the beach. I'm thinking that I will expand my trees to include ones made with shells, since I have so many shells now. There was a neat idea Joe used in some of his pieces where he took a shell that had a hole in it and fitted a piece of sea glass into the hole. I'm thinking that would look really cool as a Christmas tree and with the lights inside illuminating the glass inserts.  Now I just have to figure out how to build these trees. Good thing I have all year to work it out.

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