The Most Romantic Valentine....

So romantic...a tiny glass flask, washed up on the sand, its edges worn and softened by years in the tumbling surf. A slightly tattered label: "escape", a weathered antique key, a rusty heart...and one perfect beach pebble for its topper.

Pebble is glittery pale granite, not attached, to you may add a message or a photo.

Glass is clear, with weathering on the edges. Authentically found on my beach, cleaned, upcycled. I added the beautiful old weathered key, the rusty heart. The tattered label with its tantalizing message Escape....

The little botle is about the size of the palm of your hand..5 1/2" tall, x 2 3/4" wide. Volume is one quarter pint, 1/2 cup liquid.

Only marking is a small 20 on base, probably a tiny whiskey bottle?

Other seaglass bottles:

This set will be listed Friday....

The bottles are all shades of pale blue and aqua....

This set is "purple-ing" in my window sunshine, already has become a deeper amethyst. Not for sale yet....

A just-for-fun Beach Dreams memory bottle, below. This one is a found and quite weathered seaglass Corona bottle, recycled with labels, tags, and treasures [shells, beads etc] and filled with white sand and beach treasure. These are wonderful for souvenirs of happy summer days, kids heading off to college love them!

 

 

A gorgeous old hexagonal patent medicine bottle and rare pink scallop shell...

A large rum bottle, specially made for a young guy who brought me his beachcombed bottle/ treasure to fill!



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Another Corona bottle...this one is dainty, delicately frosted by the sand and waves



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  a whole bowl of treasure bottles!

See! Valentines can be romantic...

               and strange...

                               and not red...

love

       lizzy

              

 gone to the beach.....

 

self porttrait in Michelin Man layers,
brr! a windy day today...



Frills and Flowers

Hi! It's Monday! Another stunningly beautiful day here at the beach. And probably where you are too...the weather guy says yes?

Waking up to a house filled with sunshine really starts the week off perfectly, doesn't it!

I have hyacinths from Trader Joe's...5 stems/ $5.00.

I stood there in the market... in a quandry, yet again! Pink. Blue? Pink! Blue...oh for that price get both. Oooh and the scent....spring is in the air for sure.....

And how about a 2.99 pot of bright yellow tete a tete daffs! Love them with my blue and whites....

In my etsy shop, new: found treasures...for Valentine gifts, Mothers Day, treat yourself?

I find these tiny chandelier crystals now and then when I am hunting for the big icicle prisms for my Christmas ornaments. Last summer the woman who was selling asked me what I do with the crystals. I explained...and she poked the miniatures with a perfectly manicured NY fingernail:
"What about these?"
Well I don't know but they're pretty..., I said.
She held up the amethyst drop: "They'd make such amazing, romantic pendants," she said, holding it to her throat.
And so the prism necklaces were born. I hope you all like them!

This is my favorite---already sold. But I have many tiny vintage keys...just have to find my extra hearts....

Have a great week!

love

           lizzy 

gone to the beach....

February! the time of hearts and romance...

Hi! Hard to believe it is already February... I can't imagine what the Groundhog will think when he pops out later today and feels the soft warm west winds blowing, feels the sunshine on his little furry face! I think he'll throw on his boardshorts and head to the beach!
I know I did. I played hooky, spring fever ran rampant in the 65* sunshine. But I did finish a bunch of somewhat Valentine tardy hearts to share with you....

All kinds!
Sand fencing wire and beachcombed key....all deliciously rusty and tarnished form winters out on the beach!

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Big prim red hearts!

Some with removable mottoes...

Stripey French ticking hears...

Small quilt hearts...plain, very plain...

...and  some with my"cutie" mottoes, this year's batch has paper mottoes inspired by sweetie hearts and fortune cookie!

More cuties..all different pink quilt bits!

A sting of tiny hearts...

to tie on something or snip apart and give to your girlfriends....

these are made with my best bubblegum pink quilt scraps, adorned with vintage buttons...

Then I did fancy hearts, with antique real velvet [silk?]: one red, one 'ashes of roses'...both with gorgeous old paste brooches...

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another in palest sage velveteen...with a paste and marquisette bird pin...

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And found object: keys/crystals/ and hearts jewelry...

Here's just a sample...I loved this teeny tiny key! Like for a Victorian dolly's roller skates! [watch key?]..strung with a vinatge silver metal heart on a tarnished silver chain.

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These will be on my etsy and or eBay sites, I hope by late tonight...but if anyone  sees a treasure they'd like, email me or leave me a comment here. No shipping charges for bloggy friends, remember.

PS None of these hearts is scented but on\\if requested I will add essential oil, very delicate and natural, in red hot cinnamon, bergamot, or lavender. And any can be ordered with 100% natural Cape Cod lavender buds.

Have a great week!

love

             lizzy

gone to the beach.....



Jupiter again,
 seen tonite withe half moon and ??? another planet!

                linked to Sarah's A Beach Cottage  good life wednesday