I know it's Halloween, but since I live in an apartment where no one trick-or-treats, I spent my evening making Christmas ornaments out of shells!
Most of my shelling adventures happen on the beautiful island of Sanibel, but I will occasionally purchase bags of smaller shells to use as filler on my creations.
Here are two that I just made. Except for the suggestion of a flower in the one on the left, they aren't supposed to be anything specific. The ribbon and small pearls were purchased at Michaels.
Here are a couple of shell angels. They are comprised of a buttercup lucine for the skirt, two calico clams for the wings, a coquina for the slippers, and one smaller clam for the head. The little necklace beads contain elements of Swarovski crystals. I like that the little band of gold coloring on the head of the left angel kind of suggests a halo. I probably should have used a shell like that for the other one as well.
Well, that's it for now! There will be more ornaments to come. Happy Halloween!!
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