Cheap decorating…
Those who know me as a historical fiction writer, also know me as a beach lover and someone who spends much time walking on beaches up and down my coast. Sometimes I just daydream about whatever I’m working on at the time. Sometimes I just live in the moment. And sometimes I become an interior decorator because living by the sea, one doesn’t have to spend a fortune on trendy decorating pieces…
One just goes for a walk and a bit of a fossick along the beach.
There are deliciously smooth pieces of wood, skeleton leaves, stingray egg-cases and kelp roots.
Rippled and worn cuttlefish, crab carapaces bleached and worn by the wind,
white china and stones and a bird ribcage.
I’ve filled two little plates with small things because House itself is small. Everything from glass to shards of timber,
crayfish carapaces, insect wings, sea urchins, abalone and cowrie shells.
And I have a thing about feathers. The huge one belongs to an albatross.
Outside it’s no different – dried seaweed, tumblegrass from the sand dunes, driftwood, white scallop shells and abalone. Even bits of rope.
And last but not least – learned behaviour from my Jackie. Every walk of every day, he collects one oyster shell and carries it home.
I have no idea why, but we have our very own midden at the front gate.
You obviously have a flair for interior designing Prue, it looks so well put together 🙂
Wish I had it 🙁
Libbyxx
It’s a flair they call ‘hit and miss’, Libby. 😉 I play very safe with things – not adventurous at all with colour or style. I just have to have neutrals and calm.
I do this too, Prue, on our North Sea beach. Never found an albatross feather, though! I love the oyster shells. I wonder what’s going through his mind? xxx
It’s amazing what wind and weather can do to produce the most interesting and story-filled objects! As for my dog! I do think a little bit of doggy mind-reading would be an eye opener!
Very nice, bring back memories when I was a child and lived on the beach in NJ. And the dogs, if we could really understand why they do what they do we would be rich and famous.
Hello Jim. Good memories, of course! And yes, if we could really understand our dogs, gosh it would be amazing.