SallyJean

A Shell-Turned Life

 

At the beach, life is different.  
Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment.  
We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.

~ Unknown ~ 

Shell on Shore 

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

~ Susan Polis Schutz ~

Bust-Head 

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen ~

Vintage SeaShell Postcard 

"I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath
its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever
until it begins here again.” 

~ Lauren DeStefano, Wither ~

  

Beachally-Beautiful

 A life without love is like a year without summer.  
~ Swedish Proverb ~

Un-Bouquet

 I honestly think the beach is the only place children
actually entertain themselves.
~ Donna McLavy ~ 

A shell in the hand is worth...

If you are not barefoot, you're overdressed. 

~ Unknown ~

All dressed up!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. 

~ Russel Baker ~ 

Shell-Shandy

In summer, the song sings itself.

~ William Carlow Williams ~

Surrounded by...

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a childbrings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

~ Cyril Connolly ~ 

Tassel

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 

~ Sean Keen ~

Sand Sculpture...Great Bikini!

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. 

~ Jeannette Walls ~ 

Document your Discoveries

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells.
So there's always that.

~ Danica McKellar ~ 

Add a little shell to your decor

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.

 

~ Kellie Elmore ~

I'm floored by these shells 

Why do we love the sea?  It is because it has some potent power
to make us think things we like to think.

~ Robert Henri ~ 

Shelletters

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.  

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

An organic web 

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze
is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

~ James Dent ~ 

At first glance an angel...but really a bird?

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

~ Patricia Briggs ~

Accessorize for Summer

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.  One can collect
only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Collect Them All 

Happiness is a summer breeze, sand between your toes,
and your best friend by your side.

~ Rachel, USA ~

Rainy Day at the Beach Craft Project

Eternity begins and ends with the ocean's tides.

~ Unknown ~

Or Make a Mirror

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

~ George R R Martin ~ 

Or a Flower

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean
refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

~ Sarah Kay ~

Or Re-Side Your House!!!

My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.

~ Thoreau ~

For the Green-Thumb Shell Collector

hark, now hear the sailors cry, 
smell the sea, and feel the sky 
let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

~ Van Morrison ~

Whimsical

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves...

~ Wyland ~

More Whimsical

Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.

~ Michelle Held ~

Too Whimsical for Words

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. 

~ William Arthur Ward ~

Shells on Fire

"Take your shoes off," purred the ocean waves.
~ Dr. SunWolf ~ 

Fit for a Queen

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

~ Charles Bowden ~

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. 

~ Wallace Stevens ~

Shell Shield 

At the beach, life is different.  Time doesn't move hour to hour
but mood to moment.  We live by the currents, plan by the tides
and follow the sun.

~ Unknown ~

 

 

...Making the Art for Bracelets....

Just thought I'd give you a peek-a-boo at my little collages made just for the Trunk Show Jewelry (and maybe some other little treasures...)!

1. Mini-Collages are created using blank playing cards. Layers of *real* antique ephemera are torn and places as a base.

 

2. Paint is smooshed here and there. I rarely wash my brush...so colors are spread and mixed haphazardly (the way I like it).

 

3. More layers of smaller antique ephemera are added. 

 

4. More paint smooshing...to blend it all together. 
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. 

 

5. I doodle with a charcoal pencil. Squiggles. Scallops. Dots. More is more!

6. Little extra touches of color. Quickly. Randomly.

7. And then I cut it all up! Showing how part of one of the collages became the background in "Once Upon A Time".

The End.

Peek at the Trunk Show Bracelets...

 

 

 

Announcing.... A *NEW* Online Workshop.... ~ The Perfume Bottle Pendant ~

Mark your calendars!!!

Registration has just opened for my newest ONLINE WORKSHOP...

The Perfume Bottle Pendant!!!

October 1 - October 31, 2012

The BEST part?   Be one of the first 25 to Register and you will receive a FREE Perfume Bottle Pendant Kit!!!  Yay!  That's a $20-$25 value.

You'll learn how to make the Original Sally Jean Perfume Bottle Pendant Necklace complete with two hinge options, glass cutting techniques, interior bottle adornments, and decorative Dots!  PLUS MORE!  All
shown in high-quality videos with well-explained step-by-step instructions and close-ups.  Oh...and there's always some "funalisciousness" in a Sally Jean video! 

Plus...a little Bonus of how to make larger Bottles...you know the kind...topped with shells and other treasures!  Just right for decorating with!

Then get your Bunny Slippers on and watch the videos online ~ anytime ~ 24/7 during the month of October and make yourself a show-stopping Perfume Bottle Pendant Necklace!  (and smell great too)! 

So make sure to Register right away to reserve your space and get your FREE Perfume Bottle Kit!

Let's Play Perfume!

xo

Sally Jean

* CLICK HERE TO GET MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER *