Trash Beach Treasures

We had a good run at dead horse bay last week. Sometimes I get pulled away by the rest of my party when there is still so much searching to do!  But we stayed until full high tide this time--and I'm getting better at culling my collection:  the final haul was relatively lightweight (and certainly exciting!).  Here are a few treasures from the recent trip:

Look at this nearly perfect old doorknob.  Somehow it's more exciting to find one on a beach than buy it at a flea market.  And the glass stoppers--I'm always on the lookout for them, but I got lucky this time.

Look at that glass dish and all of the beads.  I must admit, the beads have been collected from multiple trips, but the dish is from the most recent visit and it is in great shape.  

Some of my favorites are the military collar pin and the old locket below.  I can't open the locket without breaking it because the hinge has completely corroded off. I'm sure anything that was inside is long gone, but we'll never know!

New Crochet Bottles

Finally, I've completed a new set of crochet covered bottles. Most of them have been done for a while, waiting for the thread ends to be woven in and all of them needed to be photographed. They are all posted to the shop, if you'd like to purchase one!

They were fun to photograph.  I especially like the set of champagne colored thread bottles with fancy patterns, like the ones above; I think they look good together.  I've been trying to expand upon my patterns lately, using more than just a simple netted stitch (although I still do like those).  I've found that the ones I like best are the most open patterned bottles.  They let the light through nicely.

It's that time of year again

And another visit to trash beach.  I love the waste knob and the sugar tongs.  The pawn was a pretty fabulous find, too; it's solid iron! These were found on a miserable day a few weeks ago, but now that it's a bit warmer I'll have to go again soon...

 yay trash!

My Favorite Place

Some of my new favorites from trash beach.

September 16=Beach time

We finally go to the beach, just as Summer is ending, but Mason likes it better then.  He had fun running from the waves:
 

but look at these stones:

They are all tiny tiny pebbles.  I love the translucent  ones.

French Stones

My sister spent some time in France this summer and brought me back some beautiful marble and banded stones from a beach on the Mediterranean.  I wish you all could touch them--they are so smooth!

New Crochet Bottles

In case you haven't noticed, the shop is out of crochet bottles.  So I've made some more, and they looked so colorful together, I wanted to get some pictures while I still had them all.  Enjoy!

They are so colorful; I love the blue jar with the worn rim. . . It reminds me of the beach.

We went to Trash Beach again (I know--I can't help myself!) But this time I tried to look for small stuff:

I'm very excited about the zippers. And the 'cold' faucet handle. And the knight and bagpipe player. . . and the beads. . and. . . ok--I'm very excited about all of it.

Trash Beach

We went to trash beach again last week; these are some of my favorites:

I'm very fascinated by the figurine.  It's in fairly good shape except that the head has broken off.  The fully rusted pliers are also pretty awesome.

This weekend we went to Trash Beach

And it was wonderful. I felt like the greedy kid in the candy store who ends up with nothing because I tried to grab everything.  Except that I actually ended up with tons of fabulous trash.  Then I got to come home, clean everything and organize it. 

I think my favorites might be the three nail polish bottles that still have dried nail polish in them, and the little round glass stoppers.  There were Clorox bottles (broken bottoms only) everywhere.