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CRAFTING TIP:
Use a hair dryer to melt all those nasty glue strings away, it looks so cool when they just disapear!?
Another beach shell tutorial can be found here: charms
Yesterday I showed you my beach charms and
promised to show you how to create them for yourself.
So without further ado,
Here is your step by step instructional how to make
a flower charm from common beach shells.
I started by dividing the shells into different sizes.
I then went and found the Krazy glue and tweezers.
I started with one half shell and with a drop of glue
to the rounded
bottom edge attached a second half shell kinda off set.
I used the hinge of the shell to mimic the look of each petal tip.
The tweezers helped to keep my fingers
from getting glued together or glued to the shells.
As it sat on my work surface I dotted the glue
on each new petal then holding the center
portion with the tweezers I pressed it onto the new
petal letting the glue dry for a few seconds.
Continuing to use this technic I moved around the
center part of the bloom added new petals. 
Once the center started to get bigger I then
changed my method by adding the new petals to the center portion by having it sit on the work surface and slipping each new petal underneath the edge.
By now this is what the back is looking like.
Keep going.
and you will end up with this.
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The strangest, most unrelated things can start my projects.
Last week I was trying to bring together several pieces of wood I had stashed
for a simple wall shelf.
Somehow that process started me down the sandy beach path
to making a functional and versatile TV console ...
with style.
We have the beach on our minds because our yearly vacation is fast approaching.
So to get a cool relaxing feeling of a seaside cottage piece
I painted the entire unit Old White over Provence Blue,
enabling me to distress the white and have the blue peeking through.
The interior of the upper cabinet has been painted with a gentle mix of Provence and Old White.
Two different pieces of furniture were brought together to make this one unit,
but they still separate for ease of moving and transport.
Ill explain and show you lots of the before and the building process in the coming days.
What makes this piece so versatile is the ability to easily remove and store the shelves.
You can take out 1 or both shelves to fit a TV depending on the size of your entertainment needs.
And the shelves store neatly on the top of the unit hidden behind the crown molding.
OR ...
You can use it just as is
to show off a great beach collection of decor, a fabulous set of white stoneware dishes,
whatever you love so much.
Here you can find some more details about the graphics I used on these doors.
Here you can find the demolition and rebuild of the upper hutch.
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