It's Beach Week...Lets Make Shell Fairies and Other Magical Creatures!!!

What fun it was to create this oceanic fairy world! 

One night after getting home from a busy night at work ~ I sat down with a oodles of shells, a glass of wine, a fabulous sister on the line and proceeded to create the shell fairy family...a very  therapeutic way to unwind.

For this creation supplies were simple...

seaside treasures collected over the years

a selection of shells (from any dollar store)

small wooden rounds (ditto)

a glue gun

cardboard box

wax paper 

sand

moss (reminded me a lot of coral)

and what ever else feeds your underwater, fairy imagination!

After the shell family was created I decided they needed a home. Soooo...I cut the main body off a box and lined it with wax paper.

I filled it with river sand and rocks from my Mother's beach, snails and shells.

Then ocean fairy king and queen could move on in!

 along with their water world children...

 ~ a world full of magic ~

~ mushrooms and mythical creatures ~

~ mini mice ~

and soaring delights!

The real beauty in this craft is in the versatile way you can let your imagination run wild! Shortly after l gifted this ~ mama created ~ fairy realm to my girls, my daughter proudly came to show me her shell inspired turtle, baby shell fairy and shared enthusiastically about her vision for her shell lion tomorrow ~ perhaps I shall add on updated photos of the creatures as they come to life!

Spiraling in the watery world of enchantment

~Shanti~