Beach Ball (Kissing Ball that is)

Layer shells over one another to cover any white spaces and use smaller shells to fill in the gaps.  When I was finished, this is what it looked like.  As you can see, it’s not perfectly round but I didn’t want a perfect purchased look.  I wanted something more organic—like all the shells had adhered themselves around a fishing glass float.  And here is the other side.  Do you see that gorgeous shiny shell?  That was quite a special find!These would look so great sitting on a coffee table as decorative orbs . Since I didn’t have enough small shells to make more than one, I decided to wrap a creamy ribbon around it and make a kissing ball.  Beautiful! 

While we’re talking shells here, I wanted to share another idea with you.  These sweet shell hors doeuvre toothpicks were given as a hostess gift.  They are very affordable to purchase, but if you happened to hit the motherlode on baby shells, what a sweet homemade gift these would make.  They would look equally cute on swizzle sticks.  

Happy beach combing everyone!

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