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Sea Shells, Sea Shells, by the back door
MATH
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We are getting an ever growing pile of sea shells by the back door thanks to the industrial rock pooling antics of my kidz one of whom has developed a drift-wood fettish and can often be found dragging half the Marie Celeste home:D Apart from worrying that the beach is going to be stripped till it is the size of a sand pit what can I do with all these shells. I've got biguns, littleuns, rounduns, longuns so any ideas are welcome
Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.
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Put them at the base of your pot plants, on the compost, they will make a water saving mulch and look pretty too0
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Buy a pack of 2/3 wooden picture frames from Ikea, about £1 and on wet days get them glueing the shells onto the frames for Christmas pressies
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Save the net bags oranges come in, put and assortment of shells in them, tie a bit of string around the top. Sell them for £4.99 per bag to gullible tourists!!
Alternatively ...
.. decorate your outdoor patio pots with them; make windchimes from them; stick on the side of yogurt pots and give to Granny for Christmas as a pen pot (crikey, we had to do that in Infants school .. put me off crafts for a long time LOL ); make necklaces/badges from them.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PMS Pot: £57.53 Pigsback Pot: £23.00
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I remember seeing some very pricey sea shell pot pouri in one of those smelly shops that always give me a headache. How would I go about making my own to pass of as expensive gifts.Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.0
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buy cheap mirrors with frames. Mask off the mirror with newspaper, and stick them on the frame with tile grout.( about 99p a box in wilkinsons). give them to not so favourite relatives at christmas:rolleyes:
Varnish them to make them shiny and display them in glass vases.
My grandad used to stick them onto cement around his paths
to decorate them.
Crush them up a bit and use them as crocks in the bottom of your plant pots.
give them to Pal for his slugs in garlic butter:D0 -
crush 'em and use or better still, sell as anti-slug and snail compound. You could make a fortune there
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Spray paint some of them in lurid colours and then mix with some pot pourri and pass it off as your own....0
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Put them in a glass jar in bathroom.
Decorate mirror/photo frames bought from boot sales or second hand shops.
Mingle with pebbles (also from same beach) around a water feature in garden.
make wind chime, although you will need shells with holes thru them already, I've tried drilling a shell-not easy!
Glue them onto the drift wood, and have a seaside corner in garden.
Clean very, very well and put in bottom of fish tank.:j0 -
Errr.. take them back when the kids aren't looking! Mink0
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Drill a hole in any of them to make mobiles or wind-chimes?0
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