Got My Toes In The Sand & The Hats On His Head !!!!!!!

Got My Toes In The Sand !! Yes it felt GREAT !! I had posted on my facebook page about going out to the ocean and a friend of mine said " put your toes in the sand for me " so I DID & posted it to her. But let me tell you what the real deal was -  I had said I would if she would make me a snowman but I have yet to get see my snowman it's just been to warm, so she's got an excuse for now ! ( she lives in Michigan ) So I'm stillllll waiting !!

We had driven by this park a few times  it's off the ocean highway, so one day we were out and about getting ready to drive by this park so I suggested we stop and check it out .  It was a beautiful little park, somebody was having a birthday party, it was dog friendly so there were dogs, there was rent a boogie board , fishing and a  board walk that went around the park over looking the intercoastal waters leading out to the atlantic ocean

 

Wood boardwalk at a park in Stuart

My husband & son looking out over the boardwalk.

This is one of those old fashion tour paddle boats that was going through the intercoastal waters when we   were there. The other boat is just one that was actually comming up along side of the paddle boat..

My husband & I

Like the sunglasses that my sons special touch for modeling the welding caps !

Yes the hats on his head ( meaning my sons he modeled it for me )I told you I had started back sewing and these welder caps are one of my many ventures. Where my husband works the all seem to wear a welding cap and they are ment to be worn backwards with the brim at the back.

The place where my husband works are into the pirate skull designs! Seems like anything with the pirate skulls will do. The welder caps I make are reverseable  the one side is the pirate skulls and the other side since my husband is a fireman is flames !

Here is my son modeling the cap with the flames showing this time.. I really think he got a kick out of modeling them for me ! Isn't he a GREAT model ?

This is a purse that I made for myself , I can wear it over my shoulder if I want . I double sew all my seams on my sewing projects. This purse is lined with a black material lining with a reenforced large pocket inside with a velcro closure to open and shut it. I put a black button on the top  front side and a black elastic loop on the top backside to close the opening and hold my belongings inside.

This is the inside of my purse but it's really hard to see the full lining

This is a picture of the pocket inside .

This is the handles which I put a stiff interfacing in the handle so the handles are very sturdy.& of course I have my dragonfly hooked on my handle . Love my dragonflys !!

Til The Next Time,  Cheryl

Out On The Jetty !

I often drive my husband to work here out on Hutchinson Island  and he would tell my son and I about places he had been to here in the area before we came down here to Florida. 

A family of Pelican's

I drove him to work  the other day and ran some errand's around town and when it was time to pick him up which is usually after about 10 to 12 hours later , my son and I made our way over both bridges across the Atlantic ocean and onto the island around the round about and past many high rise condos and apartments and about four public beaches. The place where he works was just letting out and second shift  was on their way to work,so traffic on the island was quite heavy.That day he had worked 10 hours so he was still in the go mood !

 He asked if we wanted to go out to the end of the island that is called the jetty, it's a strip of land and rocks, (not wide at all) that jet's a ways out into the ocean. First thing I asked him was " Is this going to FREAK me out ? " To which he said NO. Well as we were driving there which was about 12 miles from his work my son and I noticed that most of the houses were on stilts. We got to the end of the road and it dead ended at a really nice park and a walkway out to the jetty. On the  walkway and out to the end of the jetty  was filled with people fishing.

The Jetty

It's actually very beautiful, quiet and peaceful and did not scare me at all ! We even walked out almost to the end of the jetty to the point where the rocks  were getting down to about three feet wide and the waves were splashing over the jetty ! My son wanted his picture taken there and his whole back side got wet, sure glad he didn't jump when he got wet ! Yes he took our picture also !

Looking across the ocean from the side of the Jetty

 Isn't this just a beautiful site to see ? As anybody knows who lives out or has ever been out to the ocean it's just nature at it's best ! Can't wait to go back out there again !

The end of the Jetty looking out at the Atlantic Ocean

Then of course back to reality !~ I had said that I was going to start sewing again so for Christmas I made a little jean purse for my grand daughter Daisy ! First one I have ever made !

 I lined it with some pink material that had little ladybugs on it and made it so it showed at the top of the purse and put two small velcro   strips on it for closures and took some of the ladybug material and made a flower and hand stitched it onto the front pocket.

the back of the purse

I hope you all enjoy my adventures and I have lots more to post ! The Hobe Sound Arts Festival is comming up on Feburary 5th & 6th and yes I'll be going to that so I'll be posting lots about the festival ! Along with some more gourd painting I've done  ( yes some Saints & Giants ) check out my Etsy shop !  I do take orders !!!! Also  some more sewing that I've done.

   Til the next time ! Have a GREAT day !!!!

                     Cheryl

Jenson Beach Arts and Crafts Festival

This was my very first Arts and Crafts Festival since we came here to Florida.  This was in Jenson Beach , just before you go across the bridge that goes to Hutchinson Island. The bridge crosses over on one side the Atlantic Ocean and the other side the inter coastal waters. The main street of Jenson Beach was shut down and lined with craft booths after craft booths, they were on the side streets and parking lots. They had lots of jewelry booths, painters,clothing you name it they probably had something you were looking for..

It was a beautiful sunny day filled with lots of craft goers and yes I saw alot of buying going on. Crafters were demonstrating their crafts which I just loved to stand and watch them. I talked to one women who was painting on canvas and I asked her if she was using oils , she simply said " in my mind I'm using oils but I paint with acrylics " . She said she tried oils but she was to impatient with the drying time. Her acrylic canvas paintings were just BEAUTIFUL  !!

This picture was looking downtown at the art and crafts festival , which at the end of the street was the Atlantic Ocean.

This is a TI KI bar & grille with inside and outside service, the tables have straw umbrellas, the place was packed during the festival, but then again it's packed all the time !

This is the end of the street which over looks the Beautiful Ocean , like I said it was a BEAUTIFUL day " who could ask for anything else "

This is my husband and son standing by a surf board that had been hand painted. Isn't that just the neatest thing ? I bet it doesn't see much waves now ! This surf board sits in front of a art store which we went in and looked through,. They had  the craziest and neatest art  I had seen in a long time. They also teach all kinds of arts, painting, glass, wood carving and it's bring your own bottle, come alone or bring a friend $ 30.00 dollars for 3 hours and they supply everything and I mean everything plus you take home what you've done, the owner says if you don't like what you've made at least you'll have made some friends and depending what you bring to drink   hopefully had a great time and  Yes it's any thing you want to drink as long as your of age !!! Sounds REALLY good to me !!!

These are craft booths taken from another street actually it's two different streets and a parking lot or two !!

We had to park in the boat marina which was a nice spot to park at, parking spots were few and far between. It was a GREAT day. Looking forward to the next craft show which is February $th & 5th another one in Jenson Beach  and an even bigger one here in Hobe Sound and next weekend there is a Seafood Festival this weekend January 29th in Port Salerno.  So stay tuned for some more postings with the upcoming festivals.
I hope your enjoying my adventures.

Til the next time !!!
Cheryl

This One Has A Heart !!!

It's True !!!   You Gotta Check This Out !!!!

While I was walking along the beach out on Hutchinson Island the other day watching the waves breaking and washing up all the shells onto the beach. Whenever I go I always bring a bag of some sort with me to collect as many different and interesting shells that I can find.. After spending a relaxing and Great day with my husband and son of sunshine and shell collecting, we made our way back to our trailer, it was getting dark to dark to see all the shells that I did collect , I put my bag down on the porch and decided that  I would look at them the next day.

Much to my surprise I came across this shell with a heart shape in the middle of it (this is no joke ! I found it just like this ! )This just AMAZED me ! Makes me wonder, how about you ? Needless to say I took this shell & tucked it away in a safe spot !

I took a picture at different angles so you could see how perfectly shaped this little heart was on this little shell. The shell itself is maybe an inch long and about a half an inch round. Truly AMAZING to me !!!!!

This picture I took going across the Rosevelt bridge that crosses the intercostal waters in Stuart Florida . There is a boat marina on one side and of course lots of hotels and townhouses and a drawbridge below on the other side.

just a intercostal picture shot from another spot.

Here are just some of the many  shells that I have collected on my trips out to Juniper Beach and walking on the beach's by the Atlantic Ocean, as I call them Shells for the Crafter which I am selling at my Etsy shop. There are so many things that you can make with shells. You can make jewelry, lamps, I;ve seen clocks,candles,handpainted ones with scenes on them,plant hangers you name it you can make an assortment of items with them and they are fresh right out of the Atlantic Ocean! Infact they have been washed by the ocean and the bags even have sand with them. Your imagination can go wild !!!

I have filled quart and gallon size bags with an assortment of many different size and shapes of shells from small to large! Also there are many different colors from peralized white to orange,red and stripped ones!

And Yes there really is beach glass that comes rolling up from the ocean ! These are so far the ones that we have collected. They come in many different colors as you can see. The light pink is one of the rare colors to find. Beach glass comes mainly from ship wrecks and  is tossed around in the ocean and washed naturally by the waves, they are all different shapes and frosted. 

Jelly Fish he or she floated up with one of the waves from the ocean ! At first we thought it was a balloon until we got up close then we realized it was a jelly  fish  he lost his tenticles they were laying close by. Aren't they awesome looking ?





How about this ocean crab we and other beach goers watched him for about an hour just getting washed up onto the sand and he'd run around until the next wave about 5 seconds later  and he just keeped getting washed back and forth from the ocean to the beach until he finally got washed back into the ocean ! He was quite the topic of conversation and I think he knew it !



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I am also doing my painting on my gourds, as you can tell I brought along with me alot of my small ornament gourds to paint. I can paint any style that you may want and if I haven't done one before I sure can try and will. I'm up for a challange ! But my most popular ones are my sports figures ! I've started  one of my sports bird house gourds, so I am keeping pretty busy. So check back and see who this sports guy will be any suggestions ? Should he be a Denver Broncos ? What do you think ?

Remember all these little gourd ornaments can stand on a stand to be displayed or hung up anywhere your heart desires !

For any of you who would like any information check out my business card below ...................

Until the next time !!

                         Cheryl