Waterside Cottages...

Have you seen this book yet? It is by  Barbara Jacksier and the photos are by Dan Mayers. It has beautiful pictures of beachy type homes.  I mean who would not want a home by the beach? I was that lucky girl a couple of times.  Once when I went to college in San Diego, Ocean Beach to be exact and when I lived in Hawai'i in a beach cottage/shack.  I have always been, for the longest time a lover of all Beach Type decor. But even if you don't have a home by the beach you can have that Sand and Sea feel if you want.  I never took pictures of my homes before so I can't prove it that this has been my decorating style for a long time.  But here are a couple of recent snapshots of my home.

What is it about beach glass?  I love the cloudy muted colors of the blues and greens.

Gardenias, my favorite flower {cut a couple of them off to bring home from the Vons Market Garden, shhhh}  keeps company with a knubby seastar.
 

Here I have some green moss with shells, some pencil stars, knobby seastars and some of my hydrangeas that have dried up.

a basket nest with a some more sea finds.

a corner in my home....

At our last trip to the beach we found another piece of sea glass and some dried seaweed that almost looks like fan coral.  

My Beach themed hutch....

more dried hydrangeas in a small cloudy vase with some robins eggs in the pedestal.

Coral dyed the color of the Caribbean.  So soothing and tranquil.

A Glass ball picked up on the sandy beach on Kaua'i by Mr. Incrdible.  In 10 years that I lived there I never found one.  He lived there for a year only and came across it one day while fishing.  Lucky Dog.

 
    a collection of old aqua ball jars with zinc lids in a chicken wire basket.   If you haven't picked up this book these are the types of images you might see in it.  I only wish I could take pictures as good as Dan Mayers and write as well as Barbara Jacksier. 

Comments

[Debra]

Very, very pretty things. You are so lucky to have lived in beachy places!

[Michelle]

such a lovely place you have :) Love the blue beachy feel.......pretty, pretty pics :) How are you? I've missed you ......