Our older son collects sea shells. For quite a while he has had them in a plastic shadow box we bought him when he first started collecting them. A few months ago I saw sea shells displayed in a fish bowl and thought I should try that for his shells. I had an empty fish bowl, but just kept putting them off. When we went on our cruise in February (my husband and I), we collected a bunch of new sea shells for him and he suddenly had too many to fit in his original box. Today I decided to try the fish bowl display, and it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself : ). I crumpled up some newspaper and put that in the middle, so that most of the shells could be seen from the outside instead of having to fill the middle part that no one sees with some of his beautiful shells. I'm sure there are some shells in the middle somewhere, but at least this way, you get to see at least a little of most of the shells. He loves the new way his shells are displayed, by the way.
A top down view of the fish bowl. I'd like to get some sand to mix in with the shells, but it may be a while before that happens.
A side view. I love how the colors of the shells play off of each other.
Another side view. You can see in the bottom left hand corner the crab shell we found for him on the beach in Mazatlan.
A close up of the crab shell we found for him.
The side from a slightly different area.
Another side view.
A close up of the star fish that came in a package of shells we bought him in Puerto Vallarta.
A side view with the star fish in the bottom right corner.
Another side view.
I love the conch shells on the bottom of this view.
A last view of the side.
2 comments:
That's awesome! What a cool way to display seashells. I'll have to remember that. =)
Cool idea. I just saw something similar in women's day magazine.
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