Designer Coasters and Cup Covers-2

With Sea Shells.....

Here is one more.

 Coaster

Cover

The small conch shells also have holes for stitching. These are actually used in embroidery.    I will get some without these holes so that I can use for this project. I have shown here two sizes of the conch shells. We can just glue them on to the coasters/covers.

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Organising my Stash-2

Hmm ...Here is my stash of beads stored in plastic boxes. It took me four boxes-one 35 celled one, one 24 celled one and two 18 celled ones.

Various sizes and colours-metallic, double colouredto multi coloured. 

 Reds, oranges, greens, yellows...

 Blues, pinks....

 Metallic beads in the bottom row

Double coloured seed beads-blue and pink...

 Ceramic, wooden, metallic, glass, sea shells, cowrie...

 Wooden, metallic, seashells, cowries...

 Ceramic and multicoloured ones....

Love these pumpkin shaped ones.....

Still I am not satisfied and may re organise these boxes when I have more time.....

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Designer Coasters and Cup Covers-1

With Sea Shells....

While organising my stash of craft and hobby supplies, I unearthed some coasters made of fine soft wood. They are off-white in colour. Actually I wanted paint on them. Till now I could not do the project. I always pick up some plain ones so that I can add my own creative mark on them and gift it to my friends and relatives.

Today early in the morning around 3.30 am, I got up feeling very uneasy and breathless. So to quite my mind, I started taking deep breaths and tried to divert my mind somewhere else. In the process I remembered these coasters and some ideas flashed through my mind. Immediately, I reached for my journal(which, I always keep near by), in which I jot down my ideas first as they strike me and scribbled on it. Later on I tried some of my ideas.

Well here is one of them...I tried with sea shells.

 This is for the coaster or cushion for cup/glass.

This is matching cup/glass cover or lid. We can just glue these shells using a good glue. These coaster can be painted first as per the kitchen decor and then the shells can be glued.

Here you can see the holes on the shells. Actually these are meant for embroidery. I just tried them on to see how they look and when actually making one, I will use those with out the holes.

So if you like my idea, have some sea shells with you, or you are lucky one living near sea side, pick some up and try it out.

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