Tag: Jersey Shore Shells

Place – Small Business Saturday

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Today is Small Business Saturday. Many of us have a town within driving or walking distance of our homes. It’s a perfect opportunity to stroll the sidewalks, visit small businesses, window shop, and have a cup of coffee and pastries in a cute cafe.

The small town near my home is in Pitman, New Jersey. When you visit ‘uptown’ you will find barbershop poles, a sign in the town center that says, ‘Keep Christ in Christmas,’ and hair salons, specialty shops, antiques, and cafes of all sorts. There is also a pizzeria with amazing pizza cooked in a wood-fired brick oven, one of my favorites in the area.

The shops are prepared for Christmas, with seasonal items on display. If you look closely you will see a sign in the window that says, ‘Fly Eagles Fly.’ We live near Philadelphia and everyone, well at least almost everyone, roots for the Philadelphia Eagles as our home team.

As we walked, a choir of Grackles sang to us from the trees in the town square.

The bird choir is part of Skywatch Friday.

I left behind a ‘Jersey Shore Shell‘ and hope it will bring a smile to someone’s face.

Photographs & Phun – Just Because

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We drove the fifty-two miles to Ocean City, New Jersey, on Friday, just because it was a glorious October day.

We had lunch at Manco and Manco Pizza, just because we think they make the best pizza in the world. Truly, it is!

We biked both ways of the 2.5 mile Boardwalk just because riding a bicycle close to ocean waves is wonderful.

We walked down to the beach, just because the October day was near eighty degrees, and I wanted to gather a few seashells to paint for Jersey Shore Shells.

At the 22nd street beach entrance, I was entranced by the strings of shells adorning every fencepost on the way down to the shoreline.  Some posts even had more than one string. Beautiful. Why did the creative beachcombers take the time to do it? Probably, just because it was fun. I need to give into more enjoyable impulses, such as stringing seashells, JUST BECAUSE  life is short, and really, why not enjoy every moment you can?

Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~Albert Einstein

This post is part of Skywatch Friday.

Projects & Phun – Jersey Shore Shells – Part II

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We’ve had fun hiding the decorated shells over the past few days. On the weekend we went to Red Bank Battlefield in National Park and hid two shells, One in this cannon, another on a stack of cannonballs. I think both were most likely found, but only one was posted on the Jersey Shore Shells site. I was thrilled it was found, most likely by two small children we saw playing on the cannon later that day.

After the battlefield we walked beside the Delaware River and hid a pressed flower shell on the steps leading up the bank.

I also hid two shells in Fortescue while my husband fished. One was found and posted, the other on the sand was probably found too, not everyone who finds the shells posts to the Facebook group. That is okay with me, just the thought of someone feeling happiness when they find the shell is so worthwhile.

I’ve created a few more this week, I must admit, while I should have been doing chores. I am especially enjoying using pressed flowers with them. I found some decorating kits on sale for only $2.00 at Michael’s Craft store this week. Oh happy day! More fun on the way. Grandchildren and creative adults will be here on Sunday to celebrate Father’s Day. I’m going to have shells and decorating supplies on the tables for anyone who wants to paint and glue.

If you want to join this group, or just lurk a bit, the group is public: Jersey Shore Shells

Projects & Phun – Jersey Shore Shells – Part I

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Tomorrow, I will hide at least two of these shells, decorated with decoupage and pressed flowers. I belong to a Facebook Group called Jersey Shore Shells. I had so much fun painting the outside of them white and decorating them. On the back of each shell is a little laminated piece of paper with this message-

HELLO! I’M SO GLAD YOU FOUND ME…KEEP ME, OR HIDE ME AGAIN, WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE TO DO WITH ME IS PERFECT. IF YOU CAN, POST A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME AND WHERE YOU FOUND ME ON FACEBOOK GROUP: JERSEY SHORE SHELLS. THANKS.

I will update with part two after I hide them tomorrow. Maybe I will hide all four, maybe just a couple. So much fun. To answer your question, yes, the shells came from the Jersey Shore, a little town called Strathmere, between Ocean City and Sea Isle City. Although, they are from the Jersey Shore, they can be hidden anywhere.