I hope you are all having a great day. After what seemed like weeks of wet weather, we’re finally experiencing some glorious weather here today and I am overdosing on vitamin D. I also started the Master Cleanse lemonade diet today. Not sure if you’ve heard of it, but I will tell you all about this detoxification diet in a later post. So far so good…
I took a little drive to the lake shore this morning after dropping the kiddies at school. The air felt fresh and the morning sun warmed my soul…
We had a rain storm last night so the ground was still wet, which provided a perfect background to my little sail boats…
There are no starfish in Lake Ontario, so I decided to bring mine along (although I don’t think it’s too convincing)…
I have seen many little sail boats made from driftwood and think they look darling, but I wanted to make mine a little different. I had a 2.5′ log laying in our garage (Honey, I told you I was going to use that one day) which I cut into three different sizes, carved a little, sanded a little…
I carved it a little more until I was happy with the shape and then drilled a hole big enough for a dowel. I applied some Gorilla wood glue and gave them a white wash.
I made some masts from scrap fabric and set them off to sail…
They would actually probably sink, but they look so perfect sitting on the sand. It’s like they’ve been sitting there for a long time, just rocking with the waves…
I think they also look pretty sitting along side some shells in a blue jar…..It screams out of a beachy summer cottage. Do you remember my garland? I made another one…
While I was typing this post, my kiddies were filling water balloons and one of them burst all over the kitchen floor. I scolded them, only to regret shattering their fun over a dry floor. In this world full of fast this, fast that, perfect this, perfect that, we sometimes overlook the beauty of this journey called our life.
These moments are what makes my journey interesting, these moments are the ones our kiddies will remember on their own personal journey and I want to make each and every moment count. So an apology was in order and I ended up filling the rest of the balloons and rejoicing in their fun. I would have felt hypocritical if I had not shared that with you as the intent of my posts are to always inspire you not only creatively but also spiritually.
Thank you so much for your company on my creative journey.
much love,
Lucy
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Hooray for water on the floor. I’m glad you remembered to enjoy their fun. This time will pass quickly.
What cute little boats, it’s so nice you were able to enjoy the beach. One of these days you’re going to have to give us photography lessons, you always manage to catch the most interesting light.
I love these! So pretty! I pinned it on my Pinterest 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing! Come visit me sometime if you’d like!
-Kristi
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Wonderful work on the little boats and I just love the colours – so beachy!
I don’t think I can say it enough, I am so glad I found your blog you do the most beautiful projects I just adore everything!!!! Can’t wait to see what is next!
Jaime from Crafty Scrappy Happy
Wow I love those! you are so creative 🙂
Hope you had a great weekend*
These boats are so adorable! I love them!! Your pictures of them are also incredible!
Oh, how cute are these?! I love your little sailboats Lucy. I’m always amazed at how you have so many wonderful creative ideas swirling around in your head 🙂
Oh, Lucy. I totally disagree over the balloons. Unless you were fixing to mop that floor and had asked them to do that for you, that is. Just my opinion, of course, but children need to learn what where and when about appropriate behavior. Yes, I was a stern mom but I raised an awesome child very well, so forgive me for speaking my mind on that. xoxo
Hello from Downunder. I love your little boats and the vintage basket makeover is one of the best I’ve seen. What vision to see that potential in a plastic weave basket. I look forward to seeing more. Cheers Kylie
I absolutely adore these and love your photos!!
Hi Lucy! Good for you- We all snap out a fast response to something sometimes and often forget that in the big scale of life it is just a little speck of sand! Glad you enjoyed the kid’s “mess” instead of badgering them to death about it!
I will be anxious to hear about your lemonade cleansing diet- is it the one with cayenne pepper in it? I need to do SOMETHING but I can’t do the pepper-my stomach lining won’t take it. Let me know how it goes!
Have a great rest of the week- I am working all week-sigh- Hugs-Diana
Really beautiful post today. Great craft, but lovely message tucked in there with it! Thank you for the inspiration!
The boats are fantastic! I couldn’t agree more, we should savor those little moments.
Lovely boats, enjoyed your words even more.
Blessings!
Love love love these little boats!
You are so talented! I’m amazed at everything you do!
Hugs,
Cheryl
wow, these are so cute! and i m falling in love with your blog, each and every post is so refreshing! 🙂
Oh, I love these! Such wonderful summer inspiration.
Traveling is top on our list but my low maintenance schedule is what I am shooting for. Mostly lots of pool time but I should scribble some rainy day or way too hot to play outside activities.
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I wish my parents planned trips around the US, I can’t wait to see more of it! Adri we’re a little old school like that, we’ll still have GPS (because my husband LOVES gadgets) but we will be using the map, we did for the last couple trips we took.
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