{image from The Beach Shack Project, taken from Cafe Cartolina}
I can't tell you how many hours my family and I spent collecting sea glass and Willow wear along the coast... As a young child, it was like finding treasure. I still have a glass jar filled with sea glass and pottery in my home, and it is one of my most-prized possessions.
Just reading the artist's mission statement is pure bliss: "My work stems around a central idea of taking objectionable elements and altering them so they then become objects of desire." That speaks directly to what draws me most to coastal and rustic decor styles. Of course, I wouldn't call the objects that fill such rooms "objectionable" - but awkward, battered antiques are often what many people would call "trash," not "treasure." To see this premise executed so perfectly in jewelry design just amazed me! Something I would never have thought of, myself, and covet in just about every way possible!! (I mean, effectively, this artist just took my favorite thing in the world and turned it into something unbelievably beautiful - that you could wear!)
All I can say is run - don't walk - to check out this artist's amazing work! I'm really beside myself with awe!
