Week 13 -- Prompt

Driftwood

Walking along the seashores of the coast it is hard not to pick up small pieces of driftwood, sea glass, shells and such. It doesn't take long for those little pieces of stuff to add up to something larger. The sea glass and shells make for nice decor around the house, covering the soil in your house plants or in the bottom of a vase, and maybe just sitting in a decorative, shaped dish in the bathroom. For those that are very creative jewelry can be made from the treasures of the sea shore. 

The driftwood is certainly interesting as it can range from very small pieces to much larger pieces. It is amazing what people can do with driftwood. Some driftwood is very unique to just stand alone. Some pieces of driftwood placed together and intertwined make very interesting pieces of art. 

Sitting in the drawer is a box, it started with collecting some small unique pieces of driftwood from different beaches along the coast of Maine. It wasn't long before these little pieces of driftwood begin to fit together and was formed into a box lined with a piece of purple velvet. Now in this box are reminders of the grandchildren as there are different pieces of sea glass or shells which they found and gave to me, from different ventures that we went on.

The driftwood box also holds pressed flowers. The flowers came from different beaches, that we would bring home and press. Little pictures that had been taken which I had cut down and saved in the box. Every once in a while when the grandchildren are around we will dig out the driftwood box and look at the little things in it and talk about the day we found them. Some of the most smallest things have the biggest memories.