PAINTED DRIFTWOOD

If you been to the beach last month you will notice all that driftwood all over the place, I can't tell you why it is there, but I found a idea what to do with it. Trying to find you more pictures of painted Driftwood. This looks like it would be fun to do with the whole family. The bigger the piece of driftwood the bigger the painting is. I also have seen people hang shells, charms, glass bottles and sea glass from it.

SEA GLASS PENDANT

Sea glass:

Also known as beach glass, mermaid's tears, lucky tears, and many other names is glass found on beaches along oceans or large lakes that has been tumbled and smoothed by the water and sand, creating small pieces of smooth, frosted glass. Sea glass is one of the very few cases of a valuable item being created from the actions of the environment on man-made litter.
Sea glass is also needs to be taken off our beaches, if it brakes it is still as sharp as a piece of glass.

Here is an idea, take any kind of wire. I like to use 20ga. Silver wire and just wrap it around the piece of sea glass, hang beads or charms from it or just leave it plain. I have seen Sea glass pendants selling for over $30.00 in stores. A great way to make money and keep the beaches clean.

RECYCLED PAPER BEADS

When we were cleaning up the beach we found newspaper and paper advertisement's just flying around, I was thinking that would make a great looking paper bead. You can make these beads from recycled scrap paper, and string them together to make jewelry!

What you'll need:

• scraps of wallpaper, magazine pictures, used wrapping paper, colored paper, etc.
• pencil, ruler, varnish and scissors
• paste
• drinking straws
• thread or yarn

Before you begin, gather all of your supplies together and put them on your work surface. Read all of the directions from start to finish. Now you are ready to begin.

1. With your scissors, cut long triangles from your paper scraps that are about 1/2-inch wide and 2 1/2-inches long. Make a template to trace, if you wish.
2. Cover one side of a triangle with paste. Put the paste on the inside of the paper so that the colorful pattern will be on the outside of your bead.
3. Place the triangle's glued short side on a drinking straw.
4. Wrap the paper completely around itself on the straw.
5. Cut away the straw at both ends of the rolled paper.
6. To make beads with different shapes, vary the size and shape of the paper triangles that you cut.
7. Then dip it into varnish.
   
8. Let your beads dry, and then string them together on your thread or yarn. Knot the ends of the thread together.

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PLASTIC 2LT. SODA BOTTLES DECORATION

A Friend sent this picture to me. I guess you just cut the bottoms off a Plastic 2.Lt. soda bottle or even a water bottle for smaller flowers and put 2 holes on the top and 2 holes on the bottom and then hang it on a string.

BOTTLE CAP PENDANT

Bottle caps are one thing that you will always see at a beach.
I hoping with this idea a lot of people would want to keep their bottle caps then throwing them on the ground. Please keep our beaches clean!

All you need is Bottle caps, paper, glue and clear nail polish. Cut a circle out of paper and glue it right into the bottom of the bottle cap.
Do not brush the nail polish on the paper, just pour a couple of drops onto it. It will take a hour to dry.

To hang it, you would need to drill a hole in the one side of it.
You can always glue a magnet on the back or even glue a pin backing to it.

DECORATIVE RECYCLED LIGHTED GLASS BOTTLES

Very easy to make, all you need is a dark glass bottle that you find on our beaches, clean it out. You can make your own label for it if you would like too. You need any color of the 50 mini lights that they sell around the holidays and silk flowers to decorate the top of the bottle with.
First put the 50 mini lights in the bottle and then stick the stems into the bottle, if there is any silk leaves on the stems please take them off.
Then plug it in and you have yourself a Decorative Light you can put anywhere near an outlet.

DRIFTWOOD DISPLAY

Here's a fun way for your child to display his favorite beach snapshot or a collage of your best vacation photos.

CRAFT MATERIALS:
	Piece of dry driftwood
	Tacky glue
	Small wooden craft clothespins
Time needed: About 1 Hour

1. Remove any sand from the driftwood (a dry paintbrush or soft scrub brush makes a good tool for this). Then simply glue several clothespins to the back of the driftwood, spacing them apart and angling them in a way that will let you attach several photos with none obstructing another. If needed, use rubber bands or twist ties to hold the clothespins in place until the glue dries.
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11208

NICE LOOKING BEACH BAG!

You would never think this bag was made up of a lot of plastic store bags, well it is!  For Directions please go to:  http://plasticbagbag.com/how.html

PLASTIC BOTTLE CAPS ORNAMENTS

This is made of Plastic bottle caps and plastic bottles cut in half.  All you need for the plastic bottle caps is paint, but you can leave them as is.  

1 nail, 1 hammer and a fishing line (sometimes you can find it on the beach) On the side of each bottle cap you need to make a hole with the nail if you can not punch it  out with your fingers then try a hammer, but make sure that there is a thick wood surface under the bottle cap.  With the Plastic Bottles just cut the bottom off and the top.  I am trying to come up with more ideas to do with the middle part.  Now have you ever notice that the bottom of the plastic bottles almost looks like a Sand Dollar?

PLASTIC BOTTLE CAP EARRINGS

For Painting bottle caps, please use: 

The revolutionary no-prep, superbond Fusion for Plastic 

now makes painting plastic possible!

I LOVE BOTTLE CAPS!

Made with all bottle caps, painted in every color

Today at the beach we must of collected over 50 of mostly plastic bottles cap.  

There are so many exciting things to do with Plastic bottle caps, that you will be out and the beach picking them up too.

Recycling Crafts and Projects:

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/recycling-crafts/index.shtml#denim

RECYCLE YOUR OLD PLASTIC KIDDIE POOL

IF YOU LIVE ON THE BEACH OR YOU HAVE A HARD TIME PLANTING IN THE DIRT THAT IS AROUND YOUR HOUSE AND EVEN IF YOU LIVED IN AN APARTMENT WITH A LARGE PATIO. NOW YOU CAN GROW ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE IN YOUR PLASTIC KIDDIE POOL. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TAKE YOUR OLD PLASTIC KIDDIE POOL AND IF YOU WANT YOU CAN SPRAY PAINT THE OUTSIDE ANY COLOR YOU WANT. I MAKE MINE LOOK LIKE THE COLOR OF DIRT SO IT BLENDS IN. DO NOT SPRAY PAINT THE INSIDE OF THE POOL. THEN FILL IT UP WITH DIRT ALMOST UP TO THE TOP DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU ARE GROWING. IF THE PLANTS NEED FULL SUN, THEN OF COURSE KEEP IT IN THE FULL SUN AND SO ON. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SEEING YOUR POOL, YOU CAN DIG A HOLE INTO THE GROUND THE SIZE OF THE POOL SO IT WOULD LOOK LIKE A ROUND CIRCLE OF PLANTS.

RECYCLE YOUR OLD BLOW UP KIDDIE POOL

NOW AFTER SUMMER IS OVER, I LIKE TO BRING MY SMALL BLOW UP KIDDIE POOL TO THE BEACH. I PUT MY YOUNG KIDS IN THE POOL WITH THE WATER SO I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM PLAYING IN THE OCEAN. YOU CAN ALSO PUT SAND IN IT TOO, WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH IT EMPTY THE WATER OR SAND OUT AND DEFLATE IT. IT'S READY TO GO FOR THE NEXT TIME. MAKE SURE THE POOL IS FAR AWAY FROM THE WATER, IT CAN FLOAT AWAY. IF YOU HAVE ONE OF THOSE BIG UMBRELLAS YOU CAN STICK IT RIGHT NEXT TO THE POOL FOR SOME SHADE, MY KIDS WILL PLAY IN IT ALL DAY LONG WHILE MY HUSBAND AND MY OLDER KIDS CAN PLAY IN THE OCEAN AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE BABIES GOING AFTER THEM.

SATURDAY SEPT. 26, 2009

BEACH CLEAN UP ON MUSTANG ISLAND AND CORPUS CHRISTI NORTH SHORE.

CORPUS CHRISTI BAYFEST DOWNTOWN AREA.