Life on the Coast

Now more than ever, I'm so glad I live on the coast. I can get to the ocean in minutes, and southern RI is filled with beautiful spots to visit. In my continued effort to use every last scrap of fabric I have, I'm working on making mobiles, and shells seem like just the perfect addition. I tried shell collecting at a couple different beaches, with not much success, then remembered the best place I know to collect shells, Rome Point!

Rome Point is the ocean front stretch of land at the John H Chafee Nature Preserve in North Kingstown. It's just over a mile from the road to the ocean, so I put on my sneakers and backpack and set out. The nature preserve itself is a lovely, wooded area, but the payoff is really that ocean front beach.

The only downside to shell collecting is that you have to keep your eyes glued to the ground, so you don't get to take in beauty of where you are. But it's worth it for find like this one:

And I did, of course, stop every now and then to appreciate where I was. 

The walk back hot and sweaty, and in a moment of utter defeat, the soles of my sneakers fell off literally mid step

But the spoils were totally worth it! I'm excited to get crafting!