Speaking of recovery - just helping a child finish 11th grade is exhausting, and she did all the work!  Now to enjoy the summer. 
I do not get to a beach as often as I would like, so reminders are nice.  Here is one approach I just tried.  I am just learning how to 'cut' wine bottles (lucky breaks is more literal). 
So, speaking of lucky, I now need to drink more wine and go to the beach, maybe in the other order....

Recovery project

After undertaking such a big project, I really needed goals I could accomplish quickly to sooth me. I couldn't seem to leave the water though. I am a compulsive collector on beaches and love the idea of putting some of that 'junk' into art.

This is based on a salmon pattern in the book Fabulous Fish
by Jan Schrader. It is two pieces of glass sandwiched with shells and beach flotsom inside. I managed to remember how to macrame from summer camp days, which is how I made the string. My husband received it for his b-day as well as the gift of being "allowed" to hang it where ever he wanted.

I also made an alewife for one of my sisters. We used to go to Camp Miniwanca along Lake Michigan in the 70's. We had to clean the beaches of dead alewives before we could use it. Now I live in Massachusetts where alewives are respected and places are even named after them.

I am responding to lots of encouragement and starting this blog. At left is a window that I designed and made and recently finished. I am rather proud of it, enough so, that I am letting people visit it even though it is mounted in my bathroom and I am a horrible housekeeper.

I call the window "Blue Crab at Home".