Coastal Vignette with a French Twist....

All of a sudden - I'm obsessed with creating vignettes on this antique silver tray I found in my local thrift shop.  I love this piece...it's a nice size and I think it has an interesting patina that adds to it's character.  For now, its in the corner of my kitchen island placed on a distressed pedestal I purchased at Pottery Barn.

I had it dressed up for Christmas and wanted to transition it to a post holiday feel.

Then I gathered some of my favorite things...

I really like how this came out...it looks like a shell flower....with the lettuce coral framing it out like leaves...

Then mixed in some more of my favorite things...some ivory branches and pieces of bleached driftwood...

One of my prized pieces of coral...

And a lovely little sand dollar I found on Captiva Island...

A couple crystal ornaments...

My ever present rusted "antique" looking key...

A couple teeny but perfect tulip and cowrie shells I collected off the beach in Mexico...

Some moss...

A beautiful little tag from Her Whimsical Musings...

A baby pine cone left over from the holidays...

A starfish from Pink Pelican Designs...

Pink and aqua little vintage bottles with coral and lavendar flowers...

A lovely pink and aqua glittered flower from My Shabby Chateau....

Some vintage music sheets from La Pomme....

A special little whelk...

And here it is....

Hope you have a wonderful Monday...

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Drink the wild air....

Live in the sunshine,

swim the sea,

drink the wild air~

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here's to having a fabulous Thursday....

A Mixture of seashells..starfish and a little bit of fondant

Ever since I feasted my eyes on this gorgeous cake from Bella's Rose Cottage....

....which you can read about on my post here, I've wanted to make create a cake just as pretty - with a sea inspired twist. So in the New Year, one of my goals is to take cake making lessons - to learn how to work with fondant...so I can create a a fabulous coastal cake.  

Here are some photographs I've collected to provide inspiration...while I won't make a triple or quad tiered cake...I certainly think I will go for a small double decker.  I just have to figure out what to do with the cake when I am done. Besides eating it of course.    

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Each one of these cakes is like a work of art. 
Hope you like my picks...which one
is your favorite?

It was a Pink Bubbles kind of night....

So what better way to ring in the New Year?  A little pop, a little fizzle and a whole lot of Pink. 

Happy Pink Saturday and oh yeah....

Happy New Year too!!

Linking up to Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound