#Beach Combing

[happycrabitat]

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

[camilicy]

Gifts from the sea 🐚✨💛

[letmeinimafairy]

Another reed field on a blue piece of sea pottery. I think rustic ceramic beads would be good for this one

Available

[collection-bundle]

Beach trinkets!! I got super lucky

[mermaidgrunge]

[samimarkart]

Beachcomber’s Gold, 2023, denim, hand dyed quilting cotton with textile discharge painting, perle cotton and metallic thread, and cotton batting

an experiment with hand appliqué and my first time using blanket stitch in embroidery! wanted to make a quilt about the feeling of finding fossils washed up on the shore of beaches. All the fossils/patterns of the rocks were drawn by hand with a tiny squeeze bottle of textile decolorant and bleached with a hot iron. added some tiny seed stitches of metallic thread to tie into the idea of rarity and a good rock find

[katarinanavane]

Heart shaped salon wall curio collection shadowboxes!

[orofeaiel]

Crab Memorial Shrine

[pentecostwaite]

Recent beachcombing finds. A five-marble day!

[tamvmat]

Beach day photo dump!

[tinybackpacks]

the sweetness of a gentle summer 🌿

[letmeinimafairy]

When @erebus0dora told me about this absolutely gut-wrenching beautiful idea, I decided I'll try to make a couple of objects from Daniel's storage. So here's a second one, an Angel with pomegranate.

Painted on a piece of sea pottery, a commission for @dweeby . Hard to capture its true colors.

[motelpearl]

[collection-bundle]

ITS MY BIRTHDAY! 🥳‼️🎊 My dad got me a metal detector and here are my very first finds at a beach near me

[forestgreenivy]

Back in South Carolina ☀️

[gummi-stims]

Sea glass finds from seabeans_seaglass on tiktok!