She Sells Seashells by the Seashore, Part 2

Are you just beside yourself with anticipation?? I know, it’s so exciting, a bathroom post two days in a row!

I wanted to share the guest bath from our old house in New Orleans.  It was our first house we bought right after we got married.  Since the beach wedding and honeymoon were still fresh in our minds, I wanted to find a use for all those shells we collected.  My mom actually came up with the bright idea of applying them to the walls in the bathroom!

We troweled joint compound onto the walls, smoothed it out, pressed the seashells in, then painted and glazed the walls.  We just did them in little groupings of three spread out over the wall.

Here’s a full view of the bathroom.  We also used the larger seashells as a window treatment by attaching them to ribbons and then tying the ribbons to a tension rod.

And I’ve still got tons of seashells left over in a box stored in my closet!  I’ve filled a vase with some and also used some on this candle embellishment:

Now, I don’t want to go totally overboard with seashell decorating (like I have with another aforementioned object), but I’m always looking on ways to incorporate seashells into my crafts.  Any ideas?