❈Sac Thrift Chick❈

For our 7-10 anniversary ( 7 yea rs married, 10 together) , we s tayed three nights in Ben Lomond, which is in the Santa Cruz mountains. I composed a post det ailing how we made it a fun, low-key , thrifty vacation, but once again, Blogspot has a mind of its own , messing with my uber simple font settings . So instead of words, I just give you pictures. Enjoy. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Natural Bridges State Beach

Some crafts do not go as planned. Some crafts cause curse words to fly out. Some crafts cause physical pain and even leave a mark. My seashell wind chime was one such craft. See, while browsing Big Lots one day, I came across a selection of seashell wind chimes, very reasonably priced. I exclaimed, "How cute! Wait, I could make this! It's just seashells and twine. Just drill some holes." My husband agreed. "Yea, that'd be hella easy. I could help you drill them." Ha. Since I got the idea for this craft at a store, I didn't even think to see if other people made such wind chimes. (A Pinterest search shows, yea, they're kinda popular.) I decided I could just wing it. So I pulled out my seashell collection, dating back over 20 years, gathered from the coasts of California, Hawaii and Florida, and selected 20 shells to use. And these are the steps I learned to do ... and not to do.