If your new to my blog, thanks for stopping in. After dinner at my house I grab a couple kids and head down the street to our Lighthouse. We live on the bay side of the New Jersey coast, a hop skip and jump to Cape May.

It has been up in the 90's the past few days here.

Two nights ago on our after dinner trip the tide was so high the water was splashing over the bulk head.

It was hard for the girls to resist and I had no plan on stopping them, you should have heard the squeals of delight!

It was hard to tear them away, but after 20 minutes the tide was getting higher and it was time to go.

These are last nights pictures, again the tide was high so we didn't find any sea glass, notice how calm the water is.

Any outfit goes, I don't argue with what they wear on our short travels. Rarely do we run into any other people. We believe this is "our" beach.

Tomorrow is another day, we got home way to late tonight from a BBQ to hunt for Sea Glass today.

♥

Kim

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With summer in full swing my esty shop has been neglected this past week. I'm hoping next week will be much more productive, wish me luck :)

Floating Docks

Lots of activity

down at the dock today.

My husband

operates a party boat out of Sea Isle City. Days are spent

fishing, and the nights are chartered for night cruises. The season is from Memorial Day to mid November, this week has been hectic getting everything ready. A new dock was made today and our kids got a good look at just how it was done.

This is the new bar area inside the cabin, for the night trips ladies are not aloud to were heels, that would be a disaster waiting to happen, so we make sure to tell them before the boat leaves the dock.

A couple of lifeboats and a couple life preservers.

We have had a few guys jump over after they have had a drink to many, that is never a good idea. Waiting for them at the dock will be a police car and then their buddies can bail him out of jail.

The Starfish boat is docked right next door to

the Lobster Loft Restaurant, good food and more

good times!

The brand new floating docks!

The crane used to position and make

the docks and pilings.

By next week this parking lot will be cleaned up and filled

bumper to bumper.

Fishing trips are 8am-noon

then

1pm-5pm

The cruises leave at 7pm and depending on the trip could return at 3am.

Fun Times!

Another view of the crane on top of the work

boat in the middle of the crick, a really neat thing

to see!

Thanks for reading, I'm working on hand painting more seashells :)

Don't forget to feed the fish and follow!

~~~~Celebrate~~~~

Come and take a second to celebrate with me! Time, patience and persistence has really paid off this week for me and my Sea Shell endeavors. I made sales! 7 in the past 4 days! Two were off to North Carolina to be included in a beach wedding ceremony, and 5 are off tomorrow morning to Texas! We can't forget the black and gold conch that went out last week too and found a new beautiful home in California, thank you Therese :) You can see it here, on her super duper treasure hunting blog http://ladolfina.blogspot.com/ she has an amazing sea shell collection to, scroll down to see how she displays them, La Dolfina truly has inspired me.





Don't forget to feed the fish, and follow :)

::::::: The Thrill of the Find :::::

Some trips to the oceans edge are better than others. This winter I have come to salvage quite a few conchs, not as many as I would have liked but enough to fill a few pages of my Etsy shop. They range from huge "gorilla conchs" as my husband calls them to sweet baby conchs. It's always a thrill to find them, the winter months are the best and the prime pickins are found on the coldest days of the year. We have learned this from years of looking for them. But it is FREEZING COLD when we go and not another soul to be seen. Not so bad when the wind is at your back, but the long walk back to warmth sometimes makes me wonder if it's worth it. Then I get home, clean them up and paint them up and I soon forget all the bitter cold pain.

Don't forget to feed the fish, and follow :)

Snow Castles

When it started to snow this morning I thought no big deal,

then 2 hours and 3 inches later

it still hasn't stopped.

I could hold her in the house no longer

she was ready to play.


She dumps out the bucket of sea shells and


makes Snow Castles.

♥

(as of 7pm were up to 10 inches)

uuggggg