Newly Listed: Seashell Mosaic Bracelet Abalone Shell

 

Seashell Mosaic Bracelet Abalone Shell by StaroftheEast

Jellyfish Photography, white moon jellyfish, ocean, sea life, blue and purple, jellyfish wall art, home decor by LynnLangmade

Undertow . giclee art print by ClareElsaesser

Newly Listed: Cowry Shell Earrings

Cowry Shell Earrings, Sterling Silver Cowrie Seashell Jewelry by StaroftheEast
Bubbles Black & White Photography Print Art Modern Minimalist Fine Art Photography by CarolynCochrane
Black and White Photography, jellyfish home decor, ocean animal print wall art  by LynnLangmade
Shell Photography, Beach Photograph, Sea Life Photo, Minimalist, Black & White Print by BLintonPhotography

Recycled Spoon Mermaid Necklace

This weekend I've made something I've been wanting to do for ages, creating a mermaid tail out of a vintage spoon. I also filmed it, and posted it on YouTube, going to try to make creative process videos a habit, will try to make some with the furniture as well. I got this black border around the video not sure if it was because of my phone setting or the video editor settings, will try to avoid it next time :) Please subscribe if you have not yet, more videos will come soon!

The necklace is available at Staroftheeast :) The chain and shell are sterling silver.

When Life Gives you Lemons, make Lemon cake

Back in March someone gave me this bowl because I like 'old stuff'. I said 'thanks' but inside I was thinking 'ugh'. Mum however saw potential in this bowl that was missing a handle.

'We'll make a ship out of it', she said. I thought it would be a very ugly ship :)

We first thought of hiding the feet behind some pieces of driftwood but that would cover a lot of the 'ship' so I thought of removing the feet. Even with a torch they wouldn't budge so I took the bowl to town and had it cut with some more heavy duty tools as a hand saw didn't do the trick either.

Old knitting needles, drilled base and some Sugru (special silicone glue which was about the only new thing we used for this project) started to make this look like some kind of ship.

Then with wires the details on the mast.

And then spray painting it all white, as it was going to become a 'ghost ship' Mum said and finally I started to love it.

'It needs a Mermaid, a decent pirate ship has a mermaid on the front', Mum came back with a mermaid in 2 seconds, a piece she had bought about 10 years ago on Etsy and had been hanging in our atelier ever since. I bent the arms down and she was ready to be attached.

A light spray paint to let her blend in.

The sails, first with paper.

Then with Mode podged hardened vintage lace. A green plastic net (found on the beach) an anchor made of a beach found fish hook and some more details and paint...

Attached to an impressive piece of driftwood and this is not an ugly bowl anymore. I loooove it!

We scratched off some of the paint so that it still has some old charm.

The little flags are made of soft metal and match the wavy hair of the mermaid.

A definite one of a kind, if you have any ugly bowls, please give them to me :D
Available at StarHomeStudio!

Newly Listed: Mermaid Decor Wall Hanging

Mermaid Decor, Bohemian Beach Finds Installation, Driftwood, Coral, Shells, Sea urchin Spines, Sea Anemone by StarHomeStudio
Flash of Pink, Roseate Spoonbill in flight in the Florida Keys, Wildlife and Nature Photography Beach House by SkyHighWildPhotos
Fine Art Beach Photography by CarlaGDesignandPhoto
Beach Photography, Lifeguard Tower, Pastel Beach Decor, California Beach Art, San Diego, Wall Art Tower by BreeMadden

Newly Listed: Natica Lineata Shell Earrings

Natica Lineata Shell Earrings - Sterling Silver Natica Lineata Orange Seashell Jewelry by StaroftheEast
Sunset Sail, Boat, cream, water, blue, calm, peach, pink, ocean, harbor, sailing, ship by shyphotog
Misty Lake Mountains Sunrise Photo - Lake Eden, Vermont - Nature Landscape Print Fog by StephsShoes
Beach Photography - seashell gold print sea shell wall art coastal Photograph, Washed Ashore by CarolynCochrane

My Diving Adventures Continue

For the past 3 weeks, I've been diving every Saturday and thoroughly enjoying it! This time someone had a camera with them so I asked to have a few pictures too as I do not have a under water camera for deeper water.

The waters here are not as colorful as some tropical places but you can still see some cool and odd things under water.

I initially thought this to be part of the branch, like a flower, put it turned out to be a nudibranch, the Flabellina affinis to be precise as there are hundreds of types.

We also went through a cave, it was a tight swim so we went though one by one and actually did not swim but rather let ourselves drop to not damage the life attached to the rocks.

I need to find a way to figure out what these weird things are, as soon as I do I'll update the post with names :) Update: thanks to Mum's excellent investigating skills, turns out that this is a Nudibranch too, Latin name is Discodoris atromaculata common name 'Swiss Cow' :).

A Starfish cozily in between seasponge.

A large Lion fish, beautiful as they are they are also extremely poisonous.

Another weird creature that I need to look up, those two antennas are its eyes, but further than that it is not really clear what it is :) Update: yet another Nudibranch! This one is Umbraculum Umbraculum or the English name Patella Nudibranch.

I hope you enjoyed my dive too :)!

Newly Listed: Driftwood Mermaid Art

Driftwood Mermaid Art Wall Hanging, Beach Art Constellation, Beach Home Decor by StarHomeStudio
Sea grass photograph, oceanside, beach grass, beach, brown, blue, white, wall decor by lilypadprints
Color Photography - Landscape - Wall Art - Decor - Gateways by ToRoadsUnknown
Botany Bay Shell, Beach Carolina Island Nautical Art Print Home Decor Wall Hanging, Photograph by FlashForward

Newly Listed: Under the Sea Bag

Under the Sea Bag, Appliqued Sea urchins, seaweed, Blue bag, Leather, Vintage Fabric, Kiss-lock, Colorful Bag by StarBags
Beautiful freediving girl swimming with fish - Underwater Art Print, Limited Edition by Suahuatica
Underwater Ocean Photography by LongForgotten
marin - jellyfish - Art - digital Illustration - Art Print - Wall Decor - Poster - Blue - Underwater - Pink by aliette

Summer Vibes, Beach Treasures

On Sunday we almost always go to the beach. It is our break and treasure hunt day. This Sunday I took a whole bunch of jewelry to the beach to take some pictures.

I have been wanting to take these kind of pictures for a while and am glad that I finally made a start.
It was quite a challenge as it was in a very different way than I usually do.

Instead of in the shade I was in full sunshine, I could hardly see what I was doing and was not entirely sure if the colors would come out alright.

Also there was a cold wind so I actually was in my coat lying on my stomach getting in all kind of different positions crawling in the sand to get it all right :)

But I will do it again as I liked how they turned out, a perfect Summer / Beach vibes and we can all use that.

All jewelry pieces are available at Star of the East.

Newly Listed: Mermaid Hair Comb

Mermaid Hair Comb - Sea urchin, Shell and vintage filigree by StaroftheEast
Beach Photography New Jersey Shore Pastel Pink by KaelynRyan
Photo of Pussy Willows - Fine Art Photo Entitled Spring Comes Softly by CarlaDyck
Rome architecture photography - Italy wanderlust travel art buildings photographybykarina

Newly Listed: Mermaid Coral Earrings

Mermaid Coral Earrings Sea Urchins, Pearls, Coral and Quartz by StaroftheEast
Nautical wall decor starfish photography coral art coastal beach photography print by TheGinghamOwl
Floral Fine Art nature Photograph, soft pink sea lillies, pale teal blue by JaneHeller
Oregon Coast Photograph, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Pacific Ocean Wall Art by MScottPhotography

Epic underwater photoshoot

The first time I saw these amazing pictures by Benjamin Von Wong it totally blew my mind. But the fact that it was not photoshopped but actually really taken in the sea, instead of a swimming pool and major photoshop afterwards like these kind of shoots are usually done, made it even more special to me. I am a diver myself and my love for the sea is of course pretty obvious if you know our work :)

I added the videos about this shoot below, the enthusiasm of the team is wonderful and the way they did it is amazing. The models are both free divers too, a normal model would not be able to hold her breath so long and wouldn't be at ease enough to take descent pictures.

Touching the coral reefs is forbidden to protect the natural environment so the pictures needed to be taken with the illusion that the models were touching the place without touching and often were bound by their feet to avoid that they drift away while shooting, you will see all these details in the videos.

The pictures are really surreal and amazing, you'll love the photographer too he is so passionate about his job that you will get itchy to do something amazing too. I also loved the fact that he did this shoot 1 day after he got is diving licence so he is not an experienced diver at all.