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Melody the Sea Horse
Posted at 3:14 pm , on November 18, 2014
This year our annual family holiday was in Cornwall (as indeed it is every year!) and we had a lovely couple of weeks staying at Watergate Bay near Newquay. We have only been going to Watergate Bay in particular for the past three years after my close friend Jane asked us to join her and her family down there one summer. Previous to that it has always been a part of Cornwall that I have consciously avoided…. When I was little we spent some extremely happy times there as a family – then my sister (Ruth) died and I couldn’t bear to return to the beach where we had spent our last holiday together. Places are rarely as idyllic as you remember them and I didn’t want to damage the memory. However, bolstered by the enthusiasm of my two boys we did indeed join Jane at Watergate Bay and after some tears (from me, Jack and Freddie were already in the sea!) it turned out that it was as magical as I remembered it and my childhood holidays there were something to celebrate, not mourn.
Now… I am not at all lured by the Cornish surf and so this year whilst my husband Gary and the boys were in the sea I spent HOURS pottering around the beach collecting ‘treasure’. This was in the form of any interesting shells, small stones and the most coveted items of all – sea glass! When I found pieces of sea glass I may as well have spotted diamonds, such was my delight. Once home however all these things were in danger of gathering dust in some forgotten pot in the garage and so pretty much immediately I set about making something from them which I could look at every day and think of Watergate Bay. The result is this sea horse which I have called Melody (there was an episode of Sponge Bob Squarepants which featured a sea horse by that name and SB is one of my favourite programmes on TV!)
Beach Brooch
I had two pieces of glass left over and twiddled some wire around it, adding it to the line-up of the broken piece of china and skull-and-crossbones charm to create the brooch pictured here.
Pobble
The beige stones pictured here are ones I found on the beach at Watergate Bay (will I get into trouble for admitting that? Hope not!) and the glazed pottery ‘stone’ in the middle is one I made many years ago when I was at school. I remember calling it a Pobble which I guess is a cross between a stone and pebble!
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