Seasonal Decor

Well, seasons are changing and so must the house. It is out with the late winter/early spring and time for that summer look. Okay I am pushing it a little, I skipped right over spring. I am in my shell or little ocean vignette craze. This is a small part of my mantle display.


Here is a bigger view of the mantle with my ocean finds and nature cloche with feathers, nests and butterfly wings. The candelabras always stay but the rest is always a vignette of my nature finds or a holiday theme. It's a bit eclectic but that fits me, I don't like too perfect.



This display is a cloche with a kneeling angel, some things collected from nature, spiced up with a couple clay mushrooms I made. Surrounding the cloche is old bottles/beakers, antique glass floats, worry stones and seascapes. It kinds has that "Practical Magic" look going for it, of course MR. Mya says there is nothing practical about it.

This is my old salvage barn, given to me by my mother on my 40th birthday. It stands on pedestals and has Lake Superior stones that I've collected below it. (did I tell you that I collect a lot of things?) It is part of my shabby chic look. MR. Mya doesn't like shabby chic so I just have only a few little niches here and there.

Here is another little shabby chic nook. My decorating problem is that I like so many styles and I have so many different things that I collect and I don't want to put them away. I am not sure what my decor is. I do have a couple of altered chandeliers. I put them together with different pieces parts. So maybe I would call my style eclectic rustic elegance. MR. Mya says no, more like early Halloween. Oddly eclectic maybe but I think the Halloween thing is stretching it a bit far. Well who knows. It is probably about time for a complete makeover anyway. $$$$$$$$$$$$

Owed To a Pirate

This photo is from my last vacation it was a Pirate ship that took goups out on a sunset sail. What a beautiful evening this was. Take me back to the beach!

April is national poetry month
So here is one of mine
Owed To A Pirate
I found a treasure along the beach,
it was just out of my reach,
floating on the waters blue,
the more I looked my curiosity grew,
what was that yonder still afloat,
I think I spied a pirate boat,
filled with treasure this I know,
begs the question friend or foe,
yes I found a treasure in the sand,
and I held it tightly in my hand,
I know you want to take a peek,
at the lovely treasure that I seek.
-Mya Anthony





This is another little Seascape that will soon be available in the Studio Pink shop on Etsy. It is so hard to photograph these little buggers. I would like to get better photos before I list them. It takes just the right light, early morning or early evening, and just the right spot and angle. Maybe tomorrow.


This is a macro view of the contents in the bottle. Still not too clear. The glass in this old bottle is a little wavy. I found the bottle years ago along a Michigan river. It's marked LCW company USA. Don't know what that means I have never researched it. Of course you know by now that I love the ocean and all the treasure that I find, but I just have a thing for these little tiny tree-like structures that wash up on the shore. You should have seen me collecting arm loads of them while all of the sunbathers gave me very strange looks. But I just knew I needed them.
Oh well, I have always been one of those curious sorts that finds beauty in the most unusual objects.

Sea Treasure;Seascape Globes

Seascape Horchow. This little globe reminded me of something you would see in a Horchow catalog. I love the sea and all her treasured creature's fossilized remains that she spits out upon the sand. I love to hunt for sea treasure, no not the kind that make a pirate wide-eyed with excitement, just the natural wonder of life beneath the surface, along the ocean floor. It is hard to imagine that the contents of this cloche were once teeming with life.

The seascape natural wonder is assembled on an antique crock lid. It just looked like such a natural surface to place it on. I found the tiny tree-like material along the beach and was so fascinated by it that I knew I had to bring it home and create something wonderful with it. It reminds me of a tiny little ocean biosphere, so small but yet so beautiful.

It is so funny that what one person finds a treasured object others just never see. I have always loved the unusual or strange. You should have seen the looks I got at the beach while gathering all the little trees, and other fossils along the shore. Well look at them now they are in my studiopink store on etsy.