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Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home With Seashells

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Packed cover to cover with full-color photographs, Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide To Decorating Your Home With Seashells by painter and artist Marlene Hurley Marshall is a practical and inspirational guide to using seashells for vibrant and dramatic visual effect in one's home. From eye-catching table centerpieces to dazzling furniture enhancement, the text describes the practical methods for decorating with shells and the wondrous photographs by Sabine Vollmer von Falken portray the opulent results in both historic and modern creations. Also very highly recommended for the do-it-yourself enthusiast is Marlene Marshall and Sabine von Falken's earlier work, Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects For Home & Garden (1580170153; $$$$$)

This is the most beautiful book I've ever seen. Whether you like making things with shells or just love the beach, you'll be inspired by page after page of unique and even elaborate uses for shells in the home. It will leave you craving the ocean and inspired to do beautiful things.

Whether you craft or only crave shells, this book will do it for you. This book provides inspiration whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or merely an admirer of shelled creations. The range is from the extraordinary to the amusing to the out of this world.

I saw this book at my aunt's house and from the time I started flipping through the pages, I knew I had to buy this one. There are the most beautiful shell flower projects with easy to follow instructions that I have come across to date. The color photos are spectacular and provide so many ideas for what to do with the buckets of shells that some of us have collected! I have already purchased my floral wire and plan on doing some group projects out of this book with family and friends.

Joni Chew

I looked through this book at a craft store the other day, and as a person who loves the ocean and seashells, I found maybe one project in here that I would consider making. Just about every project uses a ridiculous amount of shells so imagine the cost would be prohibitive and for this reason projects look overly ornate. Unless that is the look you are seeking to accomplish, I wouldn't recommend this book. Try to find "Decorating with Seashells" by Anita Louise Crane

If you have collected numerous shells from vacations or walks on the beach, this book will help you to use them. If you have a glue gun, you can use it to put those collections of shells to good use. Would recommend for the serious crafter and those wanting to do something besides putting your shells in a glass jar. Full of many colorful photographs and ideas. Some a little over-the-top, but if you have a beach cottage or home by the water, or even a ocean-themed room, this is full of ideas and instructions. You must really LOVE shells to appreciate this book.

This is a book written by a professional with a passion for shells and design. I loved it... read it cover to cover, and studied each photo. Great attention to detail throughout this book.

There is a great deal of content here. Why not 5 stars? I would have preferred more how-to information and technique.. like maybe 5 more pages worth. I think it was in the scope of the book, but they chose to leave it out... so for that you must look elsewhere.

Be warned... if you are looking for googly eyed shell animal kinda shell craft, you won't find it here, and may be disappointed.

usuful hints but not possible for me.who lives in Iceland and our shells are not so exotic.Still I try to buy some,when I am abroud. I got lots og useful hints from and ideas his beautiful, which is really sweet for the eyes elvasigvalda@hotmail.com

I purchased this book to give as a gift to a new friend who has lived by the ocean all of her adult life. She has several boxes of shells and was bemoaning the fact that she needed to do something with them, but didn't know what to do. This book has given her many ideas, some of which she has started to use. Besides having wonderful pictures to browse through, the book is a very informative, interesting read. My friend was thrilled with my choice. Carol

This book was expensive, and I wouldn't have considered it if I hadn't seen it first in a bookstore on Sanibel Island in Florida where the beaches are full of shells. Most of the projects are elaborate Victorian projects, such as decorating a wall- or four walls!- with shells. But all such projects can be simplified down, and the illustrated simple techniques could be used to enact smaller or simpler versions. For those techniques, and a huge dose of inspiration in a coffee table book, this is a purchase to consider.