She Loves Sea Shells

Back in June I shared with you the beginning of my shell collection for a summer display. While flea marketing on Sunday, I found a man selling an entire box full, which just so happened to complete my collection.

I wanted to pile them all in an antique silver punch bowl, but have not had any luck in finding one that doesn't cost a small fortune. So that search will continue. In the meantime, I layered them on a silver tray, filled apothecary jars, and spread them out across the buffet.

Here's a peek at the entire buffet. It sits in the family room under the flat screen, so please excuse the Food TV show and the window glare. For contrast I filled the largest apothecary with green apples and hung a vintage rosary on the lid.

I love walking past this everyday, it feels so summery. 

On a completely different topic, yesterday, my little Bella was playing outside in the grass, rolling a basketball around like it was a solo soccer game. This is one of her favorite pastimes, anyway, she injured her left eye severely. We believe she ran into a rose bush thorn, and it's very bad. After rushing her to the vet, they tried to save her deflated eye by stitching it up, and filling it with saline. I'm very sorry to make anyone squeemish. I can't even begin to explain how extremely devastated we all are. I'm sure those of you with pets can understand. I stayed up with her all last night, took her back this morning to have them help administer some of her 6 medications and tomorrow I take her back to have the vet remove the stitches to see if the eye will be spared. Please keep my little girl in your thoughts and prayers.  It's so hard for me to see her in such pain and to be honest, I can barely get through writing this. Thanks in advance for your prayers for her, I know how supportive you all are!