{"id":365,"date":"2009-08-09T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/oh-i-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T20:58:00","slug":"oh-i-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/oh-i-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh I DO like to be beside the seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Picked from our friends garden on holiday and made into crumble (yum!)<\/p>\n

Back from our week at the sea. I needed more faith – the wellies and mack’s were unnecessary<\/span> – we had warmth and sun almost every day. And, oh how lovely it was to be by the sea again. The sea is in my soul from childhood having a week of the smells, sounds and feel of sand and sea has been blissful.<\/p>\n

As soon as I hit the beach, my search for beautiful pebbles began – it is so instinctive, I have been doing this for years and years. Examining stones for the shades in colour that are so easy to disregard because they are ‘just pebbles’. Several years ago I brought 11 kilos of pebbles back from a Greek Island – mad I know – but there were white ones, grey ones, sand ones and then those that were tinged with green, pink, purple. I made an amazing garden table from them, unfortunately without the level of technical knowledge that I have now so it only lasted a few years.<\/p>\n

The mosaic itch didn’t leave me this week either – I thought it would be nice to make our friends, the Sandersons<\/span>, a thank you mosaic for letting us use their house, with pebbles from the beach (and an old paving slab I found at the bottom of their garden!).<\/p>\n

Here it is, and a few holiday snaps:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> Toby playing with Drackshan at the seaside<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Isabella hiding behind daddy so the waves wouldn’t get her!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Toby doesn’t care, he just turns and runs!
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Picked from our friends garden on holiday and made into crumble (yum!) Back from our week at the sea. I needed more faith – the wellies and mack’s were unnecessary – we had warmth and sun almost every day. And, oh how lovely it was to be by the sea again. The sea is in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,28,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics","category-relaxation","category-parenting-and-family-life","category-soulful-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}