Driftwood Sailboats

I call these my Sloop John B’s.  Partially after the Beach Boys song (first concert I ever went to) and partially after my son – John.  His middle name is Benedict.  He thinks it is after him.

If you’ve been following along on Instagram or Facebook then you know I’ve been making these this week:

Mini driftwood boats for my friend, Elyse’s upcoming event:

 

She’s doing a Seaside Tinkered Treasured Event at my friend Nancy’s shop – The Sea Rose Cottage.  You may remember I reviewed her lovely new book Seaside Tinkered Treasures here on the blog.

Anyway, the boys and I are going to drive down on Saturday, June 14th to Bristol, RI and do some tinkering.  I’m so excited.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all things sea related

AND I also love hanging out with Nancy and Elyse and my boys!  So it is a win win!

These little driftwood boats are part of the swag bags.  The first 10 people to buy a book will recieve a swag bag and they are full of great stuff – chalk paint® samples, sea glass necklaces, soap etc.  You can see all the goodies here on Elyse’s blog.

The driftwood sailboat is the ultimate for me in tinkering.  We search the beaches of Scituate for driftwood.  I will tell you my boys have become very skilled driftwood seekers.

I love finding bits of wood with holes and imperfections.

Then I take fabric, material, salvaged edges to create sails.  This ships have ticking stripe, Ikat, dropcloth and even a little colorful sweetie…

I adore these little “itty bitty” baby ones too:

I’ll also have many, many boats at my Open Studio on June 8th!

Hope you can sail away with us in Scituate or in Bristol!