And one more thing to love today.
A while back I entered a photo contest that Sarah from on the brightside... hosted. My collection that I photographed was my shell collection. Well, I won!! So I got to choose something off of her perfectly lovely etsy site. Let me tell you it was a difficult decision...especially since I'm not particularly good at making decisions in the first place. So anyway...this is what I chose. 
Thank you Sarah!!
Sarah from on the brightside... is having a photo contest on collections. I thought about it for a long time, because I don't really have any collections...
but then I realized that I actually do. I have a scarf collection (from around the world). I have a shoe collection. I have a mug collection. I have a smile collection (yes, I collect people's smiles in my mind...please don't judge me).
The collection that I decided to photograph, though, is my shell collection. I have shells from all the beaches that I have visited, and I have this glass jar that a friend gave me a while back. So I decided to put the two together, and I now have a jar full of shells that bring back many memories for me.
There are shells in here from the gulf coast of Florida, from the Atlantic coast of Florida, from Manhattan Beach, California, from Auckland, New Zealand, from St. Croix, and a couple of rocks from the shore of Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Every time I go somewhere there is a beach, I pick up a few shells to take back and put in my jar. It's a free souvenir packed with memories...just the kind I like. So here you go...my shell collection.
