Newly Listed: Aurora Borealis Ship

Aurora Borealis Ship at Stormy Seas, Driftwood Pirate Ship, Mixed Media Art Sculpture, Mermaid, Boat Nautical Home Decor by StarHomeStudio 

Aurora Borealis photos via Pinterest

Under the Sea

It might not come as a huge surprise to find out that I'm a professional Scuba Diver, considering our love for the sea. However I haven't been diving for the past 12 years!

I finally went diving on Saturday, my first dive was not deep just to be sure I remembered everything, I staid more than an hour but only around 5 meters depth.

There were lots of fish there, and I so regret not going much sooner, I am planning to go once a week now as I enjoy it so much and the sea is so close by, it is ridiulous not to dive :)

My second dive was up to 22 meters deep, there was an old shipwreck but as my underwater camera is only good till 5 meters I couldn't take any pictures.

Above the sea I enjoyed the lovely breeze and sound of the sea :)

 If you have always wanted to dive, do it, its great fun :)

Newly Listed: Vintage South America School Map

Vintage South America School Map Pull Down Map 1962 Geography by StarHomeStudio
Boat Print Photography, North Sea, Coral Art, Large Wall Art - Perfect Calm by AgaFarrell
Travel decor, Landscape photography, hot air balloon, Romantic Wall Art by PhotographyDream
Landscape Photography, Italian Mountains,Colors photo, Fine Art Print by RobertoLupiniPhoto

Newly Listed: Seashore town

Seashore town Driftwood Art constellation Nautical Home Decor by StarHomeStudio
Wolf by Laselle
Forgotten, wood, boat, rust, peeling paint, sea, ocean, coastal, old, decayed, Greece by aeolia
Seaside Fine Art Photograph Nature, Beach, Coastal, Sea Grass, Fog, Fence by mariegradypalcic

Quality Inspection

Mimi has been glued to me ever since her sister Lili passed away. She keeps me under surveillance 24/7 but also keeps an eye on the door like she is waiting for Lili to come through that door.
As she is always with me I thought she could make herself useful by giving her the job of quality inspector, and she has been taking her task very seriously.

*sniff sniff*

'a bit rusty'... she said

'it seems solid'

'a bit rustic for my taste, but others will like it, I give it my OK'

Yes, she is not easily satisfied but that is how an inspector is suppose to be :)
And you can find the boat here if you would like to take a closer look.

Newly Listed: Sea Romance Boat

Sea Romance - Beach Plastic, Driftwood, Vintage lace, Anchor, Home Decor by StarHomeStudio
Dock. Summer, photography, holidays and travel in Sicily, fine art print by Icassettidibididi
wall art canvas - mixed media collage, found text, words, small painting by MessyBedStudio
Lake Erie Pennsylvania Beach Photography by KaelynRyan

Private Paradise

Today we escaped work and daily life for a few hours by going to the beach.
Summer is still here, it is hot and dry we unfortunately had no Summer rain this year so everything starts to get very dry, the trees however are real troopers, still green.

The wild bushes and flowers are always one of my favorites. They don't look like anything special from far but once you get closer you see that a lot is going on, spiky, seeds or hairy, they all have character and lovely details.

Those little blue boxes are beehives, honey is the income here of many households and they are always painted in all kind of hues of blue, I wonder if this color has a technical benefit for the making of honey or that it is some kind of unsaid tradition.

I'm a little jealous of this boat, look at the view it has, lying on a green field near the beach with only the waves for sound, quite perfect.

Although some signs of life, we had the beach for ourselves, like a private little paradise. This here below is a little parking space for a fishers boat, very rustic and shabby but oh so adorable.

No sound, traffic and people only the sea and the sound of it was very soothing for us, a perfect escape and such a luxury to be able to do it whatever day we want.

These villagers live also perfect I must say, right on the beach, fish from the sea, veggies from their garden and honey from the bees, a rough but lovely life.

And the place for ourselves, with a whole load of beautiful driftwood to take home to make new home decor pieces, a bit of 'work' after all :)

Newly Listed: Sailboat Jacket Coat

Sailboat Jacket Coat Fairy tale Vintage Clothing Landscape Gobelin Fabric by StarsWear
While the Sea slept... by theaterclouds
Beachcombing series photograph - blue mussel shells, driftwood and other flotsam by QuercusDesign
Kaua'i Kilauea Lighthouse - Fine Art Photography Print by Room212Photography

Newly Listed: Rustic Steamboat Ship Boat wood, Driftwood

Rustic Steamboat Ship Boat wood, Driftwood Nautical Home decor by StarHomeStudio
Seascape Photography - ocean photo beach print sea waves photograph nautical by CarolynCochrane
The Ocean Below - original woodblock lino relief monoprint by mLee
Tobacco Road Barn Door Carolina Blue Green You Print Digital Image by acabinetofcuriositie

Newly Listed: Beach Pottery Cuff Sea Pottery

Beach Pottery Cuff Sea Pottery Sea Tumbled Delft Blue Bracelet One of a Kind by StaroftheEast
New Orleans City Map Large Print Sepia Green Blue watercolor by SummitRidge
Boat Nautical Photography Landscape Black And White Blue Home Decor Boat by VictoriaEnglishCharm
Seagulls Shabby Chic Beach Photography Print Cottage Photo Birds Nature Art by KatieLloydPhoto

Adventurous Sunday

On Sunday we decided to make it a 'real' Sunday and go out and about and enjoying the sun and the sea starting with a lovely brunch.

Wriggly earth roads where you can not go faster than 30 km/h brought us to some amazing views and places.

Little islands...

Beautiful bays and lots of greens and blues.

And some more islands. Eventually after not coming across a single soul we ended up in a little restaurant, they never have customers from land, only from boats that sail by and like to have some solid ground and food before continuing their journey. We drank a coffee there and asked for instructions to find a bay we were looking for and continued our journey.

The road however is less fun and very tiring but it was worth it until...

crap...

No biggie, we have a spare tire, ah and it is in good condition pfewww, and then another crap when we discovered that our jack was awol and so was the tool that screws loose the screws that holds the tires, oh boy...
So we walked back to the little restaurant for help, luckily they had everything needed and helped us tremendously so we were very lucky because beside them their were only chicken in the neighborhood.

Oh and a donkey but he didn't know anything about changing tires.

Not wanting to take any risks we didn't continue the road we planned to avoid another flat tire, and got back the way we came. But as we had been mostly in the car all day I wanted to go to the beach to have a refreshing swim. There were a few people, one chasing the wind, flying on the waves.

After a refreshing swim it started to get dark, but the reason was a cloud covering the sun, we hadn't seen any clouds for a while, and this one made some pretty pictures.

Aaaahhh a peak to heaven *sigh*
All relaxed we got in to our car and just 500 meters away I had the terrible feeling that we had a flat tire again.

And I was right, for crying out loud. Now without a spare tire, no jack or tools we were totally helpless in the middle of nowhere on a Sunday.

We called friends who found a tire repairman and we were home eventually at 9 pm totally exhausted.

I now have two new tires, a jack and everything else needed, apparently there was also something else wrong with the car, which actually was the reason of this double trouble, so we were in luck as on a highway this could have ended very badly. So we count our blessings but I do not know when we will dare to have another 'vacation' again :)