Glitter Girl

Working all day alone can be a little too quiet sometimes.  I'm able to focus and concentrate in the stillness but I miss the hustle and bustle of my daughters running around and chatting. Meet Tallulah...my constant sidekick in the studio.  She finds all the stray beads rolling around on the floor and returns them to me when she's not curled up in a ball on my feet, keeping them warm.  And when I am in card production mode and the glitter is flying, she is sparkly for at least a week.  I read somewhere once that in Native American Tallulah means "glitter girl"...I've also heard it means "running water"....quite appropriate!  She LOVES the beach and always joins me on my searches for shells and sea glass.  My Lula girl...the perfect studio dog!

She Sells Sea Shells

Some new goodies fresh off the work table!  I love, love these delicate sea life earrings.  The starfish with their teeny Swarovski Crystals and the limpets and shells with their tiny fresh water pearls in them just scream summer. 

These are available in the shop and will be offered to my wholesale customers as well and will be in the new catalog that I'm hoping to finish up this week.  If you are a retailer interested in these ocean-girl earrings or any of our other seaside products, just send me an email (click on my profile for a link)...I'd love to chat with you and talk shop!

Cookies!

Our restaurant and fish market will be opening again soon, well actually, Memorial Day Weekend, but I have been spending some time, like I do every year, coming up with new recipes, ideas and overall fun things that we can incorporate for the season.  We (hubby and me) work hard every spring to get the place in tip-top shape, ready for the throngs of tourists that visit the Cape tip every summer.  We offer the usual clam-shack fare; chowder, lobster rolls, fried seafood, etc. but we also have some great dessert selections that are homemade by moi daily.  Great cookies and cupcakes are my passion and I've been working on these beauties, testing and trying.  The only problem is that they are quite time consuming to make, but each one is like a little work of art. 

 Yummy, sea-critter shaped sugar cookies with lemon zest royal icing and colored sanding sugar...what's better than that?!?!?

FINALLY!

I meant to get to this all-important first post oh, about forever ago, but life happens, kids need you, work beckons and the blog gets put on the back burner.  So, finally, I'm just making the commitment to sit down and begin writing.  

ANYWAY.....

For those of you who don't know me, I am first a mom and a wife, but I have this secret life...the life of a designer of all things Seaside.  You see, I own this little company aptly named Seaside Designs .  I design and make home accessories, ocean-inspired stationery, home fragrance products, jewelry and textiles.  I sell to stores around the country and some not in the country. I LOVE being my own boss, creating things that I love and getting to be home for my kids when they get home from school.  I live way out on Cape Cod (hence the beach bum) and I work from my little seaside studio close to home.  I am a one-gal show with the exception of my fabulous mom who is my right-hand-gal when I need her.  Right now I am in the midst of creating my new lines for 2008.  Almost March, I know...totally behind the 8-ball, but this is how I work...frantically playing catch-up at all times.  Life would be totally boring if I got everything done when it's supposed to be done.   I'll be posting some little peeks soon!

My other life is being my husbands right-hand-gal at our family restaurant and fish market.  Every spring around Memorial Day Weekend through every fall around Columbus Day Weekend, we are elbows deep in yummy coastal cuisine.  It's a typical clam-shack, but we have some award winning recipes that keep 'em coming back year after year.  If you are in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the summer months, stop by and have a lobster roll and an ice-cream cone...the best in town!

This is our famous Wall 'O Buoys.  You cannot go into a gallery on Cape Cod without seeing a photo or painting of it.  We've had commercials filmed in front of it, Jeep did an advertising spread with it in the background, there's even a Hallmark card out there somewhere with it!  This is just a small portion of the wall, but practically our entire building is covered...makes it easy to tell people where we're located though!