Monday, August 22, 2011

Another Mermaid Mood



Escape reality a moment with me.
(Living by the beach is getting to me!)
Please enjoy these pictures & inspirations. . .
Incredibly beautiful Fantasy artwork. 


'Eyes gleam behind a mask of silver scales,
Seaweed curls and shells adorn
An ocean sprite, a maiden of sea foam
A flick of the tail and she's gone.'

www.gingerkellystudio.com

An old Postcard


My daughter, Bethany, came to visit
and as we sat in my workshop talking...
She created this simple pencil drawing.
I love her tangled mess of sea coral red hair and sea shells!
Find my Mermaid Art at:   www.seadebris.etsy.com




Mermaid Headdress by:  www.liaison.etsy.com 



Watch this Mermaid clip. . .(with a surprise ending)


 
 Mermaid 
Written in 1830
 
 
I
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?

II
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb'd I would sing and say,
'Who is it loves me? who loves not me?'
I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall
Low adown, low adown,
From under my starry sea-bud crown
Low adown and around,
And I should look like a fountain of gold
Springing alone
With a shrill inner sound
Over the throne
In the midst of the hall;
Till that great sea-snake under the sea
From his coiled sleeps in the central deeps
Would slowly trail himself sevenfold
Round the hall where I sate, and look in at the gate
With his large calm eyes for the love of me.
And all the mermen under the sea
Would feel their immortality
Die in their hearts for the love of me.

III
But at night I would wander away, away,
        I would fling on each side my low-flowing locks,
And lightly vault from the throne and play
     With the mermen in and out of the rocks;
We would run to and fro, and hide and seek,
     On the broad sea-wolds in the crimson shells,
Whose silvery spikes are nighest the sea.
But if any came near I would call and shriek,
And adown the steep like a wave I would leap
     From the diamond-ledges that jut from the dells;
For I would not be kiss'd by all who would list
Of the bold merry mermen under the sea.
They would sue me, and woo me, and flatter me,
In the purple twilights under the sea;
But the king of them all would carry me,
Woo me, and win me, and marry me,
In the branching jaspers under the sea.
Then all the dry-pied things that be
In the hueless mosses under the sea
Would curl round my silver feet silently,
All looking up for the love of me.
And if I should carol aloud, from aloft
All things that are forked, and horned, and soft
Would lean out from the hollow sphere of the sea,
All looking down for the love of me.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friday, July 29, 2011

She's Gone!

So, the other day I spent some time loading photos of some more of my items from my workshop onto my online Etsy shop.  So, I put up this mermaid treasure box and a few minutes went back to edit something - and the entry was gone.   Disappeared! 

Knowing me and my "love/hate affair" with my computer. . . who knows.   Well, guess what? Apparently, someone snatched it up within minutes! SO . . . Below is my little creation first along with its description.  After that, I will post some other simply adorable Mermaid boxes that are out there available on the Etsy market.   In the meantime, I am looking for more tiny mermaid figurines!

 

Mermaid's Shell-laden Tiny Dresser

Mermaid's Shell-laden Tiny Dresser
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"What would I give If I could live    Outta these waters?
What would I pay To spend a day    Warm on the sand?
Betcha on land They understand     Bet they don't reprimand their daughters. . .
Up where they walk - Up where they run
Up where they stay all day in the sun
Wanderin' free - Wish I could be  Part of that world."

~ Little Mermaid


A perfect jewelry box for your littlest Mermaid.
This tiny porcelain Mermaid sits atop her treasure box amidst a world of seashells.
Next to her, on a funky pink sea sponge, lays a miniature starfish.
This is an up-cycled & re-purposed piece.
How could I say no to this charming hand-painted tiny dresser I found?
And then literally, moments later I met up with this tiniest of mermaids.
. . . It just had to be this creation!
I repainted the inside of the two tiny drawers in a hot pink.
However, I just couldn't change the hand-painted detail on the outside of the box.
This tiny mermaid dresser measures: 10" tall x 6" wide and about 3" deep.
The seashells and especially the starfish are very delicate. 

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