Inspiration Avenue Weekly Challenge

Finders Keepers

I am just under the wire this time!

My found objects are sand dollars. 

And a Russell Stover heart-shaped chocolate 

box from last Valentine's Day.

Okay, that's not strictly "found", but I rescued it 

off the  "Things to Use Someday" pile. 

Most things on that pile never get used. 

Here is the inside of the box.

I used some vintage images, tissue paper, doilies,

ribbon, and 2 black-eyed susan seed pods,

plus the sand dollars.

I found the sand dollars in Mexico about

five years ago, and they've been sitting around

ever since. Other than displaying them in a jar,

I couldn't think of anything else to do with them.

Enter Angie, of Artangel,
with her Finders Keepers challenge!
So here they are on a heart box,

plus tons more in the photo! 

And tons more in the bag.

There were literally hundreds on the beach ~

I'd never even found a sand dollar at all

until that day. I don't know what event

sparked all those creatures to beach themselves.

But they have finally come in handy on

Inspiration Avenue.

There is some lovely folklore about

sand dollars which I can't remember now,

but I will look it up.

Head over to Inspiration Avenue
to see all of the Finders Keepers
entries! They will be displayed a
little later today, Sunday.

Happy Labor Day to all who are
celebrating it!