Daily Vitamin Sea

I’m a beach bum and cultured pearl!

So You Want to Live on the Coast? But before you make up your mind Coastal Living suggests that it might help to determine your “beach personality.”

So what’s your beach personality?
Are you a Beach Bum (hanging out on the beach…, walking, shelling, swimming), Water Bug (busy surfing, kayaking, scuba diving, etc.), Nature Lover (having a binoculars handy at all times), Cultured Pearl (gravitating to places nurtured by sophisticates) or are you the Boat Crew, Golf Club, or + Fishing Buddy type?

One of the places they suggest for me is Hilton Head Island, SC. I’ll consider that!

Happy Weekend and Labor Day!

It’s hot summer here in New England…, and I’m enjoying every minute of it, but would love to give this sailboat ice sculpture a big hug!
From: Ice Impressions

People are beachcombing around the globe and I love to see what they find…, and many of these folks (like Carolyn) sort their sea treasures in a way that is just plain gorgeous!

From: Postcard from St. Ives @ Love Stitching Red

Bree Van de Kamp of Desperate Housewives (aka Marcia Cross), strolling along the Santa Monica beach in a Sailor Shirt…, with her 4 year old twins. Marcia is 48…, you do the math.

From: Daily Mail

Sweet tooth? The Cookie Cutter Shop has all the Nautical Cookie Cutters that a sea lover needs!

And do you remember Lili’s Puff Pastry Lobster?

They’ve got a lobster cookie cutter too!

Happy baking & munching!

I never had a wedding dress (we tied the knot in our living room)…, so I don’t pretend to know how it feels like…, to be in love.

Nikki of Que Sera Sera on the other hand knows… “Then I thought about the other love in my life. My wedding dress. We had a short affair. Only a few fittings and our wedding day to get to know each other. I loved that dress.”

So when Nikki won a photo session giveaway by Mandy Chiappini she reunited with her wedding dress and became a bride again!

And as you can see, she loves her rubber boots too! Picture taken by Mandy Chiappini on Alki Beach in Seattle, WA.

From:
Here Comes the Bride Again @ Que Sera Sera
Nikki Seattle Area Photographer @ Mandy Chiappini Photography.

Just in case you wanted to know…. HGTV’s new Design star (finale yesterday) Emily Henderson has a blog…, and on occasion this designer slash stylist steps in as a model as well, like in this photo shoot for Vegetarian Magazine. She’s the girl in blue.

And I still haven’t had my Beach Picnic!

Photos by Jen Gotch.

A light red wine or a Strawberry Daiquiri. Which do you prefer? Caron shares a couple of recipes for red summer drinks, and the coral Fabric is just perfect!

From: Entertaining on the Coast @ Everything Coastal.

Cindy won last season’s She’s Got The Look, and last night I caught the beginning of season three (TV Land). Will there be another shell shot? I guess, I have to watch and see…, 10 women all over the age of 35 competing for the title She’s Got the Look and a modeling contract with Wilhelmina.

Since I am looking for my Coastal Dream Town, I’ve decided to start posting my research, slash whatever I come across that helps me find this imaginary place in the real world (of U.S.A).

And beautiful trails my coastal dream town must have!

Here’s one I’m smitten by. It starts at Patriots Point in Mt Pleasant, a town outside of Charleston, reachable by water taxi from the Harbor Marina. An observation deck with benches crops up all along the way…, the last stretch curls around a swampy area, and the final lookout platform offers a killer view!

Source: Charleston Mag.

And there’s a great resource…, American Trails where you can Find Trails by State…, I’ll be spending more time there for sure!