This modern Hawaiian Home surprised me with an unexpected coastal curiosity -on the table.
Barnacle encrusted bottles. Barnacles are small shellfish that attach themselves to any surface they can find, and I would love to come across bottles like these!
An artistic interpretation of the work's of barnacles. Lovely vases, but I do prefer the real thing.
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What is it about things encrusted with barnacles that is so fascinating? I've never found a bottle, but I have pieces of wood and shells that I do love. When I make my shell angels, I always do some with barnacle-encrusted shells and they turn out to be my personal favorites. I would love one of these bottles with the real thing!
My husband works on a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. I'm going to tell him to keep an eye out for these! He's already brought home fishing floats (glass & cork), an OLD oar that had been washed up on a beach and many other treasures.
Those are so cute!!!
I've seen plenty of barnacles in my life, but mostly on pier pilings and the bottom side of boats. These bottles are really cool looking!
I love that watercolor painting! I need to go look at more of their artwork!
Kat :)
I just found you yesterday from Kat's blog and I see you just found me too! I'm loving all your inspiration over here. -Lili
love those bottles. so great!!
How rare it is to find a WHOLE glass bottle in the saltwater. These are fabulous!
At one point or another, the waves usually bang bottles into rocks and they break, creating sea glass. I wonder if maybe someone placed these bottles into a somewhat protected area, or inside something like a crab trap, so they are exposed to the sea life and barnacles, but they weren't likely to be broken.
I LOVE the barnacle bottles too! You live near the sea, right? Can't you just stick a couple of bottles in, and let them decorate themselves?
Also, your kitchen makeover sounds fab! I browsed a bit back in time on your site to see if I had somehow missed it. Did you post it? If you haven't, I really hope you will, you got me really curious ;)
if you stick the bottles in to gather the barnacles, how do you keep the decaying odor away?
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