Decorating with driftwood in your coastal or lake decor

If you love the beach, searching for beach treasures, or decorating with coastal decor, I’m looking for YOU!

Let’s talk about driftwood. I am completely obsessed with, and love decorating with it, along with my signs. 

But I also love visiting places to just see it and photograph it! 

We have several beaches around Amelia Island that are state parks where you can’t take the driftwood with you, especially because some of it is too big to carry, but also because it’s a protected natural area and illegal to take!

We love taking visitors to see Boneyard Beach, just over the bridge off the south end of Amelia Island, on Talbot Island. It’s a bit of a hike to get down to see it but once you do it is beautiful.

As for the driftwood you can take home from other beaches, I never know when I’m going to find it, some days the beach is full of small pretty pieces and sometimes it is bare. This is one thing Iove about the ocean though, how it is ever changing with the waves. This makes it new and different every time! 

I love driftwood because of the lightweight, smooth texture and feeling that makes it different from other wood pieces.

Just like ourselves, the wood has been changed by the path its taken and even when it’s full of holes and battered by the waves, it emerges beautiful and useful. 

I love putting it in jars, baskets, bowls, or simply laying it on a shelf. On occasion I’ll craft with it for myself or make items like Christmas trees from it to sell.

Let me know if you love driftwood too and follow along for more.