Hanging Shells and Oars on the Wall

After I posted about our Master Bedroom Redo, 

I had several people ask how I hung the oars 

and shells on the wall.

For the oars, we screwed two short screws 

(make sure they are short so they don't poke through the other side of your oar!) 

in each end of the oar and then wrapped some wire around each screw. 

This was our make-shift way of making hooks.

Then we screwed some long screws into the wall and attached our "hooks" to the wall screws.

As for the shells, we used very thin nails and simply nailed through the natural holes in the sand dollars.

Jacob held the shells in place awhile I very carefully nailed my little nails through the holes.

For the starfish, I used the same little nails and nailed two nails under the "arms" of the starfish.

The starfish on a rope were actually purchased at TJMaxx a while back. 

They were sitting on a random shelf in a tangled up mess.

The white finger starfish immediately caught my eye, 

so I de-tangled it and snatched it up.

I think it would be pretty easy to replicate though...

Get 5 white finger starfish in varying sizes. 

Drill a tiny hold in the top of each one. 

Attach string through the hole and tie to a long piece of rope.

And there you go!

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Hopefully that answers some questions!

If not, shoot me an email at jezacharda@yahoo.com and I'd be happy to help :)