Two dollar shelf....

Old weathered dock board with the rope hook still attached...

Just the right size above several windows...

Last year my husband and I closed in our screened porch to add extra living space next to our kitchen. Our plan was always to add a long shelf above one set of windows...BUT we just couldn't agree on anything...

Little did we know that the shelf board would come right from our own yard. Recently during a storm one of the dock boards had come out and drifted down to a neighbors yard. Our neighbor returned the board and we had it leaning on a tree stump for weeks- ready for the trash...

I must have looked at that board, leaning on a tree stump, for weeks- when it finally hit me that it might just work for our shelf... AND it did- and we really love it.

AND oh- the two dollars comes in when we purchased the shelf brackets on a clearance rack- two for 2.07 (odd amount?) at Lowes. I LOVE clearance racks!

So what's on the shelf? From left to right: Wooden noah's ark, brass seamen- if you have visited our Under the Willow shop- they may look familiar here, large horseshoe shell our grand girlies found along the shore, more seamen, wooden birds, fav sign from a friend, wooden bottle our son made from a lathe, and appropriately an antique ball filled with shells.