Anna asked me. "How can I display my favorite sea shells so they won't get broken?"

"I guess I could glue them to a display board, but there's not enough surface area".

The way I increased the surface was to chisel away a groove for the bigger shells to sit in, giving the extra surface area for the glue to bond with the bottom part of the shells.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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