Island Cottage · Houses on the Rocks · Heritage Holiday Ornament
Island Cottage · Houses on the Rocks · Heritage Holiday Ornament
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Island Cottage. Small rocky islands scattered across open water, a shingled cottage on nearly every one and a boat working its way between them. Coastal families have summered like this for a century and a half.
The islands behind this drawing are granite outcrops off the New England shore, a few with a dozen houses, many with a single cottage, plenty with nothing at all. Ferry captains tell the stories: a pirate's buried treasure, a president who came out to fish, a hurricane that took the cottages and the families who rebuilt them. In January nobody is out there. The shutters go up after Labor Day and the tiny islands go back to the gulls and the ice.
Then in June three generations of the same family come out on the same tide as always, with the same dog, and summer starts over. Rock, roof, boat: that is the whole arrangement.
Our own line drawing, set in crystal so the shingles, the rocks and the water all read under the lights. Three inches across, which is honestly bigger than some of the actual islands.
For island families, boat people, beach and cottage lovers, coastal historical societies, and everyone who has looked at a cottage from the water and wondered who lives there. Profits go to hunger relief.
Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.
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