The reader included in their email a screenshot of a "Shotgun Shell Ornament" on the Hobby Lobby website. This was true. As of Dec. 14, 2023, the Hobby Lobby website (archived) listed the "Shotgun ...

In 2023, the American arts-and-crafts retail chain Hobby Lobby sold Christmas ornaments themed on 12-gauge shotgun shells. In mid-December 2023, we received reader mail asking if the American arts ...

A nurse and teacher by day, at night she finds the shell’s beauty by making them into just about everything from natives to Christmas ornaments. “Last Christmas, I couldn’t keep up,” she said.

the textile artist Jane Haselden culls leaves from local gardens to weave cocoons around shells that she finds along the shore. The resulting palm-size ornaments feel like tiny tidal jewels.