Crafts by the Sea

Crafts by the Sea Our phone numbers have changed! Please call 843-209-5145 or 843-869-4128 to make your appointment! You can also contact us on Messages & Messenger!

Schedule a visit to paint ceramics, shop for unique crafts & designer scrapbook pages ready for photos! Summer 2022 Hours - By Appointment Only - Please Call to Schedule Your Visit Early! Find that perfect handcrafted shadowbox, wreath, bottle lantern, framed sea glass suncatchers and other unique items created in our shop. Browse through our Scrapbooking "Mecca" for exclusive custom Edisto logos,

designer papers, die-cuts, transparencies, overlay pages and other crafting embellishments. Order our unique personalized designs for family platters, windchimes, scrapbooking layouts or handcrafts created "just for you".

06/10/2026
05/25/2026

THE TURTLE YOU CARRIED BACK TO THE POND JUST CROSSED THE ROAD AGAIN

You saw her in the middle of the road — a painted turtle, moving slowly, one deliberate step at a time. You pulled over, scooped her up, and carried her back to the pond she obviously came from. You drove away feeling good. She turned around and walked right back into traffic.

She was not lost. She was not confused. She was heading to her nesting site — a sunny patch of soft soil she may have used for years, possibly decades. Turtles know exactly where they are going. When you moved her backwards, you did not save her. You doubled the number of times she has to cross.

In May and June, the majority of turtles on roads are females looking for a place to lay eggs. They may be heading away from water — this is intentional. Nesting sites are on land, sometimes hundreds of yards from the nearest pond. A turtle heading away from a creek is not a turtle in trouble. It is a turtle on a mission.

The rule is simple and it comes from every wildlife agency in the country: always move a turtle in the direction it was already heading. Even if that direction seems wrong to you. Even if it leads away from every body of water in sight. The turtle knows. You do not.

Pick her up gently with both hands on either side of the shell, behind the front legs. Keep her low to the ground. Move her to the far side of the road in the direction she was traveling. Set her down and walk away. For snapping turtles, grip the rear of the shell only or slide a car mat underneath — their necks are long enough to reach your hands at the sides.

She has been making this crossing since before the road was built. Move her forward, not back.

05/25/2026

You cut it down because it looked dead.

And maybe it was leaning. Maybe the limbs worried you during storms. Maybe it stood too close to the driveway or the shed.

That concern was real.

But before the chainsaw arrived, that dead tree was the busiest wildlife structure in your yard 🌿

The woodpecker drilled nesting cavities into softened wood.
When she moved on, other animals moved in.

A screech owl took the upper hollow.
Flying squirrels claimed the cavity beside it.
A chickadee family raised nestlings in the smaller hole facing morning sun.

Under the bark, nuthatches spiraled downward hunting beetle larvae.
Brown creepers spiraled upward across the very same trunk — each species feeding differently, cleaning insects from opposite directions.

Loose bark sheltered bats.

Not one or two.

An entire maternity colony of big brown bats tucked safely between bark and wood, each bat eating up to 1,000 mosquitoes a night.

That dead tree housed more life than the healthy ornamental trees surrounding it combined.

It was:
• an apartment building
• a nursery
• a hunting ground
• a winter shelter
• a cafeteria
• a nursery log for future forest soil

And when it disappeared, every creature using it had to search for another place to survive.

Some found one.

Some didn’t.

🌳 A standing dead tree safely positioned away from homes or walkways is one of the most valuable wildlife habitats you can leave behind.

Sometimes the most important tree in the yard is the one that stopped growing years ago.

04/23/2026

Happy 🌎 day!

04/09/2026

Most people won’t say it out loud…
but it needs to be said
That ‘Easter Bunny’ you don’t want anymore can’t just live in the wild.
If you let it go, it won’t know how to find food, stay safe, or survive—
because it’s not a wild rabbit.
It’s a pet that needs care,
just like any other animal

Address

8548 Raccoon Island Road
Edisto Island, SC
29438

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 4pm
Tuesday 11am - 4pm
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11:30am - 4pm

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+18432095145

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