Mermaids at the Beach

Who doesn't love a mermaid at the beach? Mermaids and their tales have been around forever. Stories abound around their origin but the best loved story in more recent history is the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of "The Little Mermaid". This has arguably become the standard and has influenced most modern depictions of mermaids since its publication.

We took our then very young daughter to see the Disney version of "The Little Mermaid". She spent countless hours reenacting Ariel's scenes with my husband playing the prince, of course. She knew the words to every song, long before it was so easy to find them on the internet. By default, my younger son came to love Sebastian. My husband and I can still see him in the Sebastian red crab Halloween costume I painstakingly made.

Our beach house has its supply of mermaids, also. Life at the Jersey Shore, usually means an outside or semi-outside shower area. It's always fun to bring new guests down to see their reaction to this beach-side staple. In renovating our beach house, we added a small dressing area to our shower and I used the wooden mermaid plaques by Suzanne Nicoll featured on our website. You can even add some hooks to make these plaques into towel racks.

Mermaids in a little girl's room at the beach, is well, adorable. Suzanne Nicoll Studios also has just introduced a really great new swimming mermaid in a retro polka dot mermaid costume, which we have just added to our website. I will be finding a spot for one of those at our beach house! We have also added the signature mermaid picket fence posts from Suzanne Nicoll which feature mermaids with your choice of hair color on old weathered fence posts.