Sand Castle Architect Mugs

"Hey! Watch where you're stepping!"

"Don't you just love the beach, dear?"

"What did you just say? Did you just say 'Christmas'?!!"

'Why do the kids always bury me next to some beach bum?'

"Nation-building never works."

Holiday time.

'Why couldn't you just give him a bucket and shovel?'

"Tommy!"

'Couldn't you just bring a bucket and spade like other children?'

"Mom! Don't think of me as covered with sand. Think of me as sugar coated."

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

Hiding the electronics.

"If you hold a shell to your ear you can hear the ocean..."

Young Picasso at the Beach

Sunbathers.

Building Sandcastles.

Summertime

'we must be near the water because I see a sea gull.'

'Hang on a second, I think I have a sand castle in my shoe.'

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

Happy holidays for kids.

'If that's a proposal, I accept!'

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"Make a sandcastle with you? Of course darling. What about Thursday 3.15pm?"

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

"I don't care if you saw this in a western..."

"Yeah, that's right. I'm the sandman. Where did you think I was getting my sand all these years?"

Beach flirting

"Just ignore it. It's a mirage."

Building giant sand pies.

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

"What're you talking about? I love the beach."

'Frank Lloyd Wright's childhood.'