Nobody on this rock is talking to herself. Spilling Sea Tea gathers every Mermaid Dayz design with two or three mermaids in it: one rock or one dock, cups in hand, and a story that somebody is already gasping at. A few of them are on the phone, if a conch shell held to the ear counts as a phone. Here it does.
Leaning in
Spill The Tea drapes a redhead over a dock post with her cup while a crab below holds up a teacup and a tiny sign; the words on the art read Now You Have My Attention. Spilling Ocean Tea sits two friends on the edge of a dock with little cups, one clearly mid-sentence, and Ocean Tea On The Rock lets a pair talk across the water from separate rocks. Spill The Kelp and Spill The Pearls go quiet and moody, two mermaids whispering among the kelp and the dock posts in greens and greys. Sea Tea & Pearls has a blonde running a strand of pearls through her fingers while her friend whispers into her ear, and Spilling Salty Tea keeps the gossip above the waterline with one very interested redhead below it, teacup in hand, hearing every word.
Table for three
Sipping Salty Tea and Sea Tea For Three gather a full trio in the water around a floating tray of cups. Champagne Hour For Three puts them on the rocks with flutes raised, Siren Happy Hour For Three seats them at a low dock table with wine and lily pads, and High Tide Society lounges under a striped umbrella with fruit and drinks floating by on a tray. Sharing Is Overrated is three around one plate, one of them covering her mouth because she laughed first, and Siren Selfie Squad crowds all three into one phone held high.
On the phone, more or less
Shell Phone Drama is two mermaids on a rock, one with a conch to her ear and the other holding up a second shell like she has the other line. Hold Our Calls adds a friend in the water below, looking up for the update, and Shell Phone Hangup holds the shell away from her ear under the words I've Heard Enough. Off the phone, Just The Essentials spills an entire handbag across the rocks between two friends, and Last Cupcake Standing has two of them reaching for the same cupcake from opposite sides.
The friend already in the picture
The one you would send this to does not need it explained. She is the one on the rock next to yours, the one who answers on the first ring, the one who said what everyone was thinking and then reached for the cupcake. Pick the pair or the trio that looks most like last weekend and send it with no caption. She will know which one she is, and she will have notes on your hair.
Written by Mari Bennett. Thanks for reading.