Aloha
This miniature is based on a view from a beach in Hawaii, but I guess it could be anywhere you like to imagine. The sky, distant island (Kahoolawe), and blue-coloured water are hand-painted, and so is the sand at the bottom.
There’s machine stitching to create the look of the white water, and some lint from chopped-up wool glued to the very edge of the water. It helps bulk up the wave and hopefully make it look like it’s just about to break over your toes. Then a hand-stitched boat and some tiny stitches in shiny invisible thread to make glints on the water, which don’t show in this photo.
And I can’t mention Hawaii without recommending slack key guitarist Makana. His music’s featured on the film The Descendants which I (wrongly) haven’t seen yet, or look for him on YouTube.