{"id":11285,"date":"2012-07-04T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2012-09-16T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:49:39","slug":"2012-sanibel-july-4th-parade-seashell-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/2012-sanibel-july-4th-parade-seashell-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Seashell Costumes For The Sanibel Parade 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy 4th Of July! It was a beautiful day for the\u00a0Junonia Jalopy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to make an appearance in the Sanibel parade. And even more exciting was that our friends Susan (soul sister), Berringer, Jacob and Daron wanted to walk along side Clark and me in the Junonia Jalopy to show off their love for shelling too!<\/p>\n

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So Susan and I had a blast making seashell costumes…<\/p>\n

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We started by painting seashell designs on foam core board then cutting them out…<\/p>\n

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We made these to fit as a sandwich board type costume so we needed to make signs for the back side attached with ribbon (we found aqua ribbon with white stitching!) … so we made iLoveShelling signs and embellished them with a few shells of course…<\/p>\n

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We even found \u00a0aqua buckets to hold our shells that we handed out to the crowd. How cute are they!!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Since the theme was “Sanibel #1 Vacation Destination” from the Frommer’s rating in this year, we decided to remind everybody that Sanibel is #1 Shelling Destination too!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Here are some other fantastic floats in the Sanibel parade like the Captiva Island Yacht Club float…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Cip’s restaurant…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I loooove this float by Tammie’s Total Care!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Take a look at this huge castle on Congress Jewelers float…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum had their float sporting their Great Cowrie Roundup…<\/p>\n

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Here’s Doc Ford’s float…<\/p>\n

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I wish I could have seen all of the floats because I heard there were so many creative ideas and lots of fun. Thank you Sharon from Cottages to Castles<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for sending me this photo of Susan walking the parade in her SAND DOLLAR costume… So cute!<\/p>\n

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We think we handed out around 700 shells this year. Now you know what we do with all of those shells we collect! Okay, did you notice something about the ALPHABET CONE Daron had on? Do you see letters?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Thanks\u00a0\u00a0Captain Brian<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for sending this last photo! Happy 4th!<\/p>\n

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