{"id":11478,"date":"2012-07-24T23:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=11478"},"modified":"2012-07-24T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:03:44","slug":"precious-things-come-with-small-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/precious-things-come-with-small-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Precious Things Come With Small Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boy<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t find large WHELK or CONCH shells every day I go out shelling on Sanibel… but I always find something precious.<\/p>\n

\"dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s always fun to share those precious treasures to see if anybody else might enjoy them as well.<\/p>\n

\"addison<\/a><\/p>\n

Some times it’s the small things I see that makes my day… like these sweet little gems.<\/p>\n

\"seashells<\/a><\/p>\n

These precious kids inherited their love for shells from their awesome grandmother,\u00a0Shelling Sister Betty Jo<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Her son Spencer is getting married this week on Sanibel so she got to enjoy a beautiful day collecting seashells and memories with her whole family. From left to right… Spencer (the groom), Dallas, Katie (the bride!), Hunter, Suzanne, Sheila, Frank, Mary Jo (recognize that cutie shirt?) Addison,Dayton, Kelly and Stephen. Okay, precious things come in bigger sizes too… like this big beautiful shelling family.<\/p>\n

\"bride<\/a><\/p>\n

I also met Gidget and Boyd (Tampa) collecting a few goodies.<\/p>\n

\"Gidget<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope you are able to see how gorgeous\u00a0the colors and the unusual patterns are in this photo of this LETTERED OLIVE Boyd found…<\/p>\n

\"whelk<\/a><\/p>\n

Gidget had her eye on finding CALICO CLAMS, SCALLOP shells and can never resist those sweet little juvenile FIGHTING CONCHS…<\/p>\n

\"calico<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I wasn’t finding the big shells at Blind Pass today, I was happy with looking for the minis so I searched until I found my own precious candy (a juvenile HORSE CONCH).<\/p>\n

\"horsie<\/a><\/p>\n

…and this perfect summer CALICO SCALLOP in watermelon color.<\/p>\n

\"watermelon<\/a><\/p>\n

Best wishes Spencer and Katie for your upcoming wedding.\u00a0I couldn’t think of a better way to\u00a0start your new life together by shellebrating the small wonders of the sea.<\/p>\n

\"shelling<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh and PS- the dredge at Blind Pass has been broken for few days (and not the first time) so we might be seeing this big machinery hanging around a little bit longer than expected. This also means that they haven’t opened up the beach\u00a0to the public yet\u00a0where the sand is being pumped\u00a0(west of Bowman’s).\u00a0I’m ready for this dredging to be over already. This isn’t so “precious”!<\/p>\n

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I don’t find large WHELK or CONCH shells every day I go out shelling on Sanibel… but I always find something precious. It’s always fun to share those precious treasures to see if anybody else might enjoy them as well. Some times it’s the small things I see that makes my day… like these sweet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,37,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calico","category-horse-conch","category-olive","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-2Z8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11478\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}