{"id":14186,"date":"2013-03-08T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2016-02-14T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T14:14:32","slug":"2013-sanibel-shell-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/2013-sanibel-shell-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Sanibel Shell Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 76th Sanibel Shell Fair and Show has taken my breath away yet again. Each and every year I’m overwhelmed with the scientific exhibits, talented shell artists and creative minds that contribute to this show. Honestly, how did Judy Mackey have the vision to make this award winning seashell crown… perfect for the highest of the mermaid queens?<\/p>\n

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Can you imagine the patience that it took to design this dazzling trinket box?<\/p>\n

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How did Jan Harper think of making a seashell cupcake?<\/p>\n

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Did Amy Tripp do the happy dance for a week after finding this ultra FREAK FIGHTING CONCH she added to her blue ribbon for the “Color Your World” theme exhibit?<\/p>\n

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Here’s Amy with her husband Bill in front of their display…<\/p>\n

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And I had even more questions… How long did Mary Burton<\/strong><\/a> shellebrate after she found this ARROW DWARF TRITON off West Gulf Drive on Sanibel that she entered in the “Single Self Collected Sanibel Captiva Shell” category?<\/p>\n

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And how happy do you think Charlotte Thorpe is to win the Conchologists of America award presented by judges John Slapcinsky (collections manager for the Malacology Department at the Florida Museum of Natural History) and Jerry Harasewych (Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution)?<\/p>\n

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Okay, so now you see that these exhibits were oozing with talent. But wait, more talent! David Rhyne’s double Sailors Valentine won Best In Show this year…<\/p>\n

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Artist Judy Dinnick won best single Sailors Valentine…<\/p>\n

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See? So many exhibits took my breath away.\u00a0And just take a look at some more amazing creations…<\/p>\n

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And last but not least, I saw this piece by Mary Giambruno that was called “My Beach Bling”. Oh how that warms my heart! Who doesn’t love some good BEACH BLING<\/strong><\/a>? What a fun show!<\/p>\n

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PS- One more week until we can shell together at Cayo Costa on March 16th! Click on the next image for more info…<\/p>\n

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The 76th Sanibel Shell Fair and Show has taken my breath away yet again. Each and every year I’m overwhelmed with the scientific exhibits, talented shell artists and creative minds that contribute to this show. Honestly, how did Judy Mackey have the vision to make this award winning seashell crown… perfect for the highest of […]<\/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":[2190,2039,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-hearts","category-decorate-with-shells","category-sanibel-shell-fair-and-show-festival","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-3GO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","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=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24554,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions\/24554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}