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

If you found a perfect JUNONIA on the beach the second morning of vacation on Sanibel, would you let it out of your site for the rest of your trip? Not Tim from Ohio! He told me about his treasure find after I met him while at the Sanibel Shell Festival and was able to show it to me since he had it stashed in his pocket. He said he couldn’t bear to part with it yet. LOL<\/p>\n

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

That started off my day at the Shell Festival off with a smile but after seeing beautiful works of art like these, it was hard not to keep that smile going.<\/p>\n

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

Gorgeous pieces!<\/p>\n

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

I loved this miniature seashell doll house shell shop.<\/p>\n

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

Of course its always breathtaking to see the Sailors Valentines.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

My favorite shell exhibit of the entire show was in the “Freak” category. It’s a shell with 2 apertures. Yes, I said TWO openings … its like this shell is a Siamese Twin.  I was stunned and amazed and I still am. It was so hard to get a good photo to really show both openings but you can see on the far left there is an opening with an operculum and then you can see the more obvious lip and opening. Wow! Can you imagine? So cool.<\/p>\n

\"2<\/a><\/p>\n

I had the best time browsing the exhibits and meeting other shellers like Cheryl and Pam (Brett Bailey’s<\/strong><\/a> sister) who showed me a very cool juvie MILK CONCH they found at the Sanibel Lighthouse area. But…. Pam didn’t have her shell in her pocket like Tim did (heehee), the shell was on her phone. “Ring. Ring. Ring… Hold on, I need to get my Shellaphone….. Shello?” hahaha<\/p>\n

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

The festival is like dialing a shellafriend….  Shellekelle, me and Christine Florida shell girl had a great time hanging out and catching up. They are such cutie shellooties!<\/p>\n

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

It was a great weekend…<\/p>\n

\"78th<\/a><\/p>\n

But now its back to the beach tomorrow for some real shelling time and our iLoveShelling cruise to Cayo Costa with Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a>. So excited because we had some good winds yesterday to hopefully have thrown some treasures up on the island for us. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

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

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If you found a perfect JUNONIA on the beach the second morning of vacation on Sanibel, would you let it out of your site for the rest of your trip? Not Tim from Ohio! He told me about his treasure find after I met him while at the Sanibel Shell Festival and was able to show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22322,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1246,14,121,119,2035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freak-shells","category-junonia","category-sailors-valentine","category-sanibel-shell-fair-and-show-festival","category-shell-art","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Seashell-flower-bouquet-Sanibel-Shell-Festival.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-5NT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313","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=22313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29039,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions\/29039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}