{"id":7850,"date":"2011-09-13T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2018-11-27T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T02:26:19","slug":"ordinary-oysters-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/ordinary-oysters-extraordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary Oysters Turn Extraordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Isn’t it amazing that something this beautiful can be made from a shell that is so ordinary and well, let’s be honest… an OYSTER SHELL isn’t that pretty.<\/p>\n

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

But arrange them all together like this, you get this absolutely gorgeous mirror that I saw on a visit to Virginia Beach. This has been stuck in my head for the past few weeks as well as the\u00a0pair of OYSTER SHELL candlesticks sitting on a mantel a few few steps away.<\/p>\n

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

I was reminded of these pieces of art after seeing oodles of EASTERN OYSTER<\/strong><\/a> shells at Barefoot Beach<\/a><\/strong> the day I hung out shelling with Carla and Kelly. Here’s what I found that day…<\/p>\n

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

I’ve been seeing more of them this week on Sanibel on the West Gulf Drive beaches as well but not nearly as many as on Barefoot.<\/p>\n

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

Maybe we’ll all look at these shells a little closer at our next oyster roast we go to, right?\u00a0\u00a0They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes for whatever project you might think of doing…<\/p>\n

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

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Isn’t it amazing that something this beautiful can be made from a shell that is so ordinary and well, let’s be honest… an OYSTER SHELL isn’t that pretty. But arrange them all together like this, you get this absolutely gorgeous mirror that I saw on a visit to Virginia Beach. This has been stuck in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2039,1697,190,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decorate-with-shells","category-eastern-oyster","category-oyster","category-sanibel","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\/2011\/09\/Oyster-shell-mirror.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-22C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850","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=7850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28796,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions\/28796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}