I think we all had been wondering about this. I wasn't surprised the collection turned out to be wonderful, tasteful, elegant, amazing and beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Sharmon! Your shell collection is absolutely beautiful! I love the displays... especially the lantern! What a great idea! You have inspired me to use one of my lanterns for displaying my shells! TFS!!!
@@SWFBeachLife Actually, IMHO, you've already created projects with them by choosing to display them in the manner you do! :-) Thanks! I'll send you a pic of how they turned out! Take care and have a great week!
Beautiful collection.you are inspiring . Every year I make my family a special ornament. My grandkids and kids 16 of us in total love the beach. So this year I am making shell ornaments. I have decorated framed mirrors and furniture in the past with shells and beach sand. Always so beautiful to bring sea land and joy together. Thanks for sharing
I love this! We have a few shell ornaments too and actually have an entire tiny tree for beach xmas decorations. Kudos to you for getting a jump on the holidays!
Very special idea to share with loved ones !. Once, I picked up a flier from Hobby Lobby that showed ideas such as a piece of furniture covered in shells, and a bust whose hair was covered in shells. I was speechless. I still have that flier !.
I love them all! I do the same with my shells. I pretty much have them separated by where I have found them and in various glass jars and bowls. I have a huge bowl that was my Grandmothers favorite crystal serving dish, full of the shells and coral I found in the Dominican Republic. I can look back at each container and think about my many shelling adventures ❤️
Ironically I too have a big crystal bowl and it's filled with all my white shells. I totally forgot to show it in the video. I have shells all over the place! I'll show them in a future video. I personally think that any glass bowls should be filled with shells 😅 Your Dominican Republic collection sounds lovely!
Lovely collection! Our first trip to Sanibel, my husband lost his wedding ring out on a sandbar. A couple trips later, I had found the most gorgeous caramel colored FFC (FFC’s are his favorite) replaced his band and put it on his pillow. I said “look what I found”! Love you idea of separating those yet to be identified…. I think I need to adopt that method of separation…. Thank you for the idea!
I remember getting,from my relatives in Florida, a little jewelry box covered in shells as a gift back in the 1970s. I love sea shells,last time I was heading towards the Keyes I stopped at a huge sea shell store in Florida city. You have a beautiful collection,the glass vases show off the shells perfectly!🌺
I know the jewelry box you're talking about! I still see them from time to time at flea markets and shell shops. Thanks so much for admiring my collection!
I had one too, ! My Mom lit a fire in me and by the time I was ten, I had a few good shells. I had an operculum from my big top shell for a few years before I read what it was. I selected a doctor recently,and there she had a tray of shells on display !. I will get around to telling her she has a cone and a look alike strombus, lol! I can't hide it forever... Embracing my Nerdiness !!! L0L
I love your shell collection. The lantern is a great idea! I also keep my shells in glassware. Hubs and I usually go thrifting and look for used glassware. Some I have mixed and some I separate by shell. I also have 3 large shadow boxes that I’ve put some of our favorites and miniatures in. We have shells in the living room, the guest bedroom and our bedroom. I believe it’s safe to say we’re shell addicts. 😂 But, hey! It could be worse right?
There are definitely worse addictions! I have seen people that have found printer’s letter drawers (like the letters for printing presses) and they put certain sized shells in each of the openings. I’m probably not describing it right but it’s another neat way to display shells. I’d love to find one of those printer drawers!
@@butterflytatt Those are antiques now. I have had a few along with the old postal racks that hung in the post offices that my mom got in the 60's. Guys walked past our piano and an oak curio and swiped our printer's drawers !. Heavy sigh !. Dollar tree had small candles in the coolest lidded glass jars. I saved one, cleaned out the wax and put a perfect Paper fig shell in it. I love it like crazy, so "special specimen" looking !.
Magnificent! Loved how you had the east coast shells separated. Gives such a great snap shot of the differences in what you can find there. And those albinos were very cool.
I have gathered shells my whole life. You have inspired me to learn more about the names for each one! Thanks for bringing me along on your beach walks. I can hardly wait to find my first lightning welk!❤
I've just discovered your chanel and am obsessed! I grew up by the beach in Santa Monica, California. I was there 360 days a year! I'd run down after a storm and look for shells. When I moved away, I took my whole collection back to the beach and gave it all back. It was a joy to watch children discovering the shells all along the waters edge. I've been to Port Charlotte and lucked into a post storm time. I went crazy picking thru so many varieties of shells I'd never found before! I mailed 2 boxes home and have them in glass jars, like you do. They are my treasures! Looking forward to my next trip out, next year. I'm saving your posts with the maps. I really appreciate that touch! Thank you for the enjoyment I get from watching your posts! Susan from Susanville, Cy
I have a 5-gallon bucket of shells that I need to bring back to the beach. I'm going to dump and wait to see who discovers them! You reminded me of my girlfriend who came for a visit earlier this year and she couldn't fit all her shells in her suitcase so I had to mail some to her. I get it! I never knew I was going to be so interested in shells. Once that shell bug bites you I think the infection is for life! Thank you for coming along with me on my beach journeys!
Loved your collection! It's stunning! The colors are so vibrant and the indivual markings on each of the shells are so bold. The vessels, dishes, etc. Makes your collection awesome! Thanks again, Birdie
Yes!! I like having access to them too! I have a gum all machine filled with shells that I really like so I guess I see something glass and I picture it filled with shells 😂
Thanks ! What. Fun. Is. This !. I had a big vase. Well, I realized I had a round bowl dish that fit perfectly into the top of the big vase. I realized I had a votive candle...and I matched the color to my ladies' slippers. So they nestle around the candle. I had more inflateds, so I put them below in the big vase. I love LOVE how it turned out, lol !. Happy shell play, everybody !.🐠🐚🐙
Oh shells in a lantern! Great idea! Beautiful shell collection! I’ve got to get more glass containers for all the shells I collected this summer at Ft Myers & Sanibel. Would love to watch you decorate your picture frame!
May I just say THANK YOU again for my shells! I never win anything so this was a real treat made especially meaningful bc I knew you found each one on walks I probably shared with you. Surprised that adult FFC's were so small but love both of mine - buttery yellow and burgundy red. The juveniles were also really neat and added to the ones I found on my visits to Boca Grande many, many years ago; love them. Mini's, fabulous. Crowned conch was very special bc I didn't have one. Sanddollars, calico scallops, olives, spiky jewelboxes, etc. All so wonderful. So, many thanks. Love seeing your collection. The fact that you found all of yours and didn't buy bunches...marvelous. Take care. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy beach time. P
I hope you enjoy those shells as much as I enjoyed finding them! And thank you for participating in the event. It was wonderful to interact with some of my subscribers live 🤗
I love your collection of beautiful shells 🐚! Wow you’re so luck to live by the beach and shelling when u want ! I’m sure I speak for all whom watch you a very deep appreciation for sharing you’re beach time and teaching us so much about the creatures and shells ! I love learning !
Great display! I like how you have your special finds together. I've installed shelves just for the purpose of having shells I didn't know what to do with and it works pretty well. Well done as always!!
Beautiful display!!! I keep mine in jars and write what beach and year I found them at, I have allot of shells, and I love them all and thanks too you I can now identify them, I found quite a few that I didn’t know I had, like a nutmeg that I found at Myrtle beach, I saw yours and ran out to look and poof there it was!!! I was so happy!! Thank you!!
You are so very welcome! I don't know why I am so interested in knowing exactly what I'm finding but I'm happy to share all the things I'm learning too!
I just came across your channel yesterday, and fell in love! I would love to come and spend a long weekend with you -- you could have your own tours of scavenging on the beach!!! Keep up the wonderful work and videos!!
Thank you so much! I'm having a great time learning about all things beach and I love sharing all the things I'm discovering along the way. Thanks for coming along on my beach walks with me!
Lovely collection! Like you, I have mine in glass jars of all shapes and sizes, scattered around my home. I do put them away during fall and winter, because they clash with the snow! LOL! I enjoy bringing them back out for summer.
I love your collection. You have inspired me to decorate with my shells for Christmas. I am from the left coast so our shells are a bit different. I live in California and was born and raised in Washington. So my Christmas’s are evergreen and mossy, this year I will be incorporating my shells. Thank you for the spark of design inspiration 🐚
Hello, I am a collector of rare, unusual and shells that are plentiful. I take pictures of my shells and write where they came from and if I bought them how much I paid. I also have little containers and each one is labeled and so are my glass jars. If I have a bigger shell I label it inside. This way if someone sees my collection they know what it is. Seashells are beautiful and rewarding to collect but even those who are amateurs they should know what they have. You are not an amateur. I love seeing what you find. Thank you for showing your collection. Trudy
Well thank you for admiring my collection along with me! It must have taken you a lot of time to care and document your collection. You have much more patience than I do! I have notes all over on my computer about shells, but I don't really have anything written down. Yet. Thank you again for watching!
Makes my heart ache a little! Had a travel nurse contract in Naples. Loved going to Bonita Springs beaches and Sanibel every day off! Love your collections! I love looking at my FFC! One day my daughter said "Mom, stop playing with you Florida Screaming Conchs!" I died!😆
I'm dead! That's is hilarious! And now I want to start giving them nicknames, like Florida swinging conch or Florida lurching conch. I think you should play with them as often as you can!
I am positively emerald with envy chick! besides the awesome shells, I am in love with the glass containers, they are fab…might they be from your thrift stores? awe never get fantastic stuff like that in our UK charity shops and, if we did, they would be a ridiculous price! The lantern is a brilliant idea…how about getting a chain of battery operated fairy lights and mingle it with the conchs? a would look brilliant me thinks. Love your collection. Stay safe x
WOW!! Those fairy lights would look wonderful in the lantern! I think I might already have some. I'll have to see if I can find them. My mother worked for Tiffany and Co., so I have quite a few gorgeous glass containers to fill! Some of the other containers are indeed from thrift shops and my husband made a few containers from wine bottles. I actually have a BIG glass container that empty, so luckily I have a little more room. ❤️
Great collection! We do similar things. I have several glass vases full, a tray of "ones's", cool glass bowl on a metal stand, and, funny enough, I have a plastic tackle box thing like you with some of my favorites. Jealous of the lantern. That's super cool! Most of the display glass containers I got from thrift stores. We have one that puts stuff like that on a clearance table for 0.25! Needless to say I'm a sucker for those!😊 Glad you liked the pictures! xxoo
I actually have another lantern just like the FFC one that I want to fill with urchins. I have a bucket that I need to seal and then I can put them in there to display. These shells are work! And I love the way the mixed up shells look in the glass containers. I was invited to another shellers home to see her collection and she had one of those tables with a glass top that opens. She could change out which shells she wants to display. It was gorgeous! I'm always on the lookout for great glass containers when I'm at the thrift stores too! ❤️
@@SWFBeachLife You know I came down here with a window that had a handle on it I was going to make into a table like that. Between Anne and my bil (who also passed), I didn't have time and we didn't have room for another table so I think I donated it...
@@gingermackeen5741 I hope someone else made something beautiful out of it. I’m definitely going to step up my thrift store game and find one of those tables!
Wow. Thanks for sharing. When I move to swf I am going to start shelling and by watching your vlogs I have become familiar with all the species. Can't wait!!
Watching your videos , I can say oh theirs this one and that one I can recognize all of them too . So fun … thanks for sharing love to orange and pink ones.
Love them all. Coming to Sanibel in may for 2 weeks. I so hope I find lots of shells too from sw Virginia so it's a long trip ,will be celebrating our 30th anniversary .
I also keep my favorite shells in a plastic partitioned box. The rest of my collection, I keep in small glass jam jars on the shelf together with a few much bigger shells.
Hello! New follower here and I've been going through all your videos 🙂 I've always had a fascination with sea shells and my husband's family lives in Florida and recently, I got my first experience with looking for sea shells! I'm super jealous of your collection! It's absolutely beautiful!!!
That was awesome!❤❤❤, I have maybe one tenth of that lol and a whole lot of lightning rocks(which i love so much!) What a fantastic collection! I thought you'd have more, but your arrangements are fantastic!
Why thank you! As you can see I don't really do much with my shells, but I do love the way they look in the glass jars, vases and containers. Thank you for watching!
You show such restraint for your hobby. I was thinking that with all of the shells that you pick up that they would be all over your house in all sorts of ways. Do you give shells away or take them back to the beach if you're not going to keep them ?
When I bring shells home I keep a few, a put some to the side to sell and the rest go back to the beach. I have a 5-gallon bucket that I need to recycle!
We stay at our timeshare that is close to the jetty the end of October every year (and if we’re lucky a few other times). I’ve never tried shelling the low tide there, but will definitely give it a try this year. Love watching you shell when I can’t be there. It’s the next best thing!
When I was traveling back and forth from FL to NJ when we were in the process of moving I was wishing there was a channel down here that would show me the beach. I guess I went and created what I wanted! I am super jealous you have a timeshare in a such a fabulous location. I look at those buildings in awe every time I'm down there!
@@SWFBeachLife I just realized I put this comment on an old post and not the one you uploaded yesterday. Oh well, you get the idea. Yes, I’m in heaven for at least 1 week a year. We live in Ormond Beach (near Daytona). No shells! Grrrr
@@chrisreinhart5072 I knew EXACTLY what you meant - even if the comment was on a different video. And lordy you East Coast folks have a tough time. I think I'm traumatized from my trip to Dania!
Wowie! those are gorgeous! had to watch this twice. I am jellous and have decided I am going to start collecting shells where ever I can find them. I used to have a very large jar of polished glass when I was younger, had a few nice large cobalt blue pieces but I was young and eventually lost interest. If you are in and out of college and you move alot the last thing you really want to do is haul around a large load of sea glass LOL so I will start again!. Thanks for the inspiration!
It's occurred to me that if I move I'm going to have a mess on my hands! I'll just need lots and lots of bubble wrap. 😅 It sounds like it's time for you to start your collection again. I wish you luck and hope you find lots of goodies!
Hi fellow shell lover! 💖 I love your collection. You are very choosy and take the bright colors....Im sort of the opposite. I scream when you pass over a large bank of white shells. I could sift through pristine white clam shells, sea scallops, angel wings, babys ears, etc. Something about the clean look I love. Not saying I dont have a very large conk shell in my display cabinet, white on the outside bright pink on the inside. Lets hit the beach. 😁🐚
Did you see my White Sea shells picture frame video yet? I had been saving white shells, faded, chipped - anything white to add to the frame. And in this video I forgot to show my beautiful bowl of white shells! Angel wings, baby ears, super spiney jewel boxes. I'll share them next time! Oh, here's the link to the white picture frame if you haven't seen it yet: ruclips.net/video/h9UIvqlOzgM/видео.html
I also keep my finds in glass containers, but all of them have lids, I used do keep them in open ones, but I felt that so much dust gets inside that cleaning dusty lid was better solution for me. I also mix different kind of shells together but try to separate by location where they were found, just like you have containers with east coast shells. Love your albino shells, I have not had much luck finding those
I tend to go through my shells from time to time to replace beat up ones with better condition ones I've found so I'm constantly in there jumbling them around. Keeping the dust off is a bit of a pain, but I can't resist the look of those shells in the glass containers!
I just started a shell collection and I have about 9 or 10 shells, but I will collect more.. Also, I love this video, with lots of shells, and it made me so happy!❤️😁
Your channel just kind of popped up a couple of weeks ago and and I am loving it! My husband and I are Mainers who have lived in NJ for 35 years and have been visiting the SW coast of Florida off and on for the past 10 years. The area we frequent in Maine has a gravelly coastline and I walk the beach gathering sea glass. Not clear glass, but opaque. Every time we go to the beaches in Florida, I’m so used to looking for sea glass that it’s my number one goal, but I don’t think I have ever found any. Do you ever find “true” sea glass? Love your channel and thank you for sharing. I’d love to see what projects you do. My sister-in-law and I decorated a large oval mirror with our seaside discoveries.
I have found a few pieces of sea glass! Normally I find pieces of glass that I recycle, but maybe 4-5 times I've found pieces of glass that I would characterize as sea glass. The calm gulf waters don't beat up the glass enough I guess 🤗 And I have only gotten around to one of my shell projects and it was a mirror! ruclips.net/video/Mf5SVm8m5n8/видео.html
What a beautiful collection ♥️ your channel! I started crafting about a year into the pandemic I've made a few shell jars for my bathroom (shells are store bought)
I love your collection and how you display them. I know I only have a small amount but I hope to have a big jar full like you have one day. Fantastic collection there! 🐚
So beautiful! REALY enjoy your shell collecting! Good seeing your collection. If you ever reside to sell some let me know. Oralee and I live near Ottawa Ontario
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your collection! If you could pick only 1 shell that you have found that you could single out as special to your heart which one would it be? They are all so beautiful!🐚🐚🐚
If you had asked me a few months ago that would be a hard question to answer but currently the shell that I'm jazzed about is my "golden" banded cone. It's so rare, I didn't even know it existed! In case you happen to miss that episode, here's the link: ruclips.net/video/7zHFEplmYBY/видео.html
I actually forgot to show just one bowl of white shells and my sand dollar collection. I have batches of goodies all over the house! I'll be sure to include them in the next collection update 🤗
Hi Sharmon. I know you posted this a year ago, but I just now stumbled onto it. Beautiful collection. I have 3 jars and a couple of baskets full of shells. Unfortunately, many are store bought because I don't live near beaches where I can find those gorgeous types you collect on the Florida beaches. That's what a trip to Florida is about, right? Of course I also have a large decorative box lined with tissue paper for the shell craft treasures I make. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Miriam! I just finished sending you a note about the treasures you sent me ❤️ And I just finished shooting my collection again so I could share an update. I see other sheller videos and I wonder what they do with their shells too!
Hello Again, I am watching video for second time. For the jars that have the same shells I would put a label with shell name such as scallops, olives, etc. For the bigger shells I put a label right on them. For shells in a slotted container I put name of shells with each shell slot.
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing. I wondered if you had any apple snails. They are easy to find and get big. I have a little box like that too. Mine's blue. Got it at hobby lobby and thought it was perfect for individual specimens.
There is a preserve down here with an elevated boardwalk. It drives me bananas because I'll see the apple snail shells by the dozens laying all over the place, but they are a bit out of reach. I called to ask if I was allowed to take them if I could reach them. No dice. So when I do go I have to look at all the shells I can't take. It's kind of funny how much it drives me crazy 😅
I do the same thing with my shells. Just love looking at them and remembering where I found them.
I think we all had been wondering about this. I wasn't surprised the collection turned out to be wonderful, tasteful, elegant, amazing and beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much! Now I have an answer when someone asks what I do with all my shells! 🐚
Hi Sharmon! Your shell collection is absolutely beautiful! I love the displays... especially the lantern! What a great idea! You have inspired me to use one of my lanterns for displaying my shells! TFS!!!
I feel kind of lame not doing more projects, but I'll get to them eventually! Hope your lanterns come out great!
@@SWFBeachLife Actually, IMHO, you've already created projects with them by choosing to display them in the manner you do! :-) Thanks! I'll send you a pic of how they turned out! Take care and have a great week!
Beautiful collection.you are inspiring . Every year I make my family a special ornament. My grandkids and kids 16 of us in total love the beach. So this year I am making shell ornaments. I have decorated framed mirrors and furniture in the past with shells and beach sand. Always so beautiful to bring sea land and joy together. Thanks for sharing
I love this! We have a few shell ornaments too and actually have an entire tiny tree for beach xmas decorations. Kudos to you for getting a jump on the holidays!
Very special idea to share with loved ones !. Once, I picked up a flier from Hobby Lobby that showed ideas such as a piece of furniture covered in shells, and a bust whose hair was covered in shells. I was speechless. I still have that flier !.
I love them all! I do the same with my shells. I pretty much have them separated by where I have found them and in various glass jars and bowls. I have a huge bowl that was my Grandmothers favorite crystal serving dish, full of the shells and coral I found in the Dominican Republic. I can look back at each container and think about my many shelling adventures ❤️
Ironically I too have a big crystal bowl and it's filled with all my white shells. I totally forgot to show it in the video. I have shells all over the place! I'll show them in a future video. I personally think that any glass bowls should be filled with shells 😅 Your Dominican Republic collection sounds lovely!
Beautiful way to sort memories as well as shells.🐠 🐚🐙
Lovely collection! Our first trip to Sanibel, my husband lost his wedding ring out on a sandbar. A couple trips later, I had found the most gorgeous caramel colored FFC (FFC’s are his favorite) replaced his band and put it on his pillow. I said “look what I found”! Love you idea of separating those yet to be identified…. I think I need to adopt that method of separation…. Thank you for the idea!
What a wonderful way to surprise your husband with a new wedding band! What a sweet story - thank you for sharing that! 🐚❤️
Just gorgeous! I choose to keep a lot of mine the same way! Different shapes and sizes of glass ware, makes a beautiful display!
Thanks so much! 😊
I remember getting,from my relatives in Florida, a little jewelry box covered in shells as a gift back in the 1970s. I love sea shells,last time I was heading towards the Keyes I stopped at a huge sea shell store in Florida city. You have a beautiful collection,the glass vases show off the shells perfectly!🌺
I know the jewelry box you're talking about! I still see them from time to time at flea markets and shell shops. Thanks so much for admiring my collection!
I had one too, !
My Mom lit a fire in me and by the time I was ten, I had a few good shells. I had an operculum from my big top shell for a few years before I read what it was.
I selected a doctor recently,and there she had a tray of shells on display !. I will get around to telling her she has a cone and a look alike strombus, lol! I can't hide it forever... Embracing my Nerdiness !!! L0L
I love your shell collection. The lantern is a great idea! I also keep my shells in glassware. Hubs and I usually go thrifting and look for used glassware. Some I have mixed and some I separate by shell. I also have 3 large shadow boxes that I’ve put some of our favorites and miniatures in. We have shells in the living room, the guest bedroom and our bedroom. I believe it’s safe to say we’re shell addicts. 😂 But, hey! It could be worse right?
There are definitely worse addictions! I have seen people that have found printer’s letter drawers (like the letters for printing presses) and they put certain sized shells in each of the openings. I’m probably not describing it right but it’s another neat way to display shells. I’d love to find one of those printer drawers!
@@SWFBeachLife That sounds like a very neat way to display your shells! I’ll have to look into that.
@@butterflytatt Those are antiques now. I have had a few along with the old postal racks that hung in the post offices that my mom got in the 60's. Guys walked past our piano and an oak curio and swiped our printer's drawers !. Heavy sigh !.
Dollar tree had small candles in the coolest lidded glass jars. I saved one, cleaned out the wax and put a perfect Paper fig shell in it. I love it like crazy, so "special specimen" looking !.
@@donnajohnson3334 Oh, I love that idea too! I’m sure that looks awesome!
Magnificent! Loved how you had the east coast shells separated. Gives such a great snap shot of the differences in what you can find there. And those albinos were very cool.
Wow. Beautiful collection. Thanks so much for teaching me the different names/types. Love learning more about the ocean life.
You are so very welcome! Thank you for watching!
I have gathered shells my whole life. You have inspired me to learn more about the names for each one! Thanks for bringing me along on your beach walks. I can hardly wait to find my first lightning welk!❤
I've just discovered your chanel and am obsessed! I grew up by the beach in Santa Monica, California. I was there 360 days a year! I'd run down after a storm and look for shells. When I moved away, I took my whole collection back to the beach and gave it all back. It was a joy to watch children discovering the shells all along the waters edge. I've been to Port Charlotte and lucked into a post storm time. I went crazy picking thru so many varieties of shells I'd never found before! I mailed 2 boxes home and have them in glass jars, like you do. They are my treasures! Looking forward to my next trip out, next year. I'm saving your posts with the maps. I really appreciate that touch! Thank you for the enjoyment I get from watching your posts! Susan from Susanville, Cy
I have a 5-gallon bucket of shells that I need to bring back to the beach. I'm going to dump and wait to see who discovers them!
You reminded me of my girlfriend who came for a visit earlier this year and she couldn't fit all her shells in her suitcase so I had to mail some to her. I get it! I never knew I was going to be so interested in shells. Once that shell bug bites you I think the infection is for life! Thank you for coming along with me on my beach journeys!
Loved your collection! It's stunning! The colors are so vibrant and the indivual markings on each of the shells are so bold. The vessels, dishes, etc. Makes your collection awesome! Thanks again, Birdie
What beautiful eye (candy) shells. Lol
Very impressive collection!!!
Love them all ❤️
What a beautiful collection! I keep mine in the same type of jars and easily accessible so I can pick them up and play with them. 🐚🙂
Yes!! I like having access to them too! I have a gum all machine filled with shells that I really like so I guess I see something glass and I picture it filled with shells 😂
Thanks ! What. Fun. Is. This !. I had a big vase. Well, I realized I had a round bowl dish that fit perfectly into the top of the big vase. I realized I had a votive candle...and I matched the color to my ladies' slippers. So they nestle around the candle. I had more inflateds, so I put them below in the big vase. I love LOVE how it turned out, lol !. Happy shell play, everybody !.🐠🐚🐙
Oh shells in a lantern! Great idea! Beautiful shell collection! I’ve got to get more glass containers for all the shells I collected this summer at Ft Myers & Sanibel. Would love to watch you decorate your picture frame!
When I get around to my other projects I promise I’ll share! 😃
May I just say THANK YOU again for my shells! I never win anything so this was a real treat made especially meaningful bc I knew you found each one on walks I probably shared with you. Surprised that adult FFC's were so small but love both of mine - buttery yellow and burgundy red. The juveniles were also really neat and added to the ones I found on my visits to Boca Grande many, many years ago; love them. Mini's, fabulous. Crowned conch was very special bc I didn't have one. Sanddollars, calico scallops, olives, spiky jewelboxes, etc. All so wonderful. So, many thanks. Love seeing your collection. The fact that you found all of yours and didn't buy bunches...marvelous. Take care. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy beach time. P
I hope you enjoy those shells as much as I enjoyed finding them! And thank you for participating in the event. It was wonderful to interact with some of my subscribers live 🤗
Love the scallop tower. Great idea.
I love your collection of beautiful shells 🐚! Wow you’re so luck to live by the beach and shelling when u want ! I’m sure I speak for all whom watch you a very deep appreciation for sharing you’re beach time and teaching us so much about the creatures and shells ! I love learning !
I love learning too! Unless it's about finance. That information just won't stick 😅
@@SWFBeachLife me too lol 😂
I love those shells. Someday I am going to go to the gulf coast and do some shelling. Love your videos. I look forward to them every Sunday.
Thank you so much!
Absolutely beautiful collection!! They look beautiful in the glass jars!
Thank you so much!
What a beautiful collection
My email is swfbeachlife@gmail.com. I love seeing other people's treasures!
I have asked what you do with the shells you find several times so glad you could show everyone.
Love the lantern and the tower displays...I can close my eyes and smell the briny beach right now.
Great display! I like how you have your special finds together. I've installed shelves just for the purpose of having shells I didn't know what to do with and it works pretty well. Well done as always!!
I'm not quite at the shelf stage but I'm getting there!
I have mine displayed the same way. In vases and bowls and I just love to look at them. Thanks for sharing! Loved seeing your collection 😊
Beautiful display!!! I keep mine in jars and write what beach and year I found them at, I have allot of shells, and I love them all and thanks too you I can now identify them, I found quite a few that I didn’t know I had, like a nutmeg that I found at Myrtle beach, I saw yours and ran out to look and poof there it was!!! I was so happy!! Thank you!!
You are so very welcome! I don't know why I am so interested in knowing exactly what I'm finding but I'm happy to share all the things I'm learning too!
Love the worm snail!!! So unique!!
I just came across your channel yesterday, and fell in love! I would love to come and spend a long weekend with you -- you could have your own tours of scavenging on the beach!!! Keep up the wonderful work and videos!!
Thank you so much! I'm having a great time learning about all things beach and I love sharing all the things I'm discovering along the way. Thanks for coming along on my beach walks with me!
Absolutely Fabulous! 💕
Thanks for sharing your Wonderful Collection! So much Fun!! 🐚
Thanks so much! 😊
Lovely collection! Like you, I have mine in glass jars of all shapes and sizes, scattered around my home. I do put them away during fall and winter, because they clash with the snow! LOL! I enjoy bringing them back out for summer.
Funny, I put mine away for the holidays. They end up in my bedroom 🥰
LOL! Mine stay out all year long - I don't have the snow problem 😅
I love your collection. You have inspired me to decorate with my shells for Christmas. I am from the left coast so our shells are a bit different. I live in California and was born and raised in Washington. So my Christmas’s are evergreen and mossy, this year I will be incorporating my shells. Thank you for the spark of design inspiration 🐚
I was born in Anaheim, so I guess technically I'm a CA girl too but I'm FL all day long on these shells! I hope your shell holiday is awesome!
Thanks for sharing your collection! I love displaying them in tall glass cylinders. Many Thanks from a crazed shell nut 😎
Shell nuts unite! 😅
Hello, I am a collector of rare, unusual and shells that are plentiful. I take pictures of my shells and write where they came from and if I bought them how much I paid. I also have little containers and each one is labeled and so are my glass jars. If I have a bigger shell I label it inside. This way if someone sees my collection they know what it is. Seashells are beautiful and rewarding to collect but even those who are amateurs they should know what they have. You are not an amateur. I love seeing what you find. Thank you for showing your collection. Trudy
Well thank you for admiring my collection along with me! It must have taken you a lot of time to care and document your collection. You have much more patience than I do! I have notes all over on my computer about shells, but I don't really have anything written down. Yet. Thank you again for watching!
What a beautiful way of displaying your favorites!
Makes my heart ache a little! Had a travel nurse contract in Naples. Loved going to Bonita Springs beaches and Sanibel every day off! Love your collections! I love looking at my FFC! One day my daughter said "Mom, stop playing with you Florida Screaming Conchs!" I died!😆
I'm dead! That's is hilarious! And now I want to start giving them nicknames, like Florida swinging conch or Florida lurching conch. I think you should play with them as often as you can!
I am positively emerald with envy chick! besides the awesome shells, I am in love with the glass containers, they are fab…might they be from your thrift stores? awe never get fantastic stuff like that in our UK charity shops and, if we did, they would be a ridiculous price! The lantern is a brilliant idea…how about getting a chain of battery operated fairy lights and mingle it with the conchs? a would look brilliant me thinks. Love your collection. Stay safe x
WOW!! Those fairy lights would look wonderful in the lantern! I think I might already have some. I'll have to see if I can find them. My mother worked for Tiffany and Co., so I have quite a few gorgeous glass containers to fill! Some of the other containers are indeed from thrift shops and my husband made a few containers from wine bottles. I actually have a BIG glass container that empty, so luckily I have a little more room. ❤️
Great collection! We do similar things. I have several glass vases full, a tray of "ones's", cool glass bowl on a metal stand, and, funny enough, I have a plastic tackle box thing like you with some of my favorites. Jealous of the lantern. That's super cool! Most of the display glass containers I got from thrift stores. We have one that puts stuff like that on a clearance table for 0.25! Needless to say I'm a sucker for those!😊 Glad you liked the pictures! xxoo
I actually have another lantern just like the FFC one that I want to fill with urchins. I have a bucket that I need to seal and then I can put them in there to display. These shells are work! And I love the way the mixed up shells look in the glass containers. I was invited to another shellers home to see her collection and she had one of those tables with a glass top that opens. She could change out which shells she wants to display. It was gorgeous! I'm always on the lookout for great glass containers when I'm at the thrift stores too! ❤️
@@SWFBeachLife You know I came down here with a window that had a handle on it I was going to make into a table like that. Between Anne and my bil (who also passed), I didn't have time and we didn't have room for another table so I think I donated it...
@@gingermackeen5741 I hope someone else made something beautiful out of it. I’m definitely going to step up my thrift store game and find one of those tables!
Wow. Thanks for sharing. When I move to swf I am going to start shelling and by watching your vlogs I have become familiar with all the species. Can't wait!!
Amazing shell collection! Thank you for sharing your videos!!
Very pretty! I agree with you, I like the small shells mixed all together so you can see all the colors and shapes
I think you are very organize! Thanks for showing us your impressive collection!
Thanks for directing me here. Gorgeous!
Watching your videos , I can say oh theirs this one and that one I can recognize all of them too . So fun … thanks for sharing love to orange and pink ones.
Love them all. Coming to Sanibel in may for 2 weeks. I so hope I find lots of shells too from sw Virginia so it's a long trip ,will be celebrating our 30th anniversary .
I hope you have a wonderful trip here and find all the goodies you're looking for! 🐚
I also keep my favorite shells in a plastic partitioned box. The rest of my collection, I keep in small glass jam jars on the shelf together with a few much bigger shells.
Great minds think alike!
Hello! New follower here and I've been going through all your videos 🙂 I've always had a fascination with sea shells and my husband's family lives in Florida and recently, I got my first experience with looking for sea shells! I'm super jealous of your collection! It's absolutely beautiful!!!
Thank you so much! I hope my videos help you determine which beaches to visit and what you're finding when you're out there! 🌴🌊🐚
WOW! I am delighted by your amazing collection! Thank you for sharing it!
My pleasure! Thank you so much for watching!
That was awesome!❤❤❤, I have maybe one tenth of that lol and a whole lot of lightning rocks(which i love so much!) What a fantastic collection! I thought you'd have more, but your arrangements are fantastic!
Why thank you! As you can see I don't really do much with my shells, but I do love the way they look in the glass jars, vases and containers. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing your collection! It's beautiful!
Thank you so much for this mid week treat!
You show such restraint for your hobby. I was thinking that with all of the shells that you pick up that they would be all over your house in all sorts of ways. Do you give shells away or take them back to the beach if you're not going to keep them ?
When I bring shells home I keep a few, a put some to the side to sell and the rest go back to the beach. I have a 5-gallon bucket that I need to recycle!
We stay at our timeshare that is close to the jetty the end of October every year (and if we’re lucky a few other times). I’ve never tried shelling the low tide there, but will definitely give it a try this year. Love watching you shell when I can’t be there. It’s the next best thing!
When I was traveling back and forth from FL to NJ when we were in the process of moving I was wishing there was a channel down here that would show me the beach. I guess I went and created what I wanted! I am super jealous you have a timeshare in a such a fabulous location. I look at those buildings in awe every time I'm down there!
@@SWFBeachLife I just realized I put this comment on an old post and not the one you uploaded yesterday. Oh well, you get the idea. Yes, I’m in heaven for at least 1 week a year. We live in Ormond Beach (near Daytona). No shells! Grrrr
@@chrisreinhart5072 I knew EXACTLY what you meant - even if the comment was on a different video. And lordy you East Coast folks have a tough time. I think I'm traumatized from my trip to Dania!
Lovely way of displaying your shells
Thank you!
I found a "weird piece of beach stuff" that looks just like yours, and I kept it for the same reason! Nice to see how you organize your treasures.
Thank you for sharing your collection and the way you display them, I sometimes wondered what you do with all your shells 🐚
Wowie! those are gorgeous! had to watch this twice. I am jellous and have decided I am going to start collecting shells where ever I can find them. I used to have a very large jar of polished glass when I was younger, had a few nice large cobalt blue pieces but I was young and eventually lost interest. If you are in and out of college and you move alot the last thing you really want to do is haul around a large load of sea glass LOL so I will start again!. Thanks for the inspiration!
It's occurred to me that if I move I'm going to have a mess on my hands! I'll just need lots and lots of bubble wrap. 😅 It sounds like it's time for you to start your collection again. I wish you luck and hope you find lots of goodies!
Thank you for sharing!!! We love the shells and you. 💕
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Today I went to a beach and got like 10-13ish banded tulips and lightning whelks! It was crazy!
Lovely! That weird seedy thing is unusual. Just found a bunch of them last weekend on Captiva Nov 14th & 15th!
Hi fellow shell lover! 💖 I love your collection. You are very choosy and take the bright colors....Im sort of the opposite. I scream when you pass over a large bank of white shells. I could sift through pristine white clam shells, sea scallops, angel wings, babys ears, etc. Something about the clean look I love. Not saying I dont have a very large conk shell in my display cabinet, white on the outside bright pink on the inside. Lets hit the beach. 😁🐚
Did you see my White Sea shells picture frame video yet? I had been saving white shells, faded, chipped - anything white to add to the frame. And in this video I forgot to show my beautiful bowl of white shells! Angel wings, baby ears, super spiney jewel boxes. I'll share them next time! Oh, here's the link to the white picture frame if you haven't seen it yet: ruclips.net/video/h9UIvqlOzgM/видео.html
I spent the afternoon on watching your videos. Thanks for a fascinating time.
You are so very welcome!
Love that lamp full of FFCs!!!
Great to see your shell collection….I have mine in glass containers..all were from Sanibel….looking forward to returning there soon to go shelling
Thanks for sharing!! I have sea glass, sand dollars and bits of broken shellsmin Mason jars.
So beautiful collection, nice to have a look 👀🐚🐚🐚
All of your shells are beautiful. 😊
Thank you!
I like your glass containers. Beautifully displayed. So pretty.
Thank you! 🤗
So beautiful! They must look great set around your house. Are those all your shells or just the keepers?
These are only the keepers. I have another rubbermaid of shells that I sell and a 5-gallon bucket I need to return to the beach!
I also keep my finds in glass containers, but all of them have lids, I used do keep them in open ones, but I felt that so much dust gets inside that cleaning dusty lid was better solution for me. I also mix different kind of shells together but try to separate by location where they were found, just like you have containers with east coast shells. Love your albino shells, I have not had much luck finding those
I tend to go through my shells from time to time to replace beat up ones with better condition ones I've found so I'm constantly in there jumbling them around. Keeping the dust off is a bit of a pain, but I can't resist the look of those shells in the glass containers!
I just started a shell collection and I have about 9 or 10 shells, but I will collect more..
Also, I love this video, with lots of shells, and it made me so happy!❤️😁
I love them that's a great way to display your beautiful shells
Your channel just kind of popped up a couple of weeks ago and and I am loving it! My husband and I are Mainers who have lived in NJ for 35 years and have been visiting the SW coast of Florida off and on for the past 10 years.
The area we frequent in Maine has a gravelly coastline and I walk the beach gathering sea glass. Not clear glass, but opaque. Every time we go to the beaches in Florida, I’m so used to looking for sea glass that it’s my number one goal, but I don’t think I have ever found any. Do you ever find “true” sea glass?
Love your channel and thank you for sharing. I’d love to see what projects you do. My sister-in-law and I decorated a large oval mirror with our seaside discoveries.
I have found a few pieces of sea glass! Normally I find pieces of glass that I recycle, but maybe 4-5 times I've found pieces of glass that I would characterize as sea glass. The calm gulf waters don't beat up the glass enough I guess 🤗
And I have only gotten around to one of my shell projects and it was a mirror! ruclips.net/video/Mf5SVm8m5n8/видео.html
Absolutely Fascinating! Love listening to you!!!
Love the way you display your shells. Really pretty!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful collections. They look fabulous!
I collect shell covered trinket boxes .. amazing workmanship .. and all for a couple of bucks!!!
What a beautiful collection ♥️ your channel! I started crafting about a year into the pandemic I've made a few shell jars for my bathroom (shells are store bought)
Hey, you got to get your beachy goodness wherever you can right? Thanks so much for watching!
I love your collection and how you display them. I know I only have a small amount but I hope to have a big jar full like you have one day. Fantastic collection there! 🐚
Thanks so much! I'm a little spoiled living here 🐚
These are really beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!!
So many beautiful shells! 🐚
So beautiful! REALY enjoy your shell collecting! Good seeing your collection. If you ever reside to sell some let me know. Oralee and I live near Ottawa Ontario
I sell some of my shells all the time! www.swfbeachlife.com/store
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your collection! If you could pick only 1 shell that you have found that you could single out as special to your heart which one would it be? They are all so beautiful!🐚🐚🐚
If you had asked me a few months ago that would be a hard question to answer but currently the shell that I'm jazzed about is my "golden" banded cone. It's so rare, I didn't even know it existed! In case you happen to miss that episode, here's the link: ruclips.net/video/7zHFEplmYBY/видео.html
am exploring your videos. great stuff. Charlee from AZ
Glad you like them!
Nice collection. Have some in glass jars too.
Awesome collection. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely collection, but did not see any sand dollars. Do you display those too?
I actually forgot to show just one bowl of white shells and my sand dollar collection. I have batches of goodies all over the house! I'll be sure to include them in the next collection update 🤗
Your scallop tower is glorious!!!
Thank you! That was the first "thing" I created with shells.
Hi Sharmon. I know you posted this a year ago, but I just now stumbled onto it. Beautiful collection. I have 3 jars and a couple of baskets full of shells. Unfortunately, many are store bought because I don't live near beaches where I can find those gorgeous types you collect on the Florida beaches. That's what a trip to Florida is about, right? Of course I also have a large decorative box lined with tissue paper for the shell craft treasures I make. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Miriam! I just finished sending you a note about the treasures you sent me ❤️ And I just finished shooting my collection again so I could share an update. I see other sheller videos and I wonder what they do with their shells too!
So envious of that shell collection
Hello Again, I am watching video for second time. For the jars that have the same shells I would put a label with shell name such as scallops, olives, etc. For the bigger shells I put a label right on them. For shells in a slotted container I put name of shells with each shell slot.
lovely! Oh, your voice is wonderful! You could do radio.
I've always wanted to be a voice-over artist. I guess now I get my chance 🤗 Thanks for watching my little shell video!
@@SWFBeachLife yes! it's so soothing and has the NPR tone. Haha... Truly a perfect voice.
What a wonderful collection you have 👍💕💕💕💕
Thank you 🤗
Like you, I have all my shells in glass jars, love them!
So many beautiful clean shells.
Thank you. I wish I could be there to join in not only to find shells but to craft with them together. I think that would be cool. Dreamer👍🥰🤙🇨🇦
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing. I wondered if you had any apple snails. They are easy to find and get big. I have a little box like that too. Mine's blue. Got it at hobby lobby and thought it was perfect for individual specimens.
There is a preserve down here with an elevated boardwalk. It drives me bananas because I'll see the apple snail shells by the dozens laying all over the place, but they are a bit out of reach. I called to ask if I was allowed to take them if I could reach them. No dice. So when I do go I have to look at all the shells I can't take. It's kind of funny how much it drives me crazy 😅
Wow, what a collection 😍 Awesome!
Thanks! 😊