Organizing Sea Shells; What My Collection After 5 Months of Shelling Every Weekend Looks Like. 

LOVE THE OLIVE BRACELET WITH WOOD BEADS

I love watching your beach shelling videos but I would love to see more videos like this with shell crafting and display ideas!

I am a complete newbie when it comes to collecting shells. Your channels is a breath of fresh air. ❤

You have so many shells and i like collecting shells

looove that gumball machine!

I had some coquina sand delivered to a spot in my yard where grass won’t grow. Now I have my own beach and it’s gradually becoming a shell pile. Nothing beats beachcombing in your own backyard. Kids and neighbors also enjoying it

Pretty shells great ideas to display your pretties love the lightning rods or rocks what ever pretty Florida fighting conks 😊👌

I watch ur channel with envy...love going to the ocean/beach & look for shells...drift wood or anything unusal...but I live in Idaho...no beach no ocean...however my youngest son lives in Southern California so when I visit he always takes me to the beach...I have even brought home sand in a little jar...so needless to say I will continue to watch you shelling...and with that I say THANKYOU...

Hi hello look interisting many kinds of sea common and rear shells

Love the shells in the gumball machine! I've done a Florida Christmas tree for years. Just bought a new aqua color tree for my Florida tree this year...tree is up already, just not decorated...yet! I love Florida!

Make angels for the Shell tree with the Angel wings! 😎🇺🇸

Love watching your videos! Also, Love your shell collection and you have given me ideas on how to display what I’ve collected so far. I look forward to seeing more videos of you finding beach treasures!

Really enjoy your videos

OMG, the gum ball machine!! 😍

5 months of amazing!!❤

Love the Xmas tree!

Thanks!

I love all your videos! I wish to go shelling with you. thank to share with us all your treasures. My small shell collection d have many of your Florida species

Wow!!! That was so cool! Thank you for sharing! I’m a new subscriber from UT hoping to move my little family to FL in the next few years. Your channel is so relaxing to me and educational, I love it! Thank you!

I watched this video and I must say you did such a great job organising your shells ! I love those pretty glass jars full of gorgeous shells 🥰 🌹

Nice collection and crafts. Was fun to watch. Great video

All the pink one sorted like that are soooo pretty! 😍🐚

Love the scallop tower!

Everything looks so great displayed! I display mine as well!! I’m still going through the ones I bought from you! Getting ready for my next crafting day!!! 😁😁😁

I love your videos!! And I love shells.. ❤️🐚✨

Very helpful 😊

Love it 💕

Love your videos!!

I absolutely love shell/treasure hunting. Any beach is fine with me, love your shells.

I’m from Wisconsin and love your channel! I love shelling! I used my shekels to decorate an 7 foot Christmas tree and it was glorious! So many memories from finding the shells. I made a raised “shell” (flower) bed with shells and have a few candy jars of me special funds in my home. Looking forward to Sanibel this year!

We just got done with our sea shilling We can a lot of things but not as what you have collected thanks for sharing

Great collection! So funny bc I remember watching you find some of them...so fun. Keep on shelling! 🤗🐚🐚🐚🐚

I love your video. The gum ball machine is my favorite!!! What a fantastic idea. I’m going to put shells in a display box with clear piece in top to see them and others in glass jars. I loved seeing how you are displaying your shells. Beautiful collection.!❤️

Wow!

Love the gum ball machine filled with shells. Also your jars, especially your scallop collection. I feel the same way about kitten, cat, and lion paws as you seem to about scallops; they speak to me. My mom used to spend 6 weeks (Feb-early March) in Boca Grande. Almost all my shells are from visits there, visits to Sanibel, etc. I have glass jars of sand dollars. But my favorite display are the shells I piled into the glass globes normally used for candles on a pair of wrought iron wall sconces that were made for me by a friend. Thanks for sharing your adventures...you are my favorite gatherer. Sea sounds, your lovely voice, your explanation of the shells, etc. Perfect!

I would love to visit your house to see all the seashell you decorating around your house. So cool. I have lot of seashell in my house too. 😛❤️

Very cool! I was just editing a video and decided to take a short break, and this video popped up! Cool shells!

I have jars and display by my front door too! I have a conk I stepped on when I was 3 in Florida when my Dad was there for the Surveyor Launches to the Moon! Love your videos and thank you so very much!

An update of this would be aweasome!

Wow 😍... Seashells !!! You found beautiful seashell. I love how you organize them . Thanks for Awesome❤️ video

Thank you so much it's been a joy to see you a couple times a week lately. Great way of displaying your shells! And I love the jewelry!

The gumball machine is great!

Nice collection ❣

My favorite shell is the Limpet. My family and I have always collected them, and one day, I plan to get a clear lamp, and fill it full of Limpets!

I loved seeing how you organized and displayed your shells! It has given me some great ideas...I especially like the gum ball stand display! Wonderful!

Lovely displays of your shells. The jewelry is very creative. Gumball machine is great. Your seashell tree is great. Thanks for showing us all the gorgeous shells you've collected. Linda

I love the beach walks and because of your awesome vids I plan to visit fort Myers and shell there !

I love the gumball machine. Wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing your ides with us..

That was wonderful! Loved seeing all the shells you've collected in just 5 months. Love to go with you to your beach. I live in the Pacific Northwest, near the beach, but no wonderful shells like you have there in FL. Was wondering about oiling the shells...then, you mentioned mineral oil. I've used coconut oil on sea glass and rocks. Waiting for your acid video. Thanks for the visit with your collection and your displays. Got a big smile from the Tree.

Those were some good sized operculum ! Lovely patio/pool . Have fun.

Ha! I've done the same right down to the glassware ok exception of glued on boards. I 've corralled it all and stored in rattan stacking boxes. Always makes me happy to share with anyone who is interested.

All so beautiful and love how you displayed them

Shells make excellent decorations. Like the jars and the Christmas tree. They all look nice. I like the gold sand dollar too.

Oh my gosh, your collection is awesome. I have just booked out flight to be in ft Myers during thanksgiving time. I can not wait to 🐚 shell.

I found this so interesting!! It was perfect timing for getting to know shells by their names. I love your displays especially the Scallop Tower. It was beautiful and pink my favourite colour. Awesome video, thanks. 😊🐬

Just love what you did with all your seashells. Love how you display them, so pretty. Thanks for sharing your video with all of us.

I love the Kitten Paws! I had never seen those before watching your videos, and I just love them! Learning so much, I can hardly wait to get back to FL for vacation in October! Thanks so much for sharing!

i like your idea. it's very nice

I really enjoy your videos and I think it's cool that you have a lot of examples but I am realizit's better for me to rotate shells Because the reality is do I really needigital zillion of one type of shell... I keep special colors or sizes or something that's unique. When I 1st got started I had some bot as atractive shells as I've improved. I slowly purged out the other ones and put them into the lagoons by where i live for the critters to live in Or some people to stumble upon and collect for themselves Once i realized hermit crabs can live over fifty years and realized that they are running out of shells I just decided to put back . I think I will always be addicted to shelling the rush of finding something new when you're hunting is awesome Your videos have inspired me. I've been to several places on the southeast coast and just found epic shells down there for a whole week Thanks for all the information and great videos

Thanks for doing this video. Your collection is beautiful. Love the gumball machine with the shells!

Have you ever thought of using Victorian scraps (EBay) and making framed sailors Valentine’s? They are beautiful in any home, or use old photos and frames together with shells. Antique shops sell photos cheap, you can make great stuff!

Shoot I missed your selling shells. I love how you display your shells!!

WOW!! Love the gum ball machine! I’ve got a blue one that’s stored because I didn’t know what to do with it, now I know!!!

Wow🎉

I LOVE these ideas. I would absolutely do these ideas to display the beauties from the sea. and that gum ball machine is so stinking cute...We don't have the luxury of those beauties so much here in texas...but we do find a few now and then. I am hoping to someday have a lovely collection like this. Thanks so much for sharing. Donna

What a beautiful collection.

Great storage ideas and I love the gumball machine

I love what you have done with your collection. I make jewelry and thought about using some of the shells I collected.

I have a beauty room that is done in shells and mermaids and I’m getting ready to redo my bedroom and bathroom in shells 🤗

the shells look lovely in jars but for crafts I like them laid out in boxes so can see what to use. try sand in bottom of big jar then a candle in bottom with few shells round it .looks good

I don't think I have your patience! I'll just enjoy virtually through you! :-)

I really would love to have some olive shell's

I know a lot of people with reef aquariums would love to have the shells you deem to be less than desirable. Especially the pieces of "dead" coral, as that would be the best rocks to add other corals to.

Beautiful! I have shells around my house too 😀 I love the gumball machine, it looks so cool and very pretty

I love what you & your hubby did with the shells! I have a box of shells I collected years ago on Treasure Island Beach but never got around to do anything with them yet! Hoping during winter months I’m hoping to get them out & decide what I want to do with them! Lot of my favorites are also yours! By the way, did you cover the cushion in video? It has sea turtles on it! I have the same fabric! Used it in a quilt I made for my cousin! She has a turtle she has raised since he was a wee little guy & she loves turtles, dogs, cats & she feeds all wildlife that comes into her yard! I haven’t been able to travel for some years now & so miss the beach & looking for shells! Thank you for bringing the beach to me! I truly love watching your beach adventures & have given me ideas for use of my shells! On trip to Amish country in Ohio we saw a water fountain covered in sea shells & want to do the same. Not sure if I have enough. If not, I will try some of your wonderful ideas! Thank you again! Great show!!!!

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You should make Sailor’s Valentines with your shells. That would be amazing!

My home is bombarded e shells too...extras on line is a good idea!

You are just the coolest!!! Your videos pick me up when I'm having a bad day. I know, I know I say it all the time, but I can not wait to finally move down there. How many Shark's teeth have you found?

Just asked earlier what you do with your finds. Absolutely love the gum ball machine. I inherited matching China closets from my Grandmother. One holds my PEZ collection, the other shells. Inherited from my Mom a glass top table. Lift the lid & inside more shells. I have whelks sitting in big open baskets. I have always written inside date and what beach I found. Not a crafty person, however one year said going to make shell wreath for the front door. Grape vines work the best.

Try dipping the oyster's really brings out their beauty and each one is different❤I shell few times a week in Florida.

Love your collection. I developed craze of shell collection in Karachi coastal area. I collected big variety and what an excitement to find a new variety on every visit. Do you live in NJ. My son is also in NJ. Can you tell me suitable spots for shelling there. Reagards

really like the angels wings.not seen them before.would make great Xmas tree ornaments. when are you going to show how you polish them?

Great collection (or recent collection)! You really need to take a day trip up to Honeymoon Island State Park and bring a bucket for chestnut turban shells to add to it! You won't be disappointed. Opens at 8AM and closes at sunset. If you park at the north beach, it's a 2 1/2 mile walk to the end so 5 round trip. Low tide is better or you'll be doing some hiking. $8/car to get in.

Hoping to see the lace murex again. Remember your hubby found it?

Amazing collection. Where did you find the Angel Wings? I must have missed that video.

Hello! Wondering if there’s parking at Captivate? Thought I’d ask. While I’m shelling, I hear you saying, check that no buddy’s home. 👍

Love your shell collection. How do you make the holes in the shells to hang as ornaments?

What kind of drill bit do you use? I have a lot of shells and I want to make a wall hanging- bamboo horizontally, top and bottom. Drill little holes in both pieces, top and bottom in the bamboo. Then using jute to make a grid. I'll probably make it about 3' square. Then inside each of the blocks on the jute grid, I will hang different shells. BUT! I don't want to break my shells! That's why I'm curious about what your husband used to drill the holes when you made the jewelry. Thanks, Cindy

What kind of tool do you use to get a whole in the shell? They're so delicate.

I've been binging your videos, trying to place your accent. I finally heard you say you're from NJ. Just curious ... what part of the state? I live in Cape May County and love to go beachcombing. My love for shells began in the 70s when I used to beachcomb on a shell sandbar off Marco Island with my grandparents.

Where's the starfish tree topper? 😊

Love the olive bracelet and beach tree! I also store my shells in mason jars, pretty bowls and a table lamp with a clear base 🙂

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How did you find the move from New Jersey to FL? I’m from MA and want to move in a few years but wonder how it is? Thx!

Great video, thank you for sharing your awesome collection. Great idea with the gumball machine. Can’t wait for your next acid dip video. Where did you find the huge whelk shell? and how do you clean whelks? I don’t know which shells are ok to be acid dipped instead of bleached. Maybe you can talk a bit about it in your next video? Take care, keep safe, I’m off to your website now.

I know this is an old video but you should put air plants in the urchins and hang them

Is mineral oil the best to use when you want them the shine?

Oh what part of New Jersey? I’m in Warren county

Have you ever found a Jnonia?