Crafting with Sea Shells
By Marie Browning, Marie Browning CreatesClean your shells you have gathered from the beach by scrubbing with soap and water. Bleaching the shell give them a weathered sun baked look and softens the hues thereby blending the look when displayed together. Mix a solution of half bleach and half...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=23&q=Crafting_with_Sea_Shells  - 12/19/2006

Sea Shells Can Be Used To Create Masterpieces
Sea Shells Can Be Used To Create Masterpieces Whenever you take the time to collect some seashells from a holiday destination, you always remember when and where you found them. If you look and play with them down the track, you can even get that same feeling back that you had the day you...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=126&q=Sea_Shells_Can_Be_Used_To_Create_Masterpieces  - 01/12/2007

Sea Shells Can Be Used To Create Masterpieces
Sea Shells Can Be Used To Create MasterpiecesBy: Brooke Hayles, Posted on: 2006-12-01Whenever you take the time to collect some seashells from a holiday destination, you always remember when and where you found them. If you look and play with them down the track, you can even get that same...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=132&q=Sea_Shells_Can_Be_Used_To_Create_Masterpieces  - 01/12/2007

ANTIQUES; Seashells For Love And Money
By WENDY MOONAN Published: April 24, 1998 In Mariah Carey‘s new music video for MTV, she is singing on a giant shell, a Herb Ritts take on Botticelli‘s Venus. One of the best lots in Christie‘s Los Angeles sale of Piero Fornasetti designs on May 19 is a 1950‘s chandelier...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=138&q=_ANTIQUES;_Seashells_For_Love_And_Money  - 01/12/2007

All about seashells
About Seashells What are Seashells? A shell is the most universally identifiable part of a creature known as a mollusk. Mollusks are invertebrate animals (think of a snail) with an unsegmented, basically symmetrical body, generally consisting of head, foot, visceral hump and...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=162&q=All_about_seashells  - 01/22/2007

Decorating with Seashells
Decorating with SeashellsTips on Choosing Tahitian Pearl NecklacesTahitian pearls are named after the island of Tahiti and they are highly prized for their beauty and the unique charm of their darker tones, thanks to the island�s black-lipped oysters that produce black, gray and green-black...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=188&q=Decorating_with_Seashells  - 01/23/2007

Other Decorating Ideas
 Use small shells to fill the bottom third of a glass vase. Not only will this add some color to the water, but also will help hold flower stems in place.• String a collection of small shells on twine to make stylish swags for mantels or headboards. Use an awl or other sharp object to put...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=200&q=Other__Decorating_Ideas  - 01/23/2007

Toxic treasure: poisons and venoms from deadly animals could become tomorrow‘s miracle drugs. And few places on Earth harbor so many deadly animals as Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef
Natural History, Oct, 2005 by Robert George Sprackland [Australia] has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.... This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes gofer...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=4&q=Toxic_treasure__poisons_and_venoms_from_deadly  - 12/19/2006

Molluscs of the sea, traditional "sea shells"
While many sea animals produce exoskeletons, usually only those of molluscs (also spelt "mollusk") are normally considered to be "sea shells". The majority of shell-forming molluscs belong to the classes Gastropoda (univalves, or snails) or Bivalvia. Three other shell-bearing classes are...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=5&q=Molluscs_of_the_sea,_traditional__sea_shells_  - 12/19/2006

Shells in other animals
While not "shells" in the strict sense, a large variety of other animal taxa form exoskeletons of calcium carbonate, chiton or silica which are used for protection, locomotion, defence, structure or feeding. Other sea creatures relationship with a class of The construction of the shell-like...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=6&q=Shells_in_other_animals  - 12/19/2006

What Is A Shell?
by Lynn Scheu Shells are lovely natural objects, equals in beauty to any flower or butterfly, they are more than just pretty baubles found on beaches. They are the exterior skeletons (exoskeletons) of a group of animals called mollusks. ...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=7&q=What_Is_A_Shell_  - 12/19/2006

Sea Shells - Marine
by Lynn Scheu When we think of shells, it is seashells that probably come to mind first, in a multiplicity of shapes, colors and patterns. Scallops, cowries, conchs and cones in rainbow hues. Lacy frills, elongate spikes, gleaming ...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=8&q=Sea_Shells___Marine  - 12/19/2006

How to Collect Seashells
Seashells, also known by biologists as the exoskeletons of critters in the phylum Mollusca, are popular for collectors. Instructions STEP 1: Get more out of your collecting by learning what animals lived in the shells...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=9&q=How_to_Collect_Seashells  - 12/19/2006

Blood Cells Build Seashells
--MEGAN MANSELL WILLIAMSFor more than 30 years, scientists thought they knew how oysters and other soft-bodied mollusks make their calcified armor. But new research reveals that as oysters build their shells they get help from a surprising source: their blood cells. In the conventional view,...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=10&q=Blood_Cells_Build_Seashells  - 12/19/2006

Shells in History
Written by Shireen Gonzaga and Marc Airhart For much of human history, seashells have held a prominent place in our culture. They’ve been used as money, medicine, ornaments, and objects of art. They’ve been weighed, measured, sliced and cataloged by scientists. These natural...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=11&q=Shells_in_History  - 12/19/2006