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Every Makaop piece is handmade, inspected, and loved long before it finds its new home. I probably spend way too much time staring at each one before I finally pack it.🤣

Maybe it’s because every shell is naturally unique. Once a piece is gone, there might never be another exactly like it. 🫣🤍🐚

Every Makaop piece is handmade, inspected, and loved long before it finds its new home. I probably spend way too much time staring at each one before I finally pack it.🤣

Maybe it’s because every shell is naturally unique. Once a piece is gone, there might never be another exactly like it. 🫣🤍🐚

Why is it so hard to let go of your own artwork? 🥲

Every Makaop piece is handmade, inspected, and loved long before it finds its new home. I probably spend way too much time staring at each one before I finally pack it.

Maybe it’s because every shell is naturally unique. Once a piece is gone, there might never be another exactly like it. 🫣🤍🐚

Why is it so hard to let go of your own artwork? 🥲

Every Makaop piece is handmade, inspected, and loved long before it finds its new home. I probably spend way too much time staring at each one before I finally pack it.

Maybe it’s because every shell is naturally unique. Once a piece is gone, there might never be another exactly like it. 🫣🤍🐚

Yea boys it’s that easy 🤣💅🏽🤞🏽🐚

Yea boys it’s that easy 🤣💅🏽🤞🏽🐚

When the Ocean says go, you must go. Sorry🤫🧚🏽‍♂��️🌊

When the Ocean says go, you must go. Sorry🤫🧚🏽‍♂️🌊

But if it makes you happy 🤷🏽‍♀️ Make your own soul happy first guuurl🧚🏽‍♂️Everything else will come later❤️‍🔥

But if it makes you happy 🤷🏽‍♀️ Make your own soul happy first guuurl🧚🏽‍♂️Everything else will come later❤️‍🔥

🐚1. Triton Shell Quest
Do something your 6-year-old self would absolutely love.
Make mud potions, roll around in the grass, watch your favorite cartoon with snacks in bed, or dance like nobody’s watching.

🐆2. Spotted Cowrie Quest
Read a new book for at least 15 minutes a day.

🌊 3. Conch Shell Quest
Wake up early to watch the sunrise and go for a walk before checking your phone.

✨ 4. Venus Comb Murex Quest
Find something with a beautiful texture, color, or shape and take a moment to truly admire it.

🎨 5. Scallop Shell Quest
Draw, paint, or create something just for fun. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

🤍 6. Paper Nautilus Quest
Text someone you love and tell them why you appreciate them.

🌿 Bonus Quest
Collect one tiny treasure from nature and keep it as a reminder to slow down this week.

🐚1. Triton Shell Quest
Do something your 6-year-old self would absolutely love.
Make mud potions, roll around in the grass, watch your favorite cartoon with snacks in bed, or dance like nobody’s watching.

🐆2. Spotted Cowrie Quest
Read a new book for at least 15 minutes a day.

🌊 3. Conch Shell Quest
Wake up early to watch the sunrise and go for a walk before checking your phone.

✨ 4. Venus Comb Murex Quest
Find something with a beautiful texture, color, or shape and take a moment to truly admire it.

🎨 5. Scallop Shell Quest
Draw, paint, or create something just for fun. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

🤍 6. Paper Nautilus Quest
Text someone you love and tell them why you appreciate them.

🌿 Bonus Quest
Collect one tiny treasure from nature and keep it as a reminder to slow down this week.

If you don’t look at my shells we are done☠️🤣

If you don’t look at my shells we are done☠️🤣

Trust us, she will even marry you😜🩵🧚🏽‍♂️

Trust us, she will even marry you😜🩵🧚🏽‍♂️

Mom thought it was just a phase. Now she can’t keep up with our orders packing 🤣🫢🩵

Mom thought it was just a phase. Now she can’t keep up with our orders packing 🤣🫢🩵

F@ck diamonds, girls want shells (and flowers) 😜🥰

F@ck diamonds, girls want shells (and flowers) 😜🥰

Anyone else feeling the same?😅

Anyone else feeling the same?😅

How small or big are we? It is up to you to decide darling 🧚🏽‍♂️

Nervous system regulated in 3, 2, 1✨

I don’t want to let them go😭🙄

This is exactly what my creative soul was craving 🥹😭🌺

So many possibilities ❤️‍🔥

Will have to go back to NZ soon🫢🥹

Ohh how exciting this process is🥵

Forever girl taking selfies with the 🌕

How small or big are we? It is up to you to decide darling 🧚🏽‍♂️

Nervous system regulated in 3, 2, 1✨

I don’t want to let them go😭🙄

This is exactly what my creative soul was craving 🥹😭🌺

So many possibilities ❤️‍🔥

Will have to go back to NZ soon🫢🥹

Ohh how exciting this process is🥵

Forever girl taking selfies with the 🌕

People are barking up the wrong tree. 🥲

Our ecosystems face countless threats every single day. Deforestation, overfishing, bottom trawling, mining, pollution, coastal development… the list goes on. So much of nature is being exploited for profit, with little respect for the balance that keeps these ecosystems alive.

I’m not saying shell collecting has no impact. Of course, anything we remove from nature has some effect. The question is how it’s done, how much is taken, and whether it’s done with knowledge, respect, and a commitment to give back.

At the same time, many local communities depend on the ocean to survive. They aren’t necessarily driven by greed—they’re often trying to earn a living with the opportunities they have. That’s why education, awareness, and sustainable alternatives are just as important as conservation itself.

If we truly want to protect our oceans, we need to look at the bigger picture. Not just one person, one shell, or one practice—but all the pressures our marine ecosystems face every day. 🌊🐚

People are barking up the wrong tree. 🥲

Our ecosystems face countless threats every single day. Deforestation, overfishing, bottom trawling, mining, pollution, coastal development… the list goes on. So much of nature is being exploited for profit, with little respect for the balance that keeps these ecosystems alive.

I’m not saying shell collecting has no impact. Of course, anything we remove from nature has some effect. The question is how it’s done, how much is taken, and whether it’s done with knowledge, respect, and a commitment to give back.

At the same time, many local communities depend on the ocean to survive. They aren’t necessarily driven by greed—they’re often trying to earn a living with the opportunities they have. That’s why education, awareness, and sustainable alternatives are just as important as conservation itself.

If we truly want to protect our oceans, we need to look at the bigger picture. Not just one person, one shell, or one practice—but all the pressures our marine ecosystems face every day. 🌊🐚

Which one would you be the happiest to find?😍 Please remember to practice sustainable shelling. You don’t need to collect and keep everything. These videos are for entertainment and education purposes and all shells are returned back to the ocean. 🩵

Which one would you be the happiest to find?😍 Please remember to practice sustainable shelling. You don’t need to collect and keep everything. These videos are for entertainment and education purposes and all shells are returned back to the ocean. 🩵

It’s always interesting to me how much outrage shell collecting can trigger, while some of the actual large-scale environmental destruction happening right now barely gets talked about.

People will see a few empty shells and suddenly act like that’s the biggest threat to the ocean — while staying strangely quiet about the industries that are systematically destroying entire ecosystems at a scale most people can’t even imagine.

We’re talking about:
• massive deforestation for timber, development, cattle, soy, and palm oil

• palm oil plantations replacing biodiverse rainforest with monocultures

• mining that tears apart landscapes, poisons rivers, and displaces both wildlife and local communities

• offshore oil drilling and extraction, with spills, pollution, and long-term marine damage

• industrial overfishing that empties oceans far more effectively than any individual ever could

• bottom trawling / sea-bottom dragging, which literally bulldozes the seafloor, destroys coral, seagrass, and marine habitats, and kills huge amounts of non-target species

• deep-sea mining, where companies are now trying to industrialize some of the least understood ecosystems on Earth for metals and minerals

• coastal development that destroys mangroves, reefs, nesting sites, and fragile shorelines

• plastic pollution and chemical runoff entering rivers and oceans every day

• and a global economic system built on extracting, clearing, dredging, drilling, shipping, burning, and consuming more and more, faster and faster

That’s not even getting into coral bleaching, habitat destruction, freshwater contamination, species collapse, illegal wildlife trade, or the way entire communities are forced to live with the consequences of environmental decisions made for profit somewhere else.

So yes, I do find it strange when people direct all their moral energy toward someone collecting a naturally washed-up shell, while saying very little about the industries clearing forests, dragging nets across the seafloor, drilling into oceans, poisoning water systems, and turning living ecosystems into commodities. What are your thoughts on shelling?

It’s always interesting to me how much outrage shell collecting can trigger, while some of the actual large-scale environmental destruction happening right now barely gets talked about.

People will see a few empty shells and suddenly act like that’s the biggest threat to the ocean — while staying strangely quiet about the industries that are systematically destroying entire ecosystems at a scale most people can’t even imagine.

We’re talking about:
• massive deforestation for timber, development, cattle, soy, and palm oil

• palm oil plantations replacing biodiverse rainforest with monocultures

• mining that tears apart landscapes, poisons rivers, and displaces both wildlife and local communities

• offshore oil drilling and extraction, with spills, pollution, and long-term marine damage

• industrial overfishing that empties oceans far more effectively than any individual ever could

• bottom trawling / sea-bottom dragging, which literally bulldozes the seafloor, destroys coral, seagrass, and marine habitats, and kills huge amounts of non-target species

• deep-sea mining, where companies are now trying to industrialize some of the least understood ecosystems on Earth for metals and minerals

• coastal development that destroys mangroves, reefs, nesting sites, and fragile shorelines

• plastic pollution and chemical runoff entering rivers and oceans every day

• and a global economic system built on extracting, clearing, dredging, drilling, shipping, burning, and consuming more and more, faster and faster

That’s not even getting into coral bleaching, habitat destruction, freshwater contamination, species collapse, illegal wildlife trade, or the way entire communities are forced to live with the consequences of environmental decisions made for profit somewhere else.

So yes, I do find it strange when people direct all their moral energy toward someone collecting a naturally washed-up shell, while saying very little about the industries clearing forests, dragging nets across the seafloor, drilling into oceans, poisoning water systems, and turning living ecosystems into commodities. What are your thoughts on shelling?

Life is good if you decide it is 🩵🧚🏽‍♂️✨Simple life = good life. You need way less than you think ☺️

Life is good if you decide it is 🩵🧚🏽‍♂️✨Simple life = good life. You need way less than you think ☺️

I love when storm is creeping in, water is vibrating turquoise color and warm. Couple pretty pieces to create more jewels 🩵🧚🏽‍♂️

I love when storm is creeping in, water is vibrating turquoise color and warm. Couple pretty pieces to create more jewels 🩵🧚🏽‍♂️

“I will be back in 30 minutes” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You never know which shell is hiding around the next corner 🫢Could be THE ONE! 😇

“I will be back in 30 minutes” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You never know which shell is hiding around the next corner 🫢Could be THE ONE! 😇

She is perfect 🥹 Give her little clean and we can all admire her pretty patterns 😭🩵🐚

She is perfect 🥹 Give her little clean and we can all admire her pretty patterns 😭🩵🐚

Silver price finally dropped but still the price is double since we started 3 years ago 😭🥲 Paying these invoices is real pain😅

Silver price finally dropped but still the price is double since we started 3 years ago 😭🥲 Paying these invoices is real pain😅

Some fun facts about giant clam shells:

1. After the juvenile stage, giant clams attach themselves to a reef and can remain in the same spot for decades. Some can live for around a century. So a giant clam shell on an Indonesian reef may have been sitting in that exact patch of reef longer than several human generations.

2. The true giant clam, Tridacna gigas, is the largest living bivalve on Earth. It can grow to around 1.3 meters (over 4 feet) and weigh 200+ kg. So those giant white shells you sometimes see used as decor in tropical places are not just “big shells” — they can come from one of the largest mollusks on the planet.

3. There’s a long myth that giant clams can trap divers. In reality, they close too slowly to “catch” a person, and there’s no good evidence of giant clams killing swimmers. They’re dramatic, not murderous.

4. Because they’re beautiful, giant clam shells have historically been collected for decoration, trade, and souvenirs, while the animals themselves have also been harvested for food. Combined with reef damage, pollution, warming seas, and sedimentation, that’s part of why many giant clam species are now protected or threatened.

Some fun facts about giant clam shells:

1. After the juvenile stage, giant clams attach themselves to a reef and can remain in the same spot for decades. Some can live for around a century. So a giant clam shell on an Indonesian reef may have been sitting in that exact patch of reef longer than several human generations.

2. The true giant clam, Tridacna gigas, is the largest living bivalve on Earth. It can grow to around 1.3 meters (over 4 feet) and weigh 200+ kg. So those giant white shells you sometimes see used as decor in tropical places are not just “big shells” — they can come from one of the largest mollusks on the planet.

3. There’s a long myth that giant clams can trap divers. In reality, they close too slowly to “catch” a person, and there’s no good evidence of giant clams killing swimmers. They’re dramatic, not murderous.

4. Because they’re beautiful, giant clam shells have historically been collected for decoration, trade, and souvenirs, while the animals themselves have also been harvested for food. Combined with reef damage, pollution, warming seas, and sedimentation, that’s part of why many giant clam species are now protected or threatened.

Maybe time to create something different 🥹🧚🏽‍♂️

Many Pāua pieces on the eshop soon 😭 In silver and gold🫢

Sardines life is a good life 🐟

Shapes and textures 🐚

This combo😭Pāua and Striated Cone Shell in silver ✨

I have an idea and can’t wait to try it with this conch shell🥺

Maybe time to create something different 🥹🧚🏽‍♂️

Many Pāua pieces on the eshop soon 😭 In silver and gold🫢

Sardines life is a good life 🐟

Shapes and textures 🐚

This combo😭Pāua and Striated Cone Shell in silver ✨

I have an idea and can’t wait to try it with this conch shell🥺

People always ask why I spend hours crawling around the beach looking for shells.

For the jewelry? Yes.

For the treasure hunt? Also yes.

But let’s not overlook the unexpected benefits: improved hip mobility, better squat endurance, increased vitamin D levels, and a healthy reminder that some of the best things in life are still free.

Sure, I could be doing something productive. Instead, I’m getting tanned, touching grass, and searching for tiny ocean treasures that will eventually become jewelry.

Honestly, there are worse ways to spend an afternoon. 🐚☀️

People always ask why I spend hours crawling around the beach looking for shells.

For the jewelry? Yes.

For the treasure hunt? Also yes.

But let’s not overlook the unexpected benefits: improved hip mobility, better squat endurance, increased vitamin D levels, and a healthy reminder that some of the best things in life are still free.

Sure, I could be doing something productive. Instead, I’m getting tanned, touching grass, and searching for tiny ocean treasures that will eventually become jewelry.

Honestly, there are worse ways to spend an afternoon. 🐚☀️

You’d be surprised how many problems can be solved with pink lipstick, iced coffee, and a low tide. 🫦💅🏽☕️🐚

Shell hunting missions supported by @solsistacollective🩵 & @driftersurf🧚🏽‍♂️

You’d be surprised how many problems can be solved with pink lipstick, iced coffee, and a low tide. 🫦💅🏽☕️🐚

Shell hunting missions supported by @solsistacollective🩵 & @driftersurf🧚🏽‍♂️

THE day finally arrived 🤣 Nautilus shell finally decided to be found by me 🤣 It is truly my dream shell and I was searching for her very long time🤣So funny because other people like @abigail_henderson finds one on every beach walk right 🤣

And she is in perfect shape 🥹🩵

THE day finally arrived 🤣 Nautilus shell finally decided to be found by me 🤣 It is truly my dream shell and I was searching for her very long time🤣So funny because other people like @abigail_henderson finds one on every beach walk right 🤣

And she is in perfect shape 🥹🩵

Don’t get sucked in. Make sure you do you😅 me: OK lets make shells my whole personality 😇🐚🧚🏽‍♂️

Don’t get sucked in. Make sure you do you😅 me: OK lets make shells my whole personality 😇🐚🧚🏽‍♂️

Probably around 50kg 🤯 *no hermit crabs were harmed in this video. And no you can’t take these shells home. Big clam shells are endangered in Indonesia. Be a responsible shell collector 🩵

Probably around 50kg 🤯 *no hermit crabs were harmed in this video. And no you can’t take these shells home. Big clam shells are endangered in Indonesia. Be a responsible shell collector 🩵

Daily struggle of one whimsy girl🤣🩵🧚🏽�‍♂️Any ideas?

Daily struggle of one whimsy girl🤣🩵🧚🏽‍♂️Any ideas?

I guess that’s a 90s kid problem.

We already quit the job, moved abroad, chased the dream, and now we’re wondering where to run away to next lol. Maybe the mountains?? Anyone else has the same urge???🫠

I guess that’s a 90s kid problem.

We already quit the job, moved abroad, chased the dream, and now we’re wondering where to run away to next lol. Maybe the mountains?? Anyone else has the same urge???🫠

If you come on beach walk with me you will know we won’t talk much🤣I will be 20m behind you, walking slow, head down, 1000% concentration so I don’t miss any shell🤣who is the same?🤭

If you come on beach walk with me you will know we won’t talk much🤣I will be 20m behind you, walking slow, head down, 1000% concentration so I don’t miss any shell🤣who is the same?🤭

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